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Whiplash
Despite the blatant inconsistency between these two proposals the overwhelming majority of the 170 House members who voted for the first one also voted for the second.Posted by Lynn Caporale -
Veterans: Missing in Action
Yesterday, the Senate honored U.S. troops by passing a 21st Century GI Bill....Seventy-five senators voted to fund veterans yesterday, providing a veto-proof majority. Yet not ...Posted by Beth Wellington -
The Bush Legacy: Flailing and Failing the World Over
Take a look around the world and see if you can find one area of the world where the Bush administration's policies have been successful. JPosted by Melva Hackney -
When Chutzpah is an Understatement
The truth is that a lot of progress has already been made. On the first day of the new Congress, rules were adopted that...required that any member of Congress requesting a ...Posted by Lynn Caporale
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You May Need a Score Card for Health Care Reform
If doctors and hospitals .. make concessions ..and the government succeeds in extending coverage ...insurers could … gain a huge new customer base and simultaneously cut ...Posted by Lynn Caporale -
Cap-and-trade & Health Care & Insurance Reform I see these two issues as one and the same thing. The first one is to heal our planet, and the ...
Experts and politicians on whether health care reform will trump climate change.Posted by Elsbet Roed Brosky -
The Elephant in the Room
If you use Zandi’s analysis, the programs eliminated have a stimulative effect equal to more than $100 billion, while the AMT proposal that replaces them has a stimulative ...Posted by Lynn Caporale -
Dealing with Iraq: Four Reasons Why Americans Need to Debate the Proposed U.S.-Iraq Security Agreement
this is not a decision that should be left to a lame duck administration. the american people should be engaged in the debate every bit as much as the irqui people are today ...Posted by Patricia L'Herrou -
Engineering a Train Wreck
The Senate is better known for the use of the filibuster, but the rules of the House also offer opportunities for significant delay and obstruction.Posted by Lynn Caporale -
The Structural Imbalance of Political Talk Radio
the gap between conservative and progressive talk radio is the result of multiple structural problems in the U.S. regulatory system, particularly the complete breakdown of the ...Posted by Dwight Rousu
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