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CONGRESSIONAL CONDUCT ----
Congressional Leadership – House
U.S. House of Representatives - Official Site
Congressional Contacts – ConsumerAction.org
Congressional Contacts - Webslingerz.com
OpenCongress - Site for contacts, issues, bills, etc.
Thomas Library of
Congress - Search for Bills
Thomas Library of Congress -
Home
"60 Minutes" Jack Abramhoff, 14:52 minutes - Video
More on Abramoff - Read more.
Lobbyist Playbook - CBS, Abramoff
Congress Insiders: Above the law?
CNN Cafferty File - About Congressional actions
Congressional Insider Trading - BigGovernment.com
Insider Trading - 60 Minutes
Insider Trading - CBS written version
CBS News - More on Insider Trading
Insider Trading - A long history - ProCon.com
Insider trading -
Wikipedia
Regarding the "Stock Act" - HR 1148, ProCon.com
Current Status of H.R. 1148 - Thomas Registry
Rick Perry - On insider trading (video)
Insider Trading - ProCon.com
Issue Search - ProCon.com
U.S. Senate database regarding lobbyists, etc -
Who is lobbying your officials - Followthemoney.org
Follow The Money -
State Information
I Watch News - Lobbying groups
EDUCATION ----
Obama's Student Loan Order, critical view from Fox
Student loan plan will help - Public Radio
Higher education costs continue to soar - CBS News
Finding Cost Savings - Governing.com
EFFECTS OF EXCESSIVE POLITICAL INFLUENCE -----
Sen. Sanders on Oil
Speculation - CNBC Video
Sanders on Speculators
- his site
Sen. Bernie Sanders -
Wkipedia
Lobbying and Tax Exempt - ncsonline.org
Top Lobbyist Associations -
Top Lobbyists: Hired Guns -
Lobbyists have too Much
Power -
Washington Post, Lobbyists and the Super Committee -
Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission -
Wikipedia
explanation of various 501 organizations -
Public Law 104–65, An Act To provide for the disclosure of lobbying
activities to influence the Federal Government
Senate Public Disclosure -
The Power
of Money: The Ethics of Campaign Finance Reform
EMPLOYMENT & TRAINING ----
Job Creators Alliance -
Lynn Tilton, 20/20 - ABC News
CNBC - Rethinking
Work -
Bloomberg - World
Views
Dislocated Workers Act
- the act
Dislocated
Workers Act - Summary
Dislocated Workers Program -
Dislocated Workers Program - Layoffs
REXO - The
Reintegration of Ex-Offenders, also see (PRI)
Department
of Labor - Grants & Funding for REXO
US Dept. of Labor - Employment and
Training Admin
Unemployment -
World Bank
Department of Labor,
TAA Program Benefits and Services under the 2009 Amendment
Workforce Investment
Act - D.O.L. Program Description
JTPA
- Now wrapped into WIA (above) Wikipedia
Job Training Programs are Failing Workers - Wikicountibility.org
McDonalds
Training Center -
Turning your Resume Into a Job -
Oversight Report on Job Training Programs - Sen. Coburn
China and Jobs - "Who's
Afraid of the Dragon", The Economist
Cheap Imports -
Study: China Trade - Did More Damage To US Economy Than Anyone Knew, People
for Ethical Living
The Top Eight Rules of Networking -
FEDERAL
GOVERNMENT EMPLOYMENT & RETIREMENT
----
Federal Retirement Reform -
2010 Salary Breakdowns -
OPM.GOV
Also See
- FedScope.com
Office of Professional Management -
Topics
Federal Workforce - OPM
HEALTH CARE ISSUES ---
Health Care - aameda.org
Census Bureau -
Health coverage in the U.S.
NATIONAL
AND PRIVATE DEBT -----
Holders of Debt - U.S. Treasury
Nations Holding U.S. Debt - U.S. Treasury
Consumer Credit
- Federal Reserve
Federal Reserve
Holdings 8/4/11 - searchable site
Who Holds Fed Debt - extremeskins.com
Who Holds the Debt - timiacono.com
NET WORTH ISSUES ----
Members of Congress -
governmentgonewild.org
U.S. As A Whole -
Net Worth Charts - Charts & Estimates
Census Bureau - Income, Expenditures,
Poverty, & Wealth,
Census
Bureau - Non-financial Assets held by families
Wealth in the
U.S. - Wikipedia Charts
Census Bureau - Income and Wealth, Real Median Income
Sen. Bernnie Sanders - Speech on Senate floor
POLITICS ----
Congressional Calendar 2011 -
Congressional Calendar 2012 -
Congressional Progressive Caucus -
Congressional Progressive Caucus -
Progressive Caucus - Caucus Site
Tea Party Caucus - (Bachman)
Tea Party Caucus - Wikpedia
Eric Odom - Early activist
Tea Party Express - The Current
Dominant Tea Party Movement.
Tea Party Patriots -
General site with "their" mission statement and links to various State
organizations.
Democrats - Central site for the party.
DNC with additional links available.
Republicans - Republican National Committee.
Additional links at the site.
Campaign Financing - Open
Secrets.org
Campaign Finance -
MapLight.org
Getting Around the Law - Campaign Finance, Wikipedia
Wiki Voter
Guide -
Wikipedia - History, PACs, Bundeling, 527's, etc.
Campaign
Finance Reform - Vexedbermoothes.com
Wiki World Order -
Profile of the Sociopath -
Descriptive of Congress?
Sociopath
- (dito)
Negative
Campaigns -
Negative Campaign Work? -
ThisNation.com
Federal Register -
Legislative Branch
Resources on GPO Access
Political Pressure/Blackmail - How members are pressured
More Political Pressure
-
Definition of Leadership -
ComebackAmericaInitiative -
No Lables.org -
Lobbyists gave donations to charities linked to Hatch Act
Lobbyist: Forcing contractors to disclose donations -
Huffington Post, Deficit Committee Members Have Former Lobbyists As Top
Staffers -
Using 'political intelligence' for personal gain - Chicago Tribune
Senators propose rules stopping insider trading by Congress members
Chicago style of gerrymandering
Re:
Campaign Finance Reform -
Petitions from the Democrats - The Disclosure Act legislation -
Petition for amendment to limit contributions -
Stop On-Line
Piracy Act:
The SOPA Act Continues To Get Dirtier -
ComebackAmericaInitiative - NoLabels.org
No Labels.org - News
PROTESTERS ---
Occupy Wall Street - Declaration of Purpose
Charts of Protesters' Issues - Original source, Chicago Tribune, "Biz Wrap"
Banks of Marble - Pete
Seeger
What Did You Learn In
School Today? - Pete Seeger
Protesters -
Your Free Press Blog -
CNBC, Sam Zell on
Protesters
REGULATIONS ----
Bernie Marcus, Home Depot co-founder on regulations
Bernie Marcus on CNBC
(1) - CNBC
Bernie Marcus on CNBC
(2) - CNBC
Bernie Marcus, Fox news 11/04/11
Steve Jobs Slams Obama - N.Y. Post
Obama administration - moves to cut unneeded regulations, LA Times
Small business Owners - seek 'sensible regulations
Small Business Owners -
Speak Out Against Job-Stifling Government Regulation, Speaker.govn
Government Regulations - Prevent Job Growth (NLRB)
Obama Wrote 5% Fewer Rules Than Bush - Businessweek
Example of Uncertainty - private room
for breast feeding mothers
Arsenic in our Juices - ABC
Food Safety News
- Seafood
Food Safety News - China
FDA Fails to Announce Recalls - Food Safety News
SCHOOL & STATE ISSUES ----
Unfunded Mandates - GovTrack.com
Unfunded Mandates - GSA.gov
Unfunded Mandates - Congressional Research Service
Unfunded Mandates - Congressman James Lankford
Government Mandate Relief - NY group seeks relief
List of Mandates -
New York State Board of Education
Iowa Plan -
(Document dated 11/2001) Iowa Plan, developed with the Dept of Labor
Iowa Plan - Web Site
(2001) for Counselors
SOCIAL SECURITY ----
SSA
Projections-A -
2010 SSA
Trustee Report - (Long and technical but a thorough source.)
SSA Trust Fund
Interest Rates - OASI and DI Trust Funds
Historic Contribution Rates -
SSA COLA Chart -
Trust Fund
Data - FAQ
Trust Fund
Holdings -
Full Retirement Age Chart
-
Social Security PIA
Calculations - SSA.GOV
Graph of Bend Points
- SSA.GOV
SSA Employment Taxes - SSA.GOV
SSA Planners - SSA.GOV
Benefits Planner
Taxes on Social Security:
Customer Help -
FICA Increase -
Contribution Benefit Base -
Questions & Answers - Investopia.com
TAXES AND U.S. ECONOMY ----
Taxes - Who Pays?
-
Why half pay no Fed Taxes? - Christian Science Monitor
Income Taxes: - Wikipedia
Fact Check, Obama: - Obama's Budget Speech
Tax -
Sources:(2002) - GPO
Tax
- Sources: (2010) - PublicAgenda.org
2011 IRS Tax Rates -
Income
Tax in the U.S. - Wikipedia
Tax withholding tables for 2011 -
Effect of Tax Holiday - Reinhartlaw.com
Employment Tax Cut - MSNBC
Herman Cain MSNBC - MSNBC's Lawrence O'Donnell
Average Wages -
SSA.gov
Median Wages - Huffington Post
Explanation of Mean, Median and
Average - Wikipedia
Obama's Job Bill - Christian Science Monitor
TAX Loopholes - Not just big
business!
Obama Tax Loopholes? - NPR.org
10 Giant
Loopholes: - businessinsider.com
Tax Code -
Freedomworks.org
CNBC: Who are the 1%
- video
CNBC: Inside the 1%
- video
CNBC: The 1% -
video interview with Russell Simmons, author of "Super Rich"
America's 'Oh Sh*t' Moment - Newsweek, 11/7/11
The real problem: Income Inequality - University of Chicago economist
Raghuram Rajan
Top 3 Common Myths of Capitalism -
Business Frustrations TownHall.com
Impact of Foreign Goods – Chinese Imports, etc
WORLD AND NATIONAL ECONOMY ----
(mostly broad data sources)
Consumer Confidence -
CNBC
Consumer
Confidence - Conference Board, On Line Help Wanted statistics
Economic Indicators Online - Associatedcontent.com
World Statistics - Dynamic Charts on a great variety of global stats,
Wikipedia
World Bank -
GDP in ($) of global economies
GENERAL DATA SOURCES
----
Data 360 - Good source for U.S.
Data
World Statistics - Dynamic Charts on a great variety of global stats,
Wikipedia (Excellent Source!)
General Interest:
http://www.associatedcontent.com/
The CQ Researcher
Online Research Papers - Index - Search Issues
Center for Public Integrity -
Dysfunctional -
Defined
Profile of the Sociopath - Defined
The Sociopath Next Door - Amazon
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