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• A report released by the Congressional Research Service in September found that nearly half of congressional tweets simply link to press releases or news articles.

  —Waldo Lydecker's Journal.

  Slate considers why more members of Congress haven't signed up for Twitter yet:
  More than two years after Twitter's founding, and a year after microblogging really took off in Washington, only 185 members of Congress—about a third—have signed up. (That said, most Republicans tweet, and the GOP outnumbers Democrats' [...]

  Posted: December 04, 2009, 12:26pm EST
  

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• Next up: reenacting the Whiskey Rebellion

  —Waldo Lydecker's Journal.

  TPM breaks news of the Teabaggers' latest Punch and Judy Show:
  
  The health care debate has been something of a prize bonanza for members of Congress facing the ire of the Tea Party Patriots. First, tea partiers sent members thousands of tea bags. Since then, there's been salt and [...]

  Posted: December 02, 2009, 12:20pm EST
  

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• Aiken biomass plant breaks ground

  —The Palmetto Scoop

  

  NATIONAL, STATE LEADERS CELEBRATE ENERGY EFFICIENT PROJECT

  National and state leaders gathered in Aiken Monday to celebrate the groundbreaking of the largest energy efficiency project in American history — a new power station at the Savannah River Site.

  U.S. Secretary of Energy Steven Chu and members of Congress from [...]

  Posted: December 01, 2009, 12:30pm EST
  by Adam Fogle

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• Jim DeMint's Super Adventure Club test-drives hate legislation in Africa

  —Waldo Lydecker's Journal.

  Terry Gross of NPR's Fresh Air has a long interview with Jeff Sharlet, author of a book about The Family, the secretive Christianist group whose "church" has provided a home for right-wing members of Congress for decades:
  And of course that doesn't happen. So by the 1940s, they begin' [...]

  Posted: November 30, 2009, 12:47am EST
  

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• Said with a straight face.

  —Waldo Lydecker's Journal.

  Fr. Frank Pavone, National Director of Priests for Life, stated this morning that the voting records of members of Congress on the Stupak-Pitts amendment to HR 3962 (and other abortion-related votes) will be distributed to every Catholic parish in America, with instructions to each pastor on how to make clear to [...]

  Posted: November 07, 2009, 6:48pm EST
  

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• Voting Records to Go to All Churches, Leading Priest States

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  Fr. Frank Pavone, National Director of Priests for Life, stated this morning that the voting records of members of Congress on the Stupak-Pitts amendment to HR 3962 (and other abortion-related votes) will be distributed to every Catholic parish in America, with instructions to [...]

  Posted: November 07, 2009, 5:00pm EST
  by Daniel J. Cassidy

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