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Saturday, December 8, 2012

Hultgren Announces House Science & National Labs Caucus

The new caucus will concentrate on reinforcing federal investment in research and the national laboratories.

  • GOVERNMENT
  • Saturday, December 8, 2012

Congressman Randy Hultgren has announced the formation of the House Science & National Labs Caucus. Hultgren is joined by Congressmen Chaka Fattah (D-PA-02), Ben Ray Lujan (D-NM-03) and Alan Nunnelee (R-MS-01) who will serve as co-chairs of the new group, with other members of the 113th Congress expected to join next year. The new caucus will concentrate on reinforcing federal investment in research and the national laboratories, as well as raise awareness in and out of Congress about the role they play in long-term economic growth. “These laboratories, much like the rest of the economy, deserve certainty from the government so they can continue their important work with confidence,” Hultgren said. Hultgren, named earlier this year as the …

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Hultgren to Receive Champion of Science Award at Fermilab (in Geneva Patch) and Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (in Batavia Patch)

ayar

4:31 pm on Wednesday, December 12, 2012

>>Maybe Hultgren needs a primary challenge. Maybe Foster does too....   more ›

Wednesday, March 14, 2012

Girl Scouts & The Advancement of Women: Mom Talk

How far have women advanced since Girl Scouts started 100 years ago?

Monday marked the 100th birthday of Girl Scouts. What an incredible accomplishment for a superior organization. All month, I've been thinking about how far we've come. In 1912, women weren't allowed to vote in any but five states. That right didn't come for another eight long years. (Comparatively, eight years is long enough to birth a child who grows old enough to complain how uncool his parents are.) In 1912, women were considered the property of men and relied on fathers and husbands to survive. Employment, if any, was domestic: cooks and servants. Social classes were paramount. The movie Titanic was staged in 1912, lest we forget the scene where the poor Irish mother quietly rocked her two babies to death. At the same time that …

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Rush Limbaugh's Attack on Women: Mom Talk

Vincent Russell

10:06 am on Sunday, April 22, 2012

Based on the authors commentary, I offer that since so much of women's inequality is based on the curse placed on women that they can bear children, why not have girls and boys neutered at birth like dogs are at kennels. At the same time, we can also end the toilet seat inequality issue by another procedure for girls. This would make us completely equal from the start. Isn't it a shame that God …   more ›

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