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Press Briefing by Principal Deputy Press Secretary Josh Earnest, 3/28/2012

29 March 2012 – 12:38 am PDT

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Release Time: For Immediate Release Location: James S. Brady Press Briefing Room 2:25 P.M. EDT MR. EARNEST: Good afternoon, everybody. It's nice to see you all. I don’t know if there's anybody who made the trek back from Seoul and showed up — oh, there's one in the back. Q Just for [...]

Building the Workforce of the Future at Community Colleges

29 March 2012 – 12:37 am PDT

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Dr. Jill Biden was at the Mercer County Community College in New Jersey this morning, the latest stop in her “Community College to Career” tour. Last month, Dr. Biden and Secretary of Labor Hilda Solis hit the road for a bus tour through Ohio, Kentucky, Tennessee, and Virginia where they visited community colleges that have formed [...]

It’s Time to End the Taxpayer Subsidies for Big Oil

29 March 2012 – 12:37 am PDT

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Tomorrow, Congress has a real opportunity to do right by the American people. In response to President Obama’s repeated call to end the unwarranted tax breaks for big oil companies – which cost the American taxpayers billions of dollars each year – Congress will vote on a bill that could end these subsidies once and [...]

A Wounded Warrior Embraces the New Normal: Part Two

29 March 2012 – 12:37 am PDT

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Ed. note: This week, warriorcare.mil will feature the story of a catastrophically wounded Service member and his saga of recovery to employed Veteran. In an effort to highlight what our wounded veterans can offer to private and public organizations, we chose to focus on retired Army Master Sergeant, Jeffrey Mittman. His story is one of conviction [...]

House Republicans Fiddle While Bridges Crumble

29 March 2012 – 12:36 am PDT

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As of Wednesday afternoon, House Republicans were at an impasse within their own caucus on how to move forward on a surface transportation funding bill. There is a real possibility that, because of this impasse, federal funding for transportation projects would abruptly stop at the end of this week, with Congress out of Washington on [...]

Obama’s Plan B For Saving The Climate Is In Effect

29 March 2012 – 12:36 am PDT

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Yesterday the EPA released a new rule setting greenhouse gas emission limits on new power plants, which are strict enough to effectively ban new coal plants that lack the ability to capture and sequester carbon. This is a major step in the Obama administration’s “Plan B” to save the climate and create clean energy jobs, [...]

Every Progressive Should Know About The “Budget For All”

29 March 2012 – 12:36 am PDT

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Every Progressive Should Know About The “Budget For All”

Every progressive should know about the Congressional Progressive Caucus’s “Budget for All.” In fact, every American should know about this budget. But the corporate news media sure isn’t going to tell people. So you should help get the word out. Read and Share the One-Page Handout. Email this post to friends, relatives, and especially to [...]

Only People Can Vote—Only People Should Finance Campaigns, within Limits

29 March 2012 – 12:36 am PDT

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Reintroducing the Citizens Election Amendment…. Version 2.0 Since the U.S. Supreme Court decided the Citizens United case two years ago, saying that the Constitution gives corporations the right to spend without limit to influence American elections, people have been asking “how can we amend the Constitution to put this right?” Now we are in the [...]

Lampooning Immigration Jails While Exploiting the War on Women: Does the House Immigration Subcommitee Have Any Standards of Decency?

29 March 2012 – 12:36 am PDT

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This afternoon, the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Immigration Policy and Enforcement is holding a hearing called "Holiday on ICE: The U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s New Immigration Detention Standards." (webcast here, ACLU statement here). The hearing’s title and premise insult the U.S. Constitution by denigrating Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s belated attempt to introduce basic, constitutionally [...]

ACLU to Speak at Briefing on Workplace Discrimination Against LGBT Employees

29 March 2012 – 12:36 am PDT

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On Thursday, the ACLU, as well as partner organizations, will speak at a congressional briefing hosted by Rep. Frank Pallone (D-N.J.) on the subject of sexual orientation and gender identity discrimination in the workplace and the steps that can be taken to prevent such discrimination. The ACLU has long fought for passage in Congress of [...]

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