John Boehner’s Do-Nothing Congress to Hold Another Pointless Vote to Repeal Obamacare
House Speaker John Boehner set out to preside over a do-nothing Congress, and he has succeeded. As this week’s scheduled repeal vote of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) shows, Boehner is an over-achiever. Depending on who’s counting, this is something like the 38th Obamacare repeal vote. “We’ve got 70 new members who have not had [...]

Hoyer: Congress Ought To Focus On The Sequester Until We Find A Solution

A Pathological Moral Environment
In a speech recently, the influential economist Jeffrey Sachs made the following statement, one that was both remarkable and yet predictable about the culture of Wall Street: I’m going to put if very bluntly. I regard the moral environment as pathological…these people are out to make billions of dollars and nothing should stop them from [...]

GOP Again Tries to Take Away Health Care From Millions of Seniors, Women and Families
While Americans clamor for jobs, House Republican Leadership has instead opted to hold its umpteenth vote to deny families and small businesses access to quality, affordable health care. Despite the GOP’s relentless opposition, the Affordable Care Act (ACA) has already improved the lives of more than 100 million people.   The ACA is raising the [...]

Detroit Fast Food Workers’ Strike Shuts Down Locations
Fast food workers at more than 60 restaurants in Detroit walked off the job Friday. This may be the largest fast food strike in American history, involving more than 400 workers from McDonald’s, Long John Silver’s, Burger King, Popeyes and KFC. Some locations were forced to shut down. At issue is workers’ right to form a union [...]