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Video: 'We Have To Continue The Filibuster Fight'
The fight for filibuster reform does not stop with what MSNBC talk show host Ed Schultz on Thursday dubbed Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's "fail-ibuster." Communications Workers of America President Larry Cohen told Schultz that "we have to continue that fight."...
Boehner's 10-Year Budget Plan: Take Unpopular Ryan Budget Cuts. Then Double Them.
To get House conservatives to capitulate on temporarily suspending the debt limit without securing any spending cuts, Boehner made a stunning pledge: the upcoming House budget would eliminate the deficit in 10 years. As a talking point, that sounds great. As a budget,...
Progressive Breakfast
MORNING MESSAGE: Progressives Fire Warning Shot Against Social Security Cuts OurFuture.org's Richard Eskow: "...The Hill reported Wednesday that Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., was considering using a special parliamentary maneuver to push a budget deal [including] the...
Progressive Breakfast
MORNING MESSAGE: Progressives Fire Warning Shot Against Social Security Cuts OurFuture.org's Richard Eskow: "...The Hill reported Wednesday that Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., was considering using a special parliamentary maneuver to push a budget deal [including] the...
Progressive Breakfast
MORNING MESSAGE: Progressives Fire Warning Shot Against Social Security Cuts OurFuture.org's Richard Eskow: "...The Hill reported Wednesday that Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., was considering using a special parliamentary maneuver to push a budget deal [including] the...
Senator’s Denial of News Story Reflects Deep Resistance to “Chained-CPI” Social Security Cut
Here's a "Washington insider" story that could affect every family in the country. Congressional newspaper The Hill reported Wednesday that Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., was considering using a special parliamentary maneuver to push a budget deal. But this wasn't just...
Say It Ain't So, Chuck: Don't Back Down On Social Security
A report in The Hill newspaper last night suggested that Sen. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) may be floating a proposal that includes cuts to Social Security and Medicare. If Sen. Schumer's proposal was accurately reported, the senator could not be more wrong.
Baby Steps On The Filibuster
Better than nothing, but still not much. The story of our time. I have always been skeptical of the idea that the Senate would truly reform the filibuster simply because the majority always knows their hold on the majority is tenuous and they might want to block something someday. (I can certainly imagine things I would want a Democratic minority to block.) Still, if the GOP filibuster abuse of the last decade isn't enough to force a change, I don't know what would. And it did, albeit a fairly small one. Baby steps.
Democrats Win When They Hold Together And Say, "Please Proceed"
When Republicans get going on with their crazy, Democrats are learning to just say, "Please proceed." The public takes care of the rest.
Progressive Breakfast
MORNING MESSAGE: Did Obama Pivot On Education? OurFuture.org's Jeff Bryant: "It was hard for a progressive not to get a chocolate high from President Obama’s inauguration speech ... But hardly anyone in the education community had anything notable to say about it...
