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ou Dobbs is the anchor and managing editor of CNN's Lou Dobbs Tonight. Dobbs also anchors a nationally syndicated financial news radio report, The Lou Dobbs Financial Report, and writes a weekly commentary on CNN.com.

In addition to his current book, "Independents Day: Awakening the American Spirit," he is also the author of the New York Times bestseller "War on the Middle Class," the best-selling book "Exporting America" and co-author of "Space."

Dobbs has won nearly every major award for television journalism. In 2005, the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences awarded Dobbs the Emmy for Lifetime Achievement. The previous year, the National Television Academy awarded Lou Dobbs Tonight an Emmy Award for "Exporting America." He received the George Foster Peabody Award for his coverage of the 1987 stock market crash. In 1990, he was given the Luminary Award by the Business Journalism Review for his "visionary work, which changed the landscape of business journalism in the 1980s."

In 2004, Dobbs received The Man of the Year Award from The Organization for the Rights of American Workers and the George J. Kourpias Excellence in Journalism Award from the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers for his contributions to the national debate on jobs, global trade and outsourcing. Dobbs was also presented with the Eugene Katz Award for Excellence in the Coverage of Immigration from the Center for Immigration Studies for his ongoing series "Broken Borders," which examines U.S. policy towards illegal immigration. He also received the Hugh O'Brien Youth Leadership in Media Award at the 2004 Albert Schweitzer Leadership Awards Dinner for his commitment to helping high school students seek out, recognize and develop leadership potential. In 1999, he received the Horatio Alger Association Award for Distinguished Americans and, in 2000, the National Space Club Media Award. Dobbs was named "Father of the Year" by the National Father's Day Committee in 1993.

He graduated from Harvard University with a degree in economics.
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Donate to the Lead the Way Fund for Army Rangers.

Find out more about the Vets for Freedom Tour.

Show Congress your outrage over the Air Force's decision outsource a $35 billion contract to the European consortium that builds Airbus: Click here to join the fight. Rep. Todd Tiahrt's website: www.house.gov/tiahrt and Sen. Patty Murray's website: www.murray.senate.gov.
  • The SAVE Act, a bipartisan effort to strengthen enforcement of our nation's immigration law, is making its way through the House, despite leadership efforts to stall it in committee. A discharge petition has been filed and if a majority of House members sign it, the bill will go to the floor regardless of efforts to block it.
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    Caucus on the Middle Class

    Two congressmen, Rep. Anthony Weiner, D-New York, and Rep. Steven LaTourette, R-Ohio, have come together to create a bi-partisan Caucus representing middle class Americans. Click below to visit their websites:

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    Border Fence Fight

    The Homeland Security Department is waiving more than two dozen environmental and other laws to speed up fence construction on the southern border. Now 14 members of the current democratic majority, including Homeland Security Committee Chairman Bennie Thompson, are joining environmental groups and asking the Supreme Court to force homeland security to obey the laws.

  • Homeland Security Committee Chairman Bennie G. Thompson (D-MS)
  • Energy & Commerce Committee Chairman John Dingell (D-MI)
  • Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers (D-MI)
  • Transportation & Infrastructure Committee Chairman James Oberstar (D-MN)
  • Education and Labor Committee Chairman George Miller (D-CA)
  • Rules Committee Chairwoman Louise Slaughter (D-NY)
  • Veterans Affairs Chairman Bob Filner (D-CA)
  • Intelligence Committee Chairman Silvestre Reyes (D-TX)
  • Congressman Solomon Ortiz (D-TX)
  • Congresswoman Zoe Lofgren (D-CA)
  • Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX)
  • Congresswoman Susan Davis (D-CA)
  • Congressman Raul M. Grijalva (D-AZ)
  • Congresswoman Yvette D. Clarke (D-NY).