Month: April 2017
News & Views | 04.25.17
Betraying ‘Hire American’ Pledge, Trump Rewards Companies Offshoring US Jobsby Lauren McCauleyThough he has the power, President Trump has yet to wield his executive authority to stop U.S. jobs from being shipped abroad It’s Now Been Three Long Years Since
Udall, Democratic Senators Condemn Trump Executive Order Threatening National Monuments
Senators to Trump: ‘These monuments have been built upon the support of local communities and are economic drivers across the United States’ Today, U.S. Senator Tom Udall led a group of 31 Democratic senators in condemning President Trump’s executive order which threatens
Dodd-Frank Rollback Bill Could Result in Financial Disaster … AGAIN!
Today, at the only scheduled committee hearing to review Chairman Hensarling’s Wrong Choice Act 2.0, a bill that would destroy the most important parts of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act Congresswoman Maxine Waters (D-CA), Ranking Member of the
Really? This is Tax Reform to Improve the Lives of Middle Class Americans? NOT!
They’re introducing #TaxReform today which will provide massive tax cuts for corporations ….. to a mere 15% …. and guess who’s paying for that … YOU and me! And just so you understand what I mean, they’re dumping all “Obamacare” subsidies and
Not Prepared to Govern
There’s an excellent piece in today’s Washington Post regarding the tracking for key appointments filled thus far by the Trump administration. I can’t help but compare and contrast Trump with his Republican majorities in both houses with Obama’s 2008 Democrat majorities in
Advocacy: Don’t Let FCC Chairman Ajit Pai Kill Net Neutrality
Grassroots activists won an epic victory two years ago when together we pushed the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to pass strong net neutrality rules. Hundreds of thousands of CREDO members and millions of others fought for years to protect the free and
Falsehoods and Incoherence
If there’s one thing we can say about Trump’s presidency, it’s that it foments lies – blatant, continuous, and unsubstantiated lies. Advance forward through his first 100 days, and his most recent AP interview and here are 16 falsehoods he perpetrated on
This Week in the NV Assembly
— by Jason Frierson Empowering Nevada’s Hardworking Families On April 25th, we will pass the next big deadline of the session referred to as “First House Passage.” This deadline requires most of our proposed legislation to be voted out of the House
NV Assembly Activity for Empowering Nevada’s Hardworking Families
— Jason Frierson, Speaker, NV Assembly On April 14th, we passed an important deadline where most of the proposed legislation for the 2017 Session needed to be passed out of our legislative committees. We worked diligently through the deadline to process policies we