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With Boehner Gone, Nothing Stands Between Wall Street and the Tea Party Disaster It Created
As a friend of big business and guard against the Tea Party fringe, House Speaker John Boehner will be missed by Wall Street.
How and Why the Koch-Backed Freedom Caucus Killed 350 US Jobs
The Kochs had the House Freedom Caucus take out the Export-Import Bank to slightly increase the profitability of their own empire.
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Congress Lets Sun Set on Land and Water Conservation Fund
The nation's most successful conservation program is in jeopardy.
Will Mitch McConnell Be Resigning Next?
Politicos see John Boehner's resignation as a means of saving face, politically. Is Mitch McConnell next on the chopping block?
Protect Social Security Disability Insurance Without Cutting Benefits
For millions of Americans, these earned benefit programs are crucial lifelines that ensure a basic sense of economic security.
Congress Is a Confederacy of Dunces
For this particular Congress to cooperate and do something new would require a miracle on the order of loaves and fishes.
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Will Monsanto Launch another “Sneak Attack” in Congress?
Something is going to happen. If you're not at the table, you’re on the menu.
Railroads Face Big Fines for Failure to Meet Federal Safety Deadline
Congress mandated Positive Train Control in 2008, but most of the nation's railroads won't have the system ready by Dec. 31.
Senator to Red Cross: Where’s the Transparency on Haiti?
The American Red Cross met a deadline this week to answer congressional questions about money spent in Haiti.
Road Hazard: How the “Embarrassing” Gas Tax Impasse Explains Washington
If even red states can raise the gas tax, why can't Congress?