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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...
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,...
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...
Looking for the Full Measure of Jack Murtha
This article was first posted at AmericanProgress.org.
Twenty years ago I was the staff director of the Democratic Study Group, an organization that among other...
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...
Go Home: Incoming Leader of the 112th Congress Issues Odd Marching Order
The incoming leadership and committee chairmen of the U.S. House of Representatives have been boasting about their ambitious, time-consuming plans to conduct intensive oversight...
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...
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...
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...
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...
‘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...
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...
