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'''Barbara Lee''', (b. July 16, 1946) is a United States Representative from California. She is a former staff member for Rep. [[Ron Dellums]] and was elected as a [[Democrat]] to the 105th Congress in a special election to fill the vacancy created by the resignation of Rep. Dellums. Lee subsequently has been reelected five times.
In the 1970s Lee was a confidential aide to [[Huey Newton]], the "Minister of Defense" of the [[Black Panther Party]]. <ref>[http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/Printable.asp?ID=1189 The Clinton Crisis: A Question of Loyalties], David Horowitz, ''FrontPageMagazine.com'', June 6, 1999. </ref> Lee served on the national committee of the Committees of Correspondence for Democracy and Socialism (CCDS), an offshoot of the old Moscow-controlled [[Communist Party USA]] (CPUSA).
On September 14 2001, three days after the [[9/11 terror attacks]], Lee was the only member of Congress to vote against the resolution (S.J.Res. 23) which passed in the U.S. House of Representatives 420-1 <ref>Congressional Research Service, [http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/natsec/RS22357.pdf Authorization For Use Of Military Force in Response to the 9/11 Attacks (P.L. 107-40): Legislative History,] retrieved 11 May 2007.</ref> authorizing the President to use force in response. <ref>[http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=4520 An Enemy Within], David Horowitz, ''FrontPageMagazine.com'', September 19, 2001.</ref>
==References==
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[[Category:Anti-war movement]]
In the 1970s Lee was a confidential aide to [[Huey Newton]], the "Minister of Defense" of the [[Black Panther Party]]. <ref>[http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/Printable.asp?ID=1189 The Clinton Crisis: A Question of Loyalties], David Horowitz, ''FrontPageMagazine.com'', June 6, 1999. </ref> Lee served on the national committee of the Committees of Correspondence for Democracy and Socialism (CCDS), an offshoot of the old Moscow-controlled [[Communist Party USA]] (CPUSA).
On September 14 2001, three days after the [[9/11 terror attacks]], Lee was the only member of Congress to vote against the resolution (S.J.Res. 23) which passed in the U.S. House of Representatives 420-1 <ref>Congressional Research Service, [http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/natsec/RS22357.pdf Authorization For Use Of Military Force in Response to the 9/11 Attacks (P.L. 107-40): Legislative History,] retrieved 11 May 2007.</ref> authorizing the President to use force in response. <ref>[http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=4520 An Enemy Within], David Horowitz, ''FrontPageMagazine.com'', September 19, 2001.</ref>
==References==
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[[Category:Anti-war movement]]