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Daily Topics - Thursday October 23rd, 2014

Oct. 23, 2014 9:03 am

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Be sure to check out our new videos: CARBON & LAST HOURS
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Hour One: FL voters...time to dump Rick Scott's Tea Party experiment - Mike Papantonio, Ring of Fire Radio

Hour Two: One small town's fight to survive climate change - Walter Harris, City of South Miami, FL

Hour Three: How the GOP put the public's health at risk - Congresswoman Barbara Lee (D-CA, 13th District)

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mathboy 11 years 46 weeks ago

#1

I'm not very surprised by Michael "Savage" Weiner. It's not like we all thought he was a kind, understanding person. The only reason to be surprised is that we expect him to carry water for the Republican rhetoric of supporting the troops. But, of course, we on the left know that they don't really support our soldiers, sailors, airmen and marines in the first place.

mathboy 11 years 46 weeks ago

#2

The Congress was modeled on the British Parliament. The House of Lords was the more powerful house of Parliament at the time, and the U.S. Senate was given stronger powers than the House of Representatives. The Federalist Papers explain that the House was expected to accrue power over the course of centuries, just as the Commons had.

The House of Lords lost influence by a threat in 1832 of increasing the size of its membership enough to change the outcome of a vote. The Lords knew from then on that they had better not deviate too much from what the Commons wanted. The Lords' official power was severely reduced by a law passed in 1911.

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