Peter Defazio

Activists Visit Geithner's Home to Ask "Which Side Are You On?"

Peter Dreier | Posted 05.21.2012

Read More: JP Morgan Chase, Peter Scher, Bank of America, Pete Stark, Wall Street, Financial Speculation Tax, Tom Harkin, Peter DeFazio, National People's Action, National Domestic Workers Alliance, Jamie Dimon, Timothy Geithner, Occupy Wall Street, Video, Politics News
Peter Dreier

The protesters consider Geithner the key architect of Obama's economic recovery plan and the loudest voice within the president's inner circle for taking a "hands off" approach to tougher government rules to tame Wall Street's risky practices.

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DeFazio Defeats 24-Year-Old Challenger

The Huffington Post | Lucia Graves | Posted 05.16.2012

Read More: Matt Robinson, Politics News, Video, Democratic Primaries, Peter DeFazio, Oregon 2012, Oregon Primaries, Elections 2012, Pete Defazio, Art Robinson, Congressional Primaries, Natural Resources and Transportation and Infrastructure Committees, Election 2012, 2012 Primaries, Oregon, Politics News

Rep. Peter DeFazio (D-Ore.) on Tuesday coasted to an easy win, predictably crushing his 24-year-old opponent Matthew Robinson, the son of DeFazio's on...

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Lucia Graves

Top Democrat Faces Father, Son Election Challengers

HuffingtonPost.com | Lucia Graves | Posted 05.16.2012

Read More: Matt Robinson, Video, 2012 Elections, Election 2012 Blog, Oregon Races, Democratic Primaries, Peter DeFazio, Oregon Primaries, Elections 2012, Pete Defazio, Art Robinson, Natural Resources and Transportation and Infrastructure Committees, Congressional Primaries, 2012 Primaries, Politics News

Rep. Peter DeFazio, a top Democrat on powerful transportation and natural resources congressional subcommittees, faces challenges from two members of ...

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Dan Froomkin

Will Obama Embrace 'Robin Hood Tax'?

HuffingtonPost.com | Dan Froomkin | Posted 12.16.2011

Read More: Robin Hood Tax, Harkin Defazio, Financial Transaction Tax, Transaction Tax, Financial Transactions Tax, Financial Speculation Tax, Tom Harkin, Peter DeFazio, Defazio Harkin, Obama 2012, Video, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- Advocates of a tiny but lucrative tax on financial transactions are increasingly hopeful that President Barack Obama's need to more firm...

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Iran Threat Reduction Act Actually Enhances Threat of War

Stephen Zunes | Posted 01.14.2012

Read More: Ed Markey, Ben Ray Lujan, Yvette Clark, Sam Farr, John Lewis, Barney Frank, Lucille Roybal-Allard, Obama Administration, Diplomacy, Karen Bass, Janice Hahn, Laura Richardson, Chaka Fattah, Jared Polis, Jerrold Nadler, Emmanuel Cleaver, Iran, Frederica Wilso, Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, Hank Johnson, Jr., Rosa DeLauro, David Cicilline, Elijah Cummings, Steve Cohen, Charles Rangel, Corrine Brown, Iran Sanctions, Michael Honda, Jesse Jackson, Bob Filner, Carolyn Maloney, Frank Pallone, William Clay, Jan Schakowsky, Peter Welch, Linda Sanchez, Marcy Kaptur, Peter DeFazio, Robert Brady, Mazie Hirono, David Loebsack, Louise Slaughter, World News
Stephen Zunes

Never in the history of this country has Congress ever restricted the right of the White House or State Department to meet with representatives of a foreign state, even in wartime. If this measure passes, it will establish a dangerous precedent.

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Crash Tax: Wall Street Reparations

Leo W. Gerard | Posted 01.14.2012

Read More: 1 Percent, James Tobin, Social Security, European Commission, George Soros, Financial Transactions Tax, Tom Harkin, Main Street, Bill Gates, Occupy Wall Street, Medicaid, Robin Hood Tax, Paul Volcker, Banksters, Rowan Williams, Nicolas Sarkozy, 99 Percent, Bank of America, Freddie Mac, Joseph Stiglitz, Wall Street, Peter DeFazio, Angela Merkel, Paul Krugman, Medicare, Fanny Mae, Crash Tax, Tobin Tax, Peter G. Peterson, Business News
Leo W. Gerard

It's time for Wall Street to pay reparations for the financial collapse it caused. It's time for a crash tax, a tiny sales tax on Wall Street transactions, the revenues from which would pay for Main Street restoration.

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It's Simple: You're Either For the Bank Tax or You're For the Banks

Richard (RJ) Eskow | Posted 01.08.2012

Read More: Financial Transactions Tax, David Plouffe, Tom Harkin, Peter DeFazio, Politics News
Richard (RJ) Eskow

Occupy Wall Street caught on quickly and dramatically, and has already achieved the seemingly impossible by changing the public dialog from what Washington wants to discuss -- deficits -- to what the rest of the country wants to talk about.

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Michael McAuliff

Occupy Wall Street's Message Gains Momentum In Congress

HuffingtonPost.com | Michael McAuliff | Posted 01.02.2012

Read More: Harry Reid Occupy Wall Street, Video, Ows, Peter DeFazio, Tom Harkin, Occupy Wall Street, Harry Reid, George Miller Occupy Wall Street, Occupy Wall Street Congress, George Miller, Peter Defazio Occupy Wall Street, Tom Harkin Occupy Wall Street, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- Occupy Wall Street is finding a louder voice in Congress as lawmakers invoked its rhetoric repeatedly Wednesday in attempts to crack dow...

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Tax the One Percent -- Make Wall Street Fund America

Van Jones | Posted 01.02.2012

Read More: Peter DeFazio, Super Committee, Wall Street, Financial Transactions Tax, Tom Harkin, Occupy Wall Street, Politics News
Van Jones

A recently proposed Wall Street Tax on financial transactions would cover nearly all of the Super Committee's mandated deficit reductions. So Congress is about to face a telling choice. Will they vote to tax Wall Street gamblers in the 1%?

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Attention Occupy Wall Street: Enact a Financial Speculation Tax

Anand Reddi | Posted 01.01.2012

Read More: Pete Stark, Occupy Wall Street Protest, Rep. Peter Defazio, Financial Speculation Tax, Peter DeFazio, Tom Harkin, Occupy Wall Street, Senator Tom Harkin, Business News
Anand Reddi

Last week, Senator Tom Harkin (D-Iowa) and Representative Peter DeFazio (D-Ore.) renewed efforts to enact a financial speculation tax. The Occupy movements across the United States should demand this initiative.

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Ryan Grim

Key Financial Reform Gets Boost From Occupy Wall Street

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 12.26.2011

Read More: Video, Transaction Tax, Wall Street, Financial Speculation Tax, Speculation, Financial Reform, Occupy Wall Street, Tom Harkin, Peter DeFazio, European Union, New York Stock Exchange, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- Boosted by the Occupy Wall Street movement, two Democrats in the House and Senate are renewing a push for a transaction tax on speculati...

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Paige Lavender

Dem Congressman Shows How New Obama Plan Slashes Social Security

HuffingtonPost.com | Paige Lavender | Posted 09.20.2011

Read More: Gang of Six Debt Plan, Debt, Social Security, Social Security Cuts, Rep. Peter Defazio, President Barack Obama, Cpi, Gang of Six, Consumer Price Index, Barack Obama, Daily Kos, Debt Ceiling, Video, Peter DeFazio, Debt Negotiations, Medicare, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- Rep. Peter DeFazio (D-Ore.) took to the House floor Wednesday to decry efforts being made by President Barack Obama and the Gang of Six ...

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Dan Lipinski Blasts Deal Welcoming Mexican Trucks To U.S. Roads Nationwide

Chicago Sun-Times | Chicago Sun-Times | Posted 09.10.2011

Read More: U.S.-Mexico Relations, Nafta, Ray Lahood, Mexican Trucks, U.S.-Mexico Border, Dan Lipinski, Peter DeFazio, Chicago News

Mexican trucks filled with goods from south of the border could be rolling into Chicago as early as next month under a deal just signed by the Obama a...

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Lucia Graves

Dem Rep To Obama: 'Act Like A Democrat'

HuffingtonPost.com | Lucia Graves | Posted 06.12.2011

Read More: Elections 2012, Bush Era Tax Cuts, Pete Defazio, Democratic Party, Congressional Progressive Caucus, President Barack Obama, Rep. Peter Defazio, Peter DeFazio, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- President Obama needs to start acting like a Democrat, Oregon Rep. Pete DeFazio said earlier this week. Co-founder of the House Progr...

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Amanda Terkel

Pelosi Won't Hold Vote On Obama-GOP Tax Deal

HuffingtonPost.com | Amanda Terkel | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Taxes, Tax Cut Deal, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Nancy Pelosi, Tax Cuts Deal, Bush Tax Cuts, Peter DeFazio, Tax Cuts, Pete Defazio, Obama Tax Cuts, House Democratic Caucus, Obama Tax Cut Deal, Obama, Pelosi, Obama Tax, Tax Cut Vote, Tax, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) is unlikely to bring up President Obama's tax cut deal to the floor for a vote in its current form...

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Stemming the Tide of Secret Corporate Money

Mark Green | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Russ Feingold, Karl Rove, Common Buase, President Obama, Public Citizen, George Soros, U.S. Chamber of Commerce, Citizens United, Campaign Finance, Brennan Center, Afscme, George Will, David Brooks, John Kerry, Peter DeFazio, Constitutional Amendment, Fec, Politics News
Mark Green

When historians look back on the 2010 election, it will be remembered for three things -- a bad economy, the rise of the Tea Party, and the undertow of anonymous corporate money. Time for a pro-democracy Tea Party.

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The Question to Ask About Art Robinson's Love of Racist Novels

Terry Krepel | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: George Alfred Henty, Racism, Oregon 4th District, Worldnetdaily, Art Robinson, Peter DeFazio, G.A. Henty, Politics News
Terry Krepel

Last week brought a full-court press from the right-wingers at WorldNetDaily in support of Art Robinson, a Republican candidate for Congress in Oregon running against incumbent Democrat Peter DeFazio about racist books in Robinson's homeschooling curriculum.

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Amanda Terkel

Congressman Investigating Chief Justice John Roberts For IMPEACHMENT

HuffingtonPost.com | Amanda Terkel | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Supreme Court, Citizens United, Concerned Taxpayers of America, Chief Justice John Roberts, Defazio John Roberts, 2010 Elections, Scotus, John Roberts Impeach, John Roberts, Peter DeFazio, Pete Defazio, John Roberts Impeachment, Supreme Court Impeachment, Elections 2010, Politics News

With Democrats increasingly outraged over the Supreme Court's Citizens United decision that allowed unlimited corporate spending in elections -- a cha...

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Amanda Terkel

The One-Person Funded Super PAC: How Wealthy Donors Can Skirt Campaign Finance Rules

HuffingtonPost.com | Amanda Terkel | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: 2010 Elections, Super Pac, Citizens United, Concerned Taxpayers of America, Joe Ricketts, Speechnow v Fec, Independent Expenditures, 527s, Concerned Citizens for a Working America, Peter DeFazio, 527, Pete Defazio, 501c4, Campaign Finance Reform, Taxpayers Against Earmarks, Ending Spending Fund, Elections 2010, Politics News

With many outside political groups able to raise and spend unlimited amounts of money in the wake of the Supreme Court's Citizen United decision, a ne...

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Finally, a Tax Compromise That Makes Sense: DeFazio/Kaptur

Leo Hindery, Jr. | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Taxes, Jobs, Congress, Unemployment, Trade, Marcy Kaptur, Peter DeFazio, Politics News
Leo Hindery, Jr.

Reps. Peter DeFazio and Marcy Kaptur just put forward a proposal in the House that I believe no responsible Member of Congress -- whether in the House or the Senate, whether Democrat, Republican or Tea Partier -- should find objectionable.

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Amanda Terkel

Democrats Urge Caucus To Confront Shadowy Independent Groups

HuffingtonPost.com | Amanda Terkel | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: 2010 Elections, House Democrats, Citizens United, Defazio Ambush, John Larson, Peter DeFazio, Pete Defazio, House Democratic Caucus, Elections 2010, Politics News

With additional reporting by Lucia Graves Democrats may be launching a new offensive against the secretive independent expenditure groups that are sp...

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Amanda Terkel

Secretive 'Super PAC' Launches New Offensive Against Congressman Who Confronted Them

HuffingtonPost.com | Amanda Terkel | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Peter DeFazio, Concerned Taxpayers of America, Pete Defazio, 2010 Elections, Midterm Elections, Elections 2010, Politics News

The secretive Concerned Taxpayers of America (CTA) is out with a new $79,000 ad buy against Rep. Peter DeFazio (D-Ore.), bringing its total spending i...

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Ryan Grim

Defazio: East Coast Senators Undermined Medicare Deal

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Health Care Bill, Rep. Defazio, Rep. Peter Defazio, Health Care Reform, Peter DeFazio, Medicare Deal, Medicare, Health Care, Defazio, Politics News

Rep. Peter Defazio (D-Oregon) said Friday that while he is being told that Senate budget staffers were concerned that the Medicare disparity fix would...

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The Greed Olympics: Banks and Insurers Battle for the Gold

Peter Dreier | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Gregory Curl, Cigna, National Retail Federation, Tom Harkin, Jamie Dimon, Angela Braly, John Stumpf, Humana, Goldman Sachs, Bank of America, Americans for Financial Reform, Center for Responsive Politics, Anthem Blue Cross, Aetna, America's Health Insurance Plans, Campaign Contributions, Lloyd Blankfein, Citigroup, American Banking Association, Health Care for America Now, Lobbying, United Health Group, U.S. Chamber of Commerce, Ina Drew, Kathleen Sebelius, Barack Obama, National Association of Wholesaler-Distributors, JP Morgan, Wall Street, National Association of Manufacturers, Peter DeFazio, Health Care Reform, Wellpoint, Harry Reid, Banking Reform, Ahip, Business News
Peter Dreier

As the Greed Olympics heats up, it is time for Americans to stop being spectators. The President and Congress shouldn't be the only ones judging the competition and handing out the medals.

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Dems Want Unspent TARP Funds For Main Street Bailout

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Small Business Loans, Wall Street Bailout, Recovery, Congress, Unused Tarp Money, Federal Deficit, Leftover Tarp Funds, Peter DeFazio, Jobs, Homeowners, Obama, Democrats, Defazio, Main Street, Barney Frank, House, Deficit, Earl Blumenauer, Senate, Unemployment, White House, Financial Crisis, Extra Tarp Money, Bank Bailout, Leftover Tarp Money, Tarp, Republicans, Politics News

Democrats in Congress want to use unspent TARP funds to support homeowners and struggling workers, according to The Hill. More than half of the Democ...

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