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Barbara Lee: AUMF Was Wrong in 2001, and It's Wrong Now A renewed debate of the 2001 Authorization for Use of Military Force is long overdue. I was the only member of Congress to vote against the authorization when it came to the House floor in 2001 after the horrific events of September 11th, and I have been pushing for its repeal ever since. Read the Full Story
The War on Terror Has Not Made Us Safer Two days after the horrific attacks of September 11, 2001, I was sitting in front of my institute's office around the corner from the White House. We had just been evacuated again. Read the Full Story
Congress Checks and Balances on Afghanistan—Will It Do So With Syria? The US House of Representatives took an important step last week toward the restoration of the separation of powers that was established so that Congress would check and balance presidential war-making. Read the Full Story
Dems Press Neal on SNAP Cuts Next week, the U.S. House will take up the federal farm bill, which includes potentially devastating cuts to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP (the program once known as food stamps). Read the Full Story
House Overwhelmingly Votes to Speed Afghan Withdrawal By a 305-121 margin, the House of Representatives voted to accelerate US troop withdrawals from Afghanistan by the end of 2013, to strike previous language supporting a post-2014 US military presence, and insisting that any such presence be authorized by Congress by June 2014.  Read the Full Story
Congresswoman Barbara Lee Hails Passage of Amendments Supporting Ending War in Afghanistan, Modernizing Discriminatory HIV Laws Washington, D.C.— Today, Congresswoman Barbara Lee released the following statement on the passage of two amendments to the National Defense Authorization Act on the floor of the House: Read the Full Story
Win Without War Applauds House Passage of McGovern-Jones Afghanistan Amendment to the FY2014 NDAA Read the Full Story
Supreme Court Rules Human Genes May Not Be Patented WASHINGTON — Isolated human genes may not be patented, the Supreme Court ruled unanimously on Thursday. The case concerned patents held by Myriad Genetics, a Utah company, on genes that correlate with increased risk of hereditary breast and ovarian cancer. Read the Full Story
Americans on long-term hunger strike to close Gitmo prison Unreported in the mainstream press is the dramatic long-term hunger strike by a group of Americans in solidarity with the hunger strikers in Guantanamo prison. The fasters include CODEPINK cofounder Diane Wilson (on a water-only fast since May 1), Veterans for Peace member Brian Wilson (May 12), and former president of Veterans for Peace, Elliott Adams. Below is an interview with Elliott Adams, who began his hunger strike on May 17. Read the Full Story
House Approves Derivatives Deregulation Bills That Would Open More Loopholes For Wall Street WASHINGTON -- The U.S. House of Representatives passed a slate of bills Wednesday intended to roll back recent financial reforms and deregulate derivatives, the complex financial products at the heart of the 2008 financial crisis. Read the Full Story
A Failure on Military Sexual Assaults The spate of alarming incidents in recent months underscoring the depth of the military’s sexual assault problem did not dissuade Senator Carl Levin, chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, from killing the most promising corrective on the table.       Read the Full Story
Civil Rights for Transgender People New York stood for equality by approving same-sex marriage two years ago. It is time now for state lawmakers to extend basic civil rights protections to transgender people.  Read the Full Story
image Barbara Lee: AUMF Was Wrong in 2001, and It's Wrong Now
image The War on Terror Has Not Made Us Safer
image Congress Checks and Balances on Afghanistan—Will It Do So With Syria?
image Dems Press Neal on SNAP Cuts
image House Overwhelmingly Votes to Speed Afghan Withdrawal
image Congresswoman Barbara Lee Hails Passage of Amendments Supporting Ending War in Afghanistan, Modernizing Discriminatory HIV Laws
image Win Without War Applauds House Passage of McGovern-Jones Afghanistan Amendment to the FY2014 NDAA
image Supreme Court Rules Human Genes May Not Be Patented
image Americans on long-term hunger strike to close Gitmo prison
image House Approves Derivatives Deregulation Bills That Would Open More Loopholes For Wall Street
image A Failure on Military Sexual Assaults
image Civil Rights for Transgender People

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Progressive Democrats of America was founded in 2004 to transform the Democratic Party and our country. We seek to build a party and government controlled by citizens, not corporate elites-with policies that serve the broad public interest, not just private interests. As a grassroots PAC operating inside the Democratic Party, and outside in movements for peace and justice, PDA played a key role in the stunning electoral victories of November 2006 and 2008. Our inside/outside strategy is guided by the belief that a lasting majority will require a revitalized Democratic Party built on firm progressive principles.

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