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- Immigrants don’t just pick our fruit, deliver our take-out food and desig...
- WASHINGTON -- Progressive Democrats in Congress are ramping up pressure on ...
- Activists held a series of demonstrations across the country today to call ...
- A renewed debate of the 2001 Authorization for Use of Military Force is lon...
- Two days after the horrific attacks of September 11, 2001, I was sitting in...
- The US House of Representatives took an important step last week toward the...
- Next week, the U.S. House will take up the federal farm bill, which include...
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House debates $20.5 billion cuts to food stamps
Written by Ned Resnikoff | MSNBCcom
Tuesday afternoon marked the beginning of the general floor debate for the 2013 House farm bill, which includes $20.5 billion in cuts to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), more commonly known as the food stamps program.
Former Obama Campaign Staffers Protest Keystone XL Pipeline Read more: Former Obama Campaign Staffers Protest Keystone XL Pipeline
Written by Zoë Carpenter | The Nation
Elijah Zarlin, who worked as a senior email writer at Obama campaign headquarters in 2008, was back in Chicago yesterday—in the First Precinct jail, following a peaceful sit-in in protest of the Keystone XL pipeline.
Medical Debt: A Curable Affliction Health Reform Won’t Fix
Written by David U. Himmelstein, M.D., and Steffie Woolhandler, M.D., M.P.H. | PNHP
Millions of Americans are deep in medical debt. Unfortunately, the Affordable Care Act (ACA) will throw a lifeline to very few. According to the Congressional Budget Office, even after health reform is fully implemented in 2014, 30 million to 36 million people will remain uninsured.
Message to Congress: Immigrants Pay More Than Their 'Fair Share' of Medicare
Written by Steffie Woolhander and David U. Himmelstein | Roll Call
Immigrants don’t just pick our fruit, deliver our take-out food and design our computers — they pay for our medical care.
Alan Grayson On Trans-Pacific Partnership: Obama Secrecy Hides 'Assault On Democratic Government'
Written by Zach Carter | Huffington Post
WASHINGTON -- Progressive Democrats in Congress are ramping up pressure on the Obama administration to release the text of Trans-Pacific Partnership, a secretive free trade agreement with 10 other nations, amid intensifying controversy over the administration's transparency record and its treatment of classified information.
Activists Protest Possible Cuts To Food Stamps
Written by Paul Tuthill | WAMC
Activists held a series of demonstrations across the country today to call on influential Democratic members of Congress to prevent cuts to the food stamp program. One of the demonstrations was in Springfield, Massachusetts.
Barbara Lee: AUMF Was Wrong in 2001, and It's Wrong Now
Written by Rep Barbara Lee | US News
A renewed debate of the 2001 Authorization for Use of Military Force is long overdue. I was the only member of Congress to vote against the authorization when it came to the House floor in 2001 after the horrific events of September 11th, and I have been pushing for its repeal ever since.
The War on Terror Has Not Made Us Safer
Written by Phyllis Bennis | USNews
Two days after the horrific attacks of September 11, 2001, I was sitting in front of my institute's office around the corner from the White House. We had just been evacuated again.
Congress Checks and Balances on Afghanistan—Will It Do So With Syria?
Written by John Nichols | The Nation
The US House of Representatives took an important step last week toward the restoration of the separation of powers that was established so that Congress would check and balance presidential war-making.
Next week, the U.S. House will take up the federal farm bill, which includes potentially devastating cuts to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP (the program once known as food stamps).
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