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STOP the Blunt Amendment
The House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform met this morning to continue to play politics with women’s health. Chairman Darrell Issa refused to allow a minority witness to testify at the Committee hearing
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Does your Senator support the ‘Buffett Rule’? Ask them to cosponsor!
Nearly 40,000 of us have already signed on to support Sen. Whitehouse and his bill to tax the super-rich. And we’ll be delivering all your signatures to the Senate in-person. Right now, Sen. Whitehouse’s “Buffett
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Sign here to support the ‘Buffett Rule’
Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse is introducing the “Pay A Fair Share Act” today in the Senate. This bill would make it so millionaires and billionaires paying lower tax rates than the middle class would have
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Tell Congress: Extend unemployment insurance now
The GOP-led House is working against the 99% by proposing “reforms” to unemployment insurance that would: Make it harder for ordinary Americans who lose their jobs to access benefits; Subject workers to mandatory drug
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Cut Pentagon Spending NOW!
After years of endless war, President Obama has withdrawn our troops from Iraq and indicated that the days of obsolete, Cold War thinking are over. Obama’s speech last week was a major step towards
Read More »Tell Your U.S. Senators: Reject the Cuts! Fully Renew Unemployment Insurance for 2012
We need everyone to contact their Senators right now, and urge them to reject the massive cuts to unemployment insurance, and to renew the full federal unemployment insurance program through 2012. Dial 888-245-3381, and an
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Jobs For The 99%
Thousands of 99% protesters are in Washington, D.C. this week to Take Back the Capitol. Yesterday we swarmed congressional offices all over Capitol Hill. Hundreds of jobless workers and their supporters told powerful stories of
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Take Back The Capitol!
The 99% are taking Congress back from the 1% next week in Washington D.C. Hundreds of activists and jobless workers from around the country are coming to Washington to fight for JOBS, not
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Super Committee Melts Down. Time to Cut Pentagon Spending.
You’ve probably heard the news. The supercommittee negotiations have broken down. On the one hand, this is good news for progressives because we have avoided massive cuts to vital programs like Social Security, Medicare
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Corporate handouts for the 1% don’t create jobs for the 99%
The 1% has more than enough, but ultra-rich, multinational corporations like GE, Pfizer and Microsoft are buying OUR Congress and lobbying for their taxes to be slashed AGAIN. They want a “tax holiday” to
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