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Whiplash: Conservatives Play Politics with Stimulus Spending
C-SPAN viewers were at serious risk of whiplash last Wednesday night as they tried to follow the floor debate in the House of Representatives...
Frozen Budgets Can Be Dangerous to Your Health
This article first appeared at AmericanProgress.org.
The federal budget is big and perplexing. Sometimes it seems like nothing more than a sea of random numbers....
‘Non-security’ Spending Cuts Could Be Hazardous to Your Health
One great irony in the current debate over cutting federal spending is the label House Republicans have placed on the tiny sliver of federal...
Behind The Scenes: How Congressional Conservatives Induced Financial Crisis
When Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson called congressional leaders early last week to ask for $700 billion in public funds to buy distressed loans and...
From the Archive: Getting Rich on Uncle Sucker
Should the Federal Government Strengthen Efforts to Fight Profiteering?
A few months ago I came across an annual report filed with the Securities and Exchange...
Taking Responsibility: Republicans Continue Recovery Obstruction
Since the Republican Conference of the U.S. House of Representatives is largely made up of individuals who believe their party lost the 2008 elections...
Procedurally Correct: The House Can Decide How to Enact Health Reform
This article was first posted at AmericanProgress.org.
People who are opposed to health care reform are raising a real ruckus over a possible parliamentary maneuver...
Selective Keynesians
Amity Shale’s column “FDR Was a Great Leader, But…,” in Sunday’s Washington Post, is only the latest of many recent conservative pieces arguing that...
Supply Side Madness
If it weren’t so painful it would be downright hilarious. There is a seemingly endless procession of former free market proselytizers, including captains of...
Education Reforms Will Miss the ‘Top’ Without Broader Consensus
This article was first posted at AmericanProgress.org.
I am sure that Jonathan Alter’s recent column in Newsweek, “How Congress Keeps Screwing Up Education — President...
You May Need a Scorecard for Health Care Reform
If you want to understand the extraordinary events taking place in the fight over health care reform, you should take Deep Throat’s advice to...
Arts Bashing
As Senator Richard Durbin (D-IL) pointed out on the Senate floor yesterday, nearly all of the objections to the pending stimulus package are directed...
Just Plain Nuts: House Republican Budget Proposals Put Forth in the Most Haphazard Manner...
This article was originally posted at AmericanProgress.org.
Less than a week after the House Appropriations Committee sorted out its final staff assignments, their new chairman,...
