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New Report Shows Broken Promises from Past Trade Deals Compound Difficult Road Ahead for TPP
As TPP Negotiators Fail to Meet Accord Deadline, New CWA Report Highlights Litany of Past Failed Promises Made on FTAs.
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Is Anyone Happy With the New Congressional Budget Deal?
With so much dissension among the GOP, you would think that would mean that progressives would find the budget something they could get on board with, but not everyone …
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Conservatives and Progressives Agree: Congress Should Not Cut Unemployment Benefits
Extremists who think government support for the unemployed is holding the economy back don't have the facts on their side.
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Bipartisan Budget Deal Secures Austerity Policies, Fails to Extend Unemployment Benefits
Ryan-Murray bipartisan budget deal would not extend unemployment insurance for 1.3 million Americans, while maintaining $100 billion a year sequestration cuts after 2015.
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Social Justice Groups Demand Congress Slash Military Budget, Spend Money on People, Peace, Planet
A social justice coalition called on the Congressional Budgetary Committee to pass a budget resolution that re-directs military spending to domestic needs.
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Congress Blew It – Again: The National Budget Should Reflect National Priorities
American democracy is designed to have representatives in Congress who take seriously their role as stewards of the people's business. A federal budget reflects Americans' priorities for how tax …
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Hell on Wings – Cellphones Don’t Belong on Planes
The FCC is expected to decide whether to allow cellphone use on planes. Is that a good thing?
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“Do What Thou Wilt,” or Who Imagined Ted Cruz Into Existence?
The closer your political platform gets to allowing everyone to do as they want, the better your chances are to get elected.
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House Sequester Bill Curbs Tax Havens
Congressman Lloyd Doggett and Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro today introduced the Sequester Delay and Stop Tax Haven Abuse Act, a bill that would end sequestration and curb corporate use of …
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On the News With Thom Hartmann: ALEC’s 2014 Legislative Agenda, and More
The American Legislative Exchange Council has one heck of an agenda for 2014, and it all centers around one idea - profit over people, and more.