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Replying to My Pro-Gun Friends and the NRA

Annabel Park | Posted 04.07.2013 | Politics
Read More: Senate Hearing, Newtown, Sandy Hook, Demand a Plan, Gun Control, Gabrielle Giffords, Joe Biden, Nra, Assault Weapons Ban, Mark Kelly, Wayne LaPierre, Gun Lobby, Barack Obama, Politics News
Annabel Park

I want to direct the same lines said by Joseph Welch in 1954 to Wayne LaPierre, who testified at the Senate committee hearing on January 30, 2013 and shamelessly uses fear-mongering to boost gun sales: Have you no sense of decency, sir, at long last? Have you left no sense of decency?

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Thanks to Occupy, Senate Looks at Inequality

Sarah Anderson | Posted 04.14.2012 | Politics
Read More: Taxes, Income Tax, Wealth Inequality, Executive Compensation, Income Inequality, Inequality, Senate Hearing, Senate Hearing on Inequality, Politics News
Sarah Anderson

The ratio between CEO and worker pay has risen from 42-to-1 in 1980 to 325-to-1 in 2010 and average S&P 500 CEO pay is about $11 million.

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Cordray Faces Tough Crowd At First Senate Hearing

AP | By MARCY GORDON | Posted 01.31.2012 | Politics
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WASHINGTON -- Republicans on Tuesday welcomed Richard Cordray to his first Senate hearing as director of the new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau ...

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Senators To Grill Regulators On MF Global Collapse

Posted 12.01.2011 | Business
Read More: House Hearing, Senate Hearing, Jon Corzine, Commodity Futures Trading Commission Chairman Gary Gensler, Dodd-Frank Financial Overhaul, MF Global, Chicago Mercantile Exchange, Commodity Futures Trading Commission, Securities and Exchange Commission, Goldman Sachs Group Inc, Senate Agriculture Committee, Video, Business News

Senators plan to press regulators on Thursday on whether they were asleep at the switch as now-bankrupt MF Global took on massive risky bets, and ...

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Joy Resmovits

DREAM Act A Moral, Economic Imperative, Says U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan

HuffingtonPost.com | Joy Resmovits | Posted 08.27.2011 | College
Read More: Senate Hearing, Education News, Jose Antonio Vargas Illegal Immigrant, Undocumented Immigrants, Arne Duncan, Immigrants, Jose Antonio Vargas, Immigration Reform, Education, Military, Chicago Public Schools, Rahm Emanuel, DREAM Act, Military Recruiting Crisis, Chicago, Military Recruiting, Margaret Stock, College News

Despite the DREAM Act’s low likelihood for Senate passage, U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan called for a renewed awareness of the plight of u...

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Bianca Bosker

Officials Push For Action In 'Online Privacy War'

HuffingtonPost.com | Bianca Bosker | Posted 05.25.2011 | Technology
Read More: Senator John Kerry, Senate Hearing, Aclu, Jay Rockefeller, Senate-Hearing-Privacy, Business, Politics, Kerry Privacy, Chris Calabrese, American Civil Liberties Union, Internet Privacy, Online Privacy Bill, Senate Hearings, Senator Jay Rockefeller, John Kerry, US Senate, Online Privacy, Congress 2011, Privacy Bill, US News, Technology News

Top senators and members of the Federal Trade Commission on Wednesday criticized the current state of Internet privacy regulations and pushed for legi...

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My Testimony Before the U.S. Senate on Reforming Financial Market Regulation

Rob Johnson | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business
Read More: Senate Hearing, Wall Street, Financial Regulation, FInancial Markets, Too Big to Fail, Business News
Rob Johnson

Losses of wealth, lost employment and economic activity and bailouts totaling trillions of dollars around the world are strong evidence of the failed structures of financial markets in their current form.

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Let Them Eat Coal Ash: OSM Nominee Pizarchik Must Be Stopped Now

Jeff Biggers | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
Read More: Epa, Dirty Coal, Senate Hearing, Mountaintop Removal, President Barack Obama, Clean Energy, Ken Salazar, Lisa Jackson, Coal, Osm, Green News
Jeff Biggers

The Obama's administration's OSM nomination of Pizarchik, the seemingly good-natured and well-meaning Pennsylvania Director of the Bureau of Mining and Reclamation, is a colossal error.

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