Recent Votes

• Republicans Spend Big On Tax-Payer Funded Flyers | ThinkProgress

  Source: Think Progress

  The House Tea Party Caucus, chaired by Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN), says it seeks to represent the views of the people who have “had enough of the reckless spending and vast government overreach coming from Washington.” 

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• It's time to break up the big banks

  Source: The Washington Post

  Consider $2 billion lost on a bad bet, plus billions more as investors dumped the stock, a providential warning. When Jamie Dimon, the imperious head of JPMorgan Chase, revealed that the bank had lost so much on a derivatives trade gone bad, it was clear war …

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• Mr. Boehner and the Debt: Speaker John Boehner pushed the country to the brink of default last year and now wants to do it all over again.

  Source: The New York Times

  It clearly does not bother Speaker John Boehner that he pushed the United States to the brink of default last year. It does not matter that the deep spending cuts in the resolution he demanded to end that crisis will hurt economic growth. It does not even matter that the House  …

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• The Third Party Fantasy

  Source: The New York Times

  “Third parties are like bees,” the intellectual historian Richard Hofstadter wrote in 1955. “Once they have stung, they die.” It’s an aphorism that aptly describes the anti-slavery and anti-immigrant parties of the mid-nineteenth century, the Popul …

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• Mitt Romney Debt Speech Ignores Key Facts

  Source: The Huffington Post

  WASHINGTON (AP) — When Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney decried the "prairie fire" of U.S. debt Tuesday, he ignored some of the sparks that set it ablaze.

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