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Progressive Breakfast: Prime-Time Public Plan Pitch
President Holds Prime-Time Health Care Town Hall Health Care '09 rally and lobby day in DC today, organized by Health Care for America Now! Jonathan Cohn on presidential prime-time health care town hall: "…he used the occasion to hammer away at a key point--one...
Progressive Breakfast - 6/25/2009
President Holds Prime-Time Health Care Town Hall Health Care '09 rally and lobby day in DC today, organized by Health Care for America Now! Jonathan Cohn on presidential prime-time health care town hall: "...he used the occasion to hammer away at a key point--one...
Wanna Strengthen The Climate Bill? Get This One Passed.
As Mother Jones recently chronicled, the environment community is fractured on the House clean energy and climate protection bill, though the bigger pieces -- Sierra Club, Natural Resources Defense C
Broken Health Care: What It Really Costs Us
Sometimes, when you're up to your chin in alligators, it's hard to focus on the fact that there's a big, broad, alligator-free world waiting somewhere out there, beyond the edge of the swamp.
Obama Makes An Important Trade Move
The Obama administration has announced that it will bring its first trade case against China in the World Trade Organization (WTO). The Office of the U.S. Trade Representative has launched a case against China for imposing...
Gut-Check Time on Shackling Wall Street
The administration has rolled out its financial reform plan, which the president accurately calls the "the boldest set of reforms in financial regulation in 75 years." Rep. Barney Frank, the chair of the House Banking Committee, promises to act rapidly, hoping to pass...
Progressive Breakfast - 6/24/2009
Can There Be Effective Health Care Compromise? Baucus and Conrad telling Bloomberg that WH wants them to compromise with GOP: "White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel met last night at the U.S. Capitol with Senate Democrats and told them Obama is 'open to...
Can't ... Mention... Climate Bill ... Must ... Ask ... President ... If He Smokes
Last night came the surprising news that Speaker Pelosi is speeding the comprehensive clean energy and climate protection bill to the House floor this week despite uncertainty whether it will pass. And today, President Obama sought to boost the bill's chances by...
Mythbusting An Insurance Lobby Attack Ad (Updated!)
This morning my breakfast was ruined, ruined by an anti-health care reform ad on TV. Now I've seen innumerable slimy, disingenuous attacks ads in my days, but for some reason this one in particular struck a nerve. Perhaps it was just that the flat-out lies and...
Progressive Breakfast - 6/23/2009
Carbon Cap Going to House Floor Friday Despite incomplete negotiations with rural Dems, House climate bill will head to the floor. Bloomberg: "The U.S. House of Representatives plans to vote on a proposed 'cap-and-trade' law to cut greenhouse gas emissions by the end...
