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What A Difference Ten Days Make
Consider how far we've come since January 20. On Thursday, the Senate followed the House in passing a reauthorization of a child health insurance bill that will mean 4 million more children will have access to health insurance. When the Congress passed similar...
Progressive Breakfast - 1/30/2009
ALERT: GDP PLUMMETS in 4Q Reuters reports: "The economy shrank at its fastest pace in nearly 27 years in the fourth quarter, government data showed, sinking deeper into recession as consumers and business cut spending. The Commerce Department on Friday said gross...
House GOP Tries To Raise Money Off Opposing Economic Help For Everyone Else
Apparently, House Republicans are so proud of themselves, they are trying to raise campaign dollars off their votes opposing economic help for everybody else. I just received an email from GOP Rep. Pete Sessions, the chairman of the National Republican Congressional...
The Terrorist at the Bus Stop
Every morning, my neighbor and her six-year-old daughter share a bus stop with a terrorist — or a member of a terrorist organization, at least. That's distressing enough, because my son rides the same school bus. But I recently discovered that the terrorist at my...
Progressive Breakfast - 1/29/2009
House Backs Econ Recovery Plan WSJ: “The House bill expands access to health care for the unemployed, represents perhaps the largest expansion of the federal government's role in education financing ever and begins what Mr. Obama has promised will be a push toward...
If At First You Don't Succeed, Lie, Lie Again
The House is debating the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act on the floor as I write this. And the conservative minority is employing the same tactics that have led them into the minority: failed ideas wrapped in fresh lies. The big lie/talking point being...
Progressive Breakfast: Economists Back Economic Recovery
House Vote Today AP: President Barack Obama's expansive and expensive plan to jump-start the economy is all but certain to clear its first hurdle when the Democratic-controlled House votes on a $825 billion version that melds new spending and tax cuts. Republican...
Infrastructure Grade: D. Conservative Grade: F.
The American Society of Civil Engineers' preliminary release today of its 2009 Report Card on Infrastructure lays bare the toll conservative ideology has taken on our transportation system, public facilities, water network and power grid. The ASCE gives the nation a...
Get Ready to Rumble: The Fight for the Next Economy Begins
We are headed into the most ambitious era of progressive economic reform since the New Deal. The crisis leaves little alternative, as job losses mount across the country and the world. The Obama administration has hit the ground running, pushing to pass an $800...
Progressive Breakfast - 1/28/2009
House Vote Today AP: President Barack Obama's expansive and expensive plan to jump-start the economy is all but certain to clear its first hurdle when the Democratic-controlled House votes on a $825 billion version that melds new spending and tax cuts. Republican...
