Senate Transportation Bill: A Tank Half Full
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The Senate has finally passed a transportation reauthorization bill today, more than 896 days after the last full authorization bill expired. Read Post
Congress’ Last Chance To Get In Gear On A Transportation Jobs Bill
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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. Read Post
House Transportation Bill: Huge Republican FAIL
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House Republicans today once again showed that they are not only ideologically wrong-headed but legislatively inept. Read Post
1 Million Jobs Or 2 Million Layoffs? It’s Decision Day On Transportation Bill
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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. Read Post
On Wednesday, Fight For A Fair Transportation Bill
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It's about time for us to break into the closed-door negotiations in Congress over a surface transportation bill. Read Post
Cranking Up The Old Scandal Machine
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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? Read Post
Here Is Why Our Elites Are Not Fixing The Economy
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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.
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Why Can’t Romney Tell The Truth About His Outsourcing?
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Yesterday I discussed Mitt Romney's outsourcing problem with David Pakman on the David Pakman show. Read Post
Progressive Breakfast
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MORNING MESSAGE: 1M Jobs or 2M Layoffs? Read Post
Wall Street’s City Bid-Rigging Racket: Who Ran It? How Many Billions Are Missing? Where’s the Investigation?
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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. Read Post
