Senator John Kerry goes On The Record with Boston’s WCVB… segments from the Feb. 20, 2011: Segment 1  Segment 2  Segment 3  Segment 4 Senator Kerry will be spending President’s Day in New Bedford where he will “start the day by participating in a roundtable discussion on federal funding for affordable housing, job training and human services.” The discussion will take place at the New Bedford Community Development Center with New Bedford Mayor Scott Lang and Newton Mayor Setti Warren. Kerry then heads...

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And I WARNED about what's happening in Wisconsin today at the end of that 2007 posting:

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One is a stalwart of organized labor, the leader of one of the largest U.S. labor unions. The other is the head of one of the most powerful and relentless pro-business lobbies in the nation’s capital. Richard Trumka, president of the AFL-CIO labor organization, barnstormed the country last fall campaigning for the re-election of congressional Democrats to bolster an agenda for working Americans and the middle class. At the same time, U.S. Chamber of Commerce President and CEO was...

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Welcome to the latest episode of the GOP’s War on Women: The GOP flexed their majority in the House today and voted to defund Planned Parenthood.  The House just approved Rep. Mike Pence’s amendment to cut off funding to Planned Parenthood, checking off a hot-button social issue even as it set up a bigger showdown over defunding the health care law. The vote was 240-185 with 11 Democrats voting for the amendment, and seven Republicans voting against. One member...

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Lara Logan, CBS News chief foreign affairs correspondent, was beaten and sexually assaulted, Feb. 11, while on assignment in Cairo to report on the revolution that concluded that day with Hosni Mubarak resigning as president. Logan, according to an official CBS announcement, was attacked by a group of about 200 Egyptians and “suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers.” The mob, probably pro-Mubarak...

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While over in the House, Republican Speaker John Boehner seems content to shed more American jobs in the name of budget-cutting, Senate Democrats have rolled out an expansive agenda they say will put Americans back to work. When asked about the potential of the GOP’s wish-list of $61 billion in federal spending cuts to force more Americans onto the unemployment line, Boehner responded, “So be it.” By contrast, top Senate Democrats on Wednesday were busy unveiling legislative priorities that...

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House Republicans are leading a charge to pull the funding from a Department of Education regulation designed to end abusive practices at the nation’s for-profit universities. The attempt to defund the so-called “gainful employment” regulation comes amid new revelations of coercive recruiting tactics used by one such university. The rule is designed to ensure for-profit schools prepare students for the workforce, not just saddling them with debt they can’t repay in exchange for useless degrees. A number of for-profit...

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As bad as the news is that President Obama wants to slash federal home-energy assistance — and it is bad news, indeed — the decision sets up a crucial test for Republican lawmakers bent on taking the budget ax to this, and other critical domestic programs. Obama reportedly would cut billions from the Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program, or LIHEAP, in the budget plan he submitted to Congress on Monday for the 2012 federal fiscal year that begins in...

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