by Bill Scher | Feb 13, 2007 | Blog, Minimum Wage
The House Ways & Means Committee yesterday cleared a bill with less than $2 billion in business tax breaks, as part of a plan to resolve differences in the House and Senate minimum wage bills. While I noted earlier that the House is passing the tax bill separately...
by Bill Scher | Feb 12, 2007 | Blog
Medicare's prescription drug benefit, it's working -- Current TV ad from Big Pharma [Rep. Henry] Waxman, chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, laid out his health oversight priorities for the year at a Feb. 9 hearing, drawing a bull’s-eye on...
by Bill Scher | Feb 8, 2007 | Blog
Lots of blogger takes on presidential hopeful John Edwards new health care plan, which in part draws on Health Care For America. Tapped's Ezra Klein writes: "it has widened the field of the debate, and unless the other candidates want to explain why they lack the...
by Bill Scher | Feb 8, 2007 | Blog
In the wake of the world's leading authority on climate change definitively concluding that global warming is happening and caused by humans, professional global warming deniers are flailing, and it's hilarious to watch. Over at TomPaine.com, Clean Air Watch's Frank...
by Bill Scher | Feb 7, 2007 | Blog, Minimum Wage
Trying to break a House-Senate stalemate over competing minimum wage bills, Rep. Charlie Rangel is planning on moving a bill with $1 billion in business tax breaks, separate from the minimum wage bill, according to CQ Today. That's much smaller than the $8.3 billion...
