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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GOP tucks $10 billion for voting restrictions into party-line Pentagon funding bill
The measure advanced on a near party-line vote just before lawmakers left Washington for a lengthy summer recess.
Kept in the dark: How Louisiana weakened community air monitoring as industry pushed back
That stretch of roughly 85 miles, widely known as "Cancer Alley," is home to dozens of refineries and chemical plants and to many predominantly Black communities.
Israel and the United States are merging their military. Here’s why.
"From aid to partnership," the U.S. and Israel are set to become even more united in genocide.
How technology is rewriting the way we write
As keyboards and touchscreens replace pens and pencils, the decline of handwriting raises questions about cognition, culture, and creativity.
Atomic Bill and the Payment Due
The play is “a true story about media manipulation at the dawn of the Atomic Age and the New York Times reporter who sold his soul to get the story.”