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This website discusses the history of the Fair Housing Act. I thought it might be useful for anyone wanting to explore this subject with the recent housing issues our country has been experiencing.

Dignity 2012 cleared the biggest hurdle in the process at the end of 2011, gathering 84,713 signatures, of which 79,626 were qualified and certified. All initiatives in the Commonwealth originate in the Massachusetts House of Representatives for their journey through the State House. The initiative was introduced as H.3884 and assigned to the Joint Committee on the Judiciary. Over the next few months, legislators will discuss the initiative and consider one of the following steps: The General Court can pass the initiative as it's written. (This rarely happens.) The Judiciary Committee can make a formal recommendation of Support, Do Not Support, or Neutral. The Legislature can put its own version of the initiative on the ballot. (Again, this is rare.) If the legislature doesn't pass the initiative as it's written, the next step for Dignity 2012 will be another phase of signature gathering in the beginning of May. This next signature gathering phase would be smaller than the one which took place in the fall; the campaign would need to collect 11,485 qualified voter signatures between the beginning of May and July 3rd to be considered for the November ballot. Voters who signed the petition during the first signature gathering phase cannot sign the second petition.

The website discusses the rights of pet-owners to secure rental housing. It speaks of ways in which pet owners may help themselves when obtaining housing. For example, they may obtain a letter from their former landlord stating that there were no problems with the pet.

CONCORD - Banning guns on college campuses violates the Constitutional right to bear arms, argued those who came out Thursday to support legislation lifting such bans at the state's public colleges and universities. The bill, HB 334, has been passed by the House and went before a state Senate panel Thursday.

this is another page containing the first 10 ammendmants of the US constitution as well as the other 17 ammendmants made after the initial bill of rights. this page is informational in knowing how the US government is supposed to treat the peoples personal freedoms.

Amnesty International is a website that targets a wide range of issues. These issues deal with poverty, human rights, housing, etc..

The House passed two abortion-related bills Friday, including one that would strip federal health-care funding from Planned Parenthood for one year, but it remains unclear whether the votes would appease conservatives who have threatened a government shutdown over the organization. (nmw)

The House has voted to ban the display of Confederate flags at historic federal cemeteries in the deep South.

The states set up petition which passed the goal of 25,000 signatures.Now this can go to the White House for a response.

"President Obama is suggesting that House Republicans on the issue of gun control appear neither willing to work with him nor inclined to listen to the American public on the issue."

This article describes how HOA's got so bad as to the police being called when their rules are violated and the fact that they wouldn't allow someone to build a deck on their house. This would be the point when they go too far with not letting homeowners make any type of changes to their house.

written sept. 2012, Government report on how the TSA is doing.

The goal of this site is to provide all the necessary tools for students to conduct research and to present their findings. Site provides a Quick Click to Search Engines, annotated Research, Writing, and Style Guides (MLA, APA, Chicago, Turabian, CGOS, CBE, Harvard), and Worlds of Knowledge housing some of the best education Web sites in a Virtual Library arranged by the Dewey Decimal Classification System.

There are a lot of bad feed back on the bill SOPA, Committee is revising the bill and will be postpone until they reach some agreement.

New plan to help out people with issues on paying their mortgages. But is it too late? How much more would each of our taxes go up?

In this article the purposed house bill in Florida 449 will allow ex-convicts to apply for an occupational or business license with out having to wait the 12 year period. Currently ex-cons have a waiting period to have their rights reinstored

This article shows the difference between gun control and gun rights. We have the right to bare arms but some believe that does not mean we have the right to bare military grade weapons. At the end of the page it shows the prior congressional vote. The house did reject gun control but split it into two seperate issues one pertaining more towards juvenile crime.

Sister Margaret Farley has written a book on love, exploring different sexualities among people. She moves away from a "that's the way it has been always been taught" point of view to a progressive and accepting one that adapts to current knowledge, science and interpretation of theology. This is unlike any other perspective because it comes from the house of the strongest opponent to "deviant" sexual behaviors.

WASHINGTON - President Obama's compromise plan to require free insurance coverage of contraceptives for women touched off a tumultuous debate on Thursday in which members of Congress mixed political theater with soul-searching over potential threats to religious liberty.

Points and counterpoints arguing for and against censorship of the Internet.