2003 News

December 2003

• Congressman Jim McDermott Speaks in Support of Extending
Unemployment Benefits.

November 2003

• McDermott Addresses the Republican Medicare Legislation
• Bi-partisan, Bi-cameral Coalition Launches Effort to
Extend African Trade Benefits
• McDermott Asks that Congress Not Forget Unemployed Workers During the Holidays
• Jim McDermott Pushes Pentagon to Provide Equipment For National Guard and Reserve Troops in Iraq
• Energy Bill is Bad for Taxpayers and the Environment
• Undermining the Whole Concept of Medicare

October 2003

• McDermott Seeks To Set Congressional Record Straight
• McDermott Stands Against Bush Iraq Plans
• Representative Jim McDermott Introduces Legislation to Improve Access
to Education

September 2003

• Congressman Jim McDermott Co-Sponsors the Benjamin Franklin
True Patriot Act
• The Costs of the War in Iraq
• Not Another Dime Without U.N. Involvement

August 2003

• Head Start Offers Hope To Low-Income Kids
• McDermott addresses Veterans for Peace

July 2003

• McDermott Calls For Balanced Approach To FTA Agreements
• Let's Keep Our Promises on Medicare
• Congressman McDermott to Host Community Meetings on Medicare Prescription Drug Benefit
• Congressman McDermott Moderates Inquiry Into Likely Effects of Privatization

June 2003

• Statement on H.Res. 294, Condemning Terrorism in Israel Since
the Aqaba Summit
• Republicans Kill Bipartisan Taxpayer Protection Bill
• Cover The Uninsured Or Occupy Iraq—They Cost The Same Per Year

May 2003

• McDermott Fights To Protect Services For The Unemployed
• Rep. McDermott Applauds Passage of HR 1298, the U.S. Leadership Against HIV/AIDs, Tuberculosis and Malaria Act of 2003

A/2003/il 2003

• Representative Jim McDermott Sponsors Legislation to Overhaul Unemployment Insurance Program
• Fear Factory - The Bush Administration's Dangerous Manufacturing of
Post-9-11 Dread
• Rep. McDermott Sponsors Legislation to Protect American Manufacturing Jobs

March 2003

• McDermott Introduces Depleted Uranium Bill
• Statement on H.Con. Res 104
• Congressman Jim McDermott's Statement on Iraq conflict
• Statement on the death of Rachel Corrie
• Rumor about Voting Rights Act Not True--Black Americans Will Not Lose Their Right to Vote in 2007
• Representatives Jim McDermott and Tom Petri Reintroduce Legislation Designed to Restore and Protect Salmon and Steelhead in the Pacific Northwest.

February 2003

• Representative Jim McDermott Introduces legislation to Extend Tax Benefits for Health Insurance for Domestic Partners.
• McDermott Fights for Federal Workers' Labor Rights
• McDermott Earmarks Important Federal Funds for the Seattle Area
• Lawmakers and Military Families File Suit Against Bush's Authority to
Wage War in Iraq
• McDermott Co-Sponsors Legislation to Reinstate the Draft

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