Category Archives: Health Care

August 5, 2012

Tax deductions for Stand Your Ground laws. Tax credits for prancing horses. Romney praises national health system — if it is Israeli.


 

Bob Edgar

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Bob Edgar is a former congressman who knows how lobbying works. In fact, he heads the public interest lobby Common Cause. Mr. Edgar has filed a complaint with the IRS exposing the lobbying tactics of a right-wing group that funds its nefarious work with tax-deductible contributions – not the way lobbying is supposed to work.
http://www.commoncause.org
 

Catherine Poe

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Mitt Romney just doesn’t relate to the average voter, and commentator Catherine Poe thinks she knows why. His money has sheltered him from the vicissitudes of life and made it seem normal to take a 77-thousand-dollar tax credit for a dressage horse.
http://communities.washingtontimes.com/staff/catherine-poe/
 

Judd Legum

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Bill Press talks with Judd Legum about health care reform and Mitt Romney.
http://www.billpressshow.com/
http://thinkprogress.org/author/judd/

AmericasDemocrats.org–September 18, 2011

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Fred Rotondaro

Regular guest Fred Rotondaro shares his reaction to Dick Cheney’s controversial new memoir. The book has upset Cheney’s former colleagues, but how does it shape our view of the Bush presidency?

Fred at Center for American Progress

Fred on Twitter

Simone Campbell

Simone Campbell, executive director of NETWORK, a National Catholic Social Justice Lobby, discusses health care reform. The bill is an ongoing source of controversy, but she explains how Americans are already benefiting from the bill.

NETWORK’s stance on health care

NETWORK on Facebook

 

Congressman Brad Sherman

Bill Press interviews Congressman Brad Sherman. He says looking at our trade policies could offer the solution to our deficit problem.

Congressman Sherman online

The Bill Press Show

AmericasDemocrats.Org — July 10th, 2011

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James K. Galbraith


James K. Galbraith is an economist who has served in several positions on the staff of the U.S. Congress, including Executive Director of the Joint Economic Committee. He is a professor at the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin, a Senior Scholar of the Levy Economics Institute, and Chair of the Board of Economists for Peace and Security.  In this interview, says all the hype surrounding a double-dip recession is just a red herring. He tells us we should be more afraid of the cuts that are closing nursing homes and making seniors homeless.

Julius Getman


Julius Getman, professor of labor law at the University of Texas at Austin Law School, discusses his book Restoring the Power of Unions: It Takes a Movement.  He talks about the legal system’s historic prejudice against labor and says teachers deserve to have a say in their work.

James Clyburn


An interview by Bill Press with Assistant Democratic Leader James Clyburn, who says Democrats will take back the House of Representatives in 2012 if they send the message to Republicans that cutting Medicare is off limits.

AmericasDemocrats.org– May 22nd, 2011

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James K. Galbraith

James K. Galbraith is an economist who has served in several positions on the staff of the U.S. Congress, including Executive Director of the Joint Economic Committee. He is a professor at the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin, a Senior Scholar of the Levy Economics Institute, and Chair of the Board of Economists for Peace and Security.  In this interview, he talks about why the Republican budget plan is wrongheaded, and what would be a better way to reduce the deficit and spur economic recovery.

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  • LBJ School of Public Affairs

    • Jesse Bragg

    Jesse Bragg is the Executive Director of the Vermont Democratic Party.   He got a taste for Vermont politics while at the University of Vermont, and shortly after graduation, he jumped into the action, working for the Democratic party in 2008 in Burlington, helping Dan Smith with his mayoral campaign and then  joined up with Organizing for America to build support for issues such as national health care reform.  Here he tells us about Vermont’s Democratic Governor Peter Shumlin’s pledge to sign into law this week a bill to provide universal health care to Vermont residents.

    Vermont Democratic Party

    Congressman Chris Van Hollen

    Bill Press interviews U.S. Representative Chris Van Hollen (MD) on raising the debt ceiling, and the foiled attempt to end oil company subsidies.  He says Republican members of Congress are using the deficit reduction crusade for the purpose of “strangling government in the bathtub.”

    Congressman Van Hollen’s Website