Tom Andrews
Tom Andrews, a former Member of Congress from the first Congressional District of Maine, is the President and CEO of the Unitarian Universalist Service Committee. Tom also served as National Director of Win Without War, a coalition of forty-two national membership organizations including the National Council of Churches, the NAACP, the National Organization of Women, the Sierra Club, and MoveOn. He is also a co-founder of the Congressional Progressive Caucus.
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Views Thursday, October 04, 2018 This Is Susan Collins' "Declaration of Conscience" Moment This is Sen. Susan Collins’ “Declaration of Conscience” moment. She can have no better guide — or source of inspiration — than Sen. Margaret Chase Smith, who described her moment to me when I was a new member of Congress in 1991, the year Anita Hill testified at the confirmation hearing of Supreme... Read more |
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Views Thursday, September 08, 2016 Biden Is Dangerously Unaware Of The Tragedy Asylum Seekers Face Vice President Biden’s widely reported claim, late last week, that the Administration has “embraced a fundamentally different approach” to the “hard trade-offs” posed by the Central America migration crisis is either ill-informed or disingenuous. Is he unaware of the tragedy, also widely reported... Read more |
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Views Wednesday, January 20, 2016 Why We Must Condemn Politics of Fear in Favor of Welcoming Refugees A bill is scheduled to come before the U.S. Senate on Wednesday that would effectively block all Iraqi and Syrian refugees from entering the United States, including women and orphans fleeing the worst crimes known to humankind. The proposal offers an opportunity for Maine’s senators to take a bold... Read more |
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Views Tuesday, March 10, 2015 Failing the People of Darfur The only thing worse than the Obama administration's failing Sudan policy is their failure to recognize it. The consequence? The people of Darfur are experiencing the horror of the highest levels of violence and displacement since the United States declared Darfur a genocide. The government of... Read more |
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Views Wednesday, November 12, 2014 President Obama, Break the Silence in Burma: Say "Rohingya" Making a tour of Asia President Obama has just landed in Burma. He just made headlines for a climate deal with China that can help save the planet. Now he has the chance to save 1.3 million people by bringing the world’s attention to the growing threat of genocide against Burma’s Rohingya ethnic... Read more |
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Views Monday, November 19, 2012 Why Won't Obama Speak Out for the Rohingya? Why is President Obama meeting with leaders in Burma who are systematically fomenting hatred and violence that has already claimed innocent lives, destroyed entire villages and displaced tens of thousands? Read more |
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Views Thursday, April 28, 2011 Like the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars? You'll LOVE This! If you like the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan then you’ll love what Senator John McCain and Congressman “Buck” McKeon, the new Chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, are proposing: Congress should give the President and the Secretary of Defense a blank check to wage war against anyone he or she declares “associated” with al-Qaeda or the Taliban – anytime, anywhere, anyhow. Read more |
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Views Tuesday, March 15, 2011 Sen. Snowe Puts Mainers Out in the Cold to Win Favor from Tea Party WASHINGTON — Sen. Olympia Snowe has apparently decided that it is better to bow to political pressure from the tea party movement than to stand up for the interests of Maine. Read more |
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Views Thursday, February 24, 2011 Fire Lt. Gen. Caldwell NOW and End the "Psy-Ops" War Against Congress Lt. General William Caldwell needs to be fired. Now. General Caldwell, a three star general in charge of training Afghanistan troops allegedly ordered that the Army’s arsenal of psychological weapons of war be trained on Members of Congress and other “VIPs” in order to manipulate them into giving the Army more money and troops for its Afghanistan operation. Read more |
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Views Friday, January 28, 2011 State of the War in Afghanistan: The Good, The Bad and The Inaccurate Just in case you missed it, there was good news and bad news in President Obama’s State of the Union speech when it came to the war in Afghanistan: The good news is that he reaffirmed his commitment to begin the withdrawal of US troops in July. The bad news is that he made claims about the war and the fight against al Qaeda that were both misleading and inaccurate – claims that could undermine any opportunity for withdrawing significant numbers of US troops from Afghanistan in July. We don’t have to wait to July to start worrying. Read more |