Lieber on working vacation — 2014-08-11
Updated, today, Aug. 11, 2014 A ‘Do-Nothing” House of Representatives is finally doing something. They’ve gone fishing. I’m not quite sure what my Republican opponent Ann Wagner is doing during the Congressional vacation, but each weekday I will let you know of the kind of activities in which I would…
Lieber on working vacation — 2014-08-08
Updated, today, Aug. 8, 2014 A ‘Do-Nothing” House of Representatives is finally doing something. They’ve gone fishing. I’m not quite sure what my Republican opponent Ann Wagner is doing during the Congressional vacation, but each weekday I will let you know of the kind of activities in which I would…
Lieber on working vacation — 2014-08-07
Updated, today, Aug. 7, 2014 A ‘Do-Nothing” House of Representatives is finally doing something. They’ve gone fishing. I’m not quite sure what my Republican opponent Ann Wagner is doing during the Congressional vacation, but each weekday I will let you know of the kind of activities in which I would…
Lieber on a working vacation — 2014-08-06
Updated, today, Aug. 6, 2014 A ‘Do-Nothing” House of Representatives is finally doing something. They’ve gone fishing. I’m not quite sure what my Republican opponent Ann Wagner is doing during the Congressional vacation, but each weekday I will let you know of the kind of activities in which I would…
Lieber on a working vacation
Updated, today, Aug. 5, 2014 A ‘Do-Nothing” House of Representatives is finally doing something. They’ve gone fishing. I’m not quite sure what my Republican opponent Ann Wagner is doing during the Congressional vacation, but each weekday I will let you know of the kind of activities in which I would…
Index to proposed Arthur activities during Congressional Recess
A ‘Do-Nothing” House of Representatives is finally doing something. They’ve gone fishing. I’m not quite sure what my Republican opponent Ann Wagner is doing during the Congressional vacation, but each weekday I will let you know of the kind of activities in which I would be engaged if I was…
A different way to spend a Congressional vacation
There is a lot of work for Congress to do, but it’s understandable how in the summer Members would take a few days off. Perhaps a few weeks; more than a month …… naw. We’ll it’s happening now. This Congress, which has passed far fewer bills than any Congress in…
Question on funding our schools
Question from Fawn on funding our schools What can Congress do to reform public K-12 education? Do you have any brilliant ideas on new ways to fund public education? What do you think about the 6 year tech high schools collaborating with corporations? Response from Arthur Fawn, we talk about…
Current international conflicts
Hafsa writes: What is your view on the current foreign conflicts, namely Gaza and Crimea? With which party do you align in either case? Israel or Palestine and Russia or Ukraine? And finally, should America involve itself in these conflicts? If so, what do you propose the US do to…
Eradicating poverty
Question on eradicating poverty from Dan I watched your video on your number one legislative proposal and I admire your idealism, but the House you will join will still have a Conservative Republican majority with a Tea Party flavor and the Senate will have a razor-thin Democratic Majority at best. What will you do to…
Improving Affordable Care Act
Sue from Kirkwood writes: The ACA is a start, but it is deeply flawed. If you feel the same, what changes would you make to improve it? Do you favor a single-payer health care system, similar to Medicare? If so, how would we pay for it? Response from Arthur Sues’s…
Three steps to take to protect the environment
Question from Brian of St. Louis: What are three things that we can do in the next two years to improve our environment? Response from Arthur Environmental protection means economic change. The people who oppose environmental safeguards do not prefer and ugly or endangered environment; they just prefer to protect…
Questions on immigration
Sue and Bill both have questions on immigration: Sue: Immigration reform and the plight of Central and South American children is at the forefront of the news right now. What do you think should be done to address this issue? What type of immigration reform in general do you favor?…
DIY Bumper stickers
Instead of spending large amounts of money on bumper stickers, we’ve decided to go a friendlier (and more cost efficient!) route. We introduce, the do-it-yourself bumper sticker. It’s quite simple. Click on one of the files below. Download it to your desktop. Print it out. Cut out the white space…
Post-Dispatch report on campaign finances
Chuck Raasch of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported July 17 on the 2nd Quarter financial reports to the FEC of local candidates for House seats. In the article, he mentions the large amounts of cash hauled in by incumbents during the quarter, and then references the Lieber campaign: “Wagner’s opponent,…
Newtown, Gun Control, & Mental Health
Question from Dan: Rep. Tim Murphy, R., PA, introduced the Helping Families in Mental Health Crisis Act of 2013, last December after a year of investigating the Newtown Massacre. Conservative Republicans claimed the problem of Newtown and other school shootings was mental health rather than availability of guns, but they…
