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Progressive Breakfast - 7/2/2009
CBO: Public Plan Option and Employer Mandate Cuts Cost Of Reform AP reports complete Kennedy-Dodd bill receives lower cost estimate from CBO: "The two senators said the Congressional Budget Office put the cost of the proposal at $611.4 billion over 10 years, down from...
The New Senate Global Warming Deniers
If you wanted to get progressives more excited about the clean energy and climate protection bill that passed the House last week, you might be inclined to point to Phaedra Ellis-Lamkins HuffPost piece on the $1 billion in green jobs funding that was added at the last...
2044 on FireDogLake
I’ve blogged about my novel, 2044, here and here. 2044 is a future tale that starts where George Orwell’s 1984 left off. The problem in 2044 isn’t Big Brother and the leviathan government. The problem is Big Brother, Inc., and the all-powerful marketplace. This post...
Progressive Breakfast - 7/1/2009
Wal-Mart Gives Momentum to Employer Mandate White House holds health care town hall at 1:15 PM ET Wal-Mart joins SEIU to back employer mandate to provide insurance. NYT: "But Wal-Mart’s embrace of the employer mandate may come at a price. In its letter, the company...
Progressive Breakfast - 6/30/2009
Senate HELP Draft Bill Has Public Plan Option Politico Pulse gets leak of Senate HELP cmte draft: "THE SENATE HELP COMMITTEE IS ABOUT TO COME OUT WITH A 'LEVEL PLAYING FIELD' OPTION SIMILAR TO WHAT SCHUMER PROPOSED IN MAY ... If HELP does go in this direction, it...
Wrong About Ricci
Yesterday the U.S. Supreme Court issued its much-anticipated decision in Ricci v. DeStefano, the New Haven firefighters case. While the Court’s decision was disappointing in many respects, it preserved employers’ ability, and obligation, to ensure freedom from...
Pecora Commission To Be Named This Week?
Word is circulating in Washington that members for the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission will be named this week. The commission is supposed to resemble the 1930s Pecora commission that dug into the culprits behind the Great Depression and laid the groundwork for...
Madoff: Fall Guy or First of Many?
Bernard Madoff has been sentenced to 150 years in prison for one of the biggest investment frauds in Wall Street history. The punishment seems to fit the crime.... But there is no closure here. We can’t let Madoff’s sentence distract us from the underlying problems....
After Precarious Climate Vote, Grassroots Pressure Needed More Than Ever
The House passed the first comprehensive clean energy and climate protection bill on Friday, but exactly in the way I worried about last week -- not on a wave of grassroots momentum, but last-minute cajoling by
Progressive Breakfast - 6/29/2009
Will Senate Follow House on Climate? Grist's Kate Sheppard assesses what's next following House passage of clean energy/climate protection bill: "Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.), chair of the Environment and Public Works Committee, issued a statement congratulating...
