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On Healthcare Reform Stimulating the Economy: The Massachusetts Example

Maggie Mahar | Posted 01.12.2009 | Politics

Read More: Nurses, Health Care Costs, Jonathan Gruber, Drugs, Medical Errors, Health Insurance, Unncessary, Legislation, SCHIP Program, Primary Care, Health, Structural Reform, Over-Priced, Devices, Universal Health Care, Health Reform, Health Care, Healthcare, Politics News
Maggie Mahar

Too many proposals for healthcare reform focus solely on universal access and run the risk of sending good money after bad. The question we need to ask is: "Access to what"?

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Obama v. Bush: Climate Change Executive Order Reversals, Could Establish National Energy Council (Video Roundup)

George Spyros | Posted 12.10.2008 | Green

Read More: Epa, Auto Emissions, President Barack Obama, Climate Change, Fight Global Warming, Fight Climate Change, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Environmental Law, Environmental Legislation, Legislation, Barack Obama, Environmental Protection Agency, Automobile Emissions, Californina, Green News
George Spyros

President-elect Obama's top priority of stimulating the economy and create jobs will involve new environmental actions aimed at having long-term benefits.

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Preventing the Next Privacy Disaster

Leslie Harris | Posted 11.15.2008 | Politics

Read More: Consumer Privacy, Choicepoint, Internet Privacy, Cabinent, 100 Days, Washington, Disaster, Congress, Ftc, Presidency, Privacy, Commission, Election, Legislation, Law, Technology, Politics News
Leslie Harris

The next president steps into a landscape where the capacity to collect, store and exchange sensitive personal information has outgrown the legal framework that protects that information.

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Keeping the Internet Free For a New Generation of Speakers

Leslie Harris | Posted 11.09.2008 | Media

Read More: Pornography, Internet, Policy Making, Empowerment, Child Protection, Laws, Microsoft, Free Speech, Congress, Technology, Policy, Child Safety, President, Legislation, Cdt, Media News
Leslie Harris

The next president should set out to make the Internet's very own Bill of Rights and promote strategies that empower Internet users to make their own choices for their families about content controls.

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"An Ungovernable Majority"

Andrew Sargus Klein | Posted 11.09.2008 | Politics

Read More: House, Politics, Senate, Congress, Bailout, 2008 Campaign, Majority, Democrats, Legislation, Republicans, Obama Healthcare, Senate Majority, Tom Delay, Congressional Filibuster, Filibuster, Bailout Bill, Barack Obama, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Nancy Pelosi, Politics News
Andrew Sargus Klein

"While the Democrats have been ascendant in recent years, they have entered into a Faustian bargain. They're gaining seats, but in doing so they've made compromises."

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Women May Be Most Affected By Economic Crisis And Election

Susan Kelley-Stamerra | Posted 10.27.2008 | Home

Read More: Investments, U.S. Economy, Women's Rights, Cafta, Debate, Social Security, Working Mothers, Children, Children's Health Insurance, Middle Class, Working Women, Mccain, Obama, McCain Taxes, Legislation, Equal Pay for Equal Work, Minimum Wage, Unemployment, Privatization, Job Layoffs, Election 2008, Health Care, Equal Pay, Taxes, Welfare, Women Voters, Economic Crisis, Congress, Nafta, Outsourcing, Job Market, Women, Job Cuts, McCain Social Security Privatization, Women's Health, Palin, Women and Politics, Economy, Afta, Home News
Susan Kelley-Stamerra

If women aren't looked after in this election, in this economic environment, the losses will be substantial and lasting.

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Congress Pushes Back Against Supreme Court, Returns Civil Rights to People with Disabilities

Cristóbal Joshua Alex | Posted 10.23.2008 | Politics

Read More: Americans With Disabilities Act, S.3406, Legislation, Steny Hoyer, Courts, Disabilities, Civil Rights, ADA Amendments Act, S.1881, Americans With Disabilities Restoration Act, Supreme Court, Rollback, Congress, H.RES.1299, Ada, Politics News
Cristóbal Joshua Alex

In passing the ADA Amendments Act, Congress is finally pushing back at a Court that has been hard at work dismantling our civil rights infrastructure.

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Congress Weans Us Off the Teat of Foreign Oil with Concessions to Offshore Drilling

Simran Sethi | Posted 10.23.2009 | Green

Read More: Gas Prices, Foreign Oil, John McCain, T. Boone Pickens, Wind Energy, Mexico, Renewable Energy, Canada, Congress, Democrats, Coal, Legislation, Offshore Drilling, Cnbc, Fuel Efficiency, Turbine, Electricity, Wall Street, Climate Change, Nancy Pelosi, U.S. Department of Energy, Environment, Mercury, Department of Energy, Republicans, Turbines, Wind Farms, Global Warming, Simran Sethi, Kansas, Green Energy, Green News
Simran Sethi

Weaning America off the teat of foreign oil is something that every citizen can agree is a good thing. It will start to put funding into renewable energy infrastructure that we so desperately need.

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Quit Horsing Around on Slaughter and Transport

Michael Markarian | Posted 10.12.2008 | Politics

Read More: John Conyers, Congress, Judiciary Committee, Livestock, Dan Burton, Agriculture, Horse, Horses, Animals, House Judiciary Committee, Legislation, Transportation, Mark Kirk, Horse Slaughter, Illinois, Oregon, Politics News
Michael Markarian

Eleven lucky horses got a new lease on life yesterday. Authorities still don't know who discarded the malnourished horses. The owner might not come forward since he/she could face criminal charges.

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Congress Comes Through for Kids with Cancer

Deirdre Imus | Posted 08.13.2008 | Living

Read More: Cancer Research, The Deirdre Imus Environmental Center for Pediatric Oncology, Pediatric Cancer Research., Cancer, Children's Health, Deirdre Imus, Legislation, Living News
Deirdre Imus

It goes without saying; families who have children diagnosed with cancer and children's health advocates commend Congress for recognizing the need for the Childhood Cancer Act.

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Invisible Tragedies -- Four Construction Workers Killed Every Day Building America

Terence M. O'Sullivan | Posted 07.10.2008 | Politics

Read More: Construction Workers, Osha, Legislation, Risky Business, Work Fatalities, Danger, Dangerous, Work-Life Balance, Politics News
Terence M. O'Sullivan

Construction workers face death on the job 20 times more often than miners and 10 times more often than police officers or firefighters. Yet their tragedy too often goes unnoticed.

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