Then he goes on to prescribe how the Government can best use its spending power to get the economy back on track: TPM Cafe has a post up from former Labor Secretary Robert Reich that diagnoses our biggest economic ailment, lack of ...
"The Senate, in a similar manner as the House of Representatives in relation to its members, has express reticence to exercise the power of expulsion (but not censure) for conduct in a prior Congress when a senator has been elected or reelected to the ...
On this day of relief and celebration, I'd like to take a moment to remember all those in the progressive movement who didn't make it across the finish line yesterday. All the candidates and campaigns who didn't quite make it, or in some cases didn't ...
Now we're in the driver's seat and the problems coming down the road are much bigger, scarier and implacable than any we've seen in our lifetimes. In my experience there's only one way to drive out of a fiasco -- fast and in the right ...
The New York Times reports this morning on congressional hearings yesterday when governors David Paterson (NY) and Jon Corzine (NJ) called for aid in a new stimulus package: "We are cutting all we can," Mr. Paterson told the House Ways and Means ...
Since Mark Warner won the statehouse in 2001, Virginia has been trending blue. Tim Kaine's 2005 win, Jim Webb's Senate win in 2006 and Warner's commanding lead in this year's Senate race are all testimony to that. In one of the first surveys to explore ...
Even as Bush's boy Henry Paulson (you might remember him from such bailouts as Bear Sterns and AIG) considers radical measures: "I don't wish to spread alarm on the line people but the big issue confronting the market is I'm afraid the health and ...
California may need an emergency loan of up to $7 billion from the federal government within weeks, the Los Angeles Times on Friday quoted Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger as saying in a letter to U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson. "The economic ...
That's House Speaker Nancy Pelosi starting the negotiations on a second stimulus package by giving away the farm. Pelosi renewed her vow to try to pass a stimulus measure that would combine billions of dollars for jobs-producing infrastructure ...
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