by People's Action | Dec 13, 2016 | Breakfast
Big Oil Gets Bigger ExxonMobil CEO Rex Tillerson named Secretary of State, faces tough confirmation. Bloomberg: "He would be the first oil executive to lead the State Department ... Tillerson would add to a cabinet increasingly full of millionaires and billionaires...
by People's Action | Dec 12, 2016 | Breakfast
Turning Back The Clock Incoming EPA chief Scott Pruitt threatens your water. American Prospect's Sam Ross-Brown: "...Pruitt led a multi-state lawsuit against Obama’s Clean Water Rule, a regulation aimed at protecting source water for one in three Americans. As with...
by People's Action | Dec 9, 2016 | Breakfast
Trump Still Unpopular Trump still unpopular in Pew poll: "55% of the public says that, so far, they disapprove of the job he has done explaining his policies and plans for the future, while 41% approve of the job he has done ... In December 2008, 72% said they...
by People's Action | Dec 8, 2016 | Breakfast
Trump Attacks Local Union Leader Trump attacks Carrier's union head. NYT: "Chuck Jones, the president of United Steelworkers Local 1999, told The Washington Post on Tuesday that the president-elect had 'lied his ass off' when he claimed he had saved 1,100 jobs ......
by People's Action | Dec 7, 2016 | Breakfast
Obamacare Divides GOP GOP divided on Obamacare strategy. Politico: "Lawmakers have proposed putting off the effective date of repeal from as little as six months to as long as three years ... Several senators suggested at the meeting with Pence that additional...