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Would You Be Embarrassed to Have Trent Franks as Your Congressman?

Is Republican Congresxsman Trent Franks addressing the issues most important to this country?Of the eight bills he's proposed this session, three are abortion-related, one prevents the Tohono O'odham Nation from building a casino, one would "celebrat[e] the life of President Ronald Wilson Reagan on the anniversary of his birth," and...
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Is Republican Congresxsman Trent Franks addressing the issues most important to this country?

Of the eight bills he's proposed this session, three are abortion-related, one prevents the Tohono O'odham Nation from building a casino, one would "celebrat[e] the life of President Ronald Wilson Reagan on the anniversary of his birth," and another declares "Obamacare" unconstitutional -- real high priority stuff.

See also:
-Trent Franks Now Wants to Tell Every Woman in America When It's Okay to Have an Abortion
-Abortion-Obsessed Congressman Submits Another Abortion Bill
-Trent Franks Proposes Special-Interest Measure to Block Tohono O'odham Casino
-Trent Franks Makes List of the 10 Weirdest Members of Congress

Franks recently announced his intentions for that eighth bill, to ban abortions past 20 weeks of a woman's pregnancy.

Of course, Franks is perhaps best known for going on and on, and on (and on, and on, and on) about abortion, endlessly proposing bills that never, ever pass.

After being in Congress for more than a decade, he's never seen a single one of his bills signed into law.

Even one-term Congressman Ben Quayle got a bill onto President Obama's desk (and he signed it, too).

Our question this morning: would you be embarrassed to have Franks as your representative to Congress?

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