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Rick Reye’s full testimony before Congress on April 23, 2009.

Thanks to your efforts, we were able to bring Rick Reyes, a veteran of both Iraq and Afghanistan, to Congress’s attention. A former Corporal in the US Marines, Reyes was powerful and truthful as he told Senator John Kerry and the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, “I urge you on behalf of truth and patriotism to consider carefully and rethink Afghanistan. More troops, more occupation is not the answer.”

Reyes’s testimony raises critical concerns that Congress must address before approving a massive supplemental war funding bill in the next few weeks. Let’s work to halt this war funding bill by calling our Representatives, and urging them not to vote for it until all the questions raised in these hearings have been answered. If you’re not sure who represents you, find out here.

Call your Representatives: http://clerk.house.gov/member_info/mc…

Don’t know who represents you? Find out here: https://writerep.House.gov/writerep/w…

Learn more: http://rethinkafghanistan.com

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WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama struck a balance between grim economic reality and a more hopeful outlook on Tuesday to try to reassure worried Americans their country will emerge from crisis “stronger than before.”

Riding high in opinion polls, Obama was careful to include a sober assessment of the economic emergency in his first speech to Congress, seeking to temper expectations that his administration’s rescue efforts would yield quick fixes.

But the politician whose memoir was called “The Audacity of Hope” and who won the White House in last November’s election amid chants of “yes, we can” was also back in stride, telling recession-weary Americans to expect better days ahead.

“While our economy may be weakened and our confidence shaken, though we are living through difficult and uncertain times, tonight I want every American to know this: We will rebuild, we will recover,” Obama said in the televised speech.

“And the United States of America will emerge stronger than before,” he told a chamber packed with lawmakers, cabinet members and invited guests.

The Democratic president also leveled a barrage of indirect criticism at his Republican predecessor George W. Bush for the country’s economic plight and bloated debt, warning that the “day of reckoning” had arrived.

Five weeks after taking office, Obama pressed the case for his economic plans while laying out a broad agenda, including a much-anticipated push for a healthcare overhaul and energy independence, to help build momentum for his young presidency.

The primetime State of the Union-style address to a joint session of the Senate and House of Representatives came against a backdrop of growing anxiety across the country in the face of the worst financial meltdown in decades.

While his public support is strong, Wall Street remains skeptical of his economic remedies.

Jittery investors sent U.S. stocks to a 12-year low on Monday, but the markets rallied on Tuesday on Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke’s assurances that the country’s troubled banks should be able to weather the downturn without being nationalized.

Trying to show he would make good on his promise of fiscal responsibility, Obama said he had identified $2 trillion in budget cuts over the next decade.

Obama, who rolls out his first budget proposal on Thursday, has vowed to halve the annual deficit by the end of his term.

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2009 – UFO Congress. Jaime Maussan and Santiago Garza. NASA tapes Endeavor. Disclosure project year.

Paradigm Research Group founder Stephen Bassett backed Mitchell’s theory and demanded that President Obama’s administration release all information concerning extraterrestrial beings.

“If it does not disclose, by the end of May — this is not a threat or anything, you don’t threaten the United States government, they’re heavily armed … the PRG has an enormous and substantial network, and quite a bit of documentary evidence connected to this, particularly politically … and we are going to be extensively putting that out to the media, and we’re just going to make it as difficult on them as possible,” Bassett told the newspaper.

Obama Disclosure National Press Club Conference

FULL NASA UFO DOCUMENTARY CAN BE FOUND HERE:

UFO Disclosure Project

The full movie can be viewed here:

The full 2 hour Disclosure Project Press Conference can be viewed here:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-1166743665260900218&hl=en

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The historic movement to bring real, meaningful health insurance reform to the American people gathered momentum this week as we approach the final days of this debate. Having worked on this issue for the better part of a year, the Senate Finance Committee is finishing deliberations on their version of a health insurance reform bill that will soon be merged with other reform bills produced by other Congressional committees.

After evaluating the Finance Committee’s bill, the Congressional Budget Office – an office that provides independent, nonpartisan analysis – concluded that the legislation would make coverage affordable for millions of Americans who don’t have it today. It will bring greater security to Americans who have coverage, with new insurance protections. And, by attacking waste and fraud within the system, it will slow the growth in health care costs, without adding a dime to our deficits.

This is another milestone on what has been a long, hard road toward health insurance reform. In recent …

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Rep. Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) being interviewed on energy, desperately awaiting his favorite phrase “hard break.” As you’ll see he keeps mumbling something about “use it or lose it” and “enron loop hole” – yet another poor job of memorizing notes that he clearly doesn’t understand. He’s lucky Cavuto wasn’t there that day!

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Nancy’s boy Chris Van Hollen gets manhandled by Fox’s Steve Doocy and new young co-host David Briggs

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U.S. Rep. Dave Camp, Ranking Member on Ways and Means, and U.S. Rep. Chris Van Hollen, D-MD., discuss the cuts to Medicare benefits for seniors as a result of the President’s health care reform plan.

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Introduction by Miguel Diaz, whose family was affected by our country’s broken immigration system. Rep. Van Hollen, named one of the most powerful members of the House, speaks at Realizing The Promise, a forum in which grassroots organizers and activists from across the country spoke directly with Congressional leaders and members of Obama’s administration to demand the change we want to see.

Help us work to keep the new administration and Congress accountable to our communities: http://www.communitychange.org.

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The Democratic Congressman from Maryland speaks of his optimism on election day 2008. Video by Capital News Service’s Allyson Dickman; Copyright 2008 University of Maryland Philip Merrill College of Journalism

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Rep. Chris Van Hollen, Chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, outlines the historic nature of our 2008 election victories and thanks grassroots and Netroots supporters for their continuing support.

Democrats beat history in 2008 by winning a second straight wave election. House Democrats’ 24 seat pick-up marks the first time in history a party has won a wave election to take the Majority and followed it with another wave of pick-ups.

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