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Sam Stein

Peter DeFazio, Dem Rep.: It's 'Pretty Embarrassing' That Dems Now Identified With Wall Street

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 11.20.2009 | Politics

Read More: Defazio Wall Street, Obama Jobs, Timothy Geithner Jobs, Defazio Geithner, Obama Economy, Defazio Embarrassed, Peter DeFazio, Politics News

One of the loudest populist voices in the Democratic Caucus predicted on Thursday that the party may have to forcefully challenge the White House on e...

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Sam Stein

Rep. DeFazio: Fire 'Timmy' Geithner

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 11.19.2009 | Politics

Read More: Defazio Fire Summers, Fire Geithner, Video, Progressive Caucus, Geithner White House, Tim Geithner, Peter DeFazio, Pete Defazio, Defazio Fire Geithner, Defazio White House, Timmy Geithner, Politics News

Rep. Peter DeFazio called for the firing of President Barack Obama's top two economic aides on Wednesday, accusing them of pursuing a recovery plan sk...

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Dems Want Unspent TARP Funds For Main Street Bailout

Posted 11.18.2009 | Politics

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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Cantor & Nazism; H1N1 & Wall Street; Billionaires for Wealthcare

Mike Stark | Posted 11.07.2009 | Politics

Read More: Peter King, Billionaires for Wealthcareksters, Walt Minnick, Bobby Bright, John Shaddegg, Peter DeFazio, Swine Flu, Politics News
Mike Stark

I spent the day on the Hill interviewing Representatives about Wall Street and how they were able to jump the line to get the H1N1 flu vaccine before pregnant women and children.

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A Call For a Bipartisan National Campaign to Overturn Insurance Companies' Exemption From Anti-Trust Laws

Miles Mogulescu | Posted 10.18.2009 | Politics

Read More: Chuck Schumer, Anti-Trust, Bobby Jindal, Patrick Leahy, Anti-Trust Laws, Health Insurance, Obama Health Care, McCarran-Ferguson Act, Healthcare Regulations, Trent Lott, Peter DeFazio, Health Care Reform, Christine Varney, Harry Reid, Health Care, Anti-Trust Exemption, Healthcare Costs, Healthcare, Gene Taylor, Politics News
Miles Mogulescu

We need a broad coalition to immediately repeal the insurance industry's exemption from complying with Federal anti-trust laws.

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Surface Transportation: The Need is Now

Edward Wytkind | Posted 08.27.2009 | Politics

Read More: Transportation Bill, James Oberstar, Gas Tax, Peter DeFazio, Vehicle Miles Traveled, VMT Fee, Highway Trust Fund, Surface Transportation Bill, Mass Tranit, Politics News
Edward Wytkind

Transit systems nationwide are hemorrhaging while history shows that transportation bills are engines of job creation and their services are in highest demand.

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Legislation to Ensure Bird Killers Become Jailbirds

Michael Markarian | Posted 08.08.2009 | Green

Read More: Eagles, Migratory Birds, Owls, Crime, Peter DeFazio, Hawks, Pigeons, Animals, Raptors, Falcons, Wildlife, Green News
Michael Markarian

Club members killed the protected birds of prey by shooting, trapping, poisoning, clubbing, baiting birds into glass panels, and even baiting birds with pigeons rigged with fishing hooks.

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Obama and Anti-War Democrats

Norman Solomon | Posted 07.19.2009 | Politics

Read More: Eric Massa, Jim McDermott, Rahm Emanuel, Chellie Pingree, Jane Harman, Peter DeFazio, Donna Edwards, Alan Grayson, Marcy Winograd, Barack Obama, Jared Polis, Jackie Speier, Politics News
Norman Solomon

Progressives across the country should plan on giving special support to anti-war democrats Edwards, Grayson, Massa, Pingree, Polis and Speier in 2010.

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Kucinich Leads Trend for Even Handed Foreign Policy

Michael Carmichael | Posted 02.27.2009 | Politics

Read More: Barbara Lee, Neil Abercrombie, Sam Farr, George MItchell, James McDermott, Ron Paul, Walter Jones, Fortney Stark, Keith Ellison, Todd Tiahrt, John Dingell, Frederick Boucher, William Delahunt, John Oliver, Henry Johnson, Dennis Kucinich, Brian Baird, Council for the National Interest, Robert Berry, Donna Edwards, Gwen Moore, Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Paul Ronald, Nick Rahall, Raul Grijalva, Donald Payne, Lynn Woolsey, Earl Blumenauer, Loretta Sanchez, Stephanie Herseth Sandlin, Betty McCollum, John Shadegg, Samuel Graves, Victor Snyder, Barack Obama, James Moran, Carolyn Kilpatrick, Hilda Solis, Maurice Hinchey, Steve Kagan, Peter DeFazio, Kay Granger, Israel Gaza Airstrikes, Maxine Waters, Diane Watson, Jeb Hensarling, Henry Brown, George Miller, Israel Gaza Operation, Elton Gallegly, Politics News
Michael Carmichael

According to astute observers -- there is a new trend in Congress in favor of a more even-handed approach to foreign policy. The bipartisan group, Co...

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The Kindest Cut

Michael Markarian | Posted 02.13.2009 | Politics

Read More: Nuisance, Usda, Louisiana, Animals, Tom Vilsack, Bobby Jindal, Agriculture, Wildlife, Coyotes, Animal Cruelty, Animal Rights, Non-Lethal Predator Deterents, Predator Control Program, USDA Policy, Connie Morella, Predator Killing, Farmer Compensation, Peter DeFazio, Steel-Jawed Legholds, Animal Rights Legislation, Non-Lethal Weaponry, Charlie Bass, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Politics News
Michael Markarian

When it comes to human-wildlife conflicts, I am quite sure we can do better at the state and federal levels than the programs built around large-scale killing of wildlife.

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America's Shadow Government: Part Two

John W. Whitehead | Posted 11.09.2008 | Politics

Read More: Suspension of the Constitution, Ronald Reagan, National Security Presidential DIrective 51, Mount Weather, George W. Bush, 9/11, Donald Rumsfeld, Shadow Government, Cog, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Security Presidential Directive 20, The Cold War, Dick Cheney, Wwii, Authoritarian Government, Peter DeFazio, Martial Law, Constitution, President Bush, September 11th, Office of the Presidency at Mount Weather, Continuity of Government Plan, Politics News
John W. Whitehead

This database reportedly contains the names of Americans who, "often for the slightest and most trivial reason, are considered unfriendly, and who, in a time of panic, might be incarcerated."

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America's Shadow Government: Part One

John W. Whitehead | Posted 11.06.2008 | Politics

Read More: 9/11, Shadow Government, Martial Law, Constitution, President Bush, Suspension of the Constitution, Ronald Reagan, National Security Presidential DIrective 51, Mount Weather, George W. Bush, Donald Rumsfeld, Dwight D. Eisenhower, COG, Security Presidential Directive 20, The Cold War, Dick Cheney, Wwii, Authoritarian Government, Peter DeFazio, September 11th, Office of the Presidency at Mount Weather, Continuity of Government Plan, Politics News
John W. Whitehead

We are, for all intents and purposes, one terrorist attack away from having a full-fledged authoritarian state emerge from the shadows.

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Wall Street Bailout Threatens World's Poor

Robert Naiman | Posted 11.02.2008 | Politics

Read More: Wall Street Bailout, Bush Administration, Bailout, United Nations, Economy, Foreign Policy, Peter DeFazio, Politics News
Robert Naiman

On Monday the House voted down the the Bush Administration's request that Congress authorize $700 billion for purchasing Wall Street's "toxic assets" ...

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Alabama Dems Benefit From GOP Congressman's Toxic Ties To Saddam

Nathaniel Bach | Posted 10.26.2008 | Home

Read More: Iraq Study Group, Tull Chemical Company, Mike Rogers, Poison, Alabama, Josh Segall, Saddam Hussein, Campaign Contributions, Sodium Fluoroacetate, Peter DeFazio, Alabama House Races, Compound 1080, Home News
Nathaniel Bach

GOP candidate Mike Rogers took money from a donor whose poison was found in the hands of Hussein's regime. The poison-maker also contributed to Roger's personal PAC shortly after a bill to ban the substance was introduced to a House Committee on which Rogers sits.

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Is Ecuador Feeling Chevron's Pressure?

Robert Naiman | Posted 09.15.2008 | Business

Read More: Environment, Ecuador, John McCain, Chevron, Trade, Barack Obama, Peter DeFazio, Business News
Robert Naiman

Chevron has been lobbying the U.S. government to pressure Ecuador to intervene the dispute between Chevron and 30,000 Amazon jungle dwellers suing the company for environmental damages.

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DeFazio to USTR: Say No to Chevron's Bullying!

Robert Naiman | Posted 08.12.2008 | Green

Read More: Ecuador, Chevron Pollution, Barack Obama, Peter DeFazio, Ustr, Green News
Robert Naiman

Last week, Chevron announced a second quarter profit of $6 billion. It would seem that Chevron could afford to compensate Ecuadoran peasants for toxic dumping in the Amazon.

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