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Progressive Breakfast: Battle Of The Tiny Jobs Bills
Baucus-Grassley Tiny Jobs Bill Scrapped For Reid Tiny Jobs Bill Reid dumps Baucus-Grassley deal as bloated. Bloomberg: "Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid announced yesterday he was dropping scores of provisions from a $85 billion compromise jobs plan … Reid...
Progressive Breakfast: Call-In Blitz To Defeat Middle-Class Health Tax
The daily Progressive Breakfast serves up what progressive movement members need to know to start their day. Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission Grills Banks Today OurFuture.org's Les Leopold profiles the witnesses: "Lloyd 'doing God’s work' Blankfein … Jamie...
Progressive Breakfast: Bush Serves Up Auto Rescue
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: $900 Billion for Main Street
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: Bush Serves Up Auto Rescue
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: Choice Wins
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...
Progressive Breakfast: They Talk And Talk and Talk
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...
Progressive Breakfast: CBO Not Gospel
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...
Progressive Breakfast: Possible Budget Deal
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...
Progressive Breakfast: Banks Need More Capital
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...
