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Chicago protesters swamp Ryan over Medicare attack
May 16, 2011CHICAGO - Hundreds of demonstrators chanting "Hands off our Medicare!" filled the block while GOP Rep. Paul Ryan was inside addressing the Economics Club, trying to sell his budget proposal.
Read moreJoint session of Congress to hear the president on jobs
September 01, 2011President Obama and House Speaker John Boehner agreed Wednesday night to a joint session of Congress, ending yet another GOP attempt to embarrass the president.
Read moreLabor journalists see themselves as a voice for workers
September 23, 2011Sometimes the mainstream media just doesn't get it.
Read moreUnions urge House GOP to stop holding workers and the jobless hostage
December 20, 2011The AFL-CIO is urging everyone to call House Speaker John Boehner at 202-225-0600, telling him to stop playing politics with the lives of working families.
Read moreRepublicans fall off the deep end
December 21, 2012Capping off the biggest legislative circus in a hundred years was the collapse on Capitol Hill last night of Republican House Speaker John Boehner's "Plan B."
Read moreBernie Sanders makes it official: he’s running for president
April 30, 2015Bernie Sanders announced on the steps of the U.S. Capitol yesterday that he was running for the Democratic Party's nomination for the presidency.
Read moreTrump: Climate change is “not a big problem at all”
September 17, 2015Trump declared, "I consider climate change to be not one of our big problems. I think it's the weather."
Read moreTrump sends aircraft carrier and strike force to threaten Iran
May 06, 2019He refuses to cite any specific threats or dangers to the U.S. but lays groundwork for an attack anyway.
Read moreHearings yield more evidence of Trump’s threat to national security
November 21, 2019Fiona Hill openly challenged Republicans, demanding that they stop pushing the “fictional narrative” that it was Ukraine and not Russia that interfered in the 2016 U.S. elections.
Read morePush to reopen early behind current COVID outbreak in South
June 23, 2020Health experts trace current coronavirus infection spike in many Southern and Western states to tossing of restrictions and lockdowns in time for Memorial Day.
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