Darcy Burner
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Darcy Burner is the President of ProgressiveCongress.org and the Progressive Congress Action Fund. As such, she is responsible for strategy and management of the organizations, which serve to connect the progressive movement, ideas, and Congress.

She ran for Congress in Washington State in 2006 and in 2008, and was the principle author and organizer of the Responsible Plan to End the War in Iraq, endorsed by more than sixty candidates for the U.S. House and U.S. Senate.

She has been a guest featured on MSNBC's Hardball with Chris Matthews, the Ed Show, C-SPAN, ABC, NPR, Pacifica Radio, and a host of local programs, and featured in Roll Call, Politico, The Hill, The Washington Post, The New York Times, Huffington Post, DailyKos.com, The Nation, Mother Jones, and as a keynote speaker at Netroots Nation alongside Bill Clinton and Howard Dean. She is a regular front page contributor to OpenLeft.com discussing matters pertaining to Congress, and writes occasionally for DailyKos, Crooks & Liars, and Huffington Post as well.

She’s a member of the board of Council for a Livable World’s PeacePAC, the SNAP PAC Advisory Board, the Progressive Ideas Network Advisory Board, the Center for International Policy board, and the Netroots Arts and Education Initiative (the 501c(3) portion of Netroots Nation). She is a former board member of NARAL Pro-Choice America. In her spare time, she runs the Congressional Progressive Caucus PAC.

Blog Entries by Darcy Burner

The Progressive Case for Steny Hoyer as Minority Whip

Posted November 6, 2010 | 20:18:41 (EST)

Let us suppose that you're not satisfied with the progress that was made on progressive priorities over the last two years, and you want another bite at the governance apple - preferably sooner, rather than later. Suppose, in fact, you would like to retake the House in 2012: hold the...

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For Mother's Day: End the Wars

Posted May 6, 2010 | 20:27:41 (EST)

For Mother's Day I'd like to make an observation, which is this: the sun rises and sets on my 7-year-old son, Henry. Now you may or may not agree (though most who have met him can see my point); you may think I'm biased (though such bias is...

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How We Can Get the Health Care Bill Across the Line

Posted January 25, 2010 | 10:11:30 (EST)

Ironically, it appears the most likely way to get health care reform is to pass GOOD health care reform.

The Democrats in Washington DC are likely to spend most of this week consumed by the question of how they can pass health care reform now. Fortunately, there's a fairly clear...

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Joe Lieberman's Health Care Bill Is Worse Than Doing Nothing - Kill It

Posted December 15, 2009 | 00:22:45 (EST)

The first rule of medicine is, "Do no harm." The post-Joe Lieberman version of the Senate health care bill fails that basic criterion. Unless Democratic leadership steps up to fix this misguided proposal, our only recourse will be to kill it.

The fundamental failing of the newest Senate proposal is...

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With No Public Option, Lowering the Medicare Age to 55 Will Make Our Problems Worse

Posted December 8, 2009 | 15:02:11 (EST)

There is talk in the Senate of lowering the enrollment age for Medicare. This would be a great idea... if the enrollment age were lowered to zero. But to lower the enrollment age to 55 -- especially at the expense of the public option -- would likely hurt our medical...

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