Tag: Congress
Free school meals for all children can improve kids’ health
A bill proposed in Congress aims to make free school meals a permanent fixture in all states.
Trust Congress? Consider what Smedley Butler said
Congress can be bought today as it was bought then.
‘This is huge’: Schumer commits to creating Civilian Climate Corps
"We must go big and bold with a Civilian Climate Corps."
In 18 months, Republicans are very likely to control Congress. Being...
To prevent such disastrous results, Democrats would need to replicate what happened the last time the president’s party didn’t lose House or Senate seats in a midterm election.
Wall Street’s $3 billion political investment is a bargain
The For the People Act would loosen the financial industry’s grip over our political system.
Why corporate Democrats are desperately trying to keep Nina Turner out...
“The political establishment and their super PACs are lining up behind Nina’s opponent during the critical final weeks of this primary. And you can bet they will do and spend whatever it takes to try and defeat her.”
Schumer backs Sanders’ proposal to include dental, hearing, and vision care...
“With the current Medicare platform, those three things are just left out, like it’s no big deal,” said the Democratic leader. “But it is a big deal and we should fix it.”
Wall Street’s $3 billion political investment is a bargain
The For the People Act would loosen the financial industry’s grip over our political system.
Democrats are running out of time
Democrats have to get rid of the Senate filibuster and stop worrying about bipartisanship.
Tell Congress to pass a bold plan within the infrastructure bill...
It's time Congress makes firm commitments and landmark policies to have pollution-free transportation nationwide.
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DNC approach to Israel is political malpractice and moral failure
On no issue is that more apparent than the DNC’s insistence on treating Israel as above serious reproach.
The US bombs kids so Palmer Luckey can have nice things
Because for every bomb the U.S. and Israel drop, a bunch of men in cushy offices profit off all the death.
‘You can’t live without us’: How Big Oil pivoted from climate-friendly messaging to normalize...
More than 1,500 independent advertising agencies and 4,000 individual creatives have signed Clean Creatives’ pledge to refuse future fossil fuel contracts.
Oil regulators found hundreds of wells violating Oklahoma rules. Then they ignored their findings.
Oklahoma took on an ambitious project to catalog all of the state’s injection wells, which shoot toxic waste generated by oil drilling back into the ground. Despite records showing risk of drinking water pollution, the state chose not to act.
Thanks, MAGA, for exposing six corrosive myths that plague America—if we survive!
So kudos to today’s rightwing bellicosity for making clear the U.S. unilaterally wields deadly, rapacious power, whether sensible or stupid or gratuitous.