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A provision nestled in the year-end federal government's spending deal guaranteed pension and health care benefits to more than 100,000 coal miners and their families.
Letting the president get away with contempt of Congress will make the legislative branch as irrelevant as the Roman Senate
The government-promoted plans let employers completely off the hook and put the entire burden of retirement savings and investment management on workers. They put another nail in the coffin of traditional plans in which employers share the expense.
Worker Rights are Shaping up a Key Issue in 2020. Who Has the Best Ideas?
Apart from filling corporate coffers and the pocketbooks of the 1 percent, the $1.9 trillion cut has put the federal government in a financial straightjacket.
We need an energetic movement that will fight for abortion without reservation. And that means reclaiming its radical roots—and reclaiming it from big national organizations, including the Democratic Party.
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Seed, Pesticide and Banking Monopolies — Not Immigrants — Are Destroying Farm Country. An Iowa Insurgent Hopes That Message Can Dethrone Steve King
House Democrats should pledge now that if they win a majority, they will conduct an impeachment investigation, to get to the truth. He should be removed from the Federal Appeals Court. Holton-Arms Alumnae statements supporting Christine Blasey.
What seems evident, however, is that Republicans on the committee know that Judge would be a disaster as a character witness for Kavanaugh.
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