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• Republican Hypocrisy Watch, Darrell Issa Edition

  Published: October 4, 2007, 12:39 am

  Tags: Darrell Issa, Henry Waxman, Gary Ackerman, Blackwater

  these acts. Congressman Gary Ackerman said that at a 2001 press conference where several Jewish members of Congress stood together with one of their fellow Congressmen to show solidarity with him upon news that a radical terrorist group, the Jewish Defense League, founded in 1968 by rabidly Arab-hating Meir Kahane before he emigrated to

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• Belatedly, the House's History Lesson

  Published: October 11, 2007, 12:00 am

  Tags: Belatedly, The, House S, History, Lesson, Brad Sherman, Iraq, Turkey, United States, California, Indiana, Adolf Hitler, Albio Sires, Ankara, Bill Clinton, Chris Smith, Dan Burton, Dana Rohrabacher, Eliot Engel, Gary Ackerman, Gregory Meeks, Howard Berman, Istanbul, Joseph Crowl

  Wondering why Congress can't reach a consensus on the Iraq war? Well, consider that our lawmakers are still divided on the Turkish-Armenian conflict. Of 1915.

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• Belatedly, the House's History Lesson

  Published: October 11, 2007, 12:00 am

  Tags: Belatedly, The, House S, History, Lesson, Brad Sherman, Iraq, Turkey, United States, California, Indiana, Adolf Hitler, Albio Sires, Ankara, Bill Clinton, Chris Smith, Dan Burton, Dana Rohrabacher, Eliot Engel, Gary Ackerman, Gregory Meeks, Howard Berman, Istanbul, Joseph Crowl

  Wondering why Congress can't reach a consensus on the Iraq war? Well, consider that our lawmakers are still divided on the Turkish-Armenian conflict. Of 1915.

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• Spitzer's Real ID Shift Goes Against Congressional Dems Too

  Published: October 31, 2007, 12:50 pm

  Tags: Politics, Anthony Weiner, Carolyn Maloney, Charles Rangel, Ed Towns, Eliot Engel, Eliot Spitzer, Gary Ackerman, Gregory Meeks, Jerry Nadler, Joe Crowley, Jose Serrano, Nydia Velazquez, Peter King, Tim Bishop, Vito Fossella

  the Real ID Act. Democrats Gary Ackerman (Queens/Nassau), Tim Bishop (Suffolk), Joe Crowley (Queens/Bronx), Eliot Engel (Bronx/Westchester), Carolyn Maloney (Manhattan/Queens), Greg Meeks (Queens), Jerry Nadler (Manhattan/Brooklyn), Charlie Rangel (Manhattan), Jose Serrano (Bronx), Ed Towns (Brooklyn), Nydia Velazquez

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• Bush Pushes Pakistan's Musharraf to Give Up Military Leadership

  Published: November 8, 2007, 12:00 am

  Tags: Bush, Pushes, Pakistan S, Musharraf, Give, Military, Leadership, John Negroponte, Pervez Musharraf, Pakistan, United States, George W Bush, The White House, Al Qaeda, Iran, Gary Ackerman, Pakistani Armed Forces, Balochistan, North West Frontier Province, Dan Burton

  President Bush intervened in Pakistan's political crisis yesterday with a telephone call urging embattled President Pervez Musharraf to resign as commander of the Pakistani military and to hold elections within the next two months, as originally scheduled.

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• Bush Pushes Pakistan's Musharraf to Give Up Military Leadership

  Published: November 8, 2007, 12:00 am

  Tags: Bush, Pushes, Pakistan S, Musharraf, Give, Military, Leadership, John Negroponte, Pervez Musharraf, Pakistan, United States, George W Bush, The White House, Al Qaeda, Iran, Gary Ackerman, Pakistani Armed Forces, Balochistan, North West Frontier Province, Dan Burton

  President Bush intervened in Pakistan's political crisis yesterday with a telephone call urging embattled President Pervez Musharraf to resign as commander of the Pakistani military and to hold elections within the next two months, as originally scheduled.

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• Instead of Plum Appointments, Maybe a Lump of Coal

  Published: December 14, 2007, 12:00 am

  Tags: Instead, Plum, Appointments, Maybe, Lump, Coal, George W Bush, Jim Mcdermott, Fema, Harry Reid, Karen Hughes, California, Boston, The White House, U S Department Of State, Colorado, Florida, Alcee Hastings, Barbara Lee, Diana Degette, Gary Ackerman, Indiana, Lynn Woolsey

  Christmas is usually a time when controversial nominees for top federal jobs wait for Santa, in the form of the president of the United States, to come down the chimney with their recess appointments.

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• Instead of Plum Appointments, Maybe a Lump of Coal

  Published: December 14, 2007, 12:00 am

  Tags: Instead, Plum, Appointments, Maybe, Lump, Coal, George W Bush, Jim Mcdermott, Fema, Harry Reid, Karen Hughes, California, Boston, The White House, U S Department Of State, Colorado, Florida, Alcee Hastings, Barbara Lee, Diana Degette, Gary Ackerman, Indiana, Lynn Woolsey

  Christmas is usually a time when controversial nominees for top federal jobs wait for Santa, in the form of the president of the United States, to come down the chimney with their recess appointments.

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• Queens Chronicle - Remonstrance Welcomed As Beacon Of Democracy by Liz Rhodes

  Published: December 14, 2007, 2:28 am

  Tags: Helen Marshall, Congressman Gary Ackerman, Queens, Flushing, History, Queens Chronicle

  democracy, while Congressman Gary Ackerman said the signers stood up to power and stepped up to the plate. He added that people today should be inspired by the document to stand up to power and not to deride anyone.Christine Ward, state archivist, called the document an iconic record, adding, Your attachment to this document is greatly

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• Lawmaker Says He Has Cancer And Will Not Run for Reelection

  Published: January 3, 2008, 12:00 am

  Tags: Lawmaker, Says, Has, Cancer, And, Will, Not, Run, For, Reelection, Tom Lantos, Iraq, United States, Budapest, Nancy Pelosi, California, Florida, Adolf Hitler, Condoleezza Rice, Gary Ackerman, Henry Hyde, Howard Berman, Ileana Ros Lehtinen, Lynne A Weil, Raoul Wallenberg, Israe

  Rep. Tom Lantos (D-Calif.), a Holocaust survivor who became the chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, announced yesterday that he has cancer and will not run for reelection in November.

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• No Need for Lawmakers' Approval of Iraq Pact, U.S. Reasserts

  Published: March 6, 2008, 12:00 am

  Tags: Need, For, Lawmakers, Approval, Iraq, Pact, U S, Reasserts, Gary Ackerman, United Nations, United States, Baghdad, George W Bush, Jeffrey T Bergner, Saddam Hussein, Capitol Hill, Condoleezza Rice, David Satterfield, Middle East, Nouri Al Maliki, William Delahunt, U S Ar

  The Bush administration yesterday advanced a new argument for why it does not require congressional approval to strike a long-term security agreement with Iraq, stating that Congress had already endorsed such an initiative through its 2002 resolution authorizing the use of force against Saddam...

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• Iraq Security Agreement Proves to Be Nettlesome

  Published: March 5, 2008, 12:00 am

  Tags: Iraq, Security, Agreement, Proves, Nettlesome, Gary Ackerman, David Satterfield, United States, Nouri Al Maliki, U S Department Of State

  The Bush administration intends to negotiate a long-term security agreement with the Iraqi government, but has said it will not need Senate approval because it will not be providing security commitments to Iraq as part of a formal treaty. Rep. Gary L. Ackerman (D-N.Y.) probed this issue in a pointed...

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• No Need for Lawmakers' Approval of Iraq Pact, U.S. Reasserts

  Published: March 6, 2008, 12:00 am

  Tags: Need, For, Lawmakers, Approval, Iraq, Pact, U S, Reasserts, Gary Ackerman, United Nations, United States, Baghdad, George W Bush, Jeffrey T Bergner, Saddam Hussein, Capitol Hill, Condoleezza Rice, David Satterfield, Middle East, Nouri Al Maliki, William Delahunt, U S Ar

  The Bush administration yesterday advanced a new argument for why it does not require congressional approval to strike a long-term security agreement with Iraq, stating that Congress had already endorsed such an initiative through its 2002 resolution authorizing the use of force against Saddam...

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• New York's 2008 Congressional Earmarks

  Published: April 2, 2008, 5:17 pm

  Tags: Politics, Anthony Weiner, Carolyn Maloney, Gary Ackerman, Greg Meeks, Jerry Nadler, Joe Crowley, John Hall, Jose Serrano, Kirsten Gillibrand, Maurice Hinchey, Nydia Velazquez, Yvette Clarke

  of millions): New York City:Gary Ackerman- $20.9Joe Crowley-$29.8Carolyn Maloney-$23.1Greg Meeks-$6.2Jerry Nadler-$14Anthony Weiner-$8.6Jose Serrano-$13.8Charles Rangel-$11Nydia Valezquez-$3.7Vito Fossella-$0Yvette Clarke-$4.3 Freshman Democrats from New York: Kirsten Gillibrand-23.8Michael Arcuri-$28.9John Hall-$20.4 Others worth noting: Tim

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• Ackerman resolves to condemn

  Published: June 19, 2008, 10:46 am

  Tags: Federal Government, Media, Arab World, Gary Ackerman

  on? You be the judge. Rep. Gary Ackerman, D-Bayside, said a resolution he sponsored condemning the lack of freedom of the press in the Arab world passed the House of Representatives yesterday. The resoution also condemns anti-Semitic material published by the Arab media and the frequent government intervention in what the Arab media covers.

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