Clooney was handcuffed and led away into a Secret Service van along with his 78-year-old father, Nick, U.S. Rep. Jim Moran (D-Va.), Rep Jim McGovern (D-Mass.), former Rep. Tom Andrews (D-Mass.), Martin Luther King III and NAACP president Ben Jealous, among others.
He then notified the offices of several members of Congress, including Rep. Mark Kirk (R-Ill), Rep. Trent Franks (R-AZ), Rep. Allyson Schwartz (D-PA), and Rep. Steven Rothman (D-NJ).
The prohibition, introduced by Democratic members, including Rep. Brad Ellsworth, D-Indiana, and Rep. Bart Stupak, D-Michigan, would exclude cases of rape, incest or if the mother's life is in danger.
The accused Iraqi spy also worked for Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-Cal.) and Rep. Peter DeFazio (D-Ore.).
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Some so-called Blue Dog Democrats are among those who intend to vote no, including Rep. Stephanie Herseth Sandlin, D-South Dakota, and Rep. Frank Kratovil, D-Maryland.
The SHIELD Act introduced yesterday in the House by Rep. Peter DeFazio, D-Ore. and Rep. Jason Chaffetz, R- Utah, would help protect innovators from trolls by making the plaintiff pay the legal costs when their baseless lawsuits are ultimately rejected in court.
Patrick Leahy, D-Vermont, and Rep. Bob Goodlatte, R-Virginia, does this very thing, but I have confidence that in the coming weeks it can be improved to fix the problem.
John Breaux (D-Louisiana) and Rep. Bill Thomas (R-California) said their plan offers "no significant" changes from earlier versions except that it addresses "a number of adjustments" other commission members wanted.
Ron Wyden (D-OR) and Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA).
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Jay Rockefeller (D-W.Va.) and Rep. Henry Waxman (D-Calif.) are the latest lawmakers to advocate such an approach.
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In the House, the bipartisan "energy working group" -- formed by Rep. John Peterson, R-Pennsylvania, and Rep. Neil Abercrombie, D-Hawaii -- includes 23 members, roughly split evenly between the two parties.
Those Members include the Chairman of the House Committee on Homeland Security, Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-Mississippi), and the Chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, Rep. Sylvestre Reyes (D-Texas).
Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) and Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.), who are leading a bi-partisan fight in Congress to block passage of dangerous new copyright legislation (SOPA and PIPA).
This warning was transmitted in not one but two letters from Rep. Spencer Bachus (R-AL) and Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) on August 3, 1999 and November 8, 1999.
Dianne Feinstein, D-California, and Rep. Darrell Issa, R-California, toured the power plant, to question the need for nuclear energy and raise alarms about a potential environmental catastrophe.
House Speaker Rep. Dennis Hastert, R-Illinois, and House Minority Leader Rep. Richard Gephardt, D-Missouri, were scheduled to travel with Bush as a show of bipartisan support for quick congressional action on airline security improvements.
Vice Presidential candidate Ryan(D-WI) along with Rep. Todd Akin (R-MO) have voted consistently on this issue for more than a decade.
The author of the train-and-equip gambit, Rep. John Murtha (D-PA), knows how to write policy changes into a military-spending bill.
Clinton combined his New Orleans appearance with a fund-raising luncheon for Rep. William Jefferson (D-La.) and a Democratic National Committee fund-raising dinner.
Key Democrats, such as high-ranking members like Rep. Barney Frank (D-MA), Allyson Schwartz (D-PA), Pete Stark (D- CA), the ranking Democrat on the House Ways and Means Health Subcommittee, and Frank Pallone (D-NJ), the ranking Democrat on the House Energy and Commerce Health Subcommittee, have backed the repeal of IPAB.
Conway, trying to appeal to Louisville's large African-American population, invited Rep. John Lewis, D-Georgia, a civil rights legend, to the district.
Critical mass seems to be growing for serious patent reform legislation in the U.S. At the CES Innovation Policy Summit, the best-attended session so far featured Rep. Peter DeFazio (D-Ore.), who is co-sponsoring a bill which would severely limit the ability of holding companies to use the patent system to extort settlements, especially in the highly-litigated information technology sector.
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On September 4, 2009 on PBS's Newshour with Jim Lehrer, US Rep - D.
"It was a serious speech -- reached out to Republicans, " said Rep. Steny Hoyer, D-Maryland, the House majority leader.
Dianne Feinstein, D-California, over his choice of Leon Panetta to head the CIA, and from Rep. John Conyers, D-Michigan, over his reported pick of CNN chief medical correspondent and neurosurgeon Sanjay Gupta as surgeon general.
"We're going to take the unpaid-for tax extenders because we have to, " says a spokesman for Rep. Jim Cooper, D-Tenn.
In the now ever-present debates over energy policies, pressure for tougher automotive fuel efficiency standards has elicited an intriguing response from the creative Rep. Dingell, D-Mich.
"We're not faced with an immediate need for a supplemental, " agreed Rep. David Price, D-N.
The House leadership promised a vote last week on a resolution by Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio).
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Rep. John Conyers (D- Michigan) sponsored the bill on April 8, 1968, 44 years ago.
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