January 31st, 2010
Rep. Donna Edwards (D) is proposing a constitutional amendment in response to a recent Supreme Court ruling. The court’s ruling declared that restrictions placed on corporations and unions, that prohibited them from paying directly for television political advertisements in days leading up to an election, were against free speech and therefore unconstitutional.
Edwards (D) urging for a new Constitutional amendment that would allow Congress to restrict the speech of corporate entities expressed her concern that corporations could work to defeat her in an election.
if the [corporations] don’t like what this congresswoman is doing, they’ll just forget the voters, buy TV ads, send robocalls, send a lot of mail, and beat her in November. A law won’t fix this; we have to fix it in the Constitution. So today I’ll introduce a constitutional amendment so that we the people can take back our elections and our democracy.
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January 22nd, 2010
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January 16th, 2010
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January 14th, 2010
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January 2nd, 2010
The 2009 Congressional Scorecard from Environment America found that most of the Free State’s congressional delegation marched firmly in lockstep with the issues of concern to the environmental activist group. See full ratings.
Environment America 2009 Scorecard
| Member |
Rating |
| Barbara Mikulski (US Senate) |
100%
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| Ben Cardin (US Senate) |
100%
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| Frank M. Kratovil, Jr.(D) 1st |
67 %
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| C. A. Dutch Ruppersberger III (D) 2nd |
100%
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| John Sarbanes (D) 3rd |
100%
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| Donna Edwards (D) 4th |
100%
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| Steny H. Hoyer (D) 5th |
100%
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| Roscoe G. Bartlett (R) 6th |
20%
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| Elijah E. Cummings (D) 7th |
100%
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| Christopher Van Hollen, Jr. (D) 8th |
100%
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December 24th, 2009
Sen. Mikulski in a quip to reporters lamented that she had not gotten money for Maryland in exchange for her yea vote on the Senate Health Care bill.
“I know I’m not as important as Senator Nelson. I didn’t get the money for my state. I was too stupid.”
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December 21st, 2009
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December 20th, 2009
Rep. Van Hollen told reporters that a Democrat strategy for the upcoming 2010 elections will be to remind voters of the Bush years.
“The Republican Party in Washington today is no different than the Republican Party that ran the Congress before.”
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December 15th, 2009
A study of 2009 third quarter expenditures by members of the US House reveals that Rep. Steny Hoyer was among the among big spenders for food with a single dinner expensed at $5,380. The dinner held at Middleton Hall on 28 Aug 2009 was part of a women’s networking fair hosted by Rep. Hoyer at taxpayers expense.
Other notable Free State big expenses for the quarter included the following:
Donna Edwards — $ 17,846 (advertising & printing)
Elijah Cumming — $14,665 (equipment rental)
C.A. Dutch Ruppersberger — $9,150 (lodging)
John P. Sarbanes — $72,286 (franked mail)
For more see the Sunlight Foundation’s searchable database of all US House third quarter expenditures.
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December 11th, 2009
Maryland’s congressional delegation has earmarked funds for more 70 projects into an end-of-the year spending measure. Click for a listing.
The total of the new funds earmarked for Maryland approaches $100 million and adds to the total of $800 million in spending designated for Maryland in the 2010 budget. Read more…
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Chris Van Hollen (D) discounting any significant change in the political landscape said that Republican claims that they can regain control of the House in 2010 was “
Rep. Roscoe Bartlett seeking a vote to halt automatic cost of living raises for members of congress wrote in a letter to Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi , that