Featured Bloggers - July 2006
It's a pleasure to be here at the Center for American Progress Action Fund.
The work you do turning progressive ideas into policy reality is second to none. After years of falling behind the Right-Wing noise machine, we desperately needed an organization like yours.
Over the decades, the Right had succeeded in hijacking the values debate and laying claim to the moral high ground. Thanks to you, they can no longer make that claim. Read More »
The work you do turning progressive ideas into policy reality is second to none. After years of falling behind the Right-Wing noise machine, we desperately needed an organization like yours.
Over the decades, the Right had succeeded in hijacking the values debate and laying claim to the moral high ground. Thanks to you, they can no longer make that claim. Read More »
In my home state of Nevada, in Reno, families are paying $3.12 for the gas they need to drive to work - more than double the price they were paying in 2001. That means they have hundreds of dollars less each month to spend on food, medicine, and their other needs.
In Boulder City, there's a man in a wheelchair I know from church, whose hope has been crushed because President Bush catered to the radical right and vetoed stem cell research last week. Read More »
In Boulder City, there's a man in a wheelchair I know from church, whose hope has been crushed because President Bush catered to the radical right and vetoed stem cell research last week. Read More »
For months, Republicans held the retirement security of millions of workers hostage to their desire to provide hundreds of billions in estate tax giveaways to the privileged few. Now that the effort was rejected, Republicans are holding hostage needed tax relief for working Americans, businesses, and students in an effort to pass fiscally irresponsible estate tax breaks. We need a Congress that works for all Americans, not one that puts special interests first. The Senate rejected fiscally irresponsible estate tax giveaways twice this year and will reject them again. It is time to move in a new direction that puts average Americans before special interests
One-month ago--on June 22nd--the Senate held a debate about the raging war in Iraq.
In that debate, Democrats--led by Senators Carl Levin and Jack Reed--gave voice to the concerns of the American people and advocated that the Bush administration change course in Iraq.
We argued that the administration follow the law and make 2006 the year of transition, with Iraqis taking charge of their own security and government, so that American forces can be redeployed by year's end. Read More »
In that debate, Democrats--led by Senators Carl Levin and Jack Reed--gave voice to the concerns of the American people and advocated that the Bush administration change course in Iraq.
We argued that the administration follow the law and make 2006 the year of transition, with Iraqis taking charge of their own security and government, so that American forces can be redeployed by year's end. Read More »
Mr. President, on March 15, 1965, President Lyndon Johnson came to the Capitol to address a joint session of the United States Congress. He spoke to a House, Senate and a nation that had been rocked by recent violence in Selma, Alabama.
President Johnson's purpose that night was to spur Congress to finally move forward on the Voting Rights Act, the legislation whose reauthorization we will consider today.
That Congress in 1965 -like this Congress in 2006 - was slow to pass voting rights legislation, so President Johnson came to the Hill to remind everyone what was at stake. Read More »
President Johnson's purpose that night was to spur Congress to finally move forward on the Voting Rights Act, the legislation whose reauthorization we will consider today.
That Congress in 1965 -like this Congress in 2006 - was slow to pass voting rights legislation, so President Johnson came to the Hill to remind everyone what was at stake. Read More »
REID: THE SENATE WILL REJECT ESTATE TAX GIVEAWAYS IN THE PENSIONS BILL
For over four months, American workers, retirees and businesses have been waiting patiently for the Republican Congress to deliver a pensions bill that will provide retirement security to millions of Americans. Now, instead of delivering those workers a clean bill, Republicans are desperately trying to satisfy a privileged few by providing them hundreds of billions in additional estate tax breaks. Fiscally irresponsible estate tax giveaways have been rejected by the Senate before and will be rejected again. We need a Congress that works for all Americans, not one that abuses the system to satisfy the special interests. I hope my Republican colleagues will move in a new direction by dropping the estate tax giveaway so we can quickly pass the pensions conference report. It is time to put American workers before special interests.
For over four months, American workers, retirees and businesses have been waiting patiently for the Republican Congress to deliver a pensions bill that will provide retirement security to millions of Americans. Now, instead of delivering those workers a clean bill, Republicans are desperately trying to satisfy a privileged few by providing them hundreds of billions in additional estate tax breaks. Fiscally irresponsible estate tax giveaways have been rejected by the Senate before and will be rejected again. We need a Congress that works for all Americans, not one that abuses the system to satisfy the special interests. I hope my Republican colleagues will move in a new direction by dropping the estate tax giveaway so we can quickly pass the pensions conference report. It is time to put American workers before special interests.
The President who wouldn't veto budgets that cut from the neediest among us to pay for tax cuts for the rich, the President who wouldn't veto billion dollar handouts for Enron and Exxon, vetoed the next generation of medical breakthroughs and the hopes and dreams of men and women like Nancy Reagan and Michael J Fox. Democrats will not give up the fight for stem cell research. It is a fight America must win. We're going to press Republicans to override this veto--just as we pressed to get it to the Senate floor and just as we pressed to get this bill passed.
This should have been a day of hope for millions of Americans. Democrats listened to the American people, and through our persistence overcame Republican delays to pass critical stem cell legislation. Unfortunately, in less than 24 hours, President Bush defied the will of the American people and crushed the hopes of millions who suffer from serious and debilitating diseases like cancer, Diabetes, Alzheimer's, Lou Gehrig's and Parkinson's. The need for a new direction in America has never been clearer.
This should have been a day of hope for millions of Americans. Democrats listened to the American people, and through our persistence overcame Republican delays to pass critical stem cell legislation. Unfortunately, in less than 24 hours, President Bush defied the will of the American people and crushed the hopes of millions who suffer from serious and debilitating diseases like cancer, Diabetes, Alzheimer's, Lou Gehrig's and Parkinson's. The need for a new direction in America has never been clearer.
This afternoon, the Senate will vote on a measure - The Stem Cell Research Enhancement Act (H.R. 810) - that offers hope.
Hope to 17-year-old Molly Miller in Las Vegas, who has suffered from juvenile diabetes for much of her youth.
Hope to my friend in Boulder City from church. I've talked about him before. He has Parkinson's and is in a wheelchair, but stem cell offers hope that some day he could be cured. Read More »
Hope to 17-year-old Molly Miller in Las Vegas, who has suffered from juvenile diabetes for much of her youth.
Hope to my friend in Boulder City from church. I've talked about him before. He has Parkinson's and is in a wheelchair, but stem cell offers hope that some day he could be cured. Read More »
The lead story in Roll Call today has the headline "Senate Plans Earlier Recess." The article reports that the Majority Leader and the Majority Whip have:
"scrapped plans to keep the Senate in session through the beginning of October, and will instead look to wrap up work on as many appropriations bills and other must pass measures before September 27."
The new adjournment date means the Senate has only 8 more weeks in which it will be session.
Eight weeks is 40 business days. Read More »
"scrapped plans to keep the Senate in session through the beginning of October, and will instead look to wrap up work on as many appropriations bills and other must pass measures before September 27."
The new adjournment date means the Senate has only 8 more weeks in which it will be session.
Eight weeks is 40 business days. Read More »
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