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Thursday, February 7, 2013

From The New Republic: Kyrsten Sinema, a new congresswoman from Arizona and the first openly bisexual person ever elected to the House, told me she wasn’t worried about trying to learn all the new names and faces. As a professor at Arizona State University for ten years, she’s had some practice. Her method? “I look [...]

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Credit Where Credit Is Due Department

Friday, July 20, 2012

Full credit to our senator, John McCain, for refuting the racist attacks on Huma Abedin: By the way, other condemnations of Michelle Bachmann’s remarks came from John Boehner and Ed Rollins. Although it must be noted that it was only a year ago that Rollins thought that Bachmann, who has been saying this stuff for [...]

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Grijalva on Public Lands

Thursday, July 12, 2012

Raúl Grijalva speaks on his amendment to HR 4402 to protect recreational uses of public lands.

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Ron Barber on ACA Repeal

Wednesday, July 11, 2012
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Raúl Grijalva on ACA Repeal

Wednesday, July 11, 2012

Haven’t they already repealed this like, I dunno, thirty times or so?

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Memo for Jon Kyl

Tuesday, June 26, 2012

Don’t criticize the President for the failure for an immigration compromise in 2007 when he voted for the bill and you filibustered it. All this stuff is on record and kind of easy to find these days.

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And We’ve Seen this Before. Unfortunately.

Wednesday, June 20, 2012

The US House passed something called the Gila Bend Indian Reservation Lands Replacement Clarification Act yesterday. It would effectively block the Tohono O’Odham Nation from building a casino on land that they acquired in Glendale. Trent Franks has been pushing for this legislation, with cheerleading from Jan Brewer and the Gila River Indian Community, who’d [...]

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Rubber Stamp

Wednesday, June 20, 2012

One of Jesse Kelly’s chief arguments against Ron Barber was that he would be a “rubber stamp” for whoever was the appropriate boogie-person at the time: Barack Obama, Nancy Pelosi and, scariest of all, Raúl Grijalva. Well, it didn’t take long for Barber to distance himself from one of those. Barber and Grijalva took opposite [...]

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Ron Barber’s Remarks on the House Floor

Tuesday, June 19, 2012

Here are the remarks of Arizona’s newest Congressman, Ron Barber, shortly after being sworn in to the United States House of Representatives this morning. I would like to thank the Arizona delegation for that warm welcome. And I would like to thank Speaker Boehner for his long and dedicated public service and for swearing me [...]

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And by “Reasoned” He Means…

Tuesday, April 24, 2012

Just so y’all know, Russell Pearce was not our only former legislative leader at the capitol for the hearings on SB 1070. Kirk Adams was up there taking time out from fundraising for his congressional race to tweet the hearings. Here’s a sample: Lesson so far? Impossible to have reasoned discussion here about how to [...]

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