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Sanders' VA Bill Gives GOP A Chance To Actually Care About Veterans
Sen. Bernie Sanders is introducing an update of the Veterans Administration bill that Republicans filibustered in February. Will Republicans vote to solve the VA scandal or milk it for political gain?
GOP Gets Lost In Search For Highway Funds; Will Senate Find The Way?
A group of senators meets Wednesday to discuss sources of federal funding for transportation projects. Let's hope they come up with something better than the stinker left by the House Republican leadership.
Thomas Piketty And Elizabeth Warren On How To Fight Income Inequality
Thomas Pickety and Sen. Elizabeth Warren discuss why it is that the rich are getting richer, and everybody else is getting poorer, and most importantly, what we can do to fight it.
Sherrod Brown On Expanding Social Security [Audio/Video Interview]
Earlier today we had a wide-ranging conversation with Sen. Sherrod Brown of Ohio about the fight to expand Social Security and the social safety net.
Why I Marched On McDonald's
For all the gains we have been making, the treatment of low-paid workers by some of the most profitable corporations in the world ranks high in the more significant causes of the growing inequalities in the U.S.
Worth Bragging About: Better Workers, Not Bigger CEO Pay Packages
Congress figured that investors have the right to know when CEOs are shoving such big hunks of the corporate profit pie into their maws that workers are starved and investors cheated.
Progressive Breakfast
Historic Climate Rule Proposed EPA climate rule will create jobs and lower energy bills, says WH. The Hill: "'This proposed rule will, when implemented, save Americans on their electricity bill and significantly reduce the amount of carbon emissions into our air,'...
The Risk For Republicans In Fighting The Cap On Carbon
With the EPA out strong with a creative rule designed to avoid negative economic impact, and with sharp prebuttals against attacks about lost jobs and higher bills, Republicans may want to take heed before overplaying their hand.
House Acts To Protect 'Buy America' Rules During Trade Negotiations
There have been reports that the Trans-Pacific Partnership treaty would ban requirements that government agencies "Buy America" first. The House has voted to protect these provisions from being negotiated away.
Democrats Tell Trade Representative: Help Workers, Not Just Corporations
Since we signed a "free trade" agreement with Colombia, 73 trade unionists have been murdered there. So 153 Democrats are insisting on stronger labor protections in the Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement.
