Annie Lowery, our Washington Independent colleague, writes today on the efforts of the Payday loan industry to stop U.S. Sen. Kay Hagan (D-N.C.) in her effort on the federal level to rein in the worst of the payday abuses.…
Just hours after Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., announced that he’d whip “aggressively” for the public option if the House includes it in its reconciliation bill, Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., killed the idea. The Washington Post quotes Pelosi saying…
Today, some of the women of the U.S. Senate took to the chamber floor and made their case for health reform. Maryland Democrat Barbara Mikulski reiterated what many women around the country have been saying and what many, many more…
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