Posts Tagged ‘House of Representatives’
Congress Threatens Free Needle Exchange in D.C.
Thanks to Representative Jack Kingston of Georgia, a rider just added to D.C.’s District’s 2010 federal appropriation bill will effectively trash all clean needle exchange programs in this city. According to the Examiner:
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What Does Eric Cantor Really Think About Gay Rights?
Minority Whip Eric Cantor appeared on This Week with George Stephanopoulos to talk about how fucked the Republican party is. GLBT blog Towleroad summed up Cantor’s remedy with this headline: “Rep. Eric Cantor: GOP Needs to Be Inclusive on Gay Rights.” Is Eric Cantor really pushing for the G.O.P. to incorporate gay rights into its new party platform? Not exactly:
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Man Madness: House Vs. Senate
The Manliest Workplace in D.C. Competition continues today in a match-up sure to be less painful than most acts of Congress! (See the full 64-workplace bracket here). Today, the Federal Government bracket heats up as our bicameral legislature goes mano-a-mano to determine final man dominance (until the new, possibly gender-compromised Congress is sworn in). For now, we live in 110th Congress man-bliss as the House takes on the Senate:
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES: Congressional leaders are listed first, followed by the longest-serving members of the House, in order to give credit to those public servants who have lent the most years of manliness to our great man nation. Lets get to governin’!
