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Michigan: McManus pushes to end ‘no fault’ divorce

State Senate Michelle McManus (R-Lake Leelanau), a candidate for Michigan Secretary of State, has introduced legislation that would make it harder for people to get divorced.
McManus is the sole sponsor of SB 1127 which would eliminate ‘no fault divorce’ for couples with children or where one member does not consent to the divorce.
Since 1972 Michigan’s “no fault” [...]

A chat with Sen. Bernie Sanders on his new 10 million solar roofs bill

On Thursday, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.)introduced a bill aimed at getting 10 million new solar rooftop systems and 200,000 new solar hot water heating systems installed in the U.S. in the next 10 years.
Cleverly titled the “10 Million Solar Roofs & 10 Million Gallons of Solar Hot Water Act” (.pdf), it would provide rebates that [...]

Keith Olbermann on “Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission”

In a decision that might actually have more dire implications than “Dred Scott v Sandford” the Supreme Court of the United States in Citizens United v Federal Election Commission declared that because of the alchemy of its 19th Century predecessors in deciding that corporations had all the rights of people, any restrictions on how these corporate-beings [...]

Don’t blame Obama. The US political system is broken

Watching American politics through British eyes, you must be utterly mystified as to why Barack Obama hasn’t gotten this healthcare bill passed yet. Many Americans are too. The instinctive reflex is to blame Obama. He must be doing something wrong. Maybe he is doing a thing or two wrong. But the main thing is that [...]

United States Delivers Blow to Banks in War on Tax Evasion

The Bill proposes forcing foreign banks operating in the US to disclose American customers’ names and annual account balances or face a 30 per cent tax on the bank’s income from US assets.
All Americans with more than $50,000 in foreign assets would have to declare their holdings in their tax return. Failure to do so [...]

Senators want to end telecom immunity for spying program

Four Democratic U.S. senators will introduce a bill to repeal a provision protecting telecommunications carriers from lawsuits targeting their assistance to a controversial U.S. National Security Agency surveillance program.
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The new legislation, called the Retroactive Immunity Repeal Act, would allow lawsuits against telecom providers such as AT&T to resume.
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