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Progressive Breakfast - 4/15/2009

Stress Test Results To Go (Sorta, Maybe) Public NYT reports some stress test results will be made public: The administration has decided to reveal some sensitive details of the stress tests now being completed after concluding that keeping many of the findings secret...

Progressive Breakfast - 4/14/2009

Presidential Address on Economy, 11:30 AM ET President Obama is set to deliver what the White House calls a "major address" on the economy [this] morning at Georgetown University, reports Boston Globe. Gallup and Politico show President Obama earns more trust from the...

Progressive Breakfast - 4/13/2009

Will EPA Move on Capping Carbon? FT reports EPA is about announce plans to cap carbon, which could prod Congress: "President Barack Obama’s administration is preparing to ratchet up pressure on Congress to pass climate change legislation this year by declaring its...

Progressive Breakfast - 4/10/2009

Stimulus Stimulating W. Post updates on the "slowly but surely" stimulus progress: Building repairs are underway on public housing in Imboden, Ark., and Cumberland, Ill., states across the country are receiving money to weatherize the homes of low-income residents,...

Progressive Breakfast - 4/9/2009

Big Push For Public Health Plan Option The Hill on grassroots efforts to secure a public health plan option, and efforts to undermine it: "liberal groups are waging a national grassroots campaign this week to demand that all Americans be given access to government-run...

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