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Below are the Democratic Socialists In Congress Today. The links work. Go to thier home page. Their symbol = a fist holding a rose. Members of the Progressive Caucus Members of the Progressive Caucus Representative (State-District) Address Phone, Fax Email Web Page Rep Earl Hilliard (AL-07) 1314 Longworth House Office Building, Washington, DC 20515 Phone: 202-225-2665, Fax: 202-226-0772 Rep Eni Faleomavaega (AS-AL) 2422 Rayburn House Office Building, Washington, DC 20515 Phone: 202-225-8577, Fax: 202-225-8757 Rep Ed Pastor (AZ-02) 2465 Rayburn House Office Building, Washington, DC 20515 Phone: 202-225-4065, Fax: 202-225-1655 edpastor@mail.house.gov http://aspin.asu.edu/~pctp/pastor/pastor.html Rep Lynn C Woolsey (CA-06) 439 Cannon House ...

[This is another post collecting various small items from this week that have some interest but don't warrant their own separate posting--I will try to do one of these omnibus posts every week.]Heard on the Hill (column by Ed Henry, Roll Call, 6/21/99) Hillary the Great. First lady Hillary Rodham Clinton hasn't even been elected to the greatest deliberative body in the world, but Sen. Robert Torricelli (D-N.J.) is already claiming she's one of the greatest orators of the century. Torricelli, who's never been a fan of understatement, includes Clinton's college commencement address in his upcoming book on the "extraordinary ...

For education and discussion only. Not for commercial use. One Stop is to help poor entrepreneurs, but it, too, struggles One Stop Capital Shop, which was supposed to spur economic development in poor Detroit neighborhoods, is itself in financial straits and struggling for survival. The nonprofit Detroit agency, funded primarily with tax dollars, is nearly $400,000 in debt. It's down to two employees from a staff of seven and is paying rent for a building too large for its needs, according to board members and director Barbara Penn-Atkins. The Detroit Regional Chamber and other city leaders have been working quietly ...

London -- Every Spring about this time the popular British historian Paul Johnson and his wife Marigold hold a garden party at his London home. The mix of politicians, intellectuals, and businesspeople is unlike anything one would come upon in the United States. Political Correctitude is not yet a religion here. At the Johnson's party there are apt to be people from the left such as the playwright Harold Pinter and Lord and Lady Longford. Like me they are now war resisters. Then too there are authoritative, if divergent, students of the Balkan fracas, such as Noel Malcolm and ...

Washington—The State Department announced a reward of up to $5 million Thursday for information leading to the arrest and conviction of Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic and other suspected war criminals indicted by an international tribunal. Milosevic was indicted by the tribunal in the Netherlands for alleged crimes against ethnic Albanians in Kosovo. Other prominent figures wanted for alleged war crimes in the Balkans include Bosnian Serb leaders Radovan Karadzic and Ratko Miadic, who are wanted for their alleged role in the massacre of 6,000 Bosnian moslims in 1995. Karadzic is also wanted under a separate indictment for crimes that occurred ...

The Supreme Court finished its 1998-99 term Wednesday with a major expansion of states' rights that is troubling in three separate ways. The case involved a suit by Maine probation officers seeking to be paid the time and a half for overtime they are guaranteed under federal law. The Supreme Court said in 1996 that states could not be required to answer to such suits in federal court, so the workers filed in state court. On Wednesday the Supreme Court blocked that avenue, too. Philosophically, the decision enhances the autonomy of the states in a way that is a ...

EMBOLDENED by the Kosovo operation, Bill Clinton and others envision a future with more military- humanitarian interventions in a world in which nations' sovereignties give way to an emerging global consensus or a new world government. Clinton's aides call his policy of armed intervention/occupation in pursuit of enforcing human rights the "Clinton Doctrine" -- no doubt relishing the possibility their chief (like James Monroe and Harry Truman) might gain a perch in history via projection of presidential will overseas. "Democracy, tolerance and human rights must prevail everywhere, for no nation is safe, no prosperity is safe, if conflict and refugees ...

WASHINGTON - Ann Coulter, an animated blur, stands in the living room of her Connecticut Avenue apartment in Washington, happily reminiscing about the night the not-so-vast right-wing conspiracy sat on her hardwood floors and realized they actually had the goods on President Clinton. Ann Coulter, in her Washington home, contemplates life after her role as advocate for Paula Jones and staunch Clinton opponent. A Grateful Dead bootleg tape plays quietly on the cassette deck on which attorneys working with Paula Jones and Linda Tripp first spun homemade tapes of their own - the secret recordings Tripp made of her friend ...

It's always suspicious when Washingtonians start breaking into bad Latin. There may be a quid, you hear them say, and there seems to be a quo. But--aha--there's no smoking pro to connect the two. This pseudo-talk combines my least favorite styles: that of the overpaid attorney and that of the overpaid political obfuscator. Thus, it is not denied that Chinese military-industrial sources managed to transfer an awful lot of money to the Democratic National Committee. Nor is it denied that many tranches of valuable information made their way from American nuclear laboratories into the computer systems of the People's ...

INDICT MILOSEVIC FOR RAPE Even though rape has been recognized as a war crime, and even though Serbian forces have engaged in a documented campaign of forcible rape of Kosovar women, rape was not included in the War Crimes Tribunal indictment of Yugoslavian President Slobodan Milosevic. New York Rep. Louise Slaughter (who was responsible for including $10 million for victim psychological services in the Kosovo Emergency Supplemental Appropriations Act) is calling for rape to be added to the indictment. Citing the numbers of women who committed suicide after being raped in the Bosnian war, Slaughter says it is important to ...

BEIRUT, June 25 (AFP) - Israeli planes pounded targets throughout Lebanon late Thursday and early Friday, killing at least eight people, in reprisal attacks after Hezbollah guerrillas fired rockets at towns in northern Israel. Hezbollah responded to the bombings by firing more rockets at towns in northern Israel, killing two people and injuring a third in the town of Kiryat Shemona in the Galilee panhandle. The flareup of violence occurred after several days of tit-for-tat shellings, in which four Lebanese villagers were injured, provoking Hezbollah to fire rockets into northern Israel, slightly injuring five Israelis. Outgoing Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin ...

BEIJING (AP) — Firing squads put at least 71 people to death for drug trafficking Friday in China's annual barrage of executions to mark U.N. anti-drug day, state media reported. In all, at least 98 people have been executed or sentenced to death nationwide in recent days ahead of Saturday's International Day Against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking, according to state media reports. The U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights opposes the death penalty and has called for an end to executions worldwide. Twenty-eight traffickers were executed Friday in the southern provincial capital of Guangzhou, near Hong Kong, after their ...

Judge rules former BCCI employees not entitled to damages LONDON (AP) - A judge ruled Friday that former employees of the collapsed Bank of Credit and Commerce International were not entitled to damages for the stigma of having worked for a dishonest employer. High Court Justice Gavin Lightman ruled that BCCI, closed down by the Bank of England in 1991 owing its creditors nearly $6 billion, breached an implied term in employees' contracts that they could have ``trust and confidence'' in their employer. But he said the former employees had not established that the breach had caused them money by ...

President Clinton has devised another way to bypass Congress and the Constitution, say property rights activists. Rather than sign an executive order, he simply announces a program and directs the federal agencies and the state and local governments to treat it as though it were the law. That's what Clinton and Al Gore did to advance the Clean Water Action Plan, which the vice president unveiled Feb. 19, 1998, the 25th anniversary of the Clean Water Act. There was no ceremonial signing of an executive order. Gore simply announced the plan, and the president ordered the federal agencies, states, ...

NEW DELHI: Is Pakistan trying to blackmail the world by threatening a nuclear war with India if the international community does not intervene in Kashmir? The answer is yes, if Pakistan information minister Mushahid Hussain's replies on BBC's `Hardtalk' programme aired on Wednesday are anything to go by. He was specifically asked by interviewer Tim Sebastian if Pakistan will commit that under no circumstances will it use nuclear weapons first, whereas India has already given such a commitment. Mr Hussain dodged the question by saying Pakistan has peaceful intentions and hopes that it ``would not come to that situation''. On ...

It was encouraging and unquestionably good for my own morale to participate in the "Anti-War Summit'' put on in San Mateo, Calif., June 12 by Antiwar.com and the Center for Libertarian Studies. But I wonder, now that the active bombing has stopped and the slow, mostly undramatic, perhaps interminable slogging on the ground has begun, whether a significant anti-war movement in the United States can be sustained. The anti-war movement that eventually became such a significant part of American life during the Vietnam era has been romanticized by a lot of people who weren't around then and by quite a ...

'I had heard the shots that killed Boban. I had met the KLA commander who ordered his murder. I had met the young British Army officer who had dragged away his bloody corpse. And now I was in his home, with his father and his brother, on the day that they buried him' By Robert Fisk It was one of those moments of history that will always remain in the mind. British armoured vehicles pelted with roses and a crowd of Kosovo Albanians emerging from the darkness of fear and persecution, their faces convulsed by that dangerous joy that can ...

I have long had the opinion that most voters do not consider abortion to be one of the main issues in choosing a candidate. Yet the press constantly dedicates much of their coverage about Republican candidates to the issue. I have stated on FR posts that I believe it is because although the majority of the voters favor some restrictions, they are not in favor of banning them. However they don't care enough one way or the other to vote the cadidate up or down on the abotion issue. The press knows that by making it a more visible issue ...

Inside Politics By Greg Pierce THE WASHINGTON TIMES Pudding war Forget flag burning, gun control and the fight over displaying the Ten Commandments in school. The real battle between the House and the Senate involves rice pudding. It all started when Sen. Rick Santorum, a Pennsylvania Republican whose usual vice is chocolate, tried the rice pudding served in the House Members' Dining Room -- and came back for more. He serves on a panel charged with improving Senate barbershops, eateries and the like, so the request soon went out from Senate officials to House chefs to send over the recipe, ...

Y2KNEWSWIRE has confirmed with the California State Attorney General office: certain firearms are now under a confiscation order. This, also posted on a state-run web site. California residents must turn in their SKS rifles by 1/1/2000 -- precisely the Y2K rollover date -- or face criminal prosecution. Recently-enacted legislation mandates this confiscation, calling it a "buyback" program and offering to reimburse gun owners $230 per "relinquished" rifle. Amid cries from gun owners that their Second Amendment rights are being further trampled just in time for Y2K, Y2KNEWSWIRE hit the phones to find out exactly what's going on here. We spoke ...