Afghanistan

It was “the strongest signal to date” that members of Congress won’t support the status quo in Afghanistan. And it happened because of you. Last night, thanks to your phone calls and emails and [...]

Three amendments will be voted tonight in the House: 1.  The McGovern (D-MA)-Obey (D-WI)-Jones (R-NC) amendment would have required the president to present Congress with 1) a new National [...]

Rep. Mike Honda along with Reps. John Conyers, Alan Grayson and Raúl Grijalva issued a statement yesterday challenging the conservatives in the House to be fiscally responsible by opposing the [...]

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said she will try to pass the supplemental war spending bill before the July 4th recess. Last week, thirty House members sent a letter to the Speaker, urging for a [...]

It’s happening now. After weeks of stalling and amidst growing dissent from the public and Congress, the House will vote on $33 billion for escalating the war in Afghanistan. Call your [...]

Last week, Rep. Nita Lowey (D-NY), chair of the State & Foreign Operations Appropriations Subcommittee, announced that she would cut $4 billion requested for State Department and USAID [...]

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Most of the press and the politicians have been fawning over Obama’s recent decision to replace Gen. McChrystal with Gen. Petraeus. Following the publication of the Rolling Stone article, [...]

The below letter to Speaker Pelosi, signed by 30 bipartisan Members of Congress, was delivered today at 1:00 PM and requests answers to questions on Afghanistan before the Supplemental comes to a [...]

By all appearances, Obama’s move to replace McChrystal with Petraeus is a doubling down on the current strategy in Afghanistan. In his statement announcing the change, the president sought [...]