Ed Whitfield
During his tenure in Congress, Whitfield has been involved with legislation that has created a national recreation area at the Land Between the Lakes in Kentucky and established a compensation program for workers that became ill after working at the Paducah (KY) Gaseous Diffusion Plant.http://whitfield.house.gov/about/bio.shtml He also helped draft the first Medicare prescription drug plan.http://whitfield.house.gov/about/bio.shtml
Whitfield also has worked other initiatives, including enhancing benefits for military personnel, retirees and veterans, promoting access to health care, energy reform, and other issues.http://whitfield.house.gov/about/bio.shtml
updated 2011-02-20 23:31:19
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John Conyers Jr.
Throughout his tenure in Congress, Conyers has been involved
in several pieces of legislation that have become law, including ones that established Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday as a national holiday, required warning labels on alcohol and sought to prevent violence against
women.http://johnconyers.com/node/320 He
also has helped secure more than $1 million in funding for medical facilities
in Detroit, created a job fair for ex-convicts, and has been in support of
legislation for both voter rights and national security.http://johnconyers.com/node/320
He recently published three books titled ‘’What Went Wrong in Ohio’’, ‘’The Constitution in Crisis’’, and ‘’Reining in the Imperial Presidency’’ all of which critiqued the administration of President George W. Bush.http://johnconyers.com/node/320
updated 2011-02-21 03:37:17
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Chris Smith
Smith maintains an outspoken anti-abortion and anti-stem cell research platform. He spearheaded the Stem Cell Therapeutic and Research Act of 2005, which provided $265 million to research umbilical cord blood and bone marrow cells instead of stem cells. Smith has a liberal Republican voting record based around a commitment to human rights legislation.http://chrissmith.house.gov/Biography/ Unlike many Republicans, he has supported legislation that attempts to reduce the effects of global warming. Smith is a member of the Committee on Foreign Affairs.http://www.whorunsgov.com/Profiles/Chris_Smith
updated 2011-02-26 23:06:31
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Congressman Christopher Lee Resigns
New York Congressman Christopher Lee resigned on Wednesday, February 9, 2011, amid a scandal involving a shirtless photo he posted on a Craigslist "Women Seeking Men" forum. The 46-year-old Lee, a two-term Republican, is married.http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2011/02/10/133635861/rep-chris-lee-resigns-after-shirtless-photo-controversy The shirtless photo of Lee was posted on Gawker, along with an article detailing Lee's flirtatious e-mails to a woman looking for romance on Craigslist.http://gawker.com/#!5755071/married-gop-congressman-sent-sexy-pictures-to-craigslist-babe
Just hours after the Gawker story was published online, Representative Lee resigned.http://gawker.com/#!5756377/craigslist-congressman-resigns Lee apologized to his family, staff and constituents, saying he'd made "profound mistakes." Lee also told FOX News he wouldn't comment on the story, saying, "I have to work this out with my wife."http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/02/09/rep-lee-declines-comment-report-claiming-sent-shirtless-photo-craigslist/
On February 10, 2011, the New York Daily News published a story saying that Lee's Craigslist dalliance "might not have been (his)...first transgression."http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/2011/02/10/2011-02-10_exgop_rep_christopher_lee_was_warned_over_partying_antics_by_house_speaker_john_.html?r=news/politics Politico quoted sources as saying that in 2010, House Speaker John Boehner "warned" Lee to "knock it off" "with regard to his partying with female lobbyists."http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0211/49202.html
updated 2011-02-18 00:03:53
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Carolyn Kilpatrick
Kilpatrick voted with the Democratic Party 98 percent of time as a member of the 110th Congress and 97 percent throughout her career as a representative.http://projects.washingtonpost.com/congress/members/k000180/ She voted against the first version of the 2008 financial bailout bill, claiming that it did not sufficiently protect those facing home foreclosures. She was an advocate of creating a mass transit system in Detroit, as well as a supporter of Hurricane Katrina recovery programs. Kilpatrick was a member of the House Appropriations Committee.http://www.whorunsgov.com/Profiles/Carolyn_Cheeks_Kilpatrick
updated 2011-02-26 23:23:24
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Tim Holden
In addition to his work with agriculture, Holden has been a proponent for several acts of legislation that provide benefits and awards to those in uniform. In 2007 alone, he introduced a bill to create National Correctional Officers and Employees Week, the Office of Correctional Public Health Act of 2007 and bills to request Presidential Medals of Honor to those in his jurisdiction who served in the Vietnam War and World War II.http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/R?d110:FLD003:@1(Rep+Holden):
Overall since 1993, he has sponsored over 85 bills, two of which were enacted, and missed just 2% of roll call votes. He is described as a centrist Democratic voter by GovTrack.us.http://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=400183
updated 2011-02-26 06:10:02
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Jesse L. Jackson Jr.
Jackson sits on the House Appropriations Committee, where he serves on the Labor, and State and Foreign Affairs Operations subcommittees.http://democrats.appropriations.house.gov/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=727:democratic-subcommittee-assignments-for-the-112th-congress&catid=3:press-releases&Itemid=120&Itemid=4 During his tenure in Congress, he was involved in the creation of the National Center on Minority Health Disparities at the National Institutes of Health and helped get funding for a 2002 report by the Institute of Medicine on confronting racial disparities in health care.http://jackson.house.gov/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=51&Itemid=53
Within his district, Jackson has helped secure federal funding for infrastructure, health care, education, transit, housing, community centers and other projects.http://www.jessejacksonjr.org/content/bio He also supported national health care and financial reform legislation.http://www.jessejacksonjr.org/content/bio
updated 2011-02-21 03:14:20
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Timothy V. Johnson
From 2001 to 2010, Johnson sponsored 29 bills, two of which were enacted, and co-sponsored over 650 bills.http://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=400207 His legislative work has focused mainly on agriculture and transportation.http://timjohnson.house.gov/index.cfm?sectionid=5§iontree=5
Johnson introduced H.R. 4805, which designates the United States Postal Service located at 105 North Quincy Street in Clinton, Illinois as the Gene Vance Post Office Building, a bill that became law in 2006.http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bill.xpd?bill=h109-4805
updated 2011-02-27 08:43:36
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Kathy Dahlkemper
