by Sam Pizzigati | Jan 9, 2011 | Blog
Corporate America is working feverishly behind the scenes to smother a new federal mandate, enacted last year, that just might revitalize the drive to roll back excessive executive pay. Sometimes lobbyists — even the most perfectly coiffed — mess up....
by Bill Scher | Jan 7, 2011 | Blog
Instead of the House Republicans breaking their own proposed "CutGo" rule to offset the cost of all spending increases, they have chosen to carve a multi-billion dollar loophole, specifically exempting the $143 billion 10-year cost of repealing health care reform. By...
by Bill Scher | Jan 7, 2011 | Blog
The House Republican leadership is scrambling to defend the obliteration of its own budget rules, as it prepares to pass repeal of health reform without offsetting the $143 billion 10-year cost, let alone the $1 trillion 20-year cost. Incoming House Majority Whip Eric...
by Bill Scher | Jan 7, 2011 | Blog
The Congressional Budget Office today released its preliminary analysis of the Republican health reform repeal bill, and the 10-year increase to the deficit is higher than previously assumed: $230 billion instead of $143 billion. That's because the 10-year window now...
by Terrance Heath | Jan 7, 2011 | Blog
"Though this nation has proudly thought of itself as an ethnic melting pot, in things racial we have always been and continue to be, in too many ways, essentially a nation of cowards." - Eric Holder, United States Attorney General Ed. Note: The second half...
