When it comes to publicly disclosing fund-raising records, the U.S. Senate continues to live up to its reputation as the cautious, deliberative chamber of the...
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House Republicans took the government to the brink of shutdown last spring by demanding across-the-board budget cuts to many vital programs. Instead of focusing on...
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**Shell More Than Doubles Profits To $7 Billion** | Royal Dutch Shell announced their 2011 third-quarter earnings, reporting profits of $6.98 billion, more than...
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Playin' the game...
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Remember how the Republicans were furious at Bush for the excessive regulations? Me neither. --- Republican lawmakers have been raking President Obama over the...
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(Wow! - 70% think Republicans favor the rich.) A new report from the Congressional Budget Office released Tuesday added to the evidence that the income gap between...
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Sometimes there isn’t a mountaintop high enough to shout out the obvious: SUPPLY-SIDE ECONOMICS HAS BEEN AN UNMITIGATED DISASTER! Period, end of discussion....
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This month, Senate Republicans (joined by a few conservative Democrats) successfully filibustered both President Obama’s American Jobs Act and $35 billion to...
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Grayson says 24 million people in this country "can't find a full-time job," 50 million "can't see a doctor when they're sick," 47...
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Former Rep. Harold Ford (D-TN) joined Bank of America (via its Merrill Lynch subsidiary) after losing his Senate race. A recent Bank of America conference listed Ford...
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Some of us have Freer Speech than others. Any surprises?
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In every country there is an element of the population that has callous disregard for other people, and they are usually found spending the rest of their lives in...
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The House Republican majority, since it came into power, has repeatedly set its sights on Pell Grants, the federal grants that help low- and middle-income students...
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Lobbying disclosure forms for the third quarter of 2011 are due tonight, and corporate America’s tort reform lobby has so far topped the list of the most...
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$2,270. To some people, this number might represent a monthly paycheck. But to six House Members this is just the increase in daily fundraising dollars they received...
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Fox News' Eric Bolling and Greta Van Susteren criticized Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid over his statement that "it's very clear that private-sector...
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At the dedication of the national Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. memorial last Sunday, the Rev. Bernice King said her father Dr. King would support the 99 Percent...
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Senator Whitehouse’s Must-See Climate Speech: “We Ignore the Laws of Nature of God’s Earth at Our...“We are earning the scorn and condemnation of history…. It is magical thinking to imagine that somehow we will be spared the plain and foreseeable...
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With a decision expected by the end of the year from the Obama administration on the proposed Keystone XL pipeline, members of Congress have sent two letters to...
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