by Bill Scher | Feb 14, 2007 | Blog
The trade deficit ballooned to $764 billion in 2006, a new record shortfall. The White House shrugged its shoulders. From the W. Post: "Trade is good for America," [White House spokesman Tony] Fratto said. "There are dislocations for people when you trade. A factory...
by Bill Scher | Feb 13, 2007 | Blog, Minimum Wage
The House Ways & Means Committee yesterday cleared a bill with less than $2 billion in business tax breaks, as part of a plan to resolve differences in the House and Senate minimum wage bills. While I noted earlier that the House is passing the tax bill separately...
by Bill Scher | Feb 12, 2007 | Blog
Medicare's prescription drug benefit, it's working -- Current TV ad from Big Pharma [Rep. Henry] Waxman, chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, laid out his health oversight priorities for the year at a Feb. 9 hearing, drawing a bull’s-eye on...
by Bill Scher | Feb 8, 2007 | Blog
Lots of blogger takes on presidential hopeful John Edwards new health care plan, which in part draws on Health Care For America. Tapped's Ezra Klein writes: "it has widened the field of the debate, and unless the other candidates want to explain why they lack the...
by Bill Scher | Feb 8, 2007 | Blog
In the wake of the world's leading authority on climate change definitively concluding that global warming is happening and caused by humans, professional global warming deniers are flailing, and it's hilarious to watch. Over at TomPaine.com, Clean Air Watch's Frank...
