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Sunday, 28 September 2008 |
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Wall Street firms that survived the Great Depression have now gone under. Minnesota home-repossession rates are at a record high, up 171 percent from July 2007 to July 2008. The economic crisis we are facing is real. President Bush's response: Wall Street gets a $700 billion rescue; Minnesota taxpayers foot the bill and perhaps a foreclosure note to boot. |
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Wednesday, 24 September 2008 |
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The events of the last several weeks are dizzying in scope. Lehman Brothers, a firm founded in the 1850s, survived the Great Depression, but it could not survive the current financial crisis. Similarly, Merrill Lynch, nearly 100 years old, was a casualty of the latest crisis as well. The root cause of the failures we face today stems from the ideological commitment to oppose public input through regulation, oversight, and corporate accountability. Now, the bankruptcy of the trickle-down philosophy has fully manifested, and Americans are being asked to make historic sacrifices.
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Thursday, 18 September 2008 |
Rejects Republican-led Bush/Cheney Big Oil PolicyWashington, D.C. – Congressman Keith Ellison (D-Minneapolis) voted for the second landmarkenergy bill of this Congress. TheComprehensive American Energy Security & Consumer Protection Act passed theHouse of Representatives last evening by a bi-partisan vote of 236-189. |
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Wednesday, 10 September 2008 |
Bill will save state from losing over $135 million in federal funds
Washington, D.C. - Congressman Keith Ellison introduced legislation that will protect 18,000 Minnesotans from being terminated from Minnesota's Medicaid program. The Congressman's legislation is in direct response to a recent federal administrative ruling that would radically alter Minnesota's innovative Medicaid program MinnesotaCare.
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Thursday, 04 September 2008 |
One of Only Thirty Six Members To Do So
Washington, D.C. -- Congressman Keith Ellison (D-Minneapolis) has been recognized by NETWORK, the National Catholic Social Justice Lobby, for consistently voting on behalf of social and economic justice issues in the Congress. Ellison was one of only thirty six Members of Congress to receive a perfect rating on NETWORK's socially responsible issues.
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Thursday, 21 August 2008 |
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(Washington, D.C.) – Today, Congressman Tim Walz and Congressman Keith Ellison announced that the Department of Veterans Affairs has agreed to their request to provide full educational benefits to nearly 400 soldiers from the 1/34th Brigade Combat Team who had previously been denied the payments they had earned. |
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Friday, 01 August 2008 |
First Update of Child Lead Limitations in Seventeen Years
Washington, D.C. – Congressman Keith Ellison’s (D-Minneapolis) bill to protect children from lead exposure living in (HUD) housing passed the House of Representatives in the closing hours of the session. The Lead Safe Housing Act of 2008 (H.R. 6309) requires the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) to update its blood lead intervention regulations to coincide with the standards set by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), which lowers the mandatory intervention threshold from 20 micrograms of lead to 10 micrograms. The bill passed the House by a voice vote.
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Saturday, 26 July 2008 |
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At the same time the federal government is bailing out a banking industry reeling from the real estate collapse, it's also taking some less-heralded but significant consumer protection steps aimed at the industry's cash cow: credit cards. |
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Wednesday, 23 July 2008 |
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Democratic Congress Acts to Counter Mortgage Crisis
Washington, D.C. – Congressman Keith Ellison (D-MN) today praised the Democratic Congress for its passage of the most comprehensive response yet to the housing mortgage crisis. “This historic legislation will help families facing foreclosures keep their homes, help other families avoid foreclosures, and help spur an economic recovery in our communities hit hardest by empty homes caught up in the foreclosure crisis,” Ellison stated. “This is one of the most important bills that this Congress has passed because it reaches out to all of us where we live – and hope to stay living,” Ellison said. |
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Wednesday, 23 July 2008 |
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Calls Forced Language “Orwellian”
Washington, D.C. – Congressman Keith Ellison (D-MN) denounced the 8th
Circuit Court of Appeals recent decision to lift a preliminary
injunction against requiring physicians to recite a script to patients
before performing an abortion procedure in South Dakota.
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