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Coffman Wants More Workers Laid Off

Posted on January 16 2011 by Congress Watcher

Mike Coffman introduced H. R. 270, a bill that would force 2.75 million workers into unpaid layoffs in a time of high unemployment.

22 Senators Sacrifice Made in the USA Shoes on the Altar of Corporate Profit

Posted on October 28 2010 by Congressional Aid

“The duties currently imposed by the United States were set in an era during which high rates of duty were intended to protect production of footwear in the United States…. Footwear duties, which are higher on lower price footwear, serve no purpose…” –

Why Did 45 Senators Vote to Reward Job Exports?

Posted on September 29 2010 by Congressional Aid

The way our economy is set up now, if American corporations really want to ship all their factories and jobs overseas, they can. But should the government reward that behavior? Under the tax code, that’s just what the government does today. Corporations today can get tax deductions and tax credits for firing American workers and [...]

Akaka Notes Loophole In Proposed Federal Hiring Freeze

Posted on September 27 2010 by Congress Watcher

The supposed “hiring freeze” is less about fiscal responsibility than it is about a transfer of power away from democratically-established public institutions, into the corporate realm.

Yarmuth Exposes The Frozen Trickle Down

Posted on September 16 2010 by Congress Watcher

Why the gap between Republican economic theory and economic reality? Why did the temporary tax reductions for wealthy Americans fail to create jobs?

Dan Coats: Now that I’m Running For Senate, I Wish I Wasn’t a Lobbyist

Posted on September 10 2010 by Congressional Aid

Dan Coats, running for the U.S. Senate after selling his house in Virginia and his other house in North Carolina so he could buy a new house in Indiana, admits that he’s made lots of money as a corporate lobbyist in Washington, DC, where he worked to keep jobs away from America and in cheaper [...]

Southern Blue Dogs Vote Against Jobs Bill

Posted on August 12 2010 by Congress Watcher

The jobs bill passed the House and was signed into law this week, but not without the opposition of three Democrats who joined the GOP in asserting that America’s schoolchildren were a “special interest” that shouldn’t be helped.

Pakistan Taliban Support Rewarded By Lugar-Kerry Bill

Posted on August 1 2010 by Congress Watcher

Economically and militarily, the Pakistani-American Enterprise Fund Act is contrary to the national interest of the United States.

Illinois Shimkus Rants Against Protecting Gulf Shores From Oil Spills

Posted on July 21 2010 by Congress Watcher

The real choice that we face is a choice between jobs that create a cleaner, more sustainable economy, and jobs that maintain the dangerous, dirty economy of the past.

Chuck Schumer Talks Tough on American Jobs While Sending them to China

Posted on April 6 2010 by Congressional Aid

Senator Charles Schumer went on a public relations offensive yesterday, stepping before the microphones to declare that “To me, nothing is more important than jobs.” Standing in front of American factory workers at a “New York based company that sees its sales and supply chains undercut by Chinese imports,” he gestured back toward them and [...]

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