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		<title>Moving on Over-Transferring the OPP Blog to OPP Website</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2009 13:33:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This WordPress blog is being transferred to the Center for Inquiry Office of Public Policy website.  Look for our blog on the OPP home page. Thanks for your attention and participation. We hope you continue to view and commment on  the Center for Inquiry Offiice of Public Policy&#8217;s important work in Washington DC.
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		<title>Toni Van Pelt on Pete Dominick&#8217;s Radio Show</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Jun 2009 14:47:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Toni Van Pelt, Policy Director of CFI&#8217;s Office of Public Policy, appeared on Stand Up! with Pete Dominick on Tuesday 9 June.   The show is featured on Sirius 110 and XM 130 satellite radio.
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		<title>OPP at Endorsement of Sotomayor by Law Enforcement</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2009 12:59:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday Toni Van Pelt, Policy Director, CFI Office of Public Policy, and Ruth Mitchell. OPP staff associate, attended a press conference in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building, hosted by Vice President Joe Biden. Representatives of law enforcement from across the U.S. endorsed the nomination of Judge Sonia Sotomayor to the U.S. Supreme Court.
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		<title>Getting to know Sotomayor</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 May 2009 12:13:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;re all trying to find out where President Obama&#8217;s nominee for the U.S. Supreme Court, Judge Sonia Sotomayor, stands on our favorite issues. We&#8217;re looking at her record on Church-state issues, on reproductive freedom, on LGBT concerns.  But we shouldn&#8217;t be worried that her judicial opinions have been reversed more than is usual.
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		<title>Join the call for Sotomayor!</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 May 2009 02:27:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Wednesday May 27 at 2:00 PM, there will be a national conference call on the confirmation process for Supreme Court nominee Judge Sonia Sotomayor. If you would like to help get her nominated, send a message to grassroots@civilrights.org, giving your full name, organization and state to get the toll-free number and passcode for the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cfidc.wordpress.com&blog=2690159&post=498&subd=cfidc&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Tell NIH to Go Ahead with Stem Cell Research!</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2009 18:29:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When President Obama issued his March 9 Executive Order lifting the Bush administration’s restrictions on embryonic stem cell research, he instructed the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to develop guidelines for funding research using federal dollars. These guidelines have now been issued and NIH wants written comments on them by May 26. Please send your [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cfidc.wordpress.com&blog=2690159&post=494&subd=cfidc&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Civic Days at the OPP July 18-21! You all come!</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2009 12:38:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Change has come to Washington DC—
and So Should You. Join Us!
The CFI Office of Public Policy invites you to participate in the second annual
Civic Days at the Capital, 18-21 July 2009
Come to Washington for four days of immersion in how Congress and the nation’s capital city work. You will hear about what’s on Congress’s agenda [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cfidc.wordpress.com&blog=2690159&post=485&subd=cfidc&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Largest commitment to scientific research and innovation in American History&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://cfidc.wordpress.com/2009/04/28/largest-commitment-to-scientific-research-and-innovation-in-americanhistory/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2009 21:13:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[President Barack Obama yesterday gave a major speech on science to the National Academies of Science. He detailed what he calls &#8220;the largest commitment to scientific research and innovation in American history,&#8221; consisting of funding basic research; developing technologies to produce new energy; reforming the U.S. health care system; and dramatically improving student achievement in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cfidc.wordpress.com&blog=2690159&post=475&subd=cfidc&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Today is Equal Pay Day</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2009 11:58:47 +0000</pubDate>
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Today, April 28, is 180 days after the end of 2008. But for the average woman to receive the same pay as the average man in 2008,  she would have to work until today.
Working women are still paid only 78 cents on average for every dollar earned by the average man. Better than last year, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cfidc.wordpress.com&blog=2690159&post=450&subd=cfidc&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>CFI/OPP Presents Awards to Members of Congress</title>
		<link>http://cfidc.wordpress.com/2009/03/25/cfiopp-presents-awards-to-members-of-congress/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Mar 2009 20:44:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The CFI Office of Public Policy last week presented awards to five members of the House of Representatives who worked to further our values in the 110th Congress, 2007-2008. They are:Representative Vernon Ehlers of Grand Rapids Michigan, who is a tireless worker for education in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM); Representative Brian Baird of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cfidc.wordpress.com&blog=2690159&post=415&subd=cfidc&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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