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Fast Forward Congress Wants To Bar Social Security for Nazis
Video: Nate Lavey As the U.S. Congress haggles over a budget deal, tax-break extensions and other thorny matters, lawmakers from both parties appear united on one thing: Nazis should not receive U.S. government retirement benefits. The House plans to take up the No Social Security for Nazis Act on Tuesday. The Senate will vote on…
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Forward 50 2014 Jared Polis
At 39 and in only his third term in office, Jared Polis is already drawing attention in political circles, thanks to what a Politico profile of the Colorado Democrat called “too much self-confidence and too little self-awareness.” But in his race to the top, the self-made millionaire whose Jewish parents were peace activists in the…
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News Brad Schneider Loses Reelection Bid in Chicago Suburbs
Rep. Brad Schneider lost his Illinois seat and Jewish challenger Andrew Romanoff came up short in his bid for Congress in Colorado. Schneider lost his seat in Illinois’s 10th Congressional District to Republican challenger Robert Dold. The campaign was a rematch of the 2012 election, when Schneider beat the incumbent Dold in the Chicago-area district….
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News Lee Zeldin Wins To Become Sole GOP Jew in Congress
(JTA) — Republicans swept to control of the United States Senate as well as winning dramatic races for fresh faces with close Jewish and pro-Israel ties. In Long Island, Lee Zeldin, a state senator, was set to become the sole Jewish Republican in Congress, ending a short drought that commenced with the defeat of Rep. Eric…
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News 101-Year-Old Florida Congressional Candidate Plans Early Bird Concession
Hours before Election Day, Joe Newman already had a gracious ‘congrats to the winner’ letter written and his concession party planned. Seems it’s easy to be a good loser when you are 101 years old. Newman is at the end of a quixotic write-in campaign for U.S. Congress from southwest Florida, and he’s not letting…
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Fast Forward Bill Would Cut Off Benefits to Nazis
A bipartisan bill introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives would cut off Nazi war criminals from U.S. benefits. The bill introduced this week by Reps. Carolyn Maloney (D-N.Y.) and Leonard Lance (R-N.J.) comes in the wake of an Associated Press investigation that found that dozens of suspected Nazi war criminals and SS guards collected…
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News 4 Midterm Congressional Races for Jews to Watch
(JTA) — With midterm elections just around the corner, four races for the House of Representatives in particular are catching our Jewish eyes. In the Los Angeles area, Ted Lieu and Elan Carr are battling to succeed retiring Democratic stalward Henry Waxman. A Republican Jewish candidate is mounting a strong challenge for a Long Island…
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Fast Forward Nita Lowey Wants Probe of College Programs for Anti-Israel Tilt
The ranking member of the House Appropriations Committee asked the U.S. Department of Education to insure that college programs receiving federal funds not include an anti-Israel bias. In a letter sent Monday to Education Secretary Arne Duncan, Rep. Nita Lowey (D-N.Y.), requested that standards of accountability be adopted so that any college or university receiving…
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