Posted on March 19th, 2010 by Scott Nance
In a sign that it seems to want to capture the same anger that has threatened healthcare reform, a prominent group of anti-immigration activists are charging that congressional Hispanics are supporting healthcare reform because President Obama promised also to push immigration reform this year.
The Congressional Hispanic Caucus (CHC) Thursday called for passage of Obama’s healthcare [...]
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Posted on March 19th, 2010 by Scott Nance
The forces that propelled a political breakdown between Democrats and Republicans which rendered the notion of bipartisanship nothing more than quaint and unattainable is so complete that it has moved on and metastasized.
The phenomena fueling the disunity now has manifested within each party, wearing away at the internal cohesion of each. For proof, just listen [...]
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Posted on March 18th, 2010 by Scott Nance
Healthcare reform legislation in the Senate already is very bipartisan, according to a spokesman for Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid.
Refuting one of the key charges Republicans have leveled against healthcare reform — that Senate Democrats have crafted a highly partisan bill devoid of GOP ideas – spokesman Jim Manley says the package more than 145 [...]
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Posted on March 17th, 2010 by Scott Nance
Apparently a day is all it took.
We reported Tuesday that, although a variety of financial reform advocates believe the new Senate reform package lacks needed teeth, they stopped short of declaring outright opposition to the bill. There appeared to be a sense that provisions — particularly those placing a new consumer-protection agency within the Federal [...]
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Posted on March 17th, 2010 by Scott Nance
Rep. David Obey has made no secret of his skepticism of President Obama’s direction in Afghanistan. But when it comes to Obama’s economic policies, the chairman of the House Appropriations Committee on Tuesday leaped to the president’s defense.
In fact, the veteran Wisconsin Democrat opened a hearing on the federal budget and broader economic outlook for [...]
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Posted on March 14th, 2010 by Scott Nance
It’s been declared dead before, only to be resurrected — and Democracy for America (DFA) hopes to pull that rabbit out of a hat one more time.
The progressive advocacy organization is rallying supporters to push House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to include a provision for a healthcare public option in the final bill lawmakers approve and [...]
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Posted on March 12th, 2010 by Scott Nance
It’s called the Fair Sentencing Act, and it would have eliminated what has been a decades-long vast disparity in how those convicted of crack cocaine offenses receive punishments much more harsh than those convicted of powder cocaine crimes.
Now, perhaps, it ought to be more honestly renamed the “Not So Unfair Sentencing Act,” or the “Still [...]
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Posted on March 11th, 2010 by Scott Nance
Just three weeks ago, Eric Massa was a scrappy freshman congressman, rallying liberals to fight for single-payer health care. Now, as I write this, it’s just a day after he resigned the House seat that he worked so hard to win, and he’s on right-wing talker Glenn Beck’s show as a friendly guest.
It’s a turn [...]
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Posted on March 11th, 2010 by Scott Nance
If healthcare reform is shaping up as the equivalent of political combat in the Senate, then consider the issue of climate change as its Cold War.
Legislation to limit greenhouse gas emissions through a new cap-and-trade system has languished in the Senate for the better part of a year. The bill has gone nowhere, despite the [...]
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Posted on March 8th, 2010 by Scott Nance
The Arkansas members of a large U.S. labor union Monday announced their support of Lt. Gov. Bill Halter in the U.S. Senate primary challenge to incumbent Democrat Blanche Lincoln.
The backing of the United Steelworkers (USW) members in the Natural State adds a dimension to the Halter campaign, which up to now, had attracted support largely [...]
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