Tag: Senate Democrats
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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EPA finalizes repeal of power plant carbon standards as environmental groups sue
The sector accounts for nearly one-quarter of U.S. greenhouse gas emissions, and the agency separately proposed ending its authority to regulate them.
Democratic attorneys general say Education Department is hiding 1,300 documents on its layoffs
A privilege log lists nearly 1,300 records the agency says are too sensitive to hand over.
7,000 Chicago hotel workers vote to authorize strike
A union survey found a third of members cannot cover rent or mortgage payments, and the last hotel strike in the city, in 2018, lasted about a month.
Vance-led task force moves to strip 760,000 people of ACA coverage
Advocates say the crackdown follows 8 million coverage losses already tied to Trump-era health cuts.
Federal judge blocks deportation of man shot by ICE during Austin delivery run
DHS and the man's attorney give conflicting accounts of the medical care he has received since.