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San Francisco Chronicle: China's Olympic Challenge - A Case of Dignity
August 3, 2008
"The Olympic Charter states that the goal of the Olympic Games is to promote 'a peaceful society concerned with the preservation of human dignity.' The Chinese government has failed to live up to the commitments it made before being awarded the Olympic Games to improve its human rights situation and to allow foreign journalists to report freely in China."
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Chairman Henry Waxman Delivers The Democratic Radio Address
August 2, 2008
This morning, Congressman Henry Waxman of California, Chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, delivered the Democratic Radio Address. In his address, Congressman Waxman discusses critical legislation passed by the House this week that addresses the health and safety of America's children. Chairman Waxman explains, "on one single day, we passed two critically important pieces of legislation. The first, to reinvigorate the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) and strengthen its ability to assure safe toys for our children. The second is legislation that provides the authority to regulate tobacco and stop tobacco companies from targeting our kids."

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Pelosi Statement On House Passage of Appropriations Funding Bill for Veterans' Health Care
August 1, 2008
"The Democratic Congress is putting our troops and veterans first by passing a New GI education bill, the largest increase to veterans funding in history, critical reforms to our military health system, and a pay raise for our troops that exceeds the President's request."
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Pelosi Statement on July Jobs Report; Seventh Straight Month of Job Losses
August 1, 2008
"Today's jobs numbers are another painful, and for too many, a very personal reminder of how the Bush Administration's economic strategy has failed American workers. It should be as apparent to the President and to Republicans as it is to the American people that we need another economic recovery package to get our economy growing again."
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Pelosi to Bush: It Is Essential That You Speak Out for Human Rights During Visit to China for the Olympics
August 1, 2008
"On the eve of your trip to China to attend the 2008 Summer Olympic Games, the human rights situation in China and Tibet is worsening and new restrictions are being imposed on international journalists as they attempt to cover the Olympic Games. I am writing to ask that you make human rights and freedom of the press top priorities of your visit."
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Pelosi Statement on Congress Sending Consumer Product Safety Legislation To President
August 1, 2008
"Being a mom is a job that requires you to be focused, organized, disciplined, have good interpersonal skills, know how to cook and drive, take care of everything, and at the same time, never take your eyes off the children. And so at least we should expect that the products that come to them are safe and not harmful to their health."
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Pelosi Statement on Congress Sending Consumer Product Safety Legislation To President
August 1, 2008
"Being a mom is a job that requires you to be focused, organized, disciplined, have good interpersonal skills, know how to cook and drive, take care of everything, and at the same time, never take your eyes off the children. And so at least we should expect that the products that come to them are safe and not harmful to their health."
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Chairman Conyers Seeks Compliance with Judge's Ruling on White House Subpoenas
August 1, 2008
From the Judiciary Committee:

Conyers Seeks Compliance with Judge's Ruling on White House Subpoenas

(Washington, DC) -- Today, House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers, Jr. (D-MI) wrote to White House counsel Fred Fielding and counsel for Harriet Miers and Karl Rove calling for quick compliance with yesterday's ruling in Committee on the Judiciary v. Miers et al. Chairman Conyers also stated to Fielding his willingness to resume discussions towards cooperatively resolving the entire matter, as Judge Bates has urged the parties to do, and proposed that he and Fielding meet in person to discuss the matter.

Full letter from Chairman Conyers to White House counsel Fielding:

August 1, 2008

Fred Fielding, Esq.

Counsel to the President

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Pelosi to Bush: It Is Essential That You Speak Out for Human Rights During Visit to China for the Olympics
August 1, 2008
Washington, D.C. - Speaker Nancy Pelosi sent the following letter today to President Bush, ahead of his trip to Beijing for the 2008 Summer Olympic Games, urging him to make human rights and freedom of the press in China top priorities of his visit.

Below is a text of the letter:

August 1, 2008

President George W. Bush

The White House

1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW

Washington, D.C.

Dear President Bush:

On the eve of your trip to China to attend the 2008 Summer Olympic Games, the human rights situation in China and Tibet is worsening and new restrictions are being imposed on international journalists as they attempt to cover the Olympic Games. I am writing to ask that you make human rights and freedom of the press top priorities of your visit.

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House Passes the Paycheck Fairness Act
July 31, 2008
The House has just passed the Paycheck Fairness Act, H.R. 1338, by a vote of 247-178. Although the wage gap between men and women has narrowed since the passage of the landmark Equal Pay Act in 1963, gender-based wage discrimination remains a problem for women in the U.S. workforce. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, women only make 77 cents for every dollar earned by a man. The Institute of Women's Policy Research found that this wage disparity will cost women anywhere from $400,000 to $2 million over a lifetime in lost wages. Furthermore, loopholes created by courts and weak sanctions in the law have allowed many employers to avoid liability for engaging in gender-based pay discrimination. The Paycheck Fairness Act, introduced by U.S. Rep.
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