"Words that make actions speak louder."
As the Senate prepares to take up a well-intentioned, if sorely inadequate, transportation funding bill this week, the Associated Press distributed a “news” story Monday that offered little “news” but much in the way of ideological framing for the opponents of fede
As of Wednesday afternoon, House Republicans were at an impasse within their own caucus on how to move forward on a surface transportation funding bill.
Back in 2010, one of President Obama’s stump-speech lines has him trying to put the economy in “D” to drive it out of the ditch it had fallen into, while Republican obstructionists keep trying to pull the stick shift back into “R.”
The Senate has finally passed a transportation reauthorization bill today, more than 896 days after the last full authorization bill expired.
A Senate-House conference committee is scheduled to meet today to hammer out differences between the two chambers on what is likely to be the most substantive jobs bill the Congress could pass this year: a surface transportation reauthorization bill.
House Republicans today once again showed that they are not only ideologically wrong-headed but legislatively inept.
There are reports that Congress is at last about to reach a deal on a transportation bill, exactly 1,001 days after the expiration of the last transportation reauthorization bill that Congress passed. What’s still unclear is what kind of deal this will be.
It’s about time for us to break into the closed-door negotiations in Congress over a surface transportation bill.
Rep. Jan Schakowsky, D-Ill., explains in this interview with Richard Eskow that progressives can and must win the fight against the right-wing austerity policies wrapped in the Bowles-Simpson deficit reduction plan.
A straw poll taken at the Take Back the American Dream conference shows that the “enthusiasm gap” between progressives and President Obama is very real.