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

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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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    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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    Would McCain try to reinstitute the draft if there are not enough volunteers for Iraq? Is military victory in Iraq that important to US security? More

    Asked 9 weeks 1 day ago of All U.S. Congress
    by cc from Hyattsville, MD

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

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

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

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    Would McCain try to reinstitute the draft if there are not enough volunteers for Iraq? Is military victory in Iraq that important to US security? More

    Asked 9 weeks 1 day ago of All U.S. Congress
    by cc from Hyattsville, MD

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    What is your opinion of the problem with electoral integrity regarding the use of voting machines which can be hacked? More

    Asked 27 weeks 11 hours ago of All U.S. Congress
    by selma goldberg from Crofton, MD

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    What will you do to reform the redistricting system in this country, which has led to most seats in Congress being so safe that even a major shift in public opinion won't be reflected in an election. More

    Asked 28 weeks 4 days ago of All U.S. Representatives
    by Barbara Knapp from Germantown, MD

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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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    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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    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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    Do you agree that liberties are being lost due to a predilection for secrecy, excessive police power and withholding information to avoid embarrassment, exposure of malfeasance or incompetence? Do we need to drastically diminish presidential power in favor of an open government in order to restore and maintain our freedom?

    Asked by: gary knott from Silver Spring, MD. Received 28 Votes.
    Categories: Civil Liberties. Tags: liberty.
    Answer:

    Listen to: U.S. Rep. Hank Johnson (D-GA)

    Yeah, I do think there is a great degree of unwarranted and unconstitutional secrecy in the dealing with the executive branch over the last 7 years and I think that was allowed to occur because the Congress basically shirked its role as a coequal branch of government and became a rubber stamp for the executive branch and so the system did not work but during the past year after the Democrats have taken control there has been whole lot more of oversight, hearings and investigations into various processes and functions of the executive branch and what we have been met with in many cases

    Answered on Jun 18th, 2008 More

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    What will you do to reform the redistricting system in this country, which has led to most seats in Congress being so safe that even a major shift in public opinion won't be reflected in an election.

    Asked by: Barbara Knapp from Germantown, MD. Received 39 Votes.
    Categories: Money & Politics. Tags: government · politics.
    Answer:

    Listen to: U.S. Rep. Henry Cuellar (D-TX)

    Well as you know the way this is done, it's really handled by the state legislature. The state legislature, every year right after the census is done, will go ahead and consider the reapportionment. I served in the state legislature 14 years, one year as Secretary of State, so I went through one redistricting as a state legislator and then another one as Secretary of State, so it is something we need to look at because there have been in certain circumstances, even here in the state of Texas, where it got too partisan.

    Answered on Apr 22nd, 2008 More

  • Question:

    In view of the concern about global warming, and in view of the problem of airplanes contributing to it, why is the United States dead last among developed nations in promoting affordable passenger train travel? I would travel by train in preference to flying or driving for most of my travel.

    Asked by: Sandra Woodall from Bethesda, MD. Received 8 Votes.
    Categories: Transportation. Tags: global warming · pollution · rail travel · transportation.
    Answer:

    Listen to: U.S. Rep. Roscoe Bartlett (R-MD)

    Oh absolutely, I think that in the future there will be more and more use of rail- not just for personal transportation, but for carrying cargo. You carry cargo five times more efficiently on rail than you do by truck and by the way, you carry it five times more efficiently by water than you do by rail. So trucks should be moving cargo only the last mile. And we really need a national infrastructure system for moving people. The world has now reached its maximum ability to produce oil.

    Answered on Apr 16th, 2008 More

  • Question:

    What will you do to reform the redistricting system in this country, which has led to most seats in Congress being so safe that even a major shift in public opinion won't be reflected in an election.

    Asked by: Barbara Knapp from Germantown, MD. Received 39 Votes.
    Categories: Money & Politics. Tags: government · politics.
    Answer:

    Listen to: U.S. Rep. Chris Cannon (R-UT)

    It’s not unconstitutional to protect incumbents. It is unconstitutional to deny people a vote based on race or other factors that should not be a matter of discrimination. The role of Congress in redistricting is rather limited and it goes to those Constitutional questions relating to equal access to voting. The real issue for redistricting is a state issue and, yeah, there’s a lot of antagonism about how states are doing it. The recent California redistricting was one of the most interesting I’ve ever seen.

    Answered on Apr 4th, 2008 More

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