Wall Street Journal - 4 Dec 2009 Voters are increasingly worried about unemployment, but Democratic leaders in Congress remain obsessed with passing health- care reform. |
Reuters - 29 Nov 2009 WASHINGTON, Nov 29 (Reuters) - President Barack Obama faces pressure from fellow Democrats, opposition Republicans and the international ... |
Kansas City Star - 27 Nov 2009 Celebrity gossip Web site TMZ.com is reporting that California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger owes nearly $80000 to the IRS. According to documents filed in LA ... |
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The Washington Independent - 20 Nov 2009 Geithner, of course, didn't budge, arguing that it was Congress that left the new administration "an economy falling off the cliff." "Almost nothing of what ... |
RTT News - 20 November 2009 (RTTNews) - Senator Judd Gregg, RN.H., released a statement Friday in which he called an amendment by Representative Ron Paul, R-Texas, to institute new Congressional oversight powers of the Federal Reserve "political pandering. |
Fresno Bee -12 Nov 2009 SACRAMENTO -- California for the first time will require water users to disclose ground-water levels as a result of ... |
Environment News Service - 10Nov09 He said the federal government is committed to being a full partner "with the state and stakeholders" in laying a foundation for California's water future, ... |
CBS News - 6Nov09 Even in tough times, it's good to be a lawmaker: According to a report released this week by the Center for Responsive Politics, there are 237 millionaires ... |
Since when has anyone fully held the government accountable for every dollar or taxpayers money spent? In fact, the rule is: The bigger the government tab, the greater the likelihood of waste, fraud, and misspent funding. | @ltaLINK
The Tennessean - 16 hours ago If government can't control fraud in Medicare, should Congress even be discussing a public insurance option? The scammers buy a list of names and Social ... |
A constitutional convention for California? Boy, just when we thought the California legislature was dysfunctional, what might this convention be like?
The Associated Press - Oct 28, 2009 California's government is so broken it can be fixed only by rewriting the state constitution, a coalition of business and civic groups said Wednesday as it ... |
Round and round it goes and where it will stop, nobody knows, including the leaders in Congress. What is it that is said? Two things you don't want to see made: One is sausage. The other is laws.
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Los Angeles Times - 22October09 ... government can create: action that cuts red tape, generates jobs, is environmentally friendly and brings a continued economic boost to California," ... |
Wall Street Journal - 40 minutes ago WASHINGTON (Dow Jones)--Independent actuaries at the Department of Health and Human Services found that a House health-care bill would raise federal health costs by 2.1% over 10 years, largely because of its proposed ... |
Bloomberg - 19October09 At the head of the table, Chief Executive Officer Raj Rajaratnam fires off questions to the staff of his $3.7 billion hedge-fund firm: Which companies' ... |
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- The ACLU's mission is to fight civil liberties violations whenever and whereever they occur.
- To infuse progressive values throughout public policy in America by connecting progressive organizations, their members and other citizens with each other and to ballot initiatives, campaigns and legislative action.
- a nonprofit, nonpartisan citizen's lobbying organization promoting open, honest and accountable government
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- an approach to the study of power that highlights the unequal distribution of resources upon which power is based (e.g., wealth, political office, control of the mass media) and the importance of formal and informal social networks as the means by which power is concentrated and institutionalized
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- Protecting Health, Safety & Democracy since 1971
- Founded by Ralph Nader
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- working to address the widening income and asset gap in our country
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