House Votes to Reverse Obama Administration’s Gutting of Welfare’s Work Requirements

This afternoon, the House voted to restore the work requirements that the Obama Administration has attempted to gut from the 1996 welfare reform law. The breakdown: 250 Republicans voted for restoration and 164 Democrats voted against the resolution. The 1996 reform inserted work requirements into the largest federal cash assistance welfare program, replacing the old […]

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Inside Story of Obama & Debt Ceiling Crisis: Cared More About Re-Election Than Global Economic Collapse

Inside story of Obama’s struggle to keep Congress from controlling outcome of debt ceiling crisis By Bob Woodward President Obama summoned the top four congressional leaders to the White House on Saturday morning, July 23, 2011. The night before, House Speaker John A. Boehner had withdrawn from negotiations to raise the $14 trillion federal debt limit […]

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President Obama We Agree

President Obama We Agree – “If I can’t have this economy turned around in my first term, it will be a one term proposition.” Please follow our lead, because the President hasn’t lead. Sign our Petition to President Obama at the White House and insist that he keeps at least one campaign promise; withdraw from […]

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Greens Debate Socialists Over Nuclear Power

Despite the change in power in France and German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s open support for former French president Nicolas Sarkozy in the recent French presidential elections, she has been quick to patch up relations with Sarkozy’s successor Francois Hollande and to establish a common position with regard to Greece. The two countries, however, appear to […]

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