2009 Was Not the Senate's Finest Year
It was in the Senate this year where the goal of meaningful health care reform gave way to a bill that feels as if it was written by the insurance company lobbyists.
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Obama's Choice for 2010
After 2010, the Obama presidency, if history is any guide, will change substantially. It will become reactive, initiate few, if any, major pieces of legislation, and focus more on foreign policy.
The Take Away: Political Lessons from the Health Care Debate
If the health care debate has taught us anything, it's that unless progressives change how we do politics, we will never get what we want from Washington.
Steps in Reconciling House and Senate Bills
Assuming that the Senate approves the health care reform bill on Christmas Eve morning, what happens next?
Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act of 2009: Bad for California
On Thursday December 10, 2009, in the dark of night in Washington D.C., the U.S. House of Representatives was overcome with amnesia. They acted as though the financial crisis never happened.
Report From Copenhagen
It is almost certain that the final binding deal will not be reached in Copenhagen, but we have every reason to believe that we are moving in the right direction.
Flapping In The Policy Breeze
The question for those who actually want health care reform is no longer about politics. It's how well equipped the public is to support reform based on its merits, rather than its politics.
Ben Nelson is My New Hero: At Least He Has the Courage of His Convictions
The Senate's discussion of its health care bill has devolved from farce to a tragedy, in which female and male senators alike are trading the lives of women for the sake of re-election.
Report From Copenhagen
We told a delegation from India that no agreement can occur without transparency in reporting progress by the developing world. Without the ability to verify, what good is an agreement?
With A Third of Workers at Risk of Job Losses, Progressives Launch New Drive For More Aid (VIDEO)
It doesn't seem that many members of Congress fully understand yet the havoc that's been let loose in the land because of widespread unemployment. Meanwhile, posturing over ideology continues.
Joe Lieberman's Health Care Bill Is Worse Than Doing Nothing - Kill It
The fundamental failing of the newest Senate proposal is that it requires individuals to purchase health insurance, but does nothing to rein in what insurance companies charge.
House Subcommittee Hearing Reviews U.S. Sudan Policy
Testifying before the House Subcommittee on Africa and Global Health today at a hearing to review the administration's new Sudan policy, I expressed t...
In The Public Interest: Preventing the Unthinkable
A third of Americans live in the shadow of potential catastrophic poison gas releases from one of 300 chemical facilities, vulnerable to accidents or worse. Fortunately safer policies and technologies are on the way.
Of Death Panels and Tax Policy
The estate tax, which applies to transfers of assets to a person's heirs, is in reality little more than a conservative talking point. It is the "death panel" of tax policy and conservatives refer to it as such.
Teflon Dick: How Cheney Uses Media For Protection
Dick Cheney has committed unconstrained, and as yet unprosecuted offenses, that include circumventing the Constitution and lying the nation into war.
The Conflict Minerals Trade Act
The introduction of the Conflict Minerals Trade Act means Congo activists have bipartisan legislation percolating in the Capitol, which could cut armed groups and rights abusers out of the supply chain for our cell phones and laptops.
Speaking Truth To Power: Where Are The Brave Leaders?
Moral courage often costs us the approval of those we think we need. Ego cannot fake or replace it; it comes from a deeper place. I dare say moral courage comes from love.
Building a Bigger House
Will a recent lawsuit result in Congress's most dramatic upheaval in almost a hundred years? Probably not, but that's the quixotic hope of the partie...
GOP Women Shamelessly Accuse Dems of Being Anti-Woman
Despite all evidence to the contrary, the congresswomen want us to believe that Republicans are sticking up for women. But the fact is their party has consistently opposed providing families with better health care.
Our Veterans Deserve Our Thanks and Our Service
The way we care for our veterans is a reflection of our society. We cannot neglect them in their own time of need, as we did following the Vietnam War.
Delusional Self-Defense, Delusional Congressional Vote
Rather than condemn Israel's act of aggression, Congress added its name to a pungent piece of manipulative delusion: that Israel's onslaught of Gaza constituted an act of self-defense.
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