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WASHINGTON - Democrats on Saturday touted legislation to guarantee troops time at home between deployments to Iraq. In the party's weekly radio address, Rep. Ellen Tauscher, D-Calif., criticized President Bush for threatening to veto the bill, contending his administration's policies on troop deployments have weakened the military. "The president's surge has sent many of our Army units to Iraq for the second and third time. We are asking our troops to make heroic sacrifices — yet as soon as they return we rush them back into battle," said Tauscher, author of the bill that passed the House Aug. 2 on...

Excerpt - WASHINGTON, May 9 — The Bush administration’s proposal to construct two American missile defense bases in Europe has roiled relations with Russia and provoked sharp questioning even in NATO capitals, where critics ask: With the system still unproven and, under the best of circumstances, years from completion, why rush construction now? Now the Democratic majority in Congress is moving toward budget cuts aimed at slowing the administration’s plans to break ground this year on one of the bases, in Poland. Representative Ellen O. Tauscher, a California Democrat who is a member of the House Armed Services Committee, said...

The Democratic majority was only three weeks old, but by Jan. 26, the grass-roots and Net-roots activists of the party's left wing had already settled on their new enemy: Rep. Ellen O. Tauscher (D-Calif.), the outspoken chair of the centrist New Democrat Coalition. Progressive blogs -- including two new ones, Ellen Tauscher Weekly and Dump Ellen Tauscher -- were bashing her as a traitor to her party. A new liberal political action committee had just named her its "Worst Offender." And in Tauscher's East Bay district office that day in January, eight MoveOn.org activists were accusing her of helping President...

Move America Forward's radio talk show host expedition to Iraq must so far be a stunning disappointment for liberals. Where's the blatant propaganda? The partisan "non-reality" of events there, as we were warned for days would occur? As it turns out, the visit by American talk hosts seems more a morale booster, Bob Hope-style, than a sinister "radical right" plot....

The Legislative Process: “I wouldn’t mind having sex with Ellen Tauscher,” a U.S. Representative said the other night to a crowd in D.C. This wish for sexual congress came from a congressional member named appropriately enough, Weiner. Of course, he was speaking at a Congressional Comedy Night – if you can imagine so improbable an event – to raise money for an Oregon Democrat named Earl Blumenauer. Wiener, who was wearing a muscle shirt when he made his remarks, said that Tauscher was one “hot” Congresswoman. But tough. …. Said Weiner, in full, “I wouldn’t mind having sex with Ellen...

<p>SPEND A FEW minutes with U.S. Rep. Ellen Tauscher, the most conservative Democrat in the Bay Area's congressional delegation, and you realize just how far to the right politics in Washington have shifted.</p> <p>Very far.</p> <p>Unbeknown to most Americans, she says, a "fundamentalist revolution" has taken place in the United States -- a revolution comparable to those that have taken place in the Islamic world.</p>

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE DATE: Tuesday, March 25, 1999 TAUSCHER CALLS AIR STRIKES NECESSARYURGES SUPPORT OF U.S. TROOPS IN BALKANS Washington, DC -- Congresswoman Ellen O. Tauscher (D-Contra Costa/Alameda Counties), a member of the House Armed Services Committee who visited with U.S. troops in the Balkans on a fact-finding mission last December, today called the air strikes against President Slobodan Milosovich’s military necessary. She issued the following statement: "Launching air strikes against President Milosovich is necessary to contain the problem in the Balkans and to stop the systematic killing of innocent men, women and children. We also need to put a...

Jan 01, 2003 Tauscher suggests multinational coalition could disarm Saddam By ADNAN MALIK Associated Press Writer A multinational coalition led by the United Nations should be ready to disarm Saddam Hussein by force if the Iraqi president fails to abide by Security Council resolutions, a California congresswoman told reporters Wednesday on this carrier. "It is unfortunate, and it is becoming increasingly apparent, that we have an uncooperative adversary," Democratic Rep. Ellen Tauscher said in the hangar deck of the 88,000-ton ship. "I think it is very, very important that we a have multinational coalition led by the United Nations that...