Members of Congress exercise their muscle on TPP Public Citizen ...69 Members of Congress (68 democrats and one republican) sent a letter to President Obama urging him to reconsider US proposals for the TPP that would effectively ban popular Buy American and buy local government contracting policies...
Big Fiscal Phonies (opinion) New York Times ... there have been some job gains in the McMansion State since Mr. Christie took office, but they have lagged gains both in the nation as a whole and in New York and Connecticut, the obvious points of comparison....
Florida Telling Hundreds Of Eligible Citizens That They Are Ineligible To Vote ThinkProgress ...Florida Governor Rick Scott (R) has ordered the state to purge all “non-citizens” from the voting rolls prior to November’s election. But that list compiled by the Scott administration is so riddled with errors that, in Miami-Dade County alone, hundreds of U.S. citizens are being told they are ineligible to vote...
Wisconsin Government Diverts Funds from Foreclosure Relief Econbrowser ...States have diverted $974 million from this year’s landmark mortgage settlement to pay down budget deficits or fund programs unrelated to the foreclosure crisis, according to a ProPublica analysis. That’s nearly forty percent of the $2.5 billion in penalties paid to the states under the agreement...
'No memory' of signing Kohl-Feingold petitions, Walker says Milwaukee Journal Sentinel ...Walker has said during the campaign that he is opposed to recalls of public officials, based on policy decisions they make in office...
Canada set to force striking rail employees to work Reuters ...Talks between Canadian Pacific Railway Ltd and the union representing 4,800 striking locomotive engineers have broken down, paving the way for the government to bring in legislation forcing them back to work, the company said on Sunday...
