Feingold is the only Senator who voted against the draconian U.S.A. Patriot Act, and is also the author of the
Feingold Statement on the Fragile State of Democracy in Africa, which he read into the Congressional Record on Tuesday, March 2nd, 2010. He was also Chair of the Senate Subcommittee on African Affairs.
U.S. Senator Russ Feingold, D-WI, Chair of the Senate Subcommittee on Africa, and author of the Feingold Statement on the Fragile State of Democracy in Africa, was defeated in the 11.02.2010 election.
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Feingold's replacement as Chair of the Africa Subcommittee is expected to be Georgia
Republican Johnny Isakson, who identifies as anti-abortion, anti-gay marriage rights, and pro-gun rights, and, opposes taxation for social welfare but supports the U.S. Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, which the
Center for Defense Information estimates will cost U.S. taxpayers $1.08 trillion by the end of 2010.
Georgia's junior Republican Senator Johnny Isakson is likely to replace Senator Russ Feingold, D-WI, as Chair of the Senate Subcommittee on African Affairs. Feingold lost his race for re-election to Wisconsin billionaire Ron Johnson on Tuesday.
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Isaakson
describes the U.S. wars in Iraq and Afghanistan as defensive responses to the 09.11.2001 attacks in New York City, and, as reported on rock star Bono's ONE campaign website,
advocates the complete deployment of African Union troops, which are, most of all, Rwandan army troops, in Sudan, to protect the people of Darfur, but without mention of the
UN Mapping Report, which implicates the same army in war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide in the Democratic Republic of Congo. And, without mention of
Darfur's vast oil reserves.
