In the weeks ahead, Congress will take up one of the most pressing and glaring problems facing our nation -- our broken and dysfunctional health care system. As most of you already know, while American taxpayers spend more per capita on health care than anyone in the world, we have...

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Tomorrow, when the House takes up the Fiscal Year 2010 Budget, the Congressional Progressive Caucus (CPC) will present an alternative budget for the third year in a row. We do so each year in order to not only highlight opportunities to eliminate wasteful government spending and rebalance our tax...

Sift through their self-righteous attacks on the Senate floor and the bluster of their talking heads on Fox News, and there's an important aspect of the debate over the recovery package that the Republicans in Congress seem to forget -- they're the ones that got us into this mess. After...