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Another day, another meaningless Republican vote
The Republican-controlled U.S. House of Representatives will do anything to avoid getting any actual work done. As if 37 votes to repeal Obamacare didn't waste enough taxpayer time and money, the House GOP has decided to vote on a 20-week abortion ban, despite the fact that the bill would never be approved by the Senate. The anti-abortion bill is sponsored by Arizona Republican, Congressman Trent Franks, and it is strongly endorsed by the National Right to Life Committee.
If the bill stood any chance of passing in the upper chamber, it would roll back women's constitutionally protected right to an abortion until the point of viability – which is 24 weeks. Representative Franks' restriction is based on the scientifically-specious notion that a fetus can feel pain after 20 weeks. But, the vote is nothing but a dog-and-pony show. Republicans know that the bill would never survive a Senate vote, and it certainly wouldn't be signed into law by President Obama. Apparently, Republican lawmakers would rather play to their hard-right base, than pass any jobs bills, or work to undo the damage of the sequester.
Democrats and moderate Republicans in the Congress are frustrated about wasting taxpayer time and money on another meaningless vote. The American people are tired of lawmakers who refuse to represent them, and they are tired of the ongoing attack on women's reproductive rights. Even Representative Mary Bono Mack – a Republican – said, “There were real issues to focus on that should have been the news of the day. It wasn't this.”
-Thom
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Tonight on The Big Picture on RT TV at 7pm and 9pm... Edward Snowden - The Emperor has no clothes... (check your local listings for stations or stream at RT, and catch past shows on Youtube)
Need to Know: Edward Snowden - The Emperor has no clothes...
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Daily Take: We're prepared to accept an apology from Exxon & lawmakers
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Tuesday's Daily Stack 
Hour One: Spying by corporations is different than spying by government - Matthew Feeney, Reason 24/7 
Hour Two: What is the FISA court?- Shahid Buttar, Bill of Rights Defense Committee & civil rights attorney
Article: " 4th Amendment". " The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized."
Hour Three: What is The Massive Online Surveillance Program No One Is Talking About- Andrea Peterson, Think Progress
Speech: " Cross of Iron" - Address by President Dwight D. Eisenhower "The Chance for Peace" delivered before the American Society of Newspaper Editors, April 16,1953.
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Wednesday on The Thom Hartmann Program, 3-6pm ET
Hour One: Edward Snowden...The Emperor Has No Clothes
Hour Two: Progressive vs. Conservative case for prison reform- Richard A. Viguerie, ConservativeHQ.com / Author, “Conservatives Betrayed: How George W. Bush and Other Big Government Republicans Hijacked the Conservative Cause”
Hour Three: How Spy Agency Contractors Have Already Abused Their Power- Lee Fang, The Nation Institute & Author, The Machine: A Field Guide to the Resurgent Right
And, the best of the rest of the news and your calls right here on...
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Thursday on The Thom Hartmann Program, 3-6pm ET
We'll have the latest on whistleblower Edward Snowden and the NSA domestic spying scandal...Attorney, Mike Papantonio, Ring of Fire Radio...weighs in...
PLUS, an update on the Zimmerman trial with our legal expert Debbie Hines of Legal Speaks... And, the best of the rest of the news along with your calls...right here on...
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Thom's Poll
Is Rep. Issa refusing to release IRS evidence because it proves he's wrong?
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Watch & Listen to Thom
Politics Panel - Corporations should be making shoes not spying!
Bring back the boring bureaucrat bankers too
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The Good - The Bad - and the Very Very Nolimetangeretarianly Ugly
Does creationism deserve a place in schools?
Spying by corporations is different than spying by government
Zimmerman Trial - How Will Race Play a Role?
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The Surveillance Program no one Else is Talking About
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Spying by Corporations Different Than by Government?
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