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    As a one of the President's Special Representatives to the United Nations, what have you done and what can be done during the United States tenure as President of the UN Security Council to help encourage the body to work towards ending the genocide in Darfur. What steps will lead to an end of the genocide? More

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    Asked 11 weeks 5 days ago of U.S. Rep. Ted Poe (R-TX)
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    Before his execution, Saddam Hussein was doing a lot of writing. What ever became of those manuscripts? When will the translated text be provided to the American people?

    Asked by: Kurt Christensen from Westminster, MD. Received 9 Votes.
    Categories: Civil Liberties · Defense · Foreign Policy · Iraq · President Bush. Tags: conspicuous in absence.
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    Listen to: U.S. Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX)

    That's a great question. I don't know the answer but I'd like to find out myself. That's a great question. The thing is he may have just been spewing poison and bitterness but it would be interesting to know what he had to say. If he had any remorse for all the people that had been killed and raped and maimed and tortured on his watch. But that would be a good question and I'll try to find that out. That's a good question.

    Answered on Aug 6th, 2008 More

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    Can you confirm that U.S. policy in Iraq prohibits Iraqi farmers from replanting their traditional seeds in lieu of patented seeds from the west? In fact making saving seeds illegal. If so, do you think this is good policy, and why?

    Asked by: Kurt Christensen from Westminster, MD. Received 29 Votes.
    Categories: Agriculture · Civil Liberties · Environment · Foreign Policy · Iraq · President Bush · Regulation · Rural · Technology. Tags: biodiversity · genetically modified organisms · intellectual property.
    Answer:

    Listen to: U.S. Rep. Sam Graves (R-MO)

    They produce a lot of potatoes over there, I know that. There is very little their soil is actually conducive for agriculture. They do have some irrigated ground down in the south around Basra but, you know, most of that was drained or flooded by Saddam Hussein. I don’t know if they’ve ever gotten that infrastructure back yet. Not a whole lot of agriculture takes place in Iraq. There’s a lot of desert there, so they don’t have the water infrastructure either, is the problem. I mean I couldn’t…I’m just not sure.

    Answered on Jun 19th, 2008 More

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    When will the federal government begin to get honest with the American people about the issue of peak oil?

    Asked by: goat from Brooklyn, NY. Received 33 Votes.
    Categories: Agriculture · Campaign 2008 · Economy · Energy · Environment · Ethics · Foreign Policy · Technology. Tags: energy crises · peak oil.
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    Listen to: U.S. Rep. Lee Terry (R-NE)

    The discussion about whether we hit peak oil I think drives some of the discussion about whether or how quickly we move away from oil as the major use of our energy. It’s kind of like global warming was a few years ago. People talk about peak oil, but there’s no evidence that we’ve hit peak oil, some people think it’s right now. So it’s part of their discussions.

    Answered on Apr 23rd, 2008 More

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    Why aren't any candidates or elected officials for that matter exploring the possibilities of geothermal heat exchange given the crisis of energy we now face?

    Asked by: Jeff Elder from Alexandria, VA. Received 19 Votes.
    Categories: Energy · Environment · Foreign Policy.
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    Listen to: U.S. Rep. Earl Blumenauer (D-OR)

    Geothermal will play a greater role. The question is how much and how soon? We are dramatically shifting investment over the next three years into renewable energy supplies for the future and geothermal is nearly inexhaustible. And is one where there are more applications than people think and it needs to be a part of a diverse portfolio.”

    Reporter: “Is funding an issue?”

    Answered on Apr 14th, 2008 More

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    Independent studies show both parties receive huge amounts of money from the lobby groups and the winners allegiance will be to multinational corporations. How can the public benefit from an election if the lobbyists are not eliminated?

    Asked by: Ernest Paviour from . Received 1 Vote.
    Categories: Campaign 2008 · Civil Liberties · Economy · Environment · Ethics · Foreign Policy · Globalization · Immigration · Money & Politics · Regulation · Taxes. Tags: All impacted by lobby groups.
    Answer:

    Listen to: U.S. Rep. Chris Van Hollen (D-MD)

    Well, I think that we do need to reduce the influence of lobbyist on the electoral process and on the hill, in terms of increasing transparency, prohibiting lobbyist from winning and dining members of Congress, reducing travel. Common Cause, Public Interest, other groups, other public watch dog groups, hailed it as a landmark piece of legislation. It dramatically limits the influence of lobbyist in terms of their winning and dining of legislators, no traveling with lobbyist. It sets up some very important firewalls in the process.

    Answered on Feb 20th, 2008 More

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    How important is passing an appropriations bill for the operation in Iraq?

    Asked by: districtline from Washington, DC. Received 12 Votes.
    Categories: Defense · Foreign Policy · Regulation · Taxes · Terrorism. Tags: bill · iraq · legislation.
    Answer:

    Listen to: U.S. Sen. John W. Warner (R-VA)

    We desperately need to get funding to the military such that they don’t lose a step. Because they are succeeding in the goals laid down militarily, not politically, but that’s not their responsibility. – excuse me let me finish. So we don’t want them to lose a step, but clearly the future course of this operation in Iraq we have to revisit where the political structure is or is not.

    Answered on Jan 24th, 2008 More

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    More than 21 million toys made in China have been recalled this year. Should the head of the Consumer Product Safety Commission resign?

    Asked by: DCPundit from Washington, DC. Received 33 Votes.
    Categories: Foreign Policy · Globalization · Money & Politics. Tags: china · consumers · lead · product safety · toys.
    Answer:

    Listen to: U.S. Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA)

    “I came from the kitchen to the Congress. I came as a Mom wanting to make sure that public policy did whatever it could do that parents couldn’t do to protect its children and the trust that parents across the country would like to have in the federal government is completely unjustified when we see how lax the Consumer Product Safety Commission has been with its acting chairperson saying we don’t need any more resources and we don’t need any more authority.”

    Answered on Dec 6th, 2007 More

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