Cumberland is in the lower Blackstone Valley of Rhode Island and in the John H. Chafee, Blackstone River Valley National Heritage Corridor, New England's historic National Park area.

Lincoln is in the lower Blackstone Valley of Rhode Island and in the John H. Chafee, Blackstone River Valley National Heritage Corridor, New England's historic National Park area.

Currently Governor Lincoln Chafee, an independent in Rhode Island, is the only serving governor not from one of the two major parties.

Lincoln Davenport " Linc " Chafee (; born March 26, 1953 ) is an American politician who since January 2011 has been the 74th Governor of Rhode Island.

Chafee was a supporter of Barack Obama's 2008 presidential bid and is currently a co-chair of Obama's re-election campaign.

Chafee is " wary " of Race to the Top, " because Race to the Top includes money for charter schools ".

Chafee is a supporter of gay rights.

Chafee is now involved in the J Street project, a liberal Jewish group that calls for Israel to withdraw from all occupied territories and advocates for a " two state " solution to the Israeli-Arab conflict.

Conservative author and radio talk-show host Hugh Hewitt argued that Chafee is one of the greatest roadblocks to creating a permanent Republican majority in the country because of his unwillingness to conform to the party's social goals.

Yet the Rockefeller Republican label is sometimes applied to such modern-day politicians as Senators Olympia Snowe, Susan Collins of Maine and Governor Lincoln Chafee of Rhode Island.

The NRSC generally avoids supporting Republicans in primaries against other party members, though the 2006 Rhode Island Senate primary between Lincoln Chafee and mayor of Cranston Steve Laffey is a notable exception.

As a testimonial to the late Senator Chafee, the program is now entitled the John H. Chafee Foster Care Independence Program.

The Chafee Social Science Center at the University of Rhode Island is named in his honor.

The Foster Care Independence Act of 1999, passed on November 23, 1999 after his death, is known as the John H. Chafee Foster Care Independence Program.

The CBRA enacted a set of maps depicting the John H. Chafee Coastal Barrier Resources System ( CBRS ) in which federal flood insurance is unavailable for new or significantly improved structures.

Frequently following a moderate path, Chafee was pro-choice on abortion and supported the North American Free Trade Agreement.

) The John H. Chafee Blackstone River Valley National Heritage Corridor retraces the history of " America's Hardest-Working River ', the Blackstone.

* October 24 – John Chafee, American politician ( b. 1922 )

** Lincoln Chafee, U. S. Senator from Rhode Island

* October 22 – John Chafee, American politician ( d. 1999 )

While at AFIT, Chafee would continue to participate in astronaut candidate testing as the pool of candidates dropped to 271 in mid-1963.

Harvard Professor Zechariah Chafee critiqued the raids and attempts at deportations and the lack of legal process in his 1920 volume Freedom of Speech.

However, a subsequent essay by Zechariah Chafee titled “ Freedom of Speech in War Time ” argued despite context that Holmes had intended to substitute clear and present danger for the bad-tendency standard a more protective standard of free speech.

* John H. Chafee Blackstone River Valley National Heritage Corridor: Valley sites-Douglas, Sutton, Northbridge ( National Park Service )

Chafee laid out another village, " City of Attraction '" a short time later to the southeast.

* Johnstons Corners – A location formed by the intersection of Allen and Savage Roads, west of Chafee.

Amos Chafee Barstow, mayor of Providence, was named chairman of the meeting.

She also posthumously received the John H. Chafee Excellence in Environmental Affairs Award for 2001 presented by the Conservation Law Foundation.

In addition, the Club for Growth also makes independent expenditures to pressure certain moderate Republicans to vote more conservatively ( e. g. running ads against Senators George Voinovich of Ohio, Olympia Snowe of Maine, and Lincoln Chafee of Rhode Island after these Senators objected to certain aspects of President Bush's tax cuts ).

( Chafee was defeated in 2006 general election after an expensive primary fight with a more conservative Republican financed in large part by the club.

* On April 28, 2009, Pennsylvania Senator Arlen Specter specifically mentioned the Club for Growth's previous activity in supporting conservative primary opponents against Republicans such as Wayne Gilchrest, Joe Schwarz, Lincoln Chafee and Heather Wilson, in his decision to run for re-election as a Democrat in 2010.

He also met the Harvard Law professor Zechariah Chafee and discussed his criticism of Schenck.

Cianci clashed behind the scenes with John Chafee, trying to talk him out of his Senate run so Cianci could get the Republican nomination instead.

In the book, Limbaugh also stated that the word refers to unspecified women whose goal is to allow as many abortions as possible, saying at one point that there were fewer than 25 " true feminazis " in the U. S. Limbaugh has used the term to refer to members of the National Center for Women and Policing, the Feminist Majority Foundation, the National Organization for Women, and other organizations at the March for Women's Lives, a large pro-choice demonstration.

A self-professed " liberal on civil rights ", Eastwood has stated that he is pro-choice on abortion.

Harry Browne, the Libertarian Party candidate for President for 1996 and 2000, rejected the terms pro-life and pro-choice and stated about abortion: " Whatever we believe abortion is, we know one thing: government doesn't work, and it is as incapable of eliminating abortions as it is of eliminating poverty or drugs.

Press releases have indicated that he is pro-choice and supports ending the abstinence-only policy of sex education and increasing the use of contraception to make abortion " less necessary " over time.

Cuomo is pro-choice on abortion.

He is pro-choice, supports gun control, has introduced many bills increasing penalties for carjacking and car theft, and criticized the Bush administration on national security issues.

Lautenberg is pro-choice and has voted against banning partial-birth abortions in 1999.

Donohue questioned the point of the song and brought up her activism calling for support of Rock for Choice and other pro-choice groups stating, " It is no wonder that Joan Osborne instructs her fans to donate their time and money to Planned Parenthood.

One cited piece of evidence is that in the late 1990s through the early 2000s, he gradually shifted from being pro-choice to pro-life.

She is generally pro-choice on abortion and supports non-federally funded embryonic stem cell research, although she has cast significant pro-life votes, including ones to ban partial-birth abortions.

She is a member of the Republican Majority For Choice, Republicans For Choice, and The Wish List ( Women in the Senate and House ), a group of pro-choice women Republicans.

She is also a member of Republicans for Environmental Protection, the Republican Majority for Choice, Republicans for Choice and The Wish List ( Women In the Senate and House ), a group of pro-choice Republican women.

EMILY's List is a political action committee ( PAC ) in the United States that aims to help elect pro-choice Democratic female candidates to office.

Pastor was founding member of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, is pro-choice, and in 2006 supported the interests of the Planned Parenthood 100 percent, according to their records.

Pastor openly supports a pro-choice stance and is backed by Planned Parenthood as well as NARAL Pro-Choice America.

Like his mentor, Goldwater, he is pro-choice.

She is a member of the Republican Main Street Partnership, which supports stem-cell research, Republicans for Choice, and the Wish List ( Women In the Senate and House ), a group of pro-choice Republican Party women.

She is the only pro-choice member of West Virginia's House delegation.

Tauscher is strongly pro-choice, with a 100 % positive rating from NARAL.

* Rep. Farr, like most Progressive Democrats in Congress, opposes the USA PATRIOT Act and is pro-choice.

Sherman is pro-choice.

Shays is partially pro-choice on abortion but voted for the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act.