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Progressive Breakfast: Congress Back To Work
Congress Back To Work CQ on congressional schedule for clean energy and health care: "House Energy and Commerce Chairman Henry A. Waxman, D-Calif., has said he expects to complete work on a climate-change bill, which will probably include a controversial cap-and-trade...
Progressive Breakfast - 4/20/2009
Congress Back To Work CQ on congressional schedule for clean energy and health care: "House Energy and Commerce Chairman Henry A. Waxman, D-Calif., has said he expects to complete work on a climate-change bill, which will probably include a controversial cap-and-trade...
Pondering America’s Most Puzzling Inequality Stat
The United States has been regularly counting people, via the Census, since 1790. But the federal government didn’t start counting the dollars in people’s pockets, with any regularity, until 1983 when the Federal Reserve began conducting a “Survey of...
EPA Tells Congress: Cap Carbon, Or We'll Do It For You
After Congress in 1990 gave the EPA the authority to regulate air pollution, after the Supreme Court in 2007 told Bush's EPA they couldn't ignore greenhouse gas pollution that causes global warming, and after a full review of the scientific evidence, the EPA announced...
Greider: Be Willing To Destabilize The Party
Journalist and author William Greider is urging the labor movement and other progressives to get tough with the Democratic Party, even if that means putting the party's majority control in the House and Senate at risk. Greider, who was at the AFL-CIO headquarters in...
Progressive Breakfast: Stress Surrounds Stress Tests
Stress Surrounds Stress Tests "The Federal Reserve and other regulators aim to release the results of stress tests on 19 of the biggest U.S. banks on May 4," reports Bloomberg. "The tests are designed to mesh with the administration’s effort to remove distressed...
Progressive Breakfast - 4/17/2009
Stress Surrounds Stress Tests "The Federal Reserve and other regulators aim to release the results of stress tests on 19 of the biggest U.S. banks on May 4," reports Bloomberg. "The tests are designed to mesh with the administration’s effort to remove distressed...
Progressive Breakfast: Public Health Plan Compromise?
Compromise on Public Health Plan Option Within Reach? AP reports on optimistic comments from WH: President Barack Obama's top health care adviser said Wednesday a compromise is within reach on a government health plan for the middle class that wouldn't drive private...
Progressive Breakfast - 4/16/2009
Compromise on Public Health Plan Option Within Reach? AP reports on optimistic comments from WH: President Barack Obama's top health care adviser said Wednesday a compromise is within reach on a government health plan for the middle class that wouldn't drive private...
Progressive Breakfast: Stress Test Results To Go (Sorta, Maybe) Public
Stress Test Results To Go (Sorta, Maybe) Public NYT reports some stress test results will be made public: The administration has decided to reveal some sensitive details of the stress tests now being completed after concluding that keeping many of the findings secret...
