Category: TAN Headlines
Will President Obama Betray Senate Democrats in State of the Union Speech?
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has ruled out Social Security cuts in any plan to replace the sequester. In the State of the Union address, President Obama can either stand with Harry Reid and Senate Democrats–or betray them.
Racism on Display: Washington, D.C.’s Status in Congress
As our nation promotes representative democracy around the world, it is time to finally bring it to those who don’t have it here in the United States — the citizens of Washington, D.C.
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Meet the Press remains silent
Meet the Press is the oldest and most treasured public affairs show on television. The program’s host, merely by occupying the job, is a leader in broadcast journalism and in the Washington, D.C. community where the show is based.
Obama: ‘We have been through this too many times’
President Obama today mourned the loss of life in the Connecticut school massacre and issued a call to action. Obama said: “[W]e’re going to have to come together and take meaningful action to prevent more tragedies like this, regardless of the politics.”
White House Press Secretary Jay Carney earlier said it was inappropriate to discuss the politics of gun control so soon after a gunman murdered 26 people — including 20 children — at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn. But a visibly upset Obama seemed poised to open the debate sometime soon, suggesting in his remarks that the status quo is unacceptable.
The text of Obama’s remarks is
available here.
Obama stands tough, Beltway freaks out
(For more on the fiscal cliff negotiations check out David’s discussion with Charlie Mitchell, #TAN Editor-in-Chief, in the first half hour of last week’s radio show here or continue on.)
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In Coney Island Public Housing, People’s Relief & Local Residents Fill Void Left by Government
Public housing high-rise building in Coney Island. Photo: Matt Richter.
The new grassroots organizing group People’s Relief and local residents have taken control of Hurricane Sandy relief efforts in several Coney Island public housing developments where government agencies’ performance has been inadequate or inconsistent, according to multiple resident association presidents, community members and People’s Relief volunteers. (People’s Relief works closely with Occupy Sandy and shares their resources, but is a separate, independent organization.)
Lame-duck Congress aims for compromise with Sportsmen’s Act
TakeActionNews.com, in collaboration with Popvox.com, will offer quick and easy links so you can track and weigh in on all the action in the most important lame-duck session of Congress in a generation.
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President of Public Housing Development in Hard-Hit Coney Island Calls Occupy Sandy a “Godsend”
Coney Island residents picking up aid supplies at Occupy Sandy's hub at Gospel Assembly Church. Photo courtesy of Sam Deitch.
Occupy Sandy was a “Godsend” for Coney Island public housing residents who were stranded without power, food or water after Hurricane Sandy, according to Deborah Franklin-Reed, the president of the residents association for the public housing development Coney Island houses. Franklin-Reed credited the People’s Relief, field volunteers working with Occupy Sandy, with helping pioneer distribution methods that the New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA) is now planning to make available to other public housing developments in Coney Island. Continue Reading
Get ready for the lame-duck session of Congress
The 112th Congress will reconvene Nov. 13th
The 112th Congress reconvenes Nov. 13 with nothing less than the fate of the U.S. economy on the line.
In play in November and December: the expiring Bush tax cuts, an expanding alternative minimum tax poised to capture more and more middle class taxpayers, the expiring payroll tax cut that has been a boon to middle class households during the recession, cuts in physician reimbursements under Medicare, and the looming budget “sequestration,” which will automatically cut just under $50 billion in federal spending beginning in January and $500 billion over 10 years.
Red tape or red herring?
A new report by the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service largely knocks down assertions by presidential nominee Mitt Romney and other Republicans that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has initiated a regulatory feeding frenzy under President Obama.
You can read about the CRS report and link to the study here.
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