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Newspaper Roundup for Mar. 16, 2009
CNSNews.com Headlines —
... Bipartisan group of nine senators believe something must be done Politico.com: House bill would require presidential candidates to produce copies of their birth New York Times: ...
Bill Posey Sponsors Presidential Birth Certificate Bill
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com —
... persist (if only on the internet) about President Barack Obama's eligibility to serve.
"Opponents of President Obama are raising the birth certificate issue as a means of questioning his eligibility to serve as president," Posey said in a statement. "This bill, by simply requiring such documentation for future candidates for president, will remove this issue as a reason for questioning the legitimacy of a candidate elected as president."
According to Politico, Posey's bill has no co-sponsors yet.
Obama has actually ...
Bill Posey Sponsors Presidential Birth Certificate Bill
The Huffington Post | Full News Feed —
... persist (if only on the internet) about President Barack Obama's eligibility to serve.
"Opponents of President Obama are raising the birth certificate issue as a means of questioning his eligibility to serve as president," Posey said in a statement. "This bill, by simply requiring such documentation for future candidates for president, will remove this issue as a reason for questioning the legitimacy of a candidate elected as president."
According to Politico, Posey's bill has no co-sponsors yet.
Obama has actually ...
Rep. Neugebauer: ‘I Don’t Know’ If Obama Is A Citizen
Think Progress —
... Rep. Bill Posey’s (R-FL) bill aimed at casting doubt over the citizenship status of President Obama appears to be gaining momentum within the Republican Party. The bill would require candidates for President to supply their birth certificates to the Federal Elections Commission to be eligible to run. Placating fringe elements of the right-wing movement who refuse to believe that President Obama was born in America, Posey himself has ...
Birthers And Truthers
JustOneMinute —
... learned the hard way back home in Delaware this month, there’s no easy way to deal with the small but vocal crowd of right-wing activists who refuse to believe that President Barack Obama was born in the United States. At a town hall meeting in Georgetown, a woman demanded to know why Castle and his colleagues were “ignoring” questions about Obama’s birth certificate — questions that have been put to rest repeatedly by state officials in Hawaii, where the birth certificate and all other credible evidence show that Obama was born in Honolulu on Aug. 4, 1961. When Castle ...
House passes resolution that states Obama was born in Hawaii, 378-0.
Think Progress —
... the resolution from coming to a voice vote on the House floor, and Rep. Bill Posey (R-FL), who sponsored a bill requiring presidential candidates to prove natural-born citizenship, both voted for the resolution. Rep. John Campbell (R-CA), a co-sponsor of Posey’s bill who ...
