So you didn’t get one of the approximately 170 seats in the Supreme Court for yesterday’s opening hearing on the Affordable Care Act (ACA). Well, I didn’t either but I did get to talk to someone who was in the Chamber. Elizabeth Wydra is the chief counsel for the Constitutional Accountability Center. She practices before […]
The National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB) is basking in the media attention as being one of the plaintiffs against the Affordable Care Act. The Supreme Court starts hearing the case today. (Yesterday the New York Times did an excellent short summary of what will happen during each of the three days.) Today I received
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The argument that “free” trade will create more jobs here in the U.S. stands in stark contrast to the facts. Since the 2001 trade deal with China we’ve lost 6 million manufacturing jobs here at home. The calls for “fair” trade are growing. Our manufacturers find it almost impossible to compete with foreign manufacturers that
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Last June Governor Haley convinced House and Senate Republicans that the new immigration law they wanted to pass just had to have a mandatory E-Verify provision because of a recent Supreme Court decision. According to the Governor’s interpretation of that decision, only the federal E-Verify data base could be used to determine a person’s citizenship
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This week I’m off to DC to join David Levine, co-founder and director of the American Sustainable Business Council, in a media tour for the ASBC (I serve as vice-chair of the organization). We will be doing a few other things including have discussions with the Americans for Financial Reform and hopefully some Congressional staff
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State Senator Jake Knotts of Lexington County, South Carolina, is angry. Recently a school district in his county gave the contract to build a new school to a big Chinese general contractor that had the low bid. Senator Knotts shares the outrage of many of his constituents. While a local architectural firm is being hired
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Today or tomorrow all 50 states are expected to sign off on a $37 billion settlement with Bank of America, JPMorgan Chase, Wells Fargo, Citibank and Ally Financial that will provide compensation to homeowners who were harmed with nefarious foreclosure practices. This deal between the big banks and the states’ attorneys general will result in
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CNN OpinionJanuary, 26, 2012 By David Brodwin, Special to CNN (CNN) — Two years ago, the Supreme Court upended the rules for campaign finance, unleashing a tsunami of unregulated, unrestricted and undisclosed spending that has, in effect, allowed donors to buy elections. The full impact of this decision is just now becoming clear, and it’s
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I’m sending this Congress a plan that gives every responsible homeowner the chance to save about $3,000 a year on their mortgage, by refinancing at historically low interest rates. No more red tape. No more runaround from the banks. A small fee on the largest financial institutions will ensure that it won’t add to the
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One of the issues we are expecting to hear about in President Obama’s State of the Union address tomorrow night is the housing crisis. Economists tell us that the nation’s economy won’t dramatically improve until the housing market stabilizes and demand for new homes gets back on track. That’s how important the housing construction industry
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