by Isaiah J. Poole | Jun 27, 2012 | Blog, Economy
A Senate-House conference committee is scheduled to meet today to hammer out differences between the two chambers on what is likely to be the most substantive jobs bill the Congress could pass this year: a surface transportation reauthorization bill. The best thing...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Jun 27, 2012 | Blog
House Republicans today once again showed that they are not only ideologically wrong-headed but legislatively inept. The House finally passed a transportation reauthorization bill, but not the fatally flawed five-year plan that House Speaker John Boehner had...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Jun 27, 2012 | Blog, Economy
There are reports that Congress is at last about to reach a deal on a transportation bill, exactly 1,001 days after the expiration of the last transportation reauthorization bill that Congress passed. What's still unclear is what kind of deal this will be. The right...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Jun 27, 2012 | Blog
It's about time for us to break into the closed-door negotiations in Congress over a surface transportation bill. The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights is asking people on Wednesday to call their members of Congress to support "transportation equity" in...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Jun 20, 2012 | Blog
Rep. Jan Schakowsky, D-Ill., explains in this interview with Richard Eskow that progressives can and must win the fight against the right-wing austerity policies wrapped in the Bowles-Simpson deficit reduction plan. Schakowsky was a member of the deficit commission...
