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The Congressional Progressive Caucus (CPC) was established in 1991 by five members of the United States House of Representatives:

Ron Dellums (D-CA), Lane Evans (D-IL), Peter DeFazio (D-OR), Maxine Waters (D-CA), and Bernie Sanders (I-VT).
 


 
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The Socialists In The United States Congress

Progressives are individuals who are ostensibly working within the republic and its capitalist system, while their real goal is to subvert it, weakening its foundation, the Constitution of the United States of America, and amending it to reflect the Marxist-Socialist philosophy described as Progressivism.

Progressives contend that Progressivism is rooted in three core principles:  "Fighting for economic justice and security for all; Protecting and preserving civil rights and civil liberties; and Promoting global peace and security."  That's what they say -- it sounds great -- but it's not what they intend.

Everything you need to know about Progressives and Progressivism can be learned from visiting the Progressive Democrats of America's Advisory Board page which features the bios of 25 of the leftiest leftists in America.

 

In the United States House of Representatives, these people are all Democrats and they all belong to the Congressional Progressive Caucus (CPC), that was established in the early 1990's.  The 83 members of the Progressive Caucus also belong to the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), a confederation of socialists formed in 1983 when a splinter group of the Socialist Party (Michael Harrington's Democratic Socialist Organizing Committee, DSOC) merged with the Students for a Democratic Society's (SDS) splinter group, the New American Movement (NAM).

The main aim of DSA was to convert the Democratic Party into a social democratic organization.  to that end, during the early 1990's, the DSA hosted the Progressive Caucus' website, which contained the names of its members.  When the word got out, all the information regarding the Progressive Caucus vanished.  These congress critters don't want you to know their true colors (red).

 

In 2009, of the twenty standing committees of the House, eleven are chaired by members of the CPC.

 

The DSA has many celebrity members, including feminist Gloria Steinem, actor Ed Asner, black activist Cornel West, and libertarian socialist Noam Chomsky.  It is also the chief American member group of the Socialist International, which includes the British Labour Party and the French Parti Socialiste.

  

Arizona
bullet Ed Pastor (AZ-4, Phoenix)
bullet Raúl Grijalva (AZ-7, Tucson), Co-Chair

California
bullet Lynn Woolsey (CA-6, Santa Rosa), Co-Chair
bullet George Miller (CA-7, Richmond), Chairman, House Education and Labor Committee
bullet Barbara Lee (CA-9, Oakland), Chairwoman, Congressional Black Caucus
bullet Pete Stark (CA-13, Fremont)
bullet Michael Honda (CA-15, San Jose)
bullet Sam Farr (CA-17, Monterey)
bullet Henry Waxman (CA-30, Los Angeles), Chairman, House Energy and Commerce Committee
bullet Xavier Becerra (CA-31, Los Angeles)
bullet Judy Chu (CA-32, El Monte)
bullet Diane Watson (CA-33, Los Angeles)
bullet Lucille Roybal-Allard (CA-34, Los Angeles)
bullet Maxine Waters (CA-35, Inglewood)
bullet Laura Richardson (CA-37, Long Beach)
bullet Linda Sanchez (CA-39, Lakewood)
bullet Bob Filner (CA-51, San Diego), Chairman, House Veterans Affairs Committee

Colorado
bullet Jared Polis (CO-02, Boulder)

Connecticut
bullet Rosa DeLauro (CT-3, New Haven)

Florida
bullet Corrine Brown (FL-3, Jacksonville)
bullet Alan Grayson (FL-8, Orlando)
bullet Robert Wexler (FL-19, Boca Raton)
bullet Alcee Hastings (FL-23, Fort Lauderdale)

Georgia
bullet Hank Johnson (GA-4, Lithonia)
bullet John Lewis (GA-5, Atlanta)

Hawaii
bullet Neil Abercrombie (HI-1, Honolulu) -- The only person on the planet to see Barack Hussein Obama Sr. and Anna Dunham together
bullet Mazie Hirono (HI-2, Honolulu)

Illinois
bullet Bobby Rush (IL-1, Chicago) -- This guy is an ex-Black Panther
bullet Jesse Jackson, Jr. (IL-2, Chicago Heights)
bullet Luis Gutierrez (IL-4, Chicago)
bullet Danny Davis (IL-7, Chicago)
bullet Jan Schakowsky (IL-9, Chicago)
bullet Phil Hare (IL-17, Rock Island)

Indiana
bullet André Carson (IN-7, Indianapolis)

Iowa
bullet Dave Loebsack (IA-2, Cedar Rapids)

Maine
bullet Chellie Pingree (ME-1, North Haven)

Maryland
bullet Donna Edwards (MD-4, Fort Washington)
bullet Elijah Cummings (MD-7, Baltimore)

Massachusetts
bullet John Olver (MA-1, Amherst)
bullet Jim McGovern (MA-3, Worcester)
bullet Barney Frank (MA-4, Newton), Chairman, House Financial Services Committee
bullet John Tierney (MA-6, Salem)
bullet Ed Markey (MA-7, Malden)
bullet Mike Capuano (MA-8, Boston)

Michigan
bullet Carolyn Cheeks Kilpatrick (MI-13, Detroit)
bullet John Conyers (MI-14, Detroit), Chairman, House Judiciary Committee

Minnesota
bullet Keith Ellison (MN-5, Minneapolis)

Minssippi
bullet Bennie Thompson (MS-2, Bolton), Chairman, House Homeland Security Committee

Missouri
bullet William Lacy Clay, Jr. (MO-1, St. Louis)
bullet Emanuel Cleaver (MO-5, Kansas City)

New Jersey
bullet Donald Payne (NJ-10, Newark)
bullet Frank Pallone (NJ-06)

New Mexico
bullet Ben R. Luján (NM-3, Santa Fe)

New York
bullet Jerry Nadler (NY-8, Manhattan)
bullet Yvette Clarke (NY-11, Brooklyn)
bullet Nydia Velazquez (NY-12, Brooklyn), Chairwoman, House Small Business Committee
bullet Carolyn Maloney (NY-14, Manhattan)
bullet Charles Rangel (NY-15, Harlem), Chairman, House Ways and Means Committee
bullet Jose Serrano (NY-16, Bronx)
bullet John Hall (NY-19, Dover Plains)
bullet Maurice Hinchey (NY-22, Saugerties)
bullet Louise Slaughter (NY-28, Rochester), Chairwoman, House Rules Committee
bullet Eric Massa (NY-29, Corning)

North Carolina
bullet Mel Watt (NC-12, Charlotte)

Ohio
bullet Marcy Kaptur (OH-9, Toledo)
bullet Dennis Kucinich (OH-10, Cleveland)
bullet Marcia Fudge (OH-11, Warrensville Heights)

Oregon
bullet Earl Blumenauer (OR-3, Portland)
bullet Peter DeFazio (OR-4, Eugene)

Pennsylvania
bullet Bob Brady (PA-1, Philadelphia) - Chairman, House Administration Committee
bullet Chaka Fattah (PA-2, Philadelphia)

Tennessee
bullet Steve Cohen (TN-9, Memphis)

Texas
bullet Sheila Jackson-Lee (TX-18, Houston)
bullet Eddie Bernice Johnson (TX-30, Dallas)

Virginia
bullet Jim Moran (VA-8, Alexandria)

Vermont
bullet Peter Welch (VT-At Large)

Washington
bullet Jim McDermott (WA-7, Seattle)

Wisconsin
bullet Tammy Baldwin (WI-2, Madison)
bullet Gwen Moore (WI-4, Milwaukee)

Non-Voting
bullet Donna M. Christensen (Virgin Islands)
bullet Eleanor Holmes Norton (District of Columbia)

Senate Members
bullet Bernie Sanders (Vermont)
bullet Tom Udall (New Mexico)

Former Members
bullet Sherrod Brown (OH-13) - Elected to Senate
bullet Julia Carson (IN-07) - Died in December 2007
bullet Lane Evans (IL-17) - Retired from Congress
bullet Cynthia McKinney (GA-4) - Lost Congressional seat to current caucus member Hank Johnson
bullet Major Owens (NY-11) - Retired from Congress
bullet Nancy Pelosi (CA-8) - Left Caucus when Elected House Minority Leader
bullet Hilda Solis (CA-32) - Became Secretary of Labor in 2009
bullet Stephanie Tubbs Jones (OH-11) - Died in 2008
bullet Paul Wellstone (MN Senate) - Died in plane crash in 2002
Barack Obama's Relationship To The DSA
The New Zeal blog has 19 links to articles it has produced about Barack Obama's long term association with the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA).

So what you say -- they're "democratic" aren't they?  They're only "socialists, not communists or militant radicals? 

Some facts:

Obama has close personal and political ties to several DSA members including Quentin Young, Timuel Black, the late Rabbi Arnold Jacob Wolf, the late Saul Mendelson, Lou Pardo, Congressman Danny Davis and DSA honorees Jackie Grimshaw, Jackie Kendall and Congresswoman Jan Schakowsky.

DSA's several thousand strong membership has grown increasingly militant over the years until the point its policies are almost indistinguishable from those of the Communist Party USA.  In an article in DSA's Democratic Left, Spring 2007, DSA National Political Committee member David Green wrote;
   

Our goal as socialists is to abolish private ownership of the means of production.  Our immediate task is to limit the capitalist class’s prerogatives in the workplace...

In the short run we must at least minimize the degree of exploitation of workers by capitalists.  We can accomplish this by promoting full employment policies, passing local living wage laws, but most of all by increasing the union movement’s power...

  
The DSA has some cross membership with the Communist Party and considerable cross-membership with the the equally militant Committees of Correspondence for Democracy and Socialism.

DSA has close ties to many Congressman, including John Conyers, Danny Davis, Jan Schakowsky (all close Obama supporters) Jerrold Nadler and Bob Filner.

DSA has key personnel or allies at the top of AFL-CIO, SEIU, United Auto Workers, United Steelworkers of America and other major unions.

DSA has considerable influence in ACORN, Working Families Party, Green Party, Democratic Party, USAction, Jobs with Justice, Economic Policy Institute, Campaign for America's Future, Demos (which Obama helped found), Black Radical Congress and many other mass organizations, including some churches.

DSA is affiliated to the Socialist International which now includes several "former" communist parties-Mongolia, Mozambique, Bulgaria, Latvia, Belarus, Ukraine, Estonia, Angola, Hungary and Poland, as well as the Nicaraguan Sandinistas and the still-existing Communist Parties of Laos, Cuba and China ("observer" only).

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