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"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has." Margaret Mead (Mostly what other say will be in italics, what I say will not. There will be occasions when this is messed up or forgotten, but generally it will true- for those keeping track of the opining vs the reporting!)

Thursday, March 28, 2013

John Boehner Secretly Forces Taxpayers to Spend Millions of Dollars Defending DOMA

John Boehner Secretly Forces Taxpayers to Spend Millions of Dollars Defending DOMA

 John Boehner has skimmed $742,000 in House funds to defend DOMA, but his cap on the defense

 fund is actually $3.1 million taxpayer dollars. A chunk of that money is coming out of the Justice Dept.
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