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	<title>Political Blotter &#187; Anna Eshoo</title>
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		<title>What they&#8217;re saying about the Prop. 8 ruling</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2012/02/07/what-theyre-saying-about-the-prop-8-ruling-3/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 18:58:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh Richman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My esteemed colleague Howard Mintz has the full story on the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals’ decision that Proposition 8’s ban on same-sex marriage is unconstitutional, and you can read the opinion yourself (assuming the court&#8217;s website doesn&#8217;t get overloaded again) by clicking here. Meanwhile, here’s a treasury of quotes from elected officials. From [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lawmakers decry action vs. Planned Parenthood</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 00:05:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh Richman</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Barbara Boxer]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Jackie Speier]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some Bay Area House members are going bananas over the Susan G. Komen for the Cure Foundation’s decision to stop funding breast-cancer exams through Planned Parenthood health centers. Here’s a clip of Rep. Jackie Speier, D-Hillsborough, speaking about it on the House floor today: Speier, along with Reps. Barbara Lee, D-Oakland; Zoe Lofgren, D-San Jose; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>House members urge Obama to act on housing</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2012/01/11/house-members-urge-obama-to-act-on-housing/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2012/01/11/house-members-urge-obama-to-act-on-housing/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jan 2012 23:06:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh Richman</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[housing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jerry McNerney]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mike Thompson]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Obama presidency]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Zoe Lofgren]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[More than two dozen California House Democrats – including almost the entire Bay Area delegation, and led by three Bay Area members – have urged President Barack Obama to make a recess appointment that could bring a national mortgage-refinancing wave which in turn could stave off countless foreclosures. Reps. Anna Eshoo, D-Palo Alto; Zoe Lofgren, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>TV advertisers have a year to turn volume down</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2011/12/13/tv-advertisers-have-a-year-to-turn-volume-down/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2011/12/13/tv-advertisers-have-a-year-to-turn-volume-down/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Dec 2011 22:30:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh Richman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Federal Communications Commission has given television stations, cable operators and other multichannel video programming distributors one year to comply with new rules limiting the volume of advertisements under a Bay Area House member’s law. No, it’s not your imagination – those ads are louder than the shows they interrupt. To forbid this, Rep. Anna [...]]]></description>
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		<title>See your House member&#8217;s 2011 spending</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2011/12/07/see-your-house-members-2011-spending/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Dec 2011 00:00:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh Richman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-San Francisco, unsurprisingly has spent the most of any Bay Area House member so far in 2011 while Rep. John Garamendi, D-Walnut Grove, has spent the least, according to Congressional spending data crunched by the Sunlight Foundation. Here are the year-to-date spending numbers through Sept. 30, the end of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lawmakers sign brief vs. Alabama immigration law</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2011/11/29/lawmakers-sign-brief-vs-alabama-immigration-law/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2011/11/29/lawmakers-sign-brief-vs-alabama-immigration-law/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Nov 2011 17:41:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh Richman</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/?p=18020</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The South Bay’s House members are among 39 Democrats who signed a friend-of-the-court brief in support of the U.S. Department of Justice’s lawsuit against Alabama’s anti-illegal immigration law, HB 56. Reps. Anna Eshoo, D-Palo Alto; Mike Honda, D-San Jose; and Zoe Lofgren, D-San Jose, joined in the brief filed Monday, which argued six sections of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>On the failure of the &#8216;Super Committee&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2011/11/21/on-the-failure-of-the-super-committee/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2011/11/21/on-the-failure-of-the-super-committee/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Nov 2011 22:42:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh Richman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction co-chairs Rep. Jeb Hensarling, R-Texas, and U.S. Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., acknowledged this afternoon that their “supercommittee” has failed, issuing this joint statement: &#8220;After months of hard work and intense deliberations, we have come to the conclusion today that it will not be possible to make any bipartisan agreement [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lawmakers weigh in on new home refinance plan</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2011/10/24/lawmakers-weigh-in-on-new-home-refinance-plan/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2011/10/24/lawmakers-weigh-in-on-new-home-refinance-plan/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Oct 2011 00:10:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh Richman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Local members of Congress applauded President Obama ‘s announcement today of new policies meant to shore up the shaky housing market – a plan that could help a lot of Bay Area homeowners refinance “underwater” mortgages at historically low interest rates. From U.S. Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif.: “I am very pleased that the administration is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What they&#8217;re saying about the Iraq withdrawal</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2011/10/21/what-theyre-saying-about-the-iraq-withdrawal/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2011/10/21/what-theyre-saying-about-the-iraq-withdrawal/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Oct 2011 20:31:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh Richman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[President Obama has announced that all U.S. troops except about 150 will be withdrawn from Iraq by the end of this year; the few remaining troops will protect the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad and serve as trainers. From Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney: “President Obama’s astonishing failure to secure an orderly transition in Iraq has [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Senate gets its version of Eshoo&#8217;s 4G bill</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2011/10/12/senate-gets-its-version-of-eshoos-4g-bill/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2011/10/12/senate-gets-its-version-of-eshoos-4g-bill/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Oct 2011 19:22:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh Richman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Three U.S. Senate Democrats introduced a bill today that mirrors legislation introduced in June by a Bay Area House member to make wireless providers give complete, accurate information about their 4G wireless data services in their ads and sales practices. The Next Generation Wireless Disclosure Act by U.S. Sens. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., [...]]]></description>
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