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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 ...
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...
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...
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) ...
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...
Sen. Richard Shelby (R-AL)
Rep. Paul Kanjorski (D-PA) has turned some heads by proposing legislation that would give the federal government authority to break up any large financial institution that poses a systemic threat to the economy. According to...
In the midst of a profile of Secretary of State Clinton, Joe Klein drops a pretty shocking tidbit:
The Palestinians are weak and divided. The Israelis have been difficult, as always: whenever Mitchell raises East Jerusalem in talks with the Israeli...
The Congressional Budget Office has concluded that under the $61 billion Republican amendment to the House health care bill, the number of uninsured Americans would increase to 52 million by 2019, but deficits would decrease by $68 billion over the...
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The Hill reports that vulnerable House and Senate Democrats want to focus more on the economy and “skip the party’s controversial legislative agenda.” Rather than safeguarding their reelection bids, these Democrats are more likely shooting themselves...
