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Republicans block Senate bill to boost veterans’ benefits
WASHINGTON — A divided Senate on Thursday derailed Democratic legislation that would have provided $21 billion for medical, education, and job-training benefits for the nation's veterans. The bill fell victim to election-year disputes over spending and fresh penalties...
“Socialism for the rich, capitalism for the poor”
Subsidies considered excessive, unwarranted, wasteful, unfair, inefficient, or bought by lobbying are often called corporate welfare.[1] The label of corporate welfare is often used to decry projects advertised as benefiting the general welfare that spend a...
It’s Time to Confirm Loretta Lynch
It's time for #Republicans in Congress to stop playing politics with law enforcement and national security and confirm Loretta Lynch as Attorney General of the United States. https://youtu.be/C7-gEWgIAa4 President Obama and Democrats are losing patience with the...
Strategies of the One Percent Revealed
https://youtu.be/5PaLxOkjvJE
Students Fight Back Against Voter ID Law That Allows Gun Licenses But Bans Student IDs
The Nashville Student Organizing Committee and a group of nine students from Fisk University and Tennessee State University, both historically black colleges, filed a lawsuit in early March against the state, alleging that excluding student IDs from the acceptable...
#republicansbelike
Congressional #Republicans who are trying to blow up US-European diplomacy with Iran would desperately like Americans to believe that they have some alternative besides war to the administration's multilateral efforts to reach a diplomatic agreement with Iran. If any...
“The American Promise” — LBJ’s Finest Hour
https://youtu.be/5NvPhiuGZ6I Fifty years ago, on March 7, 1965, civil rights activists, demonstrating for voting rights, were savagely attacked by Alabama state troopers and vigilantes as they tried to cross the Edmund Pettus Bridge. That day became known as “Bloody...
The #GOP takes it a letter too far
Republicans in the mold of Roger B. Taney https://www.facebook.com/MadisonDemocrats/posts/818168374925582
Key Obama Adviser: “There’s Never Been a Time When We’ve Taken Progressive Action and Regretted It”
Whenever we contemplate bold progressive action, whether that’s the president's endorsement of marriage equality, or coming out strong on power-plant rules to reduce current pollution, on immigration, on net neutrality, you get a lot of hemming and hawing in advance...
Condemn the gang of #47Traitors
Tell Democratic leaders in the Senate to put forward a resolution condemning in the strongest possible terms the 47 Republican senators who are endangering national security to damage the presidency. https://www.facebook.com/MadisonDemocrats/posts/817383248337428
