by Bill Scher | Sep 15, 2009 | Blog
Sen. Jay Rockefeller, chair of the health subcommittee in the Senate Finance Committee, just announced on a media conference call with the Institute for America's Future, that there is "no way" he will vote for the new bill drafted by Sen. Max Baucus. At the top of...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Sep 15, 2009 | Blog
Last night, on a 83-7 vote, the Senate voted to bar ACORN from receiving any funds in the fiscal 2010 Transportation and HUD appropriations bills. If the House follows suit, that would effectively end several housing assistance and advocacy programs that ACORN has...
by Robert Borosage | Sep 15, 2009 | Blog
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, ....The best lack all conviction, while the worstAre full of passionate intensity. Surely some revelation is at hand -- William Butler Yeats President Obama traveled to Wall Street on...
by Bill Scher | Sep 15, 2009 | Uncategorized
The daily Progressive Breakfast serves up what progressive movement members need to know to start their day. Baucus Plan Appears To Make No One Happy Democrats unhappy with effort to make coverage affordable. W. Post: "Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) declared himself...
by Brian Dockstader | Sep 14, 2009 | Blog
So I went to check out Glenn Beck's little 9/12 Project teabagger rally in front of the Capitol on Saturday and saw a great cross-section of what "real" Americans supposedly look like. First, a little background for those of you who aren't familiar with the premise of...
