Tag: Senate Democrats
Senate Democrats call on Biden to pardon all federal nonviolent marijuana...
“Our country’s cannabis policies must be completely overhauled, but you have the power to act now.”
Senate Democrats propose minimum corporate tax
“While these companies report billions in profits, they often pay no income tax to the IRS and leave hardworking families holding the bag.”
The week of two high-stakes games of chicken
Neither of these games of chicken would be as fraught if Democrats were united.
Senate Democrats fighting to tax billionaires and pass bill to invest...
“The unconscionable growth in billionaire wealth through the misery of the pandemic is the clearest case I can imagine for the progressive tax reform working its way through Congress.”
‘Stop nickel and diming the American people’: Anger grows as Senate...
“While you’re quibbling over who you want to exclude, people are suffering. SEND THE CHECKS.”
$740 Billion Pentagon Bill receives all but six Democrat votes in...
“The United States government should be responding to the needs, to the desperation, of families in our country at this time.”
“A Barrett confirmation is a catastrophe”: What Democrats can do to...
“A 6-3 majority on the court is basically a bomb coming at what is left of our protections against corruption in politics, against corporate money, against what is left of the Voting Rights Act.”
Senate Dems share new climate report disappointing green groups and climate...
“The report fails to address the vital need to end the extraction, processing, and burning of fossil fuels, and instead sees a future for fossil fuels tied to the false promise of carbon capture.”
These 13 Democrats joined with the GOP to defeat Bernie Sanders’...
There is something seriously iffy about the Democrats that voted “nay.”
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Missouri set to execute Marcellus Williams despite DNA evidence proving innocence—again
Unless we reform this corrupt system, racist politicians will be rewarded with higher political offices–for–”frying a black man.”
Clarence Thomas secretly participated in Koch network donor events
Thomas, who attended at least two Koch donor summits, put himself in the extraordinary position of having helped a political network that has brought multiple cases before the Supreme Court.
Italian oil giant Eni knew about climate change more than 50 years ago, report...
"They’ve been playing us all for fools."
Artificial intelligence: profit versus freedom
As with previous technological breakthroughs, AI places on society’s agenda both new issues and old contentious ones.
Sunrise Movement launches Green New Deal for Schools campaigns in high schools across US
The campaigns are asking that school districts face the climate crisis, listen to students' needs and deliver on the campaign's promises to address climate change.