This (highly recommended) diary at Dailykos deserves, IMO, a (highly recommended) DU thread. Because not only is it a great summary of media coverage resulting from the recent Abramoff document dump...
It also points out something we can DU about it... specifically lobby our reps for H.R. 5550
Initially it was left to TPMmuckraker to do the heaving lifting. That is starting to change as more people besides Paul Kiel have a chance to sift through the material.
Over at the Washington Post they have been treating the document dump like the candy store it is. They started by quickly pointing out that Bob Ney LIED to the Committee. And this evening they released a long story on how Jack, Ralph, Grover and the gang used their nonprofits and charities to launder money, break US laws and build a GOP culture of Corruption.
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One great way to help drive that focus is to support H.R. 5550, the Human Dignity Act.
The Bill would extend US labor, immigration and custom laws to the rogue US Territory: the Commonwealth of North Mariana Islands (CNMI). This is the legislation Abramoff, DeLay and the GOP have blocked for more than a decade. Justice is long overdue.
So far there ONLY 24 Members of Congress joining with George Miller as Co-Sponsors of this Bill, they are:
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2006/6/25/1275/80239Moreover:
If you actually look at the Human Dignity Act, you may find its
implications for the national debate on immigration rather desireable, as well. It's
a way for Democrats to do some "cracking down" of their own, but without just pandering and in a way that can be supported by Dems on both sides of the immigration debate.
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