Tag Archive for ‘Senate’
VAWA: A Win for American Women
One of the things that makes our nation great is the notion of “liberty and justice for all.” Yet we haven’t quite achieved that goal. Women are disproportionately victimized in our own backyards, and measures must be put in place to ensure their liberties while seeking justice to hold perpetrators responsible for their actions. Today, [...]
Welcome 2013 – Ready for the Fiscal Roller Coaster?
You might have caught glimpses of the fiscal showdown votes and speeches, and finally a deal, in between your activities to ring in the New Year. The final deal did settle some significant issues about taxes and fixed up some other issues; the price of milk won’t skyrocket (sigh of relief) and Congress won’t receive [...]
Reshaping Pentagon Spending
by GA State Senator Nan Grogan Orrock, president of the Women Legislators’ Lobby Published: December 4, 2012 by The Hill’s Congress Blog Republished: December 22, 2012 by NJ Today With the campaigns over, our leaders must roll up their sleeves and get to work on the serious financial decisions facing the nation. Congress has known [...]
Who is afraid of the Big Bad U.N.?
by Sayre Sheldon, WAND NGO Representative for the U.N. Working Group for Women, Peace, and Security, and WAND Ed Fund Board member/Treasurer Published: December 25, 2012 by the Cambridge Chronicle & Tab Cambridge — The answer, of course, is that we are — or, more specifically, our Senate is; they just refused to ratify the [...]
WiLL Vice President in JTA
Op-Ed: On Tisha b’Av, let’s usher out the nuclear era By Sandy Pappas Published: July 25, 2012 by the Jewish Telegraphic Agency OPINION MINNEAPOLIS (JTA) — As July ends and we wind down the Three Weeks before Tisha b’Av, we mourn the destruction of both Holy Temples. Unfortunately, this is not the only destruction that [...]
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