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Progressive Breakfast is the morning roundup of what progressive movement members need to know to start the day. Auto Rescue Finally Announced NYT reports this AM: President Bush on Friday announced $13.4 billion in emergency loans to prevent the collapse of General...

Progressive Breakfast is the morning roundup of what progressive movement members need to know to start the day. $900 Billion for Main Street More than 200 top economists and labor leaders rally behind Institute for America's Future's $900 billion, 2-year Main Street...

Progressive Breakfast is the morning roundup of what progressive movement members need to know to start the day. Auto Rescue Finally Announced NYT reports this AM: President Bush on Friday announced $13.4 billion in emergency loans to prevent the collapse of General...

The daily Progressive Breakfast serves up what progressive movement members need to know to start their day. Choice of Public Option Still Popular Speaker Pelosi says only public option will pass House. Bloomberg quotes: "There’s no way I can pass a bill in the House...

Health Care Jaw Jaw Continues Bloomberg on the state of talks: "Democratic Senator Max Baucus, leading the talks among six Democrats and Republicans on the finance committee, said they made progress and will meet again today. House Democrats have failed to reach a...

CBO Ignores Cost Savings In Health Care Bill, More Still To Come CBO chief dumps on current incarnations of health care bills in Senate testimony. W. Post: "Congress's chief budget analyst delivered a devastating assessment yesterday of the health-care proposals...

Possible Budget Deal With Wide-Ranging Implications CQ reports on deal to allow simple majority vote on health care and student loan reform, possibly in exchange for bipartisan commission that could fast-track Social Security and Medicare cuts: House and Senate...

Banks Need More Capital Bloomberg: "The Federal Reserve plans to deliver results of stress tests on U.S. banks to executives today that may show about 10 companies need additional capital to weather a deeper recession, people familiar with the matter said. Banks are...

Gates Seeks Military Budget Reform … But It Is Enough? NYT: "Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates announced a major reshaping of the Pentagon budget on Monday, with deep cuts in many traditional weapons systems but new billions of dollars for others, along with...

Obama Address Articulates Vision for 2009 Key domestic policy statements from last night's presidential address: Credit: "we are creating a new lending fund that represents the largest effort ever to help provide auto loans, college loans, and small business loans to...