Musings of a Reluctant Political Advocate
Thoughts to bridge the political divide
A couple weeks ago I wrote about the Education For All of 2011 (H.R. 2705) and last week I wrote about national security. If this bill becomes law AND the United States makes a firm commitment to funding it AND appropriates sufficient Continue Reading …
Representative Kay Granger(R-FL) is the chairwoman of the United States House Appropriations Subcommittee on State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs. That means she heads up the subcommittee in the House of Representatives that evaluates the State department and makes recommendations to the Continue Reading …
For the next three months or so, RESULTS groups in the U.S. will be focusing their efforts on building Congressional support for H.R. 2705: The Education For All Act of 2011. (To see the actual language in the bill, click Continue Reading …
One of the goals of RESULTS is to educate people about poverty and programs here in the U.S. and around the world that are reducing poverty. Underlying that conversation about poverty, however, is a host of facts, theories, assumptions, articles of Continue Reading …
Due to gerrymandered Congressional districts in California, the county in which I live in has three representatives in Congress: Reps. George Miller, Jerry McNerney, and John Garamendi. All are Democrats and supportive of foreign development programs. The Contra Costa County RESULTS Continue Reading …
At a news conference on February 2, 2002, Donald Rumsfield, then U.S. Secretary of Defense, said something very profound in response to a question regarding reports indicating a lack of evidence supporting the idea that the Iraqi government was or Continue Reading …
To become a RESULTS volunteer is not easy. It requires a willingness to learn about poverty, solutions to help people lift themselves out of poverty, learning how to be an advocate for those solutions, learning patience, and learning how to Continue Reading …