Selected excerpts from the Harper's Index:
• Number of current members of Congress who are former congressional staffers: 75
• Number of these who were elected to the seat occupied by their former boss: 30
• Percentage of all U.S. stimulus funds for renewable energy since last September that have gone to foreign companies: 79
• Percentage change since the fall of 2008 in total seizures of marijuana: +94
• Number of Chinese boys born for every 100 girls born between 1985 and 1989: 108
• Number today: 124
• Total value of the 10,149 U.S companies acquired since 2001 by foreign interests: $1,480,000,000,000 |
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At Daily Kos on this date in 2009:
In a press conference this morning, Nancy Pelosi said that the CIA misled Congress in 2002 when they briefed Congress, that they specifically told her waterboarding was not being used (which Marcy has already pointed out) and called for the release of the briefings. |