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Will Labor Nominee Be Obstructed Like So Many Others?
The Senate Heath, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee will vote Thursday on President Obama’s nomination of Thomas Perez, currently head of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division, to head...
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Stop The Obstruction: Help Push Senate For NLRB Confirmations
The Senate is getting ready to vote on five nominees to the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB). They should confirm the whole package and get the NLRB functioning again. They are also voting on...
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Progressive Breakfast
MORNING MESSAGE: Apple Pie is American, But Apple Computer Isn’t OurFuture.org’s Richard Eskow: “We should treat Apple and other formerly American multinationals as neutral entities with whom we can...
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Progressive Breakfast
MORNING MESSAGE: Apple: Bad Model for “Tax Reform.” California, New Tax Thinkers, Chart a Better Way. OurFuture.org’s Roger Hickey: “In testimony last week Apple CEO Timothy Cook proudly described the...
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CWA To Senate Dems: “We’re Done.”
On a call this morning to discuss the continuing obstruction of … everything … by Senate Republicans, Communications Workers of America (CWA) President Larry Cohen asked Senate Democrats to change the...
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Use the Nuke, Harry, Use the Nuke
Marcus Hedger was wrongly fired. That’s what the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) determined. Despite that, Mr. Hedger lost his Antioch, Ill., home. His case got mired in allegations that the...
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Tell The Senate To Stop Filibustering Affordable College
The Senate today, in a real sense, filibustered the future. A Republican minority set themselves up as a roadblock against college students struggling to pay for their education and establish...
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Sherrod Brown: “Get Trade Right” For The Middle Class
Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, argued that “trade policy needs to adapt to global challenges” and “trade done right creates prosperity for the middle class” during a speech on the “Competitive Agenda for...
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One Step Closer To Ending The Underground Economy
The Senate is on the verge of preventing an initial filibuster of the bipartisan immigration reform bill, with several Republican votes in support of proceeding. Despite all the trumped up “scandals,”...
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Call To Action Today To Oppose Right-Wing Food Aid Cuts
For an estimated 4 million people, including about 210,000 schoolchildren, the farm bill the House is scheduled to start debating today could mean they will be going hungry a lot more often. That has...
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“Democracy Has Been Stolen And We Have To Take It Back”
“Democracy has been stolen and we have to take it back.” – Senator Merkley (D-OR) at Netroots Nation. We have to end the filibuster, at the very least for nominations, if not for everything. This has...
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Democracy Is Rising In The States
Madison. Occupy… Now in North Carolina it’s Moral Mondays. In Texas it’s a filibuster, hundreds of thousands watching online, and the spectator gallery goes nuts when Republicans try to shut down the...
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“Gimme Five”: Fight For A Full Labor Relations Board
Here’s a scary thought: On Labor Day, a day celebrating the contributions that the labor movement has brought Americans – the 40-hour workweek, the weekend, minimum wage – there may be no one to...
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Conservative Obstruction Crippling Two Key Watchdogs
Though the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau opened shop almost three years ago, it has yet to be fully functional because of the financial industry lobby and its allies in Congress. Today, Sen....
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Tell These Senators To Join The Student Loan Rate Rollback
Now that the deadline has passed to prevent student loan rates from doubling to almost 7 percent, some members of Congress are scrambling to fix the problem before students sign new loans for the...
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The Republican Chance To Govern Like Grown-Ups
The January deal on Senate rules forged by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and Mitch McConnell has actually held. It just wasn’t very ambitious in its scope. The deal was designed to cut down on...
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48 Senators In The Hall Of Shame For Rejecting Student Loan Rollback
Once again, Congress has failed our students. Today, the bill to roll back student loan interest rates to 3.4 percent proposed by Sen. Jack Reed (D-R.I.) failed to get cloture, meaning it will not be...
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Progressive Breakfast
MORNING MESSAGE: It’s Time. Make Voting A Constitutional Right. OurFuture.org’s Terrance Heath: “That the Voting Rights Act needs fixing, and was even necessary in the first place underscores a...
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Where are the Voices of Republican Senators Who Still Care About Democratic...
Before January 2009, the filibuster was used only for measures and nominations on which the minority party in the Senate had their strongest objections. Since then, Senate Republicans have...
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McConnell Explains Why McConnell Is Wrong
Yesterday on NBC’s Meet The Press, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell was having a hard time understanding why the Majority Leader is ready to change the rules to prevent filibusters on executive...
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