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Tuesday, May 10, 2011

YouTube - Sen Jauch: Speech on voter ID




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Senator Robert Jauch speech on voter ID
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Wisconsin state senator Robert Jauch gives a speech near the end of the May 9, 2011 Joint Finance Committee meeting on Assembly Bill 7. This bill imposes very narrow photo ID requirements and would make Wisconsin's voting laws among the most restrictive in the nation.

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Thank you Sen. Jauch! Common sense in a time of non-sense in Wisconsin. We need more politicians to stand up for what is right, not what their party is voting for. Read More Comments and Add your own | YouTube - Sen Jauch: Speech on voter ID

Contact Senator Jauch | Tell him you saw the video and to keep standing up for the people of Wisconsin | Contact information Here
Madison Office
118 South, State Capitol
P.O. Box 7882
Madison, WI 53707-7882
(608)266-3510 or toll-free (800) 469-6562
Fax: (608) 266-3580
E-mail: Sen.Jauch@legis.wi.gov




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Thursday, April 28, 2011

Wisconsin Dems have the momentum heading into final recall battle | Defend Wisconsin

Wisconsin Dems have the momentum heading into final recall battle | Defend Wisconsin

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26,524 signatures were filed today supporting a recall election against GOP senator Robert Cowles, out of 15,960 required.
Wisconsin Dems have the momentum heading into final recall battle | Defend Wisconsin
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Wow. In a sign that Wisconsin Democrats can still claim momentum in the recall wars, Dems today filed the signatures to trigger a recall election against a Link thru | Defend Wisconsin

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Monday, April 18, 2011

Klobuchar Facing Little Opposition In Minnesota - Hotline On Call

Klobuchar Facing Little Opposition In Minnesota - Hotline On Call

By Sean Sullivan
April 13, 2011 | 1:39 PM
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"On the heels of a state election where Republicans picked up a U.S. House seat, took control of both the state House and Senate, and came close to winning a gubernatorial contest, one would think the GOP would have at least a decent shot in the state's 2012 Senate race with a Democrat up for reelection.

That is, unless the state being discussed is Minnesota and that Democrat happens to be Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D).

Klobuchar was elected to her first term in a landslide in 2006, defeating her Republican opponent by 20 points. She heads into 2012 with a very encouraging approval rating, statewide popularity and a notable lack of a formidable Republican challenger on the horizon; all at a time when many Senate Democrats are playing defense across the country.

"Clearly, it's going to be a formidable undertaking. I don't think there is any doubt about that," said Minnesota GOP strategist Gregg Peppin, of the challenge facing Republicans trying to unseat Klobuchar.

One key to Klobuchar's success has been her ability to sound bipartisan while still voting largely on party lines."
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Sunday, April 17, 2011

04-13-2011 - Senate Investigations Subcommittee Releases Levin-Coburn Report On the Financial Crisis : Senator Carl Levin: News Release

04-13-2011 - Senate Investigations Subcommittee Releases Levin-Coburn Report On the Financial Crisis : Senator Carl Levin: News Release

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Senate Investigations Subcommittee Releases Levin-Coburn Report On the Financial Crisis
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WASHINGTON – Concluding a two-year bipartisan investigation, Senator Carl Levin, D-Mich., and Senator Tom Coburn M.D., R-Okla., Chairman and Ranking Republican on the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, today released a 635-page final report (PDF, 6MB) on their inquiry into key causes of the financial crisis. The report catalogs conflicts of interest, heedless risk-taking and failures of federal oversight that helped push the country into the deepest recession since the Great Depression.

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“Using emails, memos and other internal documents, this report tells the inside story of an economic assault that cost millions of Americans their jobs and homes, while wiping out investors, good businesses, and markets,” said Levin. “High ...risk lending, regulatory failures, inflated credit ratings, and Wall Street firms engaging in massive conflicts of interest, contaminated the U.S. financial system with toxic mortgages and undermined public trust in U.S. markets. Using their own words in documents subpoenaed by the Subcommittee, the report discloses how financial firms deliberately took advantage of their clients and investors, how credit rating agencies assigned AAA ratings to high risk securities, and how regulators sat on their hands instead of reining in the unsafe and unsound practices all around them. Rampant conflicts of interest are the threads that run through every chapter of this sordid story.”See More
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Wednesday, April 13, 2011

Statement of Russ Feingold on the Introduction of the Fair Elections Now Act | Progressives United

Statement of Russ Feingold on the Introduction of the Fair Elections Now Act | Progressives United

"I commend Senator Durbin and Congressman Larson for introducing the Fair Elections Now Act. It is similar in important ways to the public campaign system that enabled me and many other candidates to run for the Wisconsin State Legislature despite having only average means and without having to depend on special interest funding. Not only will it open the doors of Congress to average Americans, it will take the election process – fundamental to our democratic form of government – back from the special interest influences." Russ Feingold | former US Senator from Wisconsin.