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1. Andrew Johnson Andrew Johnson was the 16th vice-president of the United States under Abraham Lincoln. Upon Lincoln’s assassination in April 1865, Johnson became the 17th U.S. president.
2. Stop Government Health Care Take Over Respect The Right Of Free Individuals To Make Personal Health Care Decisions! We must, Democrats and Republicans alike, let our "leaders" know that this plan is unacceptable. There has to be a better way than a government takeover! If the Government...
3. George Bush, 43rd President of the United States George W. Bush is the 43rd President of the United States. He was sworn into office on January 20, 2001, re-elected on November 2, 2004, and sworn in for a second term on January 20, 2005. Prior to his Presidency, President Bush served for 6 years as...
4. John Adams John Adams succeeded George Washington to become the second president of the United States. Adams was the first president to live in the White House, and he was the first chief executive whose son also was elected president.
5. Congressional Progressive Caucus Learn about the Congressional Progressive Caucus, the single largest partisan caucus in the United States House of Representatives, which works together to advance progressive issues and causes.
6. Condoleezza Rice Rice became the first female national security adviser in 2001, after she was named to the post by President George W. Bush. At the start of his second term in 2005, Rice became the first female African American secretary of state. Read on to discove...
7. Hillary Clinton Biography Hillary Diane Rodham was born on October 26, 1947 at Edgewater Hospital - Chicago - Illinois. She was raised in a Methodist family in Park Ridge, Illinois. During the 1992 presidential campaign, she observed : "Our lives are a mixture of different...
8. How to Become President of the United States To be President you have to be 35 years old, a natural born citizen of the U.S. (boo!), and a resident of the U.S. for 14 years. Are you qualified? Then why not give it a shot? And if you're too young, or too foreign-born, then maybe you have a frien...
9. Politics: First Woman To ... The presidential campaign of Hillary Clinton has raised the role of women in politics back into the spotlight. While there hasn’t been a woman to hold the highest office in the United States before, women have held the top position in other cou...
10. NY Congressional Districts  The State of New York is divided into 29 Congressional Districts.  This lens brings together a list of lenses related to each district.  Let me know if you are interested in taking ownership of any of the lenses.  
11. Ted Kennedy - Democratic Senator from Massachusetts On May 20, 2008, it was announced that Ted Kennedy has a malignant brain tumor, diagnosed after he experienced a seizure at the Kennedy compound in Hyannisport, Massachusetts the previous weekend. Saddly, on August 25, 2009, Senator Ted Kennedy succu...
12. The GI Bill - Education Benefits for Our Veterans The GI Bill, which is officially known as Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944, PL346, 58 Statutes at Large 284, afforded many US veterans the chance to further their education. This page is about this excellent benefit to our veterans.
13. Senator Larry Craig Idaho Senator Larry Craig’s political support is eroding by the hour as fellow Republicans in Congress called for him to resign and party leaders pushed him unceremoniously from senior committee posts.
14. The Bull Stops Here - American Politics - Land of the Brain-dead Searching for and finding the truth in politics is harder that it used to be as candidates and their machines will tell you anything and do nearly anything for the vote. The American voter has finally reached the pinnacle in the "dumbing of American...
15. Max Baucus Senator Max Baucus is a Democrat in name, but in the United States Senate, he has acted more like a Republican, supporting the worst ideas of the failing Republican Party rather than embracing the reasonable ideas that the Democrats have to offer. Thi...
16. Joe Tegerdine
17. Presidential Election Slogans Every 4 years Americans vote in nationwide elections to elect the USA's President. The person chosen by the voters serves 4 years in the office of President of the United States (POTUS) as the nation's Commander in Chief, the highest government offic...
18. Mary Landrieu Mary Landrieu has been trouble for sincere supporters of the Democratic Party even before she took office as a United States Senator. She has a voting record of a Republican, attacking the progressive values that rank and file Democrats hold dear. The...
19. Barack Obama and the FISA Amendments Act In 2007 and early 2008, Barack Obama said that he was against the the Protect America Act and the FISA Amendments Act. He said he would filibuster against the FISA Amendments Act. Then, in June 2008, after winning the Democratic primary contests, Oba...
20. FISA Amendments Act Here are the fundamentals of what you need to know about the FISA Amendments Act: 1. The law retroactively legalizes a massive electronic operation to spy on the personal communications of millions of Americans - within the United States 2. The law...