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April 16, 2008
April 16, 2008Today, Philip E. Clapp, deputy managing director of the Pew Environment Group, issued the following statement on President Bush's global warming announcement. President Bush spoke on the eve of the third meeting of his Major Economies initiative in Paris. Mr. Clapp is attending this meeting, which runs Thursday, April 17 to Friday, April 18, 2008. Full release
In concert with a global celebration of the social work profession this week, two U.S. Senators, who are also trained social workers, have introduced legislation that will help the nation's 600,000 professional social workers better serve families and communities in need. Senator Barbara A. Mikulski (D-MD) and Debbie Stabenow (D-MI) introduced S. 2858 -- the Dorothy I. Height and Whitney M. Young Jr. Social Work Reinvestment Act -- to address a nationwide shortage of social workers. Full release
Speaker Nancy Pelosi spoke on the House floor today in support of H.R. 2634, the Jubilee Act for Responsible Lending and Expanded Debt Cancellation, which directs the Bush Administration to begin negotiations for an agreement with international creditors to allow up to 24 additional low-income countries to qualify for international debt relief. Full release
The following is a statement from Change to Win executive director Greg Tarpinian regarding presumptive Republican presidential nominee Sen. John McCain's economic proposals laid out yesterday in his speech at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. "For American voters, the American Dream is not about great wealth, it's about a good job with wages that support a family, access to affordable health care, a secure retirement, and the opportunity for a better future for our children. The economic proposals laid out by presidential candidate John McCain yesterday will do nothing to restore the American Dream for workers and their families."
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Speaker Nancy Pelosi released the following statement today ahead of President Bush's expected announcement this afternoon of Administration efforts on climate change: "After seven years of denying the seriousness of the climate crisis and delaying tough action to save the planet, President Bush finally will discuss the subject this afternoon. With just nine months left in his term, the White House has already made clear that the President's announcement today will not reverse his record on global warming before he leaves office." Full release
Today, The AFL-CIO Plans To Hold A Press Conference Announcing Plans To Spend $53 Million On A Campaign To Oppose Sen. John McCain's (R-AZ) Presidential Campaign. Full release
John McCain says he "will not leave office without balancing the federal budget" and at times has said he would even balance the budget by the end of his first term. [johnmccain.com, accessed 4/15/08; AP, 2/15/08] But the truth is, McCain's economic proposals would balloon the deficit, not shrink it. McCain has actually proposed trillions of dollars in new spending --including financing a 100-year, $12-billion-per-month troop presence in Iraq and making President Bush's tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans permanent. But still no word on how he plans to pay for it. [New York Times, 4/15/08; DNC Research Document, Released 4/15/08; Senate Budget Committee Fact Sheet, 1/24/08] Full release
FIX8, a division of Mobinex, Inc., a leader in virtual communications technology, today unveiled the company's "Fix that Issue" video featuring caricatures of Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama and Wolf Blitzer sparing on a virtual game show. The video, which can be viewed on YouTube (http://youtube.com/watch?v=E7150u9sfCo) or at http://www.Fix8.com/vote, demonstrates the capabilities of FIX8's Presidential Candidate Avatar Pack that's now available for a limited time as a free download. Full release
Obama Has Called For Higher Income Taxes, Social Security Taxes, Investment Taxes, And Corporate Taxes, As Well As "Massive New Domestic Spending." "Obama's transformation, if you go by his campaign so far, would mean higher income taxes, higher Social Security taxes, higher investment taxes, higher corporate taxes, massive new domestic spending, and a healthcare plan that perhaps could be the next step to a full-scale, single-payer system. Is that what most Americans want, someone who will fulfill a Democratic policy wish list?" (James Pethokoukis, "Barack Hussein Reagan? Ronald Wilson Obama?," U.S. News & World Report's "Capital Commerce" Blog, http://www.usnews.com, 2/12/08) Full release
Americans overwhelmingly want their next President to focus more on improving their standard of living, providing universal healthcare, and stemming the outsourcing of jobs overseas than making it easier for immigrants to live and work in the U.S., according to the latest "America At Work" national opinion survey by the non-partisan Employment Law Alliance (ELA). Full release