Actually, at my caucus location, things were pretty hectic. But it was a great experience none the less, and literally a hundred or so new Democrats were registered to vote at my precinct alone (that voter-registrar training we did last year helped again!). Some of the new voters were high school students, other [...]
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Bellevue resident and former Air Force captain Richard Carter is taking the first steps toward challenging Lee Terry today:
Omaha, Neb. – Richard N. Carter, a U.S. Air Force Reserve Captain with active duty combat experience in both Iraq and Afghanistan, will file Friday with the Federal Election Commission to form an exploratory committee. Carter, a [...]
The U.S. Congress hasn’t been too great on a lot of things (getting us out of Iraq, stopping Bush’s conservative agenda), but they’ve been doing a great job going to bat for students on the issue of Student Loans & College Cost Reduction.
Just last week a very important piece of legislation was passed [...]
Lee Terry Hates Poor Kids
You see, today Terry & 158 of his extreme-right-wing friends (including Nebraska’s other two congressmen, Smith & Fortenberry) voted against the SCHIP renewal and expansion. Thankfully, the bill still passed with a huge bipartisan majority of 265 votes.
CHIP (the Childrens Health Insurance Program) was a 1990s program that provided [...]
Oh, how sorry I am that I missed this one…
Apparently, Lee Terry decided to pick a fight with Rep. Jesse Jackson, Jr. after hearing shouts come from his direction on the House Floor. Now, Terry’s never been the brightest Representative, but falsely accusing a kung fu master (seriously) of instigating a fight is probably not [...]
Wednesday, the House of Representatives passed an overhaul of student aid, slashing interest rates on student loans, raising the pell grant limit, and adding loan forgiveness provisions for public servants.
Not surprisingly, our “representatives” in Congress voted against the bill, which also cut federal subsidies to large lenders such as Nelnet, the huge Republican contributor based [...]
For someone who has deemed earmark rules too confusing to bother with, shirking his responsibility to his district on a regular basis, and despite his own involvement in pork projects, Lee Terry certainly talks a lot about ethics reform. Even though he voted against some of those reforms in January.
With the news of indictments against [...]
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