Jubilee Justice : Bipartisan Bills passed by the Senate that have bipartisan support in the House

Bipartisan Bills passed by the Senate that have bipartisan support in the House

Comprehensive Immigration Bill
Farm Bill (which includes Food Stamps)
Bill to allow states to collect sales taxes from online retailers
Employment Non-Discrimination Act (to protect LGBT people from workplace discrimination)
Pentagon Policy Bill (which also addresses military sexual assault, Guantánamo Bay, etc.).

Number of these bills House Majority Leader John Boehner says he will allow to be voted on: 0

Last year that Congress passed this small a number of Bills: 1788.

First year that Congress was ever in session: 1789.

December 12, 2013

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Stan Duncan is the chair of the Jubilee Justice Network, a faith and justice ministry of the United Church of Christ, Massachusetts Conference. He has degrees in economics and theology and has worked and taught in both fields. He also worked for several years in Latin America as a development economist and in the US as a frustrated jazz pianist.
He has three kids, four grand kids, one love interest, and a pet squirrel "Earl."

Books:
The fire on Poteau Mountain, from Adelaide Books.

The Greatest Story Oversold: Understanding Economic Globalization, from Orbis.

Companions of Jesus: The Jesuit Martyrs of El Salvador, with Jon Sobrino, Orbis books.

If you lived here, You'd be Home by Now, from Lulu press.