by Leo Gerard | Sep 16, 2009 | Blog, Minimum Wage
Let's go back, just for a minute, to a time before screaming teabaggers, before Republicans decided to kill health insurance reform as a means to politically destroy this country's first African-American president. Try and remember what it was like before discussion...
by Bill Scher | Sep 16, 2009 | Blog
Conservatives who loved citing the Congressional Budget Office when it was being hard on health care legislation keep on ignoring it when it comes to climate legislation. Today conservatives tried once again to mislead the media into reporting the costs of...
by Terrance Heath | Sep 16, 2009 | Blog
"We are determined to make every American citizen the subject of his country's interest and concern; and we will never regard any faithful law-abiding group within our borders as superfluous. The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of...
by Bill Scher | Sep 15, 2009 | Blog
Sen. Jay Rockefeller, chair of the health subcommittee in the Senate Finance Committee, just announced on a media conference call with the Institute for America's Future, that there is "no way" he will vote for the new bill drafted by Sen. Max Baucus. At the top of...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Sep 15, 2009 | Blog
Last night, on a 83-7 vote, the Senate voted to bar ACORN from receiving any funds in the fiscal 2010 Transportation and HUD appropriations bills. If the House follows suit, that would effectively end several housing assistance and advocacy programs that ACORN has...
by Robert Borosage | Sep 15, 2009 | Blog
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, ....The best lack all conviction, while the worstAre full of passionate intensity. Surely some revelation is at hand -- William Butler Yeats President Obama traveled to Wall Street on...
