by Bill Scher | May 22, 2009 | Uncategorized
Climate Bill Clears First Hurdle "Legislation imposing the first nationwide limits on the pollution blamed for global warming advanced in the House late Thursday ... The Energy and Commerce Committee approved the sweeping climate bill 33-25 after repeatedly turning...
by Bill Scher | May 21, 2009 | Uncategorized
Waxman Has The Votes "Henry Waxman has had just about enough ... [he] is giving [Republicans] until the end of Thursday to keep playing around, he told the Huffington Post" before moving to a final committe vote on the clean energy and climate protection bill. CQ...
by Bill Scher | May 20, 2009 | Blog
David Roberts laments the political squeeze the Waxman-Markey climate compromise puts on progressives, forced to choose between "what justice and prudence demand and what's possible within the current constraints of power politics" but ends on a hopeful note: "if a...
by Bill Scher | May 20, 2009 | Uncategorized
Paying For Health Care Reform NYT's David Leonhardt promotes a soda tax to help pay for health care reform: "...the debate over soda tax is a useful one, because it does a nice job of capturing some of the most serious problems with our current tax system. Not only...
by Bill Scher | May 19, 2009 | Blog
When progressive House Democrats were blocked from a floor vote on their proposal requiring an exit strategy for our Afghanistan military mission, and several in turn voted against funding for the mission, McClatchy Newspapers concluded, "the anti-war crowd remains as...
