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Top 10 Reasons Why Republicans Should Support The House Health BillOct 29, 2009
This morning, Rep. Mike Pence (R-IN) characterized the entire House health care bill as a “government run insurance 2.0.” “I mean, what we are seeing here is, you know, government-run insurance, mandates for businesses, an enormous ...
Half Of All U.S. Workers Are Women — Can Policy Adapt To The New Reality?Oct 19, 2009
Today, for the first time in American history, half of all U.S. workers are women and mothers are the primary breadwinners or co-breadwinners in nearly two-thirds of American families. As recently as 1969, women made up only one-third of the workforc...
Obama Administration Shelves Corporate Tax Reform After 'A Blitz Of Complaints From Businesses'Oct 13, 2009
Earlier this year, the business lobby went into high gear to prevent the Obama administration’s plans for corporate tax reform, with the Business Roundtable promising to spend “whatever it takes” to ensure that the reforms never saw...
Despite Calling CBO 'God,' GOP Rejects Politically Inconvenient CBO Score Of Baucus BillOct 8, 2009
The CBO’s score of the Senate Finance Committee’s health care reform bill isn’t winning over any converts. After a year of building up the budget office’s ‘bipartisan’ credibility– Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) ...
September Job Loss Worse Than Expected — Does The Government Need To Do More?Oct 2, 2009
Today’s jobs report was worse than many analysts anticipated, with the unemployment rate rising a bit, to 9.8 percent, and employers shedding 263,000 jobs in September. The broader U6 measure of underemployment is now at 17 percent. Not surpris...
Iraq: Looking Ahead to Five Policy Challenges on the HorizonDec 10, 2009
Our guest blogger is Brian Katulis, a Senior Fellow at the Center for American Progress Action Fund.
The Iraq conference I attended last week in Europe brought together an interesting mix of Iraqi thinkers and leaders, and I already mentioned the...
Washington Post Goes Rogue On Medicare Buy-In, Calls It 'Dramatic Step Toward A Single-Payer System'Dec 10, 2009
Sarah Palin and Fred Hiatt, editorial page editor of The Washington Post
Having written an editorial on the climate change negotiations in Copenhagen for yesterday’s Washington Post, Sarah Palin couldn’t very well pen another critique of health care....
GOP Falsely Claims Reg Reform Bill Creates A 'Permanent Bailout Fund' Paid For By TaxpayersDec 10, 2009
Yesterday, Rep. Spencer Bachus (R-AL) appeared on C-Span and laid out his main reason for opposing H.R. 4173, the Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act of 2009, which is the regulatory reform legislation that the House has begun to debate....
After Arguing Health Debate Would 'Waste' Time, Republicans Now Demanding Senate 'Stay In' On WeekendDec 10, 2009
When the Senate voted to proceed with debate on the health care reform bill, Republicans urged their colleagues to oppose the motion. The minority argued that it did not have 60 votes to change the bill and urged Democrats to “scrap” the current bill...
Report Exposes Two-Faced Anti-Worker Voting Records Of Staunch Immigration OpponentsDec 10, 2009
Last month, twelve U.S. Senators delivered a letter to Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano attacking the Obama administration for continuing to push an agenda that contains comprehensive immigration reform during “these troubled...
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