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• The Hypocrisy Of The 6 House Judiciary Members Who Voted To Impeach President Clinton In 1998, But Today Refused To Issue Contempt Citations Against Bush Administration Officials...

  Today, by a 22-17 party-line vote, the House Judiciary Committee issued contempt of Congress citations against White House Chief of Staff Joshua Bolten and President Bush's former legal counsel, Harriet Miers. The committee sanctioned the pair for their refusal to...

  Posted by David Sirota on July 25, 2007 1:10 PM
  Tags: Congress contempt Impeachment Judiciary Committee President Clinton

• Fighting for All Workers

  Last night, I argued that at best, the debate over immigration's impact on wages is a distraction from far bigger problems related to American labor law. Fortuitously, Tula Connell of AFL-CIO has a dKos diary announcing that the Senate will...

  Posted by David Sirota on June 15, 2007 11:47 AM
  Tags: Congress Employee Free Choice Act organized labor

• Quick Update on The Secret Trade Deal

  I won't even pretend to have David's knowledge of the trade issues going on, but I wanted to make sure to pass this along. Interesting news from Inside U.S. Trade, an industry newsletter:At press time, Administration trade officials and congressional...

  Posted by David Sirota on June 15, 2007 8:22 AM
  Tags: Congress corporate whores secret trade deal trade

• Some Clarification on Immigration

  I probably should have been clearer on this before, so I'm here to clarify now. I'm not a fan of the immigration bill. That's why I criticize the guest worker program -- a program that creates a second-class of citizens....

  Posted by David Sirota on June 14, 2007 5:04 PM
  Tags: Congress immigration immigration reform

• Rhetoric and Reality on Immigration

  Yesterday's post on immigration set off a flurry of nastiness -- that's precisely what I expected. Anti-immigrant voices are a minority in this country, but they're an extremely loud minority -- so loud that they've managed to convince the Conventional...

  Posted by David Sirota on June 14, 2007 10:51 AM
  Tags: Congress immigration immigration reform

• The Obvious "Secret" in the Immigration Debate

  The new L.A. Times poll sums it all up: "Large majority supports path to citizenship." Because of an extremely vocal far-right group of folks (and the prominence they're given by people like Lou Dobbs), it's become an accepted "fact" that...

  Posted by David Sirota on June 13, 2007 9:11 AM
  Tags: Congress immigration immigration reform political discourse

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