August 26, 2007 (LPAC)--On Sunday, Aug. 26, Lyndon LaRouche called for the immediate withdrawal of all American military forces from Iraq, citing the unfolding combined housing and banking crises, that make any extension of the U.S. military engagement in Iraq a total folly.
The following draft legislation was commissioned by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr. last year, however in the next 24 hours there will be a updated draft for the 110th Congress and will being released by LaRouche Political Action Committee activists on Capitol Hill and elsewhere as a model for EMERGENCY Congressional legislation.
For millions of Americans, the horror of the collapse of the Mississippi River Twin Cities bridge has snapped into focus the long-ignored decrepit condition of the U.S. economy. Over just the past five days, a number of initiatives have taken place, including passage of a Senate bill to assess the dis-repair of all U.S. infrastructure; a new House of Representatives bill filed by Ohio Congressmen Dennis Kucinich (D) and Steve LaTourette (R), called, "The Rebuilding of America's Infrastructure Act of 2007." On Sept. 5, a House hearing is set to review the condition of the U.S. inventory of 590,000 bridges; other infrastructure hearings are in the works for when Congress reconvenes.