Newsflash:
Syria: the threats, costs, claims and lives What the civil war in Syria has exposed is that the massive political and social transformation, and real regime change under way is led by people themselves. US military involvement serves only to escalate the destruction. Read the Full Story
Pentagon Said to Seek $80 Billion for War Amid Withdrawal The Pentagon will ask Congress to approve about $79.5 billion for combat operations, the least since 2005, as U.S. troops withdraw from Afghanistan, according to administration officials. Read the Full Story
Jerry Brown: California’s Mystery Man One of California’s great mysteries is the state’s governor, Jerry Brown. In a time when America’s politicians strive to be everywoman and everyman, Brown goes his own way. While a nation frantically chases youth, the 75-year-old governor who glories in his age and experience, is at the top of his game. Read the Full Story
No Koch News: A Movement to Unsubscribe After years of mismanagement, the Tribune Company newspapers -- including the Chicago Tribune and L.A. Times -- are up for sale.  And one of the potential buyers? The Koch brothers.  And wow are people outraged! Read the Full Story
Video: Pentagon Accused of 'Rewriting Constitution' to Wage Endless War in Senate Hearing Pentagon officials today claimed President Obama and future presidents have the power to send troops anywhere in the world to fight groups linked to al-Qaeda, based in part on the Authorization for Use of Military Force (AUMF), passed by Congress days after the attacks on Sept. 11, 2001. Read the Full Story
An urgent message to 200 members of Congress They fanned out across the country from Los Angeles to Phoenix, Chicago, south to Atlanta and Miami, to the towns of Western Massachusetts, in New York City and beyond, and they entered offices on Capitol Hill in a national “Educate Congress” letter-drop campaign. Read the Full Story
When the IRS targeted liberals Under George W. Bush, it went after the NAACP, Greenpeace and even a liberal church.                          Read the Full Story
Logo Lowdown from the 2012 elections. Part 1--donors on the record Here's who is buying America's democracy The spark that ignited tea party wrath in 2008 was not such right-wing bugaboos as "Obamacare," the federal deficit, or states' rights, which were added on later by Koch-created front groups. Read the Full Story
Logo Lowdown from the 2012 elections. Part 2--donors OFF the record, or off the radar The money swamp created by Citizens United: Dark Money, corporate shell games, and SuperPAC plutocrats Some of you might remember "CREEP" from 1972's Nixon-McGovern matchup. It could've been an apt code name for Tricky Dick himself, but instead it referred to the "Committee to RE-Elect the President." Read the Full Story
H.R. 1000, the “Humphrey-Hawkins Full Employment and Training Act” Since 2000 more than 50,000 manufacturing facilities in the U.S. have closed and roughly 50,000 industrial jobs have been lost each month.  Now service sector jobs, where the remaining two-thirds of all workers are currently employed, are disappearing.   Read the Full Story
Former Attorney General Ramsey Clark Decries Government's "Big Brother" Seizure of AP Phone Records The Associated Press says the U.S. Department of Justice has secretly obtained a trove of journalists' phone records in what its chief executive called a "massive and unprecedented intrusion Read the Full Story
MAJOR PUSH AT CONGRESS: PROSPERITY, NOT AUSTERITY More Than 175 Members of Congress to be urged to Support Legislation  to Tax Wall Street, Raise Revenue for Main Street Recovery and Bring a Halt to Austerity

 Read the Full Story
image Syria: the threats, costs, claims and lives
image Pentagon Said to Seek $80 Billion for War Amid Withdrawal
image Jerry Brown: California’s Mystery Man
image No Koch News: A Movement to Unsubscribe
image Video: Pentagon Accused of 'Rewriting Constitution' to Wage Endless War in Senate Hearing
image An urgent message to 200 members of Congress
image When the IRS targeted liberals
image Logo Lowdown from the 2012 elections. Part 1--donors on the record
image Logo Lowdown from the 2012 elections. Part 2--donors OFF the record, or off the radar
image H.R. 1000, the “Humphrey-Hawkins Full Employment and Training Act”
image Former Attorney General Ramsey Clark Decries Government's "Big Brother" Seizure of AP Phone Records
image MAJOR PUSH AT CONGRESS: PROSPERITY, NOT AUSTERITY
Monday, 28 November 2011 00:00

Newsmakers with Rep. Raul Grijalva (D-AZ)

Written by  C-SPAN
Newsmakers with Rep. Raul Grijalva (D-AZ)

Our guest on Newsmakers was Rep. Raul Grijalva (D-AZ), co-chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus. He gives the House Progressives’ perspective on what’s next for deficit reduction, federal spending and legislative priorities overall, after the deficit "Super Committee" failed to come to an agreement. The Progressive Caucus said this week it will present its own plan for deficit reduction and jobs.

 

During his interview, Rep. Grijalva said that the Progressive Caucus plan would save $5.7 trillion over the next 10 years, and that the bill must take an active role in generating jobs. Some of the elements of this plan would include a millionaire's tax, emergency jobs to restore America, an infrastructure bank, a Buy America First provision, currency bills, a speculation tax, and a veterans' bill. He also discussed protecting Medicare and Medicaid by letting Medicare negotiate drug prices, and protecting Social Security by lifting the payroll cap of $106,000 per year. Rep. Grijalva noted that these savings were independent of any expiration of the Bush tax cuts that currently are set to lapse at the end of next year, which could generate an additional savings of $3.7 trillion.

When asked by reporters to give President Obama a grade for his first three years, Rep. Grijalva said that he gave the president a "passing grade," explaining further that he considers that to be around a B- or C. On immigration, however, he gave President Obama a "low grade" of a D, citing a lack of push on comprehensive immigration reform that has led to various state laws being passed, but that he applauds the recent pragmatic direction the president has taken.

Read complete article and watch video on C-SPAN

Read 3307 times Last modified on Sunday, 11 December 2011 15:00
Published in Rep. Raul Grijalva
More in this category: « Mining and Indians Don't Mix Howard Dean And Democracy For America Endorse Raul Grijalva, Donna Edwards »
back to top

PDA In Your State