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Rep. Jim McDermott Calls for Ending Poverty in America
Congressman Jim McDermott (D-WA), a senior member of the House Ways and Means Committee, delivered the keynote speech today at the Center for American Progress conference, “Measuring Our Progress in Reducing U.S. Poverty. In addition to challenging recent Republican proposals that would further hurt those living in poverty, Congressman McDermott unveiled the outline for legislation he intends to introduce to end poverty in America.
A Progressive Prescription for the Post-Election Hangover
ProgressiveCongress.org President Darcy Burner analyzes the lessons of 2010. Darcy outlines the steps practical progressives need to take to level the playing field with conservatives over the long term and achieve victory in 2012 and beyond.
2009 Annual Report
The 2009 Annual Report is now available for online reading, as well as for download
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Honda: Hearings on Muslim Americans is un-American (S.F. Chronicle [Op-Ed])
My father loved this country and proudly served in the U.S. Military Intelligence Service. Yet when I was a young child during World War II, we were confined for several years at Camp Amache, an internment camp in southeast Colorado, simply because we were of Japanese ancestry.
Report: GOP spending plan is a job killer (Washington Post)
A Republican plan to sharply cut federal spending this year would destroy 700,000 jobs through 2012, according to an independent economic analysis set for release Monday.
A Three-Man Band of Budget Cutters (New York Times)
In private, three of the Republican governors at the center of a growing national debate over public sector workers commiserate in telephone calls and e-mail messages. In public, the three — now members, it seems, of a newly established fraternity — sound like one another’s biggest boosters.
AP Impact: At CIA Grave Mistakes, Then Promotions (Washington Post)
A hard-charging CIA analyst had pushed the agency into one of the biggest diplomatic embarrassments of the U.S. war on terrorism. Yet despite recommendations, the analyst was never punished. In fact, she's risen in the agency.
