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Why $7-Per-Gallon Milk Looms Once Again
By Tamara Keith The leaders of the House and Senate agriculture committees are meeting Wednesday as they continue to try and work out the differences between their respective farm bills. If they fail, the country faces whats being called the … Continue reading
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Tagged Dairy, economy, prices, Senate, Tom Vilsack, United States Department of Agriculture
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Being Legal Doesn’t End Poverty
By Jennifer Medina Those pressing for change in the country’s immigration system like to say that creating a path to citizenship will bring the estimated 11 million undocumented immigrants “out of the shadows.” It is taken as a given that … Continue reading
House GOP’s immigration playbook
By jake Sherman & Ginger Gibson Circle July 10 with red ink: It’s now the most important day for immigration reform.That Wednesday is when a hobbled, divided and raucous House Republican Conference will meet in the Capitol basement to figure … Continue reading
Rick Perry Attacks Wendy Davis: ‘She Was A Teenage Mother Herself’
By Igor Volsky Texas Gov. Rick Perry (R) directly attacked state Sen. Wendy Davis (D) during a speech at the National Right To Life conference on Thursday, arguing that the state senator who filibustered for 13 hours to defeat an … Continue reading
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Tagged Filibuster, Harvard Law School, Rick Perry, Senate, Single-parent, Texas, Texas Senate, Wendy Davis
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Hours After Supreme Court Strikes Down Voter Suppression Law, Senator Introduces Bill To Overturn Decision
By Scott Keyes The Supreme Court struck down an Arizona voter suppression law in a surprise move Monday, but one Republican senator is already trying to work around that decision. Conservative Justice Antonin Scalia wrote the 7-2 opinion in the … Continue reading
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Tagged Antonin Scalia, Arizona, citizenship, SCOTUS, Senate, Supreme Court, Ted Cruz, Texas, Voter suppression
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The Fight Over Gun Control Has Revealed America’s New Civil War
By Robert Reich My first reaction on hearing of the Senate’s failure to get 60 votes for even modest measures to regulate the flow of guns into the hands of people who shouldn’t have them, such as background checks supported … Continue reading
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Tagged commentary, gun control, gun violence, Harry Reid, Heidi Heitkamp, Mark Begich, Mark Pryor, Max Baucus, politics, Robert Reich, Senate
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Obama Gun Policy Agenda Comes To Maddening End
By Sam Stein & Jennifer Bendry It ended in a flash. Months of work aimed at revamping the nations gun laws prompted by one of the worst shooting tragedies in U.S. history met an inglorious conclusion on the floor of the U.S. … Continue reading
Gallery of Cowards
Yesterday’s vote in the Senate is again proof that Congress is out of touch with the wishes of the American people. They don’t just cower and are the minions of special interests but they also succumb to their own greed and … Continue reading
What other black politicians can learn from Booker’s victory