Rep Slaughter: "Following Up On Nancy's Fighting Words"

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Yesterday, I posted the following:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=364&topic_id=1024600&mesg_id=1024600

Today, Rep Slaughter blogs at DKos:

Hi folks. I am having a hectic day today on the Hill in between meetings and Rules Committee Hearing. However, I wanted to follow up on our on Congressional Republicans selling out of the American people to their friends in big oil companies. Today Henry A. Waxman, Kendrick Meek, and yours truly will hold a press conference at 1:00 p.m. (in about half an hour) to highlight the cost of the corruption embraced by the current Republican rubberstamp Congress and its impact on skyrocketing gas prices nationwide.

The event comes on the heels of Thursday's expected vote on a sham Republican lobby "reform" bill (here is today's ) that fails to change the way of Washington's culture of corruption.

We hope the traditional media will report our message to Americans coast to coast: that each time we spend 60, 80, or even 100 dollars to fill up their car with gas...we are, in large part, paying for the systemic corruption and cronyism that have come to define this Republican Congress.

For two years, Democrats have been talking about the problem of corruption in this Congress. We have talked about lobbyists and corporate executives being allowed to write the bills in backrooms with no accountability and no transparency whatsoever.

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Much, much more at the link:

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2006/4/26/12408/2539

Leadership. Passion.

Encourage much more of it and support those who are providing it. America and humanity depend on Our success.


Never Forget: George W. Bush willfully violated National Security to cover-up his willful launch of a war of aggression and illegal occupation of Iraq.

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1. I think Rep. Slaughter should be the Dem leader in the House

But didn't Nancy Pelosi have something to do with taking legitimacy from Slaughter's Republican Corruption Report?