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WASHINGTON // The significance of the congressional debate of the Goldstone report on the Gaza conflict last week may have been ignored by many given what appeared to be the lopsided vote in favour of the anti-Goldstone resolution.

TPM Reader MT points out that the only Republican to vote for the Dems' health care reform bill is also one of, I believe, only two in the House GOP caucus with any actual experience living in a Communist country, as opposed to the fantasy-Tea Bag version of Communism / Socialism / Fascism / Dictatorshipism.

On November 4, the House of Representatives voted 344-36 in favor of a resolution condemning the Goldstone Report, which chronicled the war crimes committed during last year's Gaza war.

The measure passed in the House 220-215. Sunday, November 8, 2009 The House has acted.

The US House of Representatives on Saturday threw its support behind two Chinese activists put on trial after investigating whether shoddy construction led to children's deaths in last year's Sichuan earthquake.

Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat met with Democratic and Republican Congress members in Washington on Friday, and was pleased to find wall-to-wall support of the need to keep Jerusalem united.

The Goldstone commission reported that Israel and Hamas had committed war crimes in Gaza during fighting that erupted in December.

Amid strong Israeli opposition, the UN General Assembly prepared yesterday to ask Israel and the Palestinians to launch credible, independent probes of alleged war crimes committed during the Gaza War nearly a year ago.

29, deals with the fighting last winter that left more than 1,000 people dead, all but a handful Palestinians.

A cloud of smoke billows from the Gaza Strip following an Israeli strikes as seen from the Israel-Gaza border, 15 Jan 2009 The U.S. House of Representatives has overwhelmingly passed a resolution condemning a report by a United Nations fact-finding panel that criticized Israel as part of an assessment of the conflict in Gaza in 2008 between Israel ...

Tajikistan News.Net Wednesday 4th November, 2009 A non-binding resolution condemning the Goldstone Report, which accuses Israel and Hamas of committing war crimes in Gaza, has been passed in the US House of Representatives with an overwhelming majority.

State terrorism designation - if HR 872 passes - would mean halting normal relations, prohibiting US companies from exporting and operating there, and denying America vitally needed Venezuelan oil.

The US House of Representatives on Tuesday was expected to condemn a UN report as unfairly accusing Israel of committing war crimes in its 22-day war against Palestinian militants in Gaza.

On Tuesday, November 3, a bipartisan resolution cosponsored by Reps. Howard Berman and Ileana Ros-Lehtinen in the House will be likely voted on that condemns the Goldstone report released in September by the United Nations Fact Finding Mission on the Gaza Conflict .

From left: Reps. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, Ander Crenshaw, Lincoln Diaz-Balart, Ginny Brown-Waite and Cliff Stearns [Illustrations: Rob Zammarchi] In 2007, after a scandal involving Republican lobbyist Jack Abramoff revealed how lobbyists were using lavish trips to curry favor and buy face time with lawmakers, Congress enacted stricter rules governing ...

House resolution calls the findings 'irredeemably biased' Source: washingtonpost.com The House of Representatives next Tuesday will likely pass a nonbinding resolution condemning the controversial UN Goldstone Report on alleged Israeli war crimes in the Gaza Strip that has become a major complication in Secretary Hillary Clinton's diplomacy in the ...

A new proposal by the interim government represents a triumph for the Honduran people and their constitution.

Top Democratic and Republican foreign affairs leaders in the U.S. Congress are calling on the Obama administration to quash the Goldstone report.

A key congressional committee has approved legislation to expand sanctions against Iran because of its nuclear ambitions.

Foreign Affairs Committee Ranking Member Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen said Wednesday that U.S. intervention in the Honduran elections is punishing American commercial and economic interests in the region.