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The Fierce Urgency of Now On Economic Recovery

The Campaign for America's Future is joining with our allies at Americans United for Change in asking you to flood congressional offices today and Tuesday with calls for immediate action on the economic recovery package scheduled for a House vote this week. The number...

CBO Stimulus "Report" Didn't Exist

It turns out reports that the Congressional Budget Office had found that much of the stimulus package to be voted on in the House in a few days would not be spent until after 2011 were incorrect. Ryan Grim at The Huffington Post reported late Friday: The nonpartisan...

Conservative Plan Isn't About "Recovery"

The missive that House conservatives issued early Friday may be called an "economic recovery plan," but it is as threadbare as the big discount goods store that went belly-up in my neighborhood a few weeks ago and is now in the final days of bankruptcy liquidation....

Is Budget Office Being Used To Derail Stimulus?

Conservative leaders are using news of a Congressional Budget Office report released this week to argue that much of what is in President Obama's economic recovery plan is a waste of money because most of the money can't be spent before at least 2011, and thus won't...

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