Deborah F.'s Profile
Deborah F.
Location: Boston, MA
Date Joined: January 10, 2009
Votes: 230
Questions: 13
Questions Answered: 11
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I have a follow up question for Nancy Pelosi, because her previous response to AYL wasn't very specific. How exactly to you propose to make sure that the USA's growing financial indebtedness to China won't hinder our ability to advocate for a human rights agenda with China? Please be very specific. More
Asked 15 weeks 4 days ago of U.S. Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA)
by Deborah F. from Boston, MA -
This is for Paul Kirk, the senator appointed to serve out Ted Kennedy's term. Do any of these influence your decisions as a senator: Deval Patrick (who appointed you), the Kennedy family (who recommended you), the voters of Massachusetts, and the DNC (which you used to chair)? How will you pave the way for the elected senator who will succeed you? More
Asked 17 weeks 6 days ago of Massachusetts Delegation
by Deborah F. from Boston, MA
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Three hundred fifty parts per million is what many scientists are now saying is the safe upper limit for carbon dioxide in our atmosphere. As one of your constituents, I would like to ask you what you are doing to bring CO2 levels within an acceptable range.
Asked by: Deborah F. from Boston, MA. Received 9 Votes.
Listen to: U.S. Rep. Stephen Lynch (D-MA)
Lynch: As a legislator you mean? Well I supported the recent energy bill which I think will provide huge incentives for green technologies to be developed. It’s pending in the Senate but I understand there’s a willingness at least on part of Senate to take that up. I think it’s a long range bill, this is so called cap and trade, that I think will reduce our reliance on foreign oil. I think that’s the big shift that has to occur for us to make any dent at all in climate change, global warming.
Answered on Nov 5th, 2009 More
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I'm interested in your reflections as the ranking member of the Senate committee on foreign relations. What is your response to the news that President Obama will be receiving the Nobel Peace Prize? What do you think of his efforts for nuclear disarmament and global peace? How will you support those two goals?
Asked by: Deborah F. from Boston, MA. Received 1 Vote.
Listen to: U.S. Sen. John R. Thune (R-SD)
I think you have to deal with reality and the reality is that there are a lot of evil actors in the world today who continue to acquire nuclear capabilities and some who we think if they have them will use them. It is a great goal. It is a great aspirations but I also think it is constrained by reality and that fact that we live in a dangerous world. I think we have to be very careful we don’t get to a point where we reduce our arsenal and number of delivery vehicles where we aren’t in a position to exercise deterrent that we need to keep some of those bad actors from pulling the trigger.
Answered on Oct 23rd, 2009 More
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Do you believe that the USA Patriot Act and FISA are in need of review and reform? If not, why not? If so, what are you doing to bring about the changes needed?
Asked by: Deborah F. from Boston, MA. Received 10 Votes.
Listen to: U.S. Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL)
I think we have some confusion among some people are what subpoenas are. The confusion in the public and among some of our senators is that a subpoena to a motel to see who signed in to spend the night that is not an individuals private record that is someone else’s record. And there is a diminished expectation of privacy in that. You may have some but traditionally it is never been seen as the same. So we are placing higher burdens I think on the investigators in some of these terrorist cases that we are in America. Some of them are white collar crimes.
Answered on Oct 8th, 2009 More
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Since you are a member of the U.S. Congress who is also a physician, I would like to know what your thoughts are on war as a threat to public health. Is it your duty, as both a legislator and a health care professional, to oppose war on the grounds that the harm it does to human beings is unacceptable?
Asked by: Deborah F. from Boston, MA. Received 17 Votes.
Listen to: U.S. Rep. Michael Burgess (R-TX)
The short answer would be yes, it doesn’t mean that sometimes it’s not necessary, but war is a threat to public health clearly in the battle space where the war exists and we’ve seen that many times over during my lifetime. War is also a threat to public health back home - divert dollars to the defense of your nation, they can’t go to public health activities. It’s a choice that has to be made sometimes and it’s regrettable, but still if it’s necessary to keep the country safe. That is the bottom line of our responsibility defined under the constitution to defend our nation.
Answered on Oct 7th, 2009 More
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Since you are a member of the U.S. Congress who is also a physician, I would like to know what your thoughts are on war as a threat to public health. Is it your duty, as both a legislator and a health care professional, to oppose war on the grounds that the harm it does to human beings is unacceptable?
Asked by: Deborah F. from Boston, MA. Received 17 Votes.
Listen to: U.S. Rep. Michael Burgess (R-TX)
The short answer would be yes, it doesn’t mean that sometimes it’s not necessary, but war is a threat to public health clearly in the battle space where the war exists and we’ve seen that many times over during my lifetime. War is also a threat to public health back home - divert dollars to the defense of your nation, they can’t go to public health activities. It’s a choice that has to be made sometimes and it’s regrettable, but still if it’s necessary to keep the country safe.
Answered on Oct 2nd, 2009 More
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On this day in 1945, the U.S. dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan. What are you doing, as the chair of the Senate Committee on Armed Services, to make sure that the United States never deploys a nuclear weapon again? Follow up question: do you support the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons?
Asked by: Deborah F. from Boston, MA. Received 19 Votes.
Listen to: U.S. Rep. John Murtha (D-PA)
“Well I think the negotiators have to work that out. I don’t think I can give them any advice about how you work it out. But historically you know we have enough weapons to destroy the world. And Russia has the same, and China probably has the same. I don’t know what their figure is. But even Pakistan has a great number of nuclear weapons. I’m not sure exactly what the figure is but it’s enough to cause tremendous damage every place. Iran develops it, it just makes. . .
Answered on Sep 24th, 2009 More
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Nonprofits in Massachusetts are very much in need of financial assistance for their information and communication technology infrastructures. Are there federal monies available for this? And what can you do to help nonprofits meet this need?
Asked by: Deborah F. from Boston, MA. Received 47 Votes.
Listen to: U.S. Rep. Michael Capuano (D-MA)
Reporter: Nonprofits in Massachusetts are very much in need of financial assistance for their information and communication technology infrastructures. Are there federal monies available for this? And what can you do to help nonprofits meet this need? Rep. Capuano: Well, there are federal monies available for any general program. I don’t think there are any specifically targeted that I’m aware of (off the top of my head) for technology. But I do think there is money available in general for non-profits. They have to go through the grant process like everyone.
Answered on Jul 9th, 2009 More
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SCOTUS's majority opinion was that "government should not prefer...religion to irreligion." Would you support policies and legislation that would strengthen this principle, and remove religious observance and public prayer from the official business of federal government?
Asked by: Deborah F. from Boston, MA. Received 58 Votes.
Listen to: U.S. Rep. Al Green (D-TX)
Not familiar with the case. Not having read it, I can only say this to you. The founders of the country concluded that a separation of powers was important but also that religious freedom was important. Religious freedom means this: we don’t want the government to impose itself in religious affairs. Religion is special to us. It means something to us to the extent that we have a duty to make sure that every person can have freedom to worship as he or she pleases which means that the government can not establish its own religion.
Answered on Feb 26th, 2009 More
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