Tag: Congress
Democracy desperately needs a reboot
Democracy faces a global crisis. And this crisis couldn’t be coming at a worse time.
Bernie urges McConnell to bring $15 minimum wage bill to Senate...
“Workers in America have seen 40 years of wage stagnation.”
‘Hocus-Pocus process:’ Pelosi drug pricing bill criticized for going too easy...
"There is also nothing as yet to prevent HHS from simply negotiating bad deals that do not meaningfully lower drug prices."
First, climate change, now the global extinction crisis: Industry-paid hacks deny...
Oil industry-funded attacks on climate science, and even Robert Watson, are nothing new.
350.org on Senator Schumer’s support for the Climate and Community Protection...
"Now, the legislature must pass the strongest possible climate justice bill, and Governor Cuomo must sign it into law. The world is watching.”
Congresswoman Barbara Lee passes defense amendment that would repeal 2001 endless...
Rep. Lee has offered this amendment several times over the years and has long championed the need to repeal the outdated and overly broad authorization and force a debate and a vote on current wars.
Robert Reich: The House now has a Constitutional duty to impeach...
This may not be the practical political thing to do. But it is the right thing to do.
A Constitutional crisis of immense proportions has descended upon our nation’s...
There is no question, but that this modern day dictator wants to take full control of this government and control the direction of this country with no one to challenge him. We cannot allow that to happen.
House Democrats allocate $50 million to study gun violence
While funding for this type of study hasn't been allocated in more than two decades, gun violence prevention organizations and doctors' groups have sought this money to address gun violence.
Trump vetoes War Powers resolution that would end U.S. support for...
After both chambers of Congress voted in favor of the War Powers resolution, which would end United States' support of the Saudi-led...
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What else but seething, punitive MAGA grievance explains its undying loyalty – absent real-world...
Whatever MAGA lives lack, brutalizing the even less powerful won’t resolve their miseries.
Seven children killed in Israeli strike on Gaza water site amid growing evidence of...
As Israel admits to a “technical error” in a drone strike that killed children waiting for water, new reports detail a systemic campaign of targeting Gaza’s basic survival infrastructure under U.S. and Western-backed military operations.
Nuclear reactors stoke the climate they claim to cool
Heatwaves force European reactors offline while solar keeps the lights on.
‘Unforgivable’: FEMA failure during Texas floods tied to Noem’s contract purge and Trump-era sabotage
More than 80% of survivor calls went unanswered after DHS Secretary Kristi Noem abruptly cut FEMA’s contractor workforce—days after deadly flooding devastated Texas.
Everything old is new again
The Trump administration revives institutionalized torture.