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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...
Our guest blogger is Nikhil Wagle, MD, Fellow in Oncology at the Dana Farber Cancer Institute and a board member of Doctors for America.
On Tuesday, Sen. Tom Coburn (R-OK) took his ‘medical expertise’ to the Senate floor to argue that the Senate...
Earlier this week, Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio and political ally, Maricopa County Attorney Andrew Thomas, filed a civil suit against county administrators, elected officials, judges and attorneys who have challenged his authority. The lawsuit alleges...
In the run-up to the expiration of the START treaty on December 5th, conservatives were hitting the fear mongering button as hard as they could, claiming that we have “no real idea what the world will look like on December 6th.”
Because the signing...
Our guest blogger is Joshua W. Walker, a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Transatlantic Academy in the German Marshall Fund and Truman National Security Fellow.
President Obama laid out his new Afghanistan strategy on Tuesday night, announcing an additional...
Two weeks ago, thousands of illegally hacked emails from a British climate research center were dumped on a Russian webserver, timed to influence the politics of of the international climate negotiations commencing next week in Copenhagen, Denmark....
