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Dec 9:

Center on Women and Public Policy: Parlor Politics

5:00pm – 6:00pm

215 Humphrey Center
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In Which the Ladies of Washington Help Build a City and a Government by Catherine Allgor Discussants: Lisa Norling Associate Professor of History, University of Minnesota Professor Norling teaches a course on women in colonial America and specializes in gender and class in early America. Description: In this scholarly yet animated and thought-provoking, analysis, Allgor presents her groundbreaking research on the critical role that women played in the early days of Washington politics. More info…

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Political Memo In Saying No, GOP Sees More Pros Than Cons

New York Times
October 15, 2009

Humphrey Senior Fellow Vin Weber commented on what he thinks about the majority of the Republican Party voting no, against President Obama's health care reform.

"I just don't think that there's a downside to voting no -- I really don't," said Weber, a former Republican congressman from Minnesota. "That's quite aside from whether you should or shouldn't, or whether the country needs it or doesn't need it. The basic rule is you rarely pay a price at the polls for being against something."

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