congressional at Brave New Films

Craig Schley for Congress

2008-10-16T16:25:43Z

VOTE People for Change

Musgrave v. Markey, CO CD4, Markey Interview

2008-10-16T16:34:23Z

On Monday, 13 March, in the small town of Ft. Morgan, Congresswoman Marilyn Musgrave and challenger Betsy Markey debated at Ft. Morgan High School. After the debate I was able to catch up with Ms. Markey to ask some questions.

Watch the video

Musgrave v. Markey, CO CD4, Opening Statements

2008-10-16T16:34:23Z

On Monday, 13 March, in the small town of Ft. Morgan, Congresswoman Marilyn Musgrave and challenger Betsy Markey debated at Ft. Morgan High School. The beginning of Ms. Markey's statement is cut off slightly due to technical complications. My apologies.

Watch the video

Musgrave v. Markey, CO CD4, Closing Statements

2008-10-16T16:34:23Z

On Monday, 13 March, in the small town of Ft. Morgan, Congresswoman Marilyn Musgrave and challenger Betsy Markey debated at Ft. Morgan High School. The beginning of Ms. Musgrave's statement is cut off slightly due to technical complications. My apologies.

Watch the video

Republicans Gaining Ground in Congressional Ballot

2008-10-16T16:39:00Z

Democrats currently hold a three-percentage point advantage over Republicans in elections for Congress, down from 15 points in February.

Watch the video

Congressman Artur Davis at the DNC

2008-09-18T20:42:07Z

New Republic Associate Editor Eve Fairbanks interviews Alabama Congressman and Barack Obama supporter Artur Davis at the 2008 Democratic National Convention.

FORA.tv coverage of the DNC: for a.tv/topic/democratic_convention

The New Republic on FORA.tv: fora.tv

-----

Artur Genestre Davis has been a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives since 2003, representing Alabama's 7th congressional district. This district encompasses the counties of Choctaw, Sumter, Greene, Perry, Hale, Dallas, Wilcox, and Marengo. It also includes parts of Jefferson, Tuscaloosa, Pickens and Clarke Counties.

Eve Fairbanks is The New Republic's Associate Editor and congressional correspondent. A graduate of Yale, she joined The New Republic in 2005. Her work has also appeared in The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, Details, and on NPR.

Watch the video

Judy Feder at O'Faolain's in Sterling, Va

2008-10-16T14:46:13Z

A great place to raise a mug, Dems were partaking of the hops and the haps at this great Irish pub. In this video, firebrand candidate for the Virginia 10th CD, Congress Judy Feder delivers a powerful message of change and hope.

Watch the video

Fun With War Crimes - Ep #4 "The Bush Bubble"

2008-07-21T18:05:37Z

Didn't you always know Karl Rove had a crush on Bush? Clueless to the impact of Katrina, ready to take more money from your babies, the Bush bubble gets bigger and bigger...

Watch the video

Harry Taylor takes on Sue Myrick on Unemployment Benefits

2008-10-16T16:31:16Z

Give'em Hell Harry Taylor takes on incumbent Sue Myrick in his fight for her US 9th District Congressional seat. He says she either doesn't know enough or she doesn't care enough and therefore voted against extending unemployment benefits.

Watch the video

Boyda Selects First Autistic Congressional Page

2008-10-16T16:36:05Z

Video from KTKA Channel 49 in Topeka, Kansas- Congresswoman Nancy Boyda (D-KS) announces her selection of Benjamin Berlin as her congressional page, making him the first page in congressional history with autism

Watch the video

Gore Vidal And Byron DeLear (4 of 5)

2008-07-10T18:43:05Z

More info on DeLear at www.delearforcongress.org

Topics covered include: Military industrial congressional complex, President Lincoln, select money interests and lobbyists, media reform and the HELPME Act, the radical change in the country's philosophy under Bush and impeachment.

Watch the video

WOW! This Guy Should Be Running For President

2008-10-15T03:29:39Z

Actually, Byron DeLear is running for Congress in Missouri's 2nd District against a Bush crony and warmonger. But DeLear is a mighty impressive guy as these snippets from a talk he gave yesterday show. WOW!

Watch the video

Pelosi discusses Cindy Sheehan with Larry King

2008-10-16T16:31:24Z

On Larry King Live, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi discusses Cindy Sheehan's candidacy for Pelosi's seat in Congress. Pelosi is condescending and plastic - in appearance and in words...

Watch the video

Blackwater defends Iraq activities

2008-06-16T09:30:13Z

Trigger happy guards, who drink on duty and recklessly shoot innocent Iraqi civilians. Part of a damning picture portrayed of some contractors from the private U-S security firm, Blackwater, in a new US congressional report. The founder of the company has given evidence to the same committee who compiled the report at a congressional hearing in Washington DC. It comes hot on the heels of an incident in September which saw 11 Iraqi civilians killed and which is now being investigated by the FBI. Rob Reynolds reports.

Watch the video

Global Warming Deniers Take A Cue From Big Tobacco – How They Lie And Put Profits Before The Public Welfare

2008-07-09T15:53:35Z

One of the most famous and dramatic events depicted in the motion picture "The Insider", was the testimony of the seven CEOs of Big Tobacco. Their "nicotine is not addictive" testimony, under oath as part of the Congressional Waxman hearings, started the modern day practice of having educated persons of authority disseminate scientifically fraudulent information to the public. Each CEO repeated,

"I don´t believe that nicotine or our products are addictive."

To support the claims of their corporate leaders, Big Tobacco learned how to take revisionist science one step further, buying off scientists to disseminate false data in order to manipulate and mislead the public. Now the big oil companies like ExxonMobil and their right-wing, global warming denying friends are using the same play book, as an unsuspecting public scratches their head and wonders what the truth really is.

Alden Mayer, the Union of Concerned Scientists' strategy and policy director, said recently that . . .