The Slavers/Socialists of the New American Slavery ORGANIZE-— in Congress
http://www.augustreview.com/news_commentary/general/%20the_socialization_of_america_20090701124/
[note: this list is, by now, outdated; the membership swells]
The legislators involved in this socialistic undertaking belong to one or more radical House organizations:
the Progressive Democrats of America (6 House members),
the Congressional Progressive Caucus (74 House members),
the Congressional Black Caucus (43 House members), and
the Democratic Socialists of America.
Incidentally, the Democratic Socialists of America do not identify their House members since they consider all members of the Congressional Progressive Caucus part of their membership due to the fact that “they both shared operative social democratic politics.”
The most prominent national member of DSA is AFL-CIO President John J. Sweeney, who could well be the most powerful influence in the House of Representatives. And for the record, the Chairwoman of the Congressional Black Caucus is Congressional Progressive Caucus member Barbara Lee (CA-9). The interconnections between all these socialist-based organizations is staggering.
These organizations and their members quite literally comprise a Socialist Red Army within the very contours of the House of Representatives.
According to the Wikipedia article on the organization, “The Congressional Progressive Caucus (CPC) is the single largest partisan caucus in the United States House of Representatives and works together to advance progressive [socialist] issues and causes.
The CPC was founded in 1991 by independent [socialist] Congressman Bernie Sanders of Vermont, who remains a member as Senator. [The CPC] represents about a third of the House Democratic Caucus. Of the twenty standing committees of the House, eleven are chaired by members of the CPC.”
When the CPC claimed 64 members in 2006 (now 74 and gaining), the leftist publication The Nation boasted, “The largest ideological caucus in the new House Democratic majority will be the Congressional Progressive Caucus, with a membership that includes New York’s Charles Rangel, Michigan’s John Conyers, Massachusetts’s Barney Frank and at least half the incoming chairs of House standing committees” (The Nation, November 12,2006).
NAS (New American Slavery) Legislative Branch of the Federal Government grow in power and chair House committees:
According to the Wikipedia article on the organization, “The Congressional Progressive Caucus (CPC) is the single largest partisan caucus in the United States House of Representatives and works together to advance progressive [socialist] issues and causes. The CPC was founded in 1991 by independent [socialist] Congressman Bernie Sanders of Vermont, who remains a member as Senator. [The CPC] represents about a third of the House Democratic Caucus. Of the twenty standing committees of the House, eleven are chaired by members of the CPC.”
When the CPC claimed 64 members in 2006 (now 74 and gaining), the leftist publication The Nation boasted, “The largest ideological caucus in the new House Democratic majority will be the Congressional Progressive Caucus, with a membership that includes New York’s Charles Rangel, Michigan’s John Conyers, Massachusetts’s Barney Frank and at least half the incoming chairs of House standing committees” (The Nation, November 12,2006).
These current eleven chairs are CPC members:
* George Miller (CA-9)—Chairman of the House Education and Labor Committee;
* Henry Waxman (CA-30)—Chairman of the Committee on Energy and Commerce;
* Bob Filner (CA-51)—Chairman of the House Veterans Affairs Committee;
* Barney Frank (MA-4)—Chairman of the House Financial Services Committee;
* John Conyers (MI-14)—Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee;
* Bennie Thompson (MS-2)—Chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee;
* Nydia Velazquez (NY-12)—Chairwoman of the House Small Business Committee;
* Charles Rangel (NY-15)—Chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee;
* Louise Slaughter (N Y-28)—Chairwoman of the House Rules Committee;
* Bob Brady (PA-1)—Chairman of the House Administration Committee; and
* Edward J. Markey (MA-7)—Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming.
As of February 20,2009, the Co-Chairs of the CPC are
Raul M. Grijalva (AZ-7) and
Lynn Woolsey (CA-6).
The Vice Chairs are
Diane Watson (CA-33),
Sheila Jackson-Lee (TX-18),
Mazie Hirono (HI-2), and
Dennis Kucinich (OH-10).
Incidentally, the CPC website was “hosted by the Democratic Socialists of America” until 1999, a group affiliated with the Socialist International which was founded by Karl Marx, Saint-Simon, and Fourier!