CNN reports, Schumer plans first vote on Democrats’ economic bill as negotiators court Sinema: Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer on Thursday announced that the Senate will reconvene on Saturday and plan to take the first procedural vote to proceed to the Democrats’ climate and health care bill. Schumer’s announcement comes as negotiators try to lock … Read more
Political observers have heard this false song before. In 1993, united extremist Republicans, led by family values hypocrite Newt Gingrich, said that the Clinton/Gore Economic Plan, with its mix of tax increases, tax relief in the Earned Income Tax Credit, spending cuts, and targeted investments designed to help people, would spell disaster for the American … Read more
The “Joe Manchin Show” was on full display on Sunday as he did the “full Ginsburg,” appearing on all five Sunday talk shows for interviews days after he and Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) shocked all with the deal heard ‘round the Hill. He did so in support of the $670 billion climate, health … Read more
Arizona Democrats get it when it comes to passing the CHIPS Act and sending the legislation to President Biden for his signature. Before the House voted on the legislation yesterday, Phoenix Mayor Kate Gallego saluted Senate passage of the Bipartisan CHIPS legislation and co-authored a letter cosigned by Democratic and Republican Arizona Mayors (including Tucson’s … Read more
Real gross domestic product (GDP) had a second consecutive negative quarter and government data showed it down -0.9 percent. This was actually an improvement over the first quarter, which was down at -1.6 percent. But since it marks the second consecutive quarter of negative GDP, it meets the commonly held definition of a recession in … Read more