Nanjeanne
Nanjeanne's JournalExcited about the leadership of the Congressional Progressive Caucus! Expect great things.
Washington Rep. Pramila Jayapal and Wisconsin Rep. Mark Pocan will serve as co-chairs of the Congressional Progressive Caucus for the 116th Congress.
The CPC which will have more than 90 members next year held its leadership elections Thursday, which also saw California Rep. Ro Khanna chosen to replace Jayapal as first vice chair.
Minnesota Rep.-elect Ilhan Omar was elected CPC whip.
https://www.rollcall.com/news/politics/jayapal-joins-pocan-as-co-chair-of-congressional-progressive-caucus
LA Times Excellent Article on Mercatus/Sanders dust-up
A Koch-funded think tank tries hard to pretend that it didn't find savings from Bernie Sanders' Medicare planWe know this because Mercatus has sent out several emails pushing back against reports about the finding. And the papers author, Mercatus fellow Charles Blahous, took to the opinion page of the Wall Street Journal to complain that some have seized on a scenario in my estimates showing a slight decline in projected total public and private health expenditures under Medicare for All.
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In other words, Blahous counted all the increases in costs and attributed them all to the government, without placing his government spending figures in the context of the reduced spending by individuals and businesses or the gains in health services. Thats some world-class cherry-picking right there.
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Its long. Highly recommend reading the whole article. Full of interesting points. http://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-hiltzik-blahous-sanders-20180822-story.html
YAY! The Nuns On The Bus are back!!!! And off to Mar-A-Lago!
The goal of the October tour is to highlight GOP House members support for the $1.2 trillion tax cut law, which is unpopular in public opinion polling. Critics have assailed the law for increasing the budget deficit and income inequality. The law remains popular in some Republican-leaning states and with the GOPs donor class but hasnt proven to be the midterm winner many GOP operatives hoped.
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/nuns-on-the-bus-republican-tax-cut-law_us_5b79f156e4b0a5b1febc6415
Congratulations on some great wins -- Ilhan Omar, Ironstache, Christine Hallquist, Ellison
and more!
Plus more Dems showed up at the primaries than Rs. Which is always good news. Saw these figures reported but not able to copy tweet right now.
MNGov:
571,942 (D)
314,631 (R)
D+257,000
WIGov:
522,347 (D)
438,731 (R)
D+84,000
CTGov:
206,492 (D)
142,536 (R)
D+64,000
VTGov:
57,102 (D)
35,840 (R)
D+21,000
Classy Tweet from Abdul El-Sayed. Democratic unity - should be a goal of all.
https://twitter.com/AbdulElSayed/status/1025436601147682816
Progressive House Dems start Medicare For All Caucus
https://www.thenation.com/article/house-democrats-bet-big-medicare/Democrats have to get a lot more comfortable speaking the language that Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal (D-WA) employed Thursday when she said, Health care cannot be a luxury thats only available for the wealthy and well-connectedit is a human right.
Jayapal used those words to announce the formation of the House Medicare for All Caucus. Chaired by Representatives Jayapal, Debbie Dingell (D-MI) and Keith Ellison (D-MN), and strongly supported by key figures such as Congressional Progressive Caucus co-chairs Raúl Grijalva (D-AZ) and Mark Pocan (D-WI), the caucus will take the lead in arguing for HR 676, a Medicare for All measure sponsored by Ellison.
Ellisons bill has already attracted 122 House co-sponsorstwo-thirds of House Democratsand the caucus will seek to expand those numbers. But it will do a lot more than that. The development of the caucus raises the profile of the fight for health-care reform not just in Congress but nationally.
So far 70 House DMs have signed on to the Caucus. Not mine in insurance run CT but Ill keep working on mine. Encourage yours to sign on if they havent already.
Barbara Lee considering a bid for House Democratic Leadership role held by Rep. Cowley
And I can get behind that . . . Integrity and compassion.
[link:https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/wp/2018/06/28/barbara-lee-a-stalwart-of-the-left-considering-bid-for-house-democratic-leadership/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.037446a151fd|
I was not seriously considering this until Tuesday night, Lee said. If this were not an open seat, Id be making a different calculation. But things move fast around here, and I didnt want to wait until November to start looking at this.
Ben Jealous wins Maryland Gov Primary
Congratulations. Well done.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/md-politics/maryland-democrats-choose-between-insurgents-and-party-establishment-in-crowded-primary/2018/06/26/a3aabc9a-77a8-11e8-80be-6d32e182a3bc_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.7cfb2caba0fb
The brave Democrats and Independent who didnt buy McConnells promise
Only 15 Democrats held out today.
Blumenthal, Booker, Cortez-Masto, Feinstein, Gillibrand, Harris, Hirono, Leahy, Menendez, Merkley, Murphy, Sanders, Tester, Warren, Wyden.
It's about moral courage.
And as soon as the remaining Dems voted with the Rs it was announced that Trump wouldnt sign the bi-partisan Graham-Durbin bill per WH spokesperson on CNN.
Meanwhile 2000 more Dreamers lose status between now and Feb 8.
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