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Take Back America: 'This Is Our Time'
These are opening remarks at the fifth annual Take Back America Conference in Washington, a meeting of 3,000 leaders and activists from across the country and across the tribes of the progressive movement. Five years ago, when we started this venture, Washington was...
Weekend Watchdog Wrap-Up
Better than usual performance from our Sunday shows this week. (Perhaps I set the bar too low this time.) Face The Nation's Bob Schieffer asked Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell point blank, "what did you mean" when he said there would be a "new direction" in...
Changes at TomPaine.com
Isaiah J. Poole is the executive editor of TomPaine.com. We’ve made some changes to TomPaine.com that will make it faster-paced, more interactive and more compelling. You will notice that we have elevated our editor’s blog to be the centerpiece of our...
Weekend Watchdog
Every Friday in our Weekend Watchdog feature, we post suggested questions for scheduled Sunday guests. You can add your own questions in the comment thread. We'll also include contact information for the shows, so we can let them know what their viewers want asked....
Take Back America Just 3 Days Away!
Excitement is at a fever pitch as the Take Back America conference is a mere three days away. To sate your appetite until then, over at the TBA blog, we have more TBA Interviews with some of the engaging figures set to address the conference: Drum Major Institute...
One Vote Short
According to the New York Times, renewable energy backers are just one vote short of the 60 needed to break any filibuster.
Bring On The Energy Filibuster
A majority of the Senate supports adding a provision to the Senate energy bill now under consideration that would require that 15 percent of our nation's electricity come from renewable energy sources by 2020 -- an increase from the current 2.4 percent, and...
Renewable Energy: Make Conservatives Filibuster
The following, a more fleshed-out version of my earlier energy bill post, was originally published at The Huffington Post A majority of the Senate supports adding a provision to the Senate energy bill now under consideration, requiring that 15% of our nation's...
Filibuster Threat Stalls Renewable Energy Mandate
The 56 votes killing a phony "clean" electricity amendment proved to be ominous. As support for the actual clean electricity amendment is short of 60 votes, according to CQ Today(subscription req'd) conservatives are threatening a filibuster. In turn, the amendment's...
One Dirty Amendment Gets Scrubbed
Good news on the Senate floor today. Sen. Pete Domenici's attempt to count coal and nuclear towards clean energy standards for electricity was beaten back in the Senate just minutes ago, with 56 senators voting to kill the amendment, and only 39 supporting. Still...
