by Robert Borosage | Jul 8, 2009 | Blog
This Congress potentially could be the most productive in over 40 years. It has passed the largest recovery plan in the nation's history. It extended health care to millions of children. It passed Obama's first budget with its significant down payment on education and...
by Bill Scher | Jul 8, 2009 | Blog
Yesterday, health care watchers tried to read the tea leaves after White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel expressed willingness to compromise on a public plan option via a "trigger" that would indefinitely delay its creation, followed by a
by Bill Scher | Jul 8, 2009 | Uncategorized
Congressional Dems Push Back on Baucus, Rahm Baucus gets blowback from fellow Senate Dems. Bloomberg: "Senate Democratic leaders are pressing Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus to reconsider a plan to tax employer-provided health benefits because they say it would...
by Bill Scher | Jul 7, 2009 | Blog
Much of the talk (including my own) concerning prospects for a Senate clean energy and climate protection bill has been focused on the
by Terrance Heath | Jul 7, 2009 | Blog
I scoffed when Bernie Madoff,through his lawyers, asked for a twelve year sentence in his fraud case. What some people think they can get away with pales only in comparison to what some people are actually allowed to get away with — especially when the...