The Senate has finally passed a transportation reauthorization bill today, more than 896 days after the last full authorization bill expired.
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A Senate-House conference committee is scheduled to meet today to hammer out differences between the two chambers on what is likely to be the most substantive jobs bill the Congress could pass this year: a surface transportation reauthorization bill.
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House Republicans today once again showed that they are not only ideologically wrong-headed but legislatively inept.
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There are reports that Congress is at last about to reach a deal on a transportation bill, exactly 1,001 days after the expiration of the last transportation reauthorization bill that Congress passed. What's still unclear is what kind of deal this will be.
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It's about time for us to break into the closed-door negotiations in Congress over a surface transportation bill.
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Bleeding heart liberal rag Forbes does some important journalism and investigates the Fast and Furious pseudo scandal. It turns out that the basic facts the wingnuts are presenting --- that the ATF was engaged in a gun-walking sting operation, is false. Well, waddaya know?
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When we had democracy, We, the People made the rules and we ran our country and our economy for our benefit. Now that we are a plutocracy things are different. The reason our elites are not doing anything to fix the economy is because from their viewpoint, things are just fine.
Merriam-Webster:
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Yesterday I discussed Mitt Romney's outsourcing problem with David Pakman on the David Pakman show.
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MORNING MESSAGE: 1M Jobs or 2M Layoffs?
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A recent court case proves what many of us have long suspected: Big banks have been ripping off this nation's towns and cities for years in an old-fashioned racketeering scam. We ran some numbers to see how much this criminality might have cost the American people.The answer? Billions.
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