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WJW) — Since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade last year, ending Americans’ longstanding constitutional right to abortion and putting the issue up to states, voters in five states have either enshrined abortion rights in their state constitutions or rejected anti-abortion proposals. Ohio has become the latest battleground on the issue, and it’s set to put the issue before voters in the Nov. 7 general election. Here we break down the proposed constitutional amendment, named The Right to Reproductive Freedom with Protections for Health and Safety. What is Ohio’s Issue 1? Issue 1, if passed, would change the...

Senate to vote on Cloture 10:00PM tonight on House CR - CHIP/One Month CR

Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) has threatened to vote against the tax bill, putting the legislation in danger of being delayed past Christmas. Rubio has told Senate leaders that he will vote against the bill unless the child tax credit is made more generous to help lower-income workers who pay payroll taxes and not regular income taxes. “Sen. Rubio has consistently communicated to the Senate tax negotiators that his vote on final passage would depend on whether the refundability of the Child Tax Credit was increased in a meaningful way,” said a spokesperson for Rubio. If Rubio votes against the bill,...

As one of our over 6 million FreedomWorks activists nationwide, I urge you to contact your senators and ask them to vote NO on the “Energy Savings and Industrial Competitiveness Act”, S. 2262. Introduced by Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) and Sen. Rob Portman (R-OH), this bill, while being sold as an energy efficiency overhaul for the country, is merely a conglomeration of government meddling and waste. The crux of the bill charges the Department of Energy (DOE) to “encourage and support the adoption” of efficiency codes, developed by unaccountable third parties, by the states. The bill appropriates taxpayer dollars to...

Drudge has a poll up. Do you support giving Obama authority to conduct military operations in Syria.

The U.S. House of Representatives will vote next week on a resolution that would require U.S. President Barack Obama to withdraw U.S. armed forces from military operations in Libya, the biggest test yet of congressional support for the two-month-old intervention. An aide to House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R., Va.) said that the resolution would come up for a vote next week. The resolution is written by Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D., Ohio), who has been opposed to the intervention since it began in March.

Tax bill deal becoming a Christmas tree of goodies by Nancy Thorner A test vote will happen this coming Monday, December 13, on the 74-page tax deal worked out between Democrat and Republican leadership. Sixty votes are needed in the Senate for debate to begin. This past Friday President Obama brought former President Bill Clinton into the White House to try to persuade wayward Democrat legislators to support the tax compromise.bill as the best deal Democrats could hope to get, where he upstaged Obama. But are Democrats really satisfied? Similar to what happened with Obamacare, much horse trading is going...

As for voting NO, I admit to voting no most elections cycles on the sitting judges. Is that fair? Probably not. Why do I do it? Because I don't want activist judges on "EITHER" side taking it upon themselves to put their agendas ahead of what my fellow Iowans want or need. I don't want to give complete power to any small group of people. Iowa will be gaining conservatives this go around. We will most likely be saying Governor Branstad again. And that's okay with me. But Iowa is also front and center on same-sex marriage. How did we...

She ran military recruiters off the campus at Harvard. She hates the military. In October 2003, Kagan transmitted an e-mail to students and faculty deploring that military recruiters had shown up on campus in violation of the school's anti-discrimination policy. It read, "This action causes me deep distress. I abhor the military's discriminatory recruitment policy." She also wrote that it was "a profound wrong -- a moral injustice of the first order."[17] I don't care if she has a track record a mile long, she hates the military. She's straight out of Chicago, but with a San Francisco mindset,...

LOOK, I know this isn't technically BREAKING NEWS and I hope the moderators will see that being placed here, we can communicate and support this idea of urgency. Rush just suggested that we, "God Fearing Freedom Loving Americans" should stimulate the economy by sending a FED EX and or UPS package to the "Fence Sitting Democrats" on Saturday. WE SHOULD! However to get hundreds of TRUCKS to descend on DC Saturday we have to do the following. Package the letter in a smallish BOX. The box will weigh nothing however it will occupy space in the truck. It will require...

Senate Republican aides say that Harry Reid has scheduled the first vote on his health-care bill for Saturday night for 8:00 p.m. after 10 hours of floor debate. Ed Morrissey notes that registered voters oppose the House health care bill 51 percent to 35 percent; a poll done by the Democratic firm Public Policy Polling shows registered voters oppose "President Obama’s health care plan" 52 percent to 40 percent. All eyes are on Democratic senator Ben Nelson of Nebraska to see if he will vote Saturday night on the motion to proceed. Nelson is threatening to filibuster the final bill...

Yesterday, when the roll was called, I voted against the misnamed economic stimulus plan which ultimately passed the House. The American economy is hurting and that means Americans are hurting. Middle class families are being hit with continuing layoffs and our retirement and college savings are being ravaged by the markets. We should be acting boldly to preserve, protect and create jobs. We should cut taxes on small businesses and middle class families to help create jobs. Unfortunately, Nancy Pelosi has crafted a "stimulus" bill which will do little if anything to stimulate the economy. The bill presented to the...

An equally interesting poll question would be how folks here would vote if it was Lieberman (formerly known as Sore Loserman) v. Hillary.

WASHINGTON -- A new video available on YouTube marks a late attempt by pro-life forces to avert serious defeat in Missouri Nov. 7, with national implications. Cathy Ruse, speaking for Missourians Against Human Cloning, declares: "Amendment 2 is a fraud. It is an attempt to trick Missourians into approving -- in their Constitution -- human cloning, the right of biotech firms to do human cloning in Missouri -- something Missourians oppose by an overwhelming majority." But Amendment 2 is identified for many Missouri voters by the language at the beginning of the five-page, 2,000-word ballot initiative: "No person may clone...

Film director and Democratic activist Rob Reiner has collected more than a million signatures to get an initiative on the June ballot that would fund preschool for all California children. Reiner's measure would increase income tax rates for the top 0.6 percent of income earners to guarantee a year of preschool for all 4-year-olds. "We did this thing the right way. We brought business leaders and labor together to help draft the initiative," he said in a telephone interview after the announcement outside a San Francisco preschool. The initiative would raise an estimated $2.4 billion a year by increasing income...

It must have been such fun to be there. Readers of The Daily Telegraph will have been struck by the picture, carried on yesterday's front page, of the Non camp celebrations in Toulouse. The faces of those celebrating were not the grumpy Front National types you might expect (there wasn't a moustache in sight). They were, in fact, the radiant, immaculately made-up faces of happy twentysomethings.Two years ago it would have been unthinkable that more people in France aged under 26 would vote against a European constitution than for it. But it happened on Sunday, and it is likely to...

The National ID card is back in the news, as Congress is getting set once again to debate the issue. You will remember that late last year, Congress passed (and the President signed) legislation which starts us down the road to a National ID card. In the name of preventing alien terrorists from operating in this country, the so-called Intelligence Reform bill gave federal bureaucrats unprecedented new powers to force changes in state-issued driver's licenses -- including, possibly, the addition of computer chip technology that can facilitate the tracking of all U.S. citizens. Now, the House will be debating new...