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Legislative Recommendations--Item 4 4. THE SUBCOMMITTEE RECOMMENDS THAT THE CONGRESS CONSIDER ADOPTING ADDITIONAL OVERSIGHT MECHANISMS TO ENSURE THE CIA'S ACCOUNTABILITY ON THE PROVISION OF INFORMATION. At various times, the Central Intelligence Agency provided information to the Subcommittee during the course of its investigation that was both misleading and untrue. Documents that existed were characterized as not existing. Information that was provided was incomplete. It required repeated efforts by the Subcommittee, extending over a year, to obtain more complete information, which was provided only following a meeting in February, 1992 between the Subcommittee chairman and Director Gates. Even then, as the...

Under the 'NEW' tax law, my income tax was $1,275(18%) less than it would have been under the 'LAW' of the prior Administration. Lower rate, IRA adjustment for those over 50, and tuition adjustments helped this mom and dad whose family earnings of roughly $100,000 must put us into the RICH category, according to liberals.

Where is the outcry from the 'believers'? Al Gore just misquoted the "Pledge of Allegiance" as made law in the '50s in concurrence with our forefathers-'endowed by our Creator'. As long the NAACP and the left is calling Senator Trent Lott to account for 'problems' that might not have occurred(whatever they be) had Strom Thurmond been elected in 1948 and the Washington media is having a field day with it; shouldn't the media be having a similar field day with Gore for his equally 'insensitive' use of his right to 'free speech'?

It has started already. Just a few short days ago the Democrats got kicked out by the American people and the President that America trusts. Now in an effort to revive the brain-dead party the ranting and raving losers have elected Nancy Pelosi of San Francisco to lead them to _____ (fill in the blank!). It's respirator time for the Geezer Party! No disrespect to the elderly; I am just citing a liberal magazine which maintains that the ideas of the Democrats are too old for voters under 65, as we don't scare as easily. The liberal media is up...

Rush Limbaugh offers that Democrats are self-destructing as they scamper to posture themselves after their resounding electoral thrashing via the Bush Revolution last week. Dick Gephardt has stepped down as House Minority Leader, and Tom Daschle will lose his barely discernible bluster as Republicans and George Bush's chief political obstructionist. And you know Democrats have gone south when one Democrat, Tennessee Congressman Harold Ford, Jr., calls another "too liberal," describing Left Coast Lefty, Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), as they spar over Gephardt's vacated position. The Republican midterm landslide has indeed displaced the Democratic Party, but it wasn't Republicans that displaced them...

"U.S. Senator Paul Wellstone's speculated third run for the Senate precipitated a lot of discussion in our home a year or so ago. The conclusion I reached was: I liked his stands on education, his support of human rights, his thinking on social security and his support on health care. Shortly thereafter, we ran into Sen. Wellstone and his family at a restaurant in St. Paul. I told him of my support for his third term in the Senate, if he decided to run. Later, he graciously came to our table to meet my family. We all encouraged him to...

Why does the dockworker leadership think blaming the Bush Administration for their thoughtless action involving the West Coast Port Authority will help DemocRATS in the upcoming election? They honestly believe their 'veil of deception' will not be pierced. California, since the .com 'crash', has been hurting, so the dockworkers pick now to 'stop the flow' of goods into the state and country. How does ruining Christmas help the 'working man'? It will only make Governor Davis budget woes(mostly of his own, and the Sacramento leftist Legislature, making) even worse. The rank-and-file dockworker buys the talking point that, technically, they were...

Put the 'finishing touches' on the governor's ads, and just maybe we can put the 'finishing touches' on the governor's campaign hopes.

Unions Try Again to Help Working Families "Labor is once again supporting legislation that would make it easier for employees to take care of sick family members. SB 1471, by Senator Gloria Romero, (D) Los Angeles/San Gabriel Valley, would clarify that employees who take family sick leave cannot be penalized under employer “absence control” policies. SB 1661, by Senator Sheila Kuehl, (D) Santa Monica, would establish a paid family leave program. Under current law, California workers are eligible for up to 3 months of unpaid family leave to care for a sick relative or new child. This bill would fund...

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<p>WASHINGTON (CNN) -- American cruise missiles pounded sites in Afghanistan and Sudan Thursday in retaliation for the deadly bombings of U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania on August 7.</p> <p>"Let our actions today send this message loud and clear -- there are no expendable American targets," U.S. President Clinton said in a televised address to the American people Thursday evening. "There will be no sanctuary for terrorists. We will defend our people, our interests and our values."</p>

<p>This article is from August 1, 2000, reporting on what was known and foreseen. Had this come out as front page, George W. Bush may have won California as well.</p> <p>"Susan Golding is beyond anger. What she feels is a sinking fear.</p>

FAIRFIELD, CA - - Mar. 19, 1999 - -Gensa Corporation has been awarded an information technology (IT) services contract by Logicon Inc., a Northrop Grumman company. Gensa will to support the General Services Administration’s (GSA) Federal Technology Service for the Pacific Rim Region. The initial contract is for two years with eight one-year options. The multiple award indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity (ID/IQ) contract is under the Federal Information Systems Support program known as Generation VII Applications n’ Support for Widely-diverse EndUser Requirements (ANSWER). The ANSWER mission is to provide flexible, responsive, easy-to-use and cost-effective IT services for Federal agencies. Gensa will...

Californian taxpayers paid millions of dollars too much for Oracle database software and support, thanks to a former Oracle employee, and his assistant, who now works for Oracle's law company. Normal competitive tendering rules were not followed, and the pair were pressured by staff from Governor Gray Davis office to sign an Enterprise Licensing Agreement covering far more users than the state actually employees in a deal worth $93 million. Governor Davis' office received $25,000 in campaign contributions gift five days after the deal was signed. Fishy? You bet. But the scandal has found its first scapegoats in the shape...

WTC Petition Current Thread In case you have missed signing the petition.

The diplomatic 'math' of combatting terrorists doesn't add up.

Socialists in Congress Written by Jane Chastain, from the World Net Daily, November 30, 1998 "Dennis Kucinich,the representative from Cuyahoga County, is one of 58 members of Congress -- 57 Democrats and one independent -- who have signed onto the agenda of the Democratic Socialists of America. This group in the House of Representatives calls itself the Progressive Caucus. Waxman, by the way, is the ranking member of the Government Oversight and Reform Committee. But that's just the beginning. There are seven ranking committee members in this group. The Democrats have put socialists in charge of their members on the...

Online Focus-Senator Tom Daschle There is something very special about Democratic conventions. They are a chance to celebrate the two extraordinary strengths of our party: our ideas and our leaders. Democrats have always known that America's families and our communities are stronger together than they are separately. In the last century, this powerful idea gave America the minimum wage and the 40-hour work week. This powerful idea, our idea, gave America Social Security and Medicare. Our ideas advanced the civil rights movement and the equal rights struggle. In the last century, Democrats proposed these ideas - and Republicans opposed them...

Democrats on the Judiciary Committee 'Kowtowing' to the People For The American Way??? "Nominee’s record both before and after becoming a federal judge has generated widespread opposition to his elevation to U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit" "People For the American Way President Ralph G. Neas urged Senate Judiciary Committee members to carefully consider the public record of Judge Charles Pickering and to reject his nomination to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit. "Judge Charles Pickering should not be elevated to the appeals court and the Senate Judiciary Committee should reject his nomination," said Neas. ...

Pro-Choice Encompasses the Choosing of Life--for blessings, not curses. [This essay was spoken as a d'var Torah, an interpretation of Torah, at Congregation Adas Israel in Washington, DC, on Shabbat Nitzavim, September 15.] "Shabbat Shalom. First and foremost, let me begin by thanking God that all of us in this room are alive, and I hope against hope that at least no one here lost family or close friends in any of the week's tragic events. If you did, my heart goes out to you, as I think everyone else's does. . . . Now, some of you may be ...