In the wake of the BP disaster, Congress is acting on its commitment to protect America's families and businesses, rebuild the Gulf Coast, hold BP and oil companies accountable, and work to ensure that a spill of this kind never … Continue reading
In the wake of the BP disaster, House Democrats are acting on our commitment to protect America's families and businesses, rebuild the Gulf Coast, hold BP and oil companies accountable, and work to ensure that a spill of this kind … Continue reading
Forty-five years ago, President Lyndon Johnson signed Medicare into law–making a bedrock promise to seniors then and for generations to follow: Sitting by President Johnson’s side on July 30th, 1965 was President Truman, who that same day became the first … Continue reading
In today's Washington Post, Steven Pearlstein highlights the hypocrisy of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and others who are blaming the Obama Administration and Democrats in Congress for continued high unemployment when annual corporate profits have rebounded to a staggering … Continue reading
Tonight the House considered the James Zadroga 9/11 Health and Compensation Act (HR 847) under suspension of the rules to provide medical monitoring and treatment to responders and survivors of the 9/11 World Trade Center attacks. It also reopens the … Continue reading
Congressional Republicans — eager to return to the “exact same agenda” of failed Bush economic policies that put us into this mess — continue to call for an extension of the Bush tax cuts for the wealthiest few despite the … Continue reading
This August, Social Security–a bedrock promise Americans have earned with a lifetime of hard work–turns 75. In 2005, President George W. Bush and Congressional Republicans pushed cuts and a risky Social Security privatization scheme. Democrats and the American people said … Continue reading
The latest Kaiser Family Foundation poll released this morning finds that public support for the Affordable Care Act has held strong and unfavorable views have decreased: By a 15-point margin, Americans express a favorable view of the new health reform … Continue reading
House Democrats are working on a “Make it in America” manufacturing strategy to create the high-skill, high-wage jobs of the future–promoting American competitiveness, innovation, and exports. As Speaker Pelosi explained last week, “our strategy will create new American jobs building … Continue reading
Today, Alan Blinder, a Princeton professor and former vice chairman of the Fed, and Mark Zandi, chief economist at Moody's Analytics, released a new study the New York Times calls “a first stab at comprehensively estimating the effects of the … Continue reading