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    The DSCOVR satellite can answer critical questions about global warming, including whether or not it's a fantasy. It has been built and paid for, but it's been sitting in a Marlyand warehouse for years. There are no plans to launch it, even though both France and Ukraine have offered to do so for free. NASA won't say why. Can you find out? More

    Asked 8 weeks 8 hours ago of U.S. Sen. Daniel K. Inouye (D-HI)
    by chrisd from Columbia, MD

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    Can you create a FREE online University for the working poor. Only 40 to 80 million in funding-can break the educational monopoly we have today? Distance Learning is popular & effective and offers democratic access for every American. More

    Asked 5 weeks 6 days ago of All U.S. Senators
    by Russell Spears from Montclair, NJ

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    Will you support a measure to bring instant-runoff voting into the electoral process in order to increase third party participation in government while at the same time avoiding the so-called third party "spoiler" scenario, thus advancing the democratic process as a whole in the United States? More

    Asked 7 weeks 5 days ago of U.S. Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA)
    by Caleb Brown from Los Angeles, CA

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    Who authorized the departure of Saudi Nationals (including the Bin Laden family) when the U.S. airspace was otherwise closed? More

    Asked 6 weeks 5 days ago of All U.S. Senators
    by Kurt Christensen from Westminster, MD

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    Whatever happened to your commitment to term limits? More

    Asked 4 weeks 1 day ago of U.S. Rep. Steven LaTourette (R-OH)
    by john chappell from Willoughby, OH

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    Can you explain the reasoning for the latest farm bill? It seems like 1.5 Million is too much income to receive subsidies. Is this just politics as usual or is there a solid reason that can't be explained in a sound bite? Is so, point me to a web page. More

    Asked 8 weeks 1 day ago of All U.S. Congress
    by Peter Meyer from Vienna, VA

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    How would you encourage peers to be honest and admit they know nothing about a subject they're being asked about beyond rehearsed lines crafted to feign awareness, appease the most amount of voters and stave criticism? More

    Asked 15 weeks 19 hours ago of All U.S. Congress
    by michael perigard from Seattle, WA

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    What Social Security benefits are illegal aliens eligible for? More

    Asked 8 weeks 6 days ago of U.S. Sen. Jim Webb (D-VA)
    by pjsepa from Reston, VA

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    Over withhold on your taxes & you can get an interest free refund and that's like giving the government an interest free loan. Why, if you under withhold, pay up any balance due when you file on time-- you will still be charged interest on the amount under withheld? Note, Maryland's interest rate is about twice that of the IRS rate-- why? More

    Asked 4 days 8 hours ago of U.S. Sen. Benjamin L. Cardin (D-MD)
    by Voter from Tracys Landing, MD

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    I would like to know why Northern Ill., Columbine, CO, NY, VA (during 9/11), etc. have all received monies from the Department of Justice's Office for Victims of Crime (OVC) to facilitate recovery of their communities, and Virginia Tech has yet to recieve one penny to support them through the worst school shooting in history? More

    Asked 2 weeks 1 day ago of Virginia Delegation
    by peachymom from Chesterfield, VA

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    Before his execution, Sadam Hussein was doing a lot of writing. What ever became of those manuscripts? When will the translated text be provided to the American people? More

    Asked 3 weeks 1 day ago of U.S. Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL)
    by Kurt Christensen from Westminster, MD

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    People finding it hard to keep gas in their cars to get to work and keep food and a roof over their family head. Government’s more concerned with property owner keeping up properties. Taking them to court if they can't keep it up to their standards people have been working job that have been on short time not week or month but years. More

    Asked 3 weeks 1 day ago of All U.S. Representatives
    by candycain325 from Calhoun, GA

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    Whatever happened to your commitment to term limits? More

    Asked 4 weeks 1 day ago of U.S. Rep. Steven LaTourette (R-OH)
    by john chappell from Willoughby, OH

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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

    Asked 5 weeks 2 days ago of U.S. Rep. Ted Poe (R-TX)
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    Can you create a FREE online University for the working poor. Only 40 to 80 million in funding-can break the educational monopoly we have today? Distance Learning is popular & effective and offers democratic access for every American. More

    Asked 5 weeks 6 days ago of All U.S. Senators
    by Russell Spears from Montclair, NJ

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    Who authorized the departure of Saudi Nationals (including the Bin Laden family) when the U.S. airspace was otherwise closed? More

    Asked 6 weeks 5 days ago of All U.S. Senators
    by Kurt Christensen from Westminster, MD

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    Scientists tell us that we need to reduce our carbon output 80% by 2050 to mitigate the effects of climate change. What is your plan to meet that goal?

    Asked by: Rebekah Simon-Peter from Rawlins, WY. Received 13 Votes.
    Categories: Environment. Tags: environment · global warming · global warming climate change urgent.
    Answer:

    Listen to: U.S. Sen. John Barrasso (R-WY)

    We need to provide from the energy point with energy self-sufficiency. Wyoming is the No.1 coal producer in the United States. Number one in uranium. Number two for natural gas, so we've done a considerable amount for the energy need of the nation. I'm going to continue to work to make sure Wyoming is part of that picture. Also we have incredible renewable sources, like the wind. I'm working for renewables as well.

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    Scientists tell us that we need to reduce our carbon output 80% by 2050 to mitigate the effects of climate change. What is your plan to meet that goal?

    Asked by: Rebekah Simon-Peter from Rawlins, WY. Received 13 Votes.
    Categories: Environment. Tags: environment · global warming · global warming climate change urgent.
    Answer:

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

    It’s important that we once again restore America’s ability to build nuclear power plants. We’ve lost that now. We have stopped the production of these plants, so to speak, for almost two decades. So it’s time to recognize that it’s a safe form of energy. It produces nearly zero CO2 compared to a coal-fired plant. Zero. Right now, we rely on nuclear power for about 20 percent of our energy. I’d like to see in the next decade or 15 years, perhaps that 20 percent can go as high as 30 or 35 percent.

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    Scientists tell us that we need to reduce our carbon output 80% by 2050 to mitigate the effects of climate change. What is your plan to meet that goal?

    Asked by: Rebekah Simon-Peter from Rawlins, WY. Received 13 Votes.
    Categories: Environment. Tags: environment · global warming · global warming climate change urgent.
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    Listen to: U.S. Sen. John D. Rockefeller IV (D-WV)

    So the point is to make coal to liquid clean and sequestration complete. It's going to take billions and billions of dollars and it has to be done by the federal government. It has to be a Manhattan project, but it's much more important.

    Answered on Jul 8th, 2008 More

  • Question:

    Scientists tell us that we need to reduce our carbon output 80% by 2050 to mitigate the effects of climate change. What is your plan to meet that goal?

    Asked by: Rebekah Simon-Peter from Rawlins, WY. Received 13 Votes.
    Categories: Environment. Tags: environment · global warming · global warming climate change urgent.
    Answer:

    Listen to: U.S. Sen. James Inhofe (R-OK)

    It all comes from Hollywood, from the far left, and the ones who are the same as the extremist animal right activists and people who bomb construction sites, but it's a very well funded extreme group. That's why the politicians are inclined to act like they are supporting it.

    Answered on Jul 8th, 2008 More

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    The Florida primary was moved forward as part of a referendum to standardize on optical scan voting machines. Would you care to comment on how that referendum happened to change the date of the Florida primary... and disenfranchise the Florida voters?

    Asked by: Kurt Christensen from Westminster, MD. Received 14 Votes.
    Categories: Civil Liberties · Technology. Tags: cover-up · florida primary · Voting machines.
    Answer:

    Listen to: U.S. Rep. Alcee L. Hastings (D-FL)

    Well, first I don’t think it was just that referendum caused the change. I believe the state legislature on the House side or the Speaker of the House proffered a motion that came over to the Senate, and the Democrats in the Senate wanted a paper trail measure added to it with reference to the change of the date. So the change of the date took place inside the legislature with the Governor’s approval and not on a state-wide referendum.

    Answered on Jun 30th, 2008 More

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    Why has Congress not acted to open the Federal employee health care system up to private individuals and businesses. This was a promise the Democrats made when they took Congress in 2006. It would cost us nothing to do this, and it would provide a means for individuals and employers to obtain health care insurance at reasonable rates.

    Asked by: David Stoddard from Silver Spring, MD. Received 20 Votes.
    Categories: Health. Tags: health care · insurance · promises.
    Answer:

    Listen to: U.S. Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR)

    What Americans want is to make sure they have choices like their Members of Congress have. Members of Congress have private health care choices. And with the Healthy Americans Act we have now been able to get a significant group of senators, both Republicans and Democrats, to show that for the amount of money that’s being spent on health care today, according to the budget experts, it’s possible for all Americans to have similar choices.

    Answered on Jun 27th, 2008 More

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    Bush and Cheney and others are guilty of impeachable offenses. Why are not more members of Congress speaking out about the lies, the public admissions of permitting torture, the subversion of our Constitution?

    Asked by: apr from Milwaukee, WI. Received 27 Votes.
    Categories: President Bush. Tags: constitution · iraq war · torture.
    Answer:

    Listen to: U.S. Sen. John D. Rockefeller IV (D-WV)

    Number one, they’re bad enough that it’s not worth wasting our time impeaching them and if we were to have impeached them we should have done it five years ago.  To do it at the end of their term would be that we would get nothing else done and it wouldn’t mean anything. We impeached them through these reports like in the intelligence community phase I; phase II.  I mean everything that comes out, this morning’s papers, the political appointment of lawyers in the justice department. I mean they are impeached, just not legally.

    Answered on Jun 24th, 2008 More

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    Given our financial problems - deficit, trade-balance, currency-parity, human needs, infrastructure, etc. Do you agree we should drastically cut our military spending? If not, how would you meet our needs?

    Asked by: gary knott from Silver Spring, MD. Received 1 Vote.
    Categories: Defense. Tags: use of our money.
    Answer:

    Listen to: U.S. Sen. Judd Gregg (R-NH)

    Well, to begin with the military spending as a percentage of the federal budget is less than it used to be. The biggest part of the federal spending is entitlement spending, that’s 60 percent and military spending represents about 15 percent. So I would think their question should have been: “Should we cut domestic spending in non-military accounts?” Since the first obligation of a federal government is to defend the country.

    Matt Laslo: But it seems like everyone is afraid of entitlements – do you see any political will…?

    Answered on Jun 24th, 2008 More

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