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Sequester Nation For All (Except Air Travelers) Sequester slashes CA jobless aid. KGO-TV: "Federal unemployment benefits will be cut by 18 percent due to the federal sequester spending cuts that Congress allowed to automatically kick in to reduce the deficit ... The...
Sequester Closes Cancer Clinic Doors, Congress Does Nothing
Affluent business flyers inconvenienced by delays = national emergency that Congress immediately fixes. Cancer clinics closing = Congress does squat, goes home. This is just one more story of our corrupt times. A continuing seriesRead the full series Last week the...
Federal Spending Is Very Popular. Episode 9: The FAA Sequester
Last August and September, I did a series of eight posts about how, contrary to Tea Party and John Boehner assertions, federal spending was actually very popular. As I said at the time, Americans don't want less government; they just want government that costs less....
Repeal the Sequester: It is Dumb and Damaging
“Spending cuts hold back US growth,” warns an across the page headline of the conservative Financial Times. No surprise there. Americans are in trouble. Wages are losing ground. Over 20 million need full-time work. The percentage of working-age Americans with jobs...
Second Thoughts on Health Exchanges and Hill Staffers
The other day I used a Politico story about Congressional staffers and health benefits to make some points about health reform. The Politico article was essentially a GOP-planted attack on “Obamacare” which exploited the fact that Representatives and their staff are...
When You Cheapen One Life, You Cheapen Every Life
This week Slate columnist Matt Yglesias became the latest in a long list of commentators, analysts, and politicians to be seduced by the alluring notion that you can quantify, measure and model the value of a human life in intellectually stimulating, value-free, and...
Enough Is Enough: Take Action Today To Fix A Broken Senate
Today, the Campaign for America's Future is joining 100 other organizations in delivering a message to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and his Republican counterpart, Mitch McConnell: Enough is enough. End the obstruction. Stop the constant abuse of the filibuster....
Wrong Lessons From Sandy Hook
There have been plenty of negative reactions to last week’s defeat of gun regulation in the U.S. Senate. In his Rose Garden address, President Obama was incredulous that legislation favored by 90 percent of Americans couldn't get 60 votes.
Obama Budget Splits Dems "Obama Budget Strategy Irks Democrats" reports Roll Call: "Several Democratic sources outside the White House ... said Obama’s budget release this week is not just a bad bargaining stance but also another instance in which the president...
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Obama Budget Splits Dems "Obama Budget Strategy Irks Democrats" reports Roll Call: "Several Democratic sources outside the White House ... said Obama’s budget release this week is not just a bad bargaining stance but also another instance in which the president...
