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Ralph Nader: "Where is Corporate Patriotism?"
Last year Ralph Nader wrote to Tim Cook, the CEO of Apple: "Corporations and their attorneys like to be judged as 'persons' under our constitutions and laws. So it is entirely appropriate to judge the...
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OR-Sen: Jeff Merkley (D) Fights For Dodd-Frank While House GOP Keeps Trying...
House Republicans continue to find ways to weaken and gut Wall Street reform, this time through an agriculture budgeting bill: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/... Republicans in Congress have been...
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MI-Sen: Gary Peters (D) Rakes In More Than $1 Million For U.S. Senate Bid
Congressman Gary Peters (D. MI-14), who is running for Senator Carl Levin's (D. MI) seat, must be all smiles today: http://www.freep.com/... U.S. Rep. Gary Peters has already raised more than...
View ArticleReid told reporters he has the 51 votes he will need to change the rules.
I will not believe it until it's done. I will not believe it until it's done. I will not believe it until it's done.Even if it is right there in print.Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., set the...
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Gillibrand gets two unlikely allies in fight against military sexual assault
Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand is not giving up on her efforts to have military sexual assault dealt with by legal experts, not military commanders, and she has picked up some rather...
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MI-Sen: Sierra Club Endorses Gary Peters (D) For U.S. Senate
Congressman Gary Peters (D. MI-14) received a big endorsement this week in his bid to succeed retiring Senator Carl Levin (D. MI): http://www.freep.com/... Michigan’s U.S. Senate election is 16 months...
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MI-Sen: Gary Peters (D) Seeks Investigation Of Pet Coke Near Detroit River
Some times there are just too many stories out there about Senate and Gubernatorial candidates that I don't have the time to report on all of them. But I am glad to see Congressman Gary Peters (D....
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MI-Sen: Jennifer Granholm (D) Endorses Gary Peters (D) For U.S. Senate
Congressman Gary Peters (D. MI-14) scored a big endorsement today in his bid for Senator Carl Levin's (D. MI) seat next year: http://thehill.com/... Former Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm (D) is...
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Syria: Diplomatic solutions explored, military threat remains
A group of senators is reportedly working on a proposal to authorize military force against Syria only if the removal of the country's chemical weapons by the United Nations failed; meanwhile, White...
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MI-Sen: Carl Levin (D) Fundraises For Gary Peters (D)
Received this fundraising e-mail from Senator Carl Levin (D. MI) today in support of Congressman Gary Peters (D. MI-14) bid to succeed him in the U.S. Senate: A few months ago, I decided that I would...
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MI-Sen: Gary Peters (D) Asks President Obama To Create Detroit Task Force To...
Glad to see someone looking out for Detroit's future: http://www.hometownlife.com/... U.S. Rep. Gary Peters sent President Barack Obama a letter Friday urging him to create a Detroit task force to...
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MI-Sen: GOP Consultant On Super PAC's Anti-Gary Peters (D) Ad, "It reminds me...
If there's one state where Republicans and right wing Super PACs have royally screwed up in terms of negative ads against Democrats. We all remember this ad from the 2012 Election season:Well the...
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MI-Sen: Gary Peters (D) Vows To Donate Salary To Charity If Government Shuts...
I like this: http://www.freep.com/... U.S. Rep. Gary Peters, D-Bloomfield Township, said today that if government shuts down he will not take his pay for the duration and instead donate it to local...
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MI-Sen: VoteVets Helps Gary Peters (D) Fight Back Against Tea Party Attacks
VoteVets is helping fellow veteran Rep. Gary Peters (D. MI-14), who is running for Senator Carl Levin's (D. MI) seat, fight back against the Tea Party's attacks: Throughout his career in Congress,...
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Levin plans 60-vote hurdle for military sexual assault bill he already tried...
Sen. Carl Levin (D-MI) faces a panel of top military leaders during a Senate hearing on military sexual assault.Oh, hey, what do you know. Senate Armed Services Committee Chair Carl Levin, a key...
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Gillibrand: 'We will have the votes' on military sexual assault bill
Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand's bill to put military sexual assault prosecutions in the hands of prosecutors, not military commanders with incentives against prosecution, will...
View ArticleSenate Votes Down Two Gitmo-Related Amendments. What Would They Have Done?
Yesterday, the Senate voted on two amendments to the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) regarding the closure of the Guantanamo Bay Detention Facility.The current text removes some of the...
View ArticleWhy Hasn't Sen. Elizabeth Warren Backed the Iran Deal?
There's a belief among both supporters and critics of diplomacy with Iran that Senate Democrats are afraid to speak up in support of the Administration's successful multilateral diplomacy with Iran...
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MI-Sen: Sen. Jon Tester (D. MT) Fundraises For Gary Peters (D)
U.S. Senator Jon Tester (D. MT) has been on a roll lately, helping fundraise for Democratic incumbents and candidates running in some tough races. Tester is now turning his attention on the Michigan...
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MI-Sen: Gary Peters (D) Introduces Bill To Fund Customs Plaza For New...
I haven't written about Congressman Gary Peters (D. MI-14), who is running for Senator Carl Levin's (D. MI) seat, in a while so I figured I'd check in and see what he's up to. Lately, he's been...
View Article22 Sen Democrats Sent a Letter to Obama to Tell Him That They're Okay with...
Yesterday, a group of 23 senators (22D, 1I) today sent a letter to President Obama regarding the negotiations between the P5+1 and Iran. The letter calls for Obama to include Congress more in the...
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MI-Gov: Sen. Carl Levin (D) Helps Mark Schauer (D) Get Ready To Take On Rick...
Received this e-mail from U.S. Senator Carl Levin (D. MI) in support of Mark Schauer's (D. MI) gubernatorial bid against Tea Party Governor Rick Snyder (R. MI): I'm confident that Mark Schauer has...
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Caterpillar Avoided $2.4 Billion in US Taxes
Caterpillar, the “world’s largest maker of construction and mining equipment,” avoided $2.4 billion in US corporate taxes by diverting $8 billion in profit through a Swiss affiliate. (The Guardian)...
View ArticleLevin Wants To Shut Off The Corporate Offshore Thievery
The corporate thieves running U.S.-based corporations are just counting the days until Carl Levin heads off to retirement at the end of this term. It was Levin, you may recall, who looked at Goldman...
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Senate Democrats pushing Holder to prosecute big banks
Sen. Carl Levin Seems like the Elizabeth Warren wing of the Senate might just be growing, and starting to really sink its teeth into "too big to fail or jail" banks.Congressional Democrats say Attorney...
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How Credit Suisse "got off easy avoiding criminal indictments and naming...
Lynnley Browning of Newsweek reveals a potential blockbuster of a story in How Credit Suisse Got Off Easy. Browning presents evidence that not only did Credit Suisse avoid any criminal charges for its...
View ArticleObama: Companies "cherry-picking the rules, and it damages the country’s...
I detect a president who thinks he's found a very potent political argument. Having gone soft on the bankers, letting all the big fish skate after wrecking the economy, the president has figured out...
View ArticleCorp Tax Evading And Fleeing The Country? Fine, Kiss Your Federal Dollars...
Corporate tax inversions are getting a lot of ink now (thanks largely to the heavy lifting done by the Levin brothers--Carl in the Senate, Sander in the House, and Citizens for Tax Justice...not,...
View ArticleIt's Not Hard To End Corporate Tax Dodging (Inversions): A Roadmap For...
It isn't complicated and it's not rocket science. The thievery underway in the form of corporate tax inversions can be stopped if there was a will to do so. It's a problem with three easy-to-describe...
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The case for net neutrality reclassification gets stronger
Another voice for net neutrality. The drumbeat for the Federal Communications Commission to solve the threat to net neutrality by reclassifying broadband as a public utility has been gaining steam....
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Cartoon: The Oversight Pissing Contest
Remember pussycats, Simulated Drowning is not torture.
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CIA Director John Brennan infuriates members of the Senate Intelligence...
2013 President Obama announces appointments of Chuck Hagel and John BrennanAli Watkins, of McClathcy's Washington Bureau writes New sparks fly between CIA, Senate Intelligence Committee. In a closed...
View ArticleCode Pink disrupts ISIS/ISIL Senate Armed Services Committee hearing
Code Pink is doing the job the Democratic Wing of the Democratic Party should be doing. They are not simply acquiescing to the false narrative being pushed by the Military Industrial Complex. They are...
View ArticleOn Preventing Iran War, Gary Peters is No Carl Levin
Most Democrats of a certain age will remember the moment in the 1988 Vice-Presidential debate when Dan Quayle, who was running around comparing himself to President Kennedy, got this comeuppance from...
View ArticleSenate Exposed Torture in 2009 Too
The Senate Armed Services Committee, chaired by Chairman Sen. Carl Levin (D-MI), published an investigative report on torture by the military and CIA in 2009. As it happens, I wrote about it at the...
View ArticleRevealed: How Big Oil Got Expedited Permitting for Fracking on Public Lands...
Cross-Posted from DeSmogBlogThe U.S. Senate has voted 89-11 to approve the Defense Authorization Act of 2015, following the December 4 U.S. House of Representatives' 300-119 up-vote and now awaits...
View ArticleNot Just Public Lands: Defense Bill Also Incentivizes Fracked Gas Vehicles
Cross-Posted from DeSmogBlogDeSmogBlog recently revealed how Big Oil’s lobbyists snuck expedited permitting for hydraulic fracturing (“fracking”) on public lands into the National Defense Authorization...
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Carl Levin is proud of Tiger Stadium site earmark
Yesterday was the groundbreaking for the Willie Horton Field of Dreams, the new headquarters of the Detroit Police Athletic League to be built on what used to be Tiger Stadium and was for a while known...
View ArticleMorning Digest: Disgraced and reviled coal magnate Don Blankenship plans...
The Daily Kos Elections Morning Digest is compiled by David Nir, Jeff Singer, Stephen Wolf, and Carolyn Fiddler, with additional contributions from David Jarman, Steve Singiser, Daniel Donner, James...
View ArticleMorning Digest: Eric Greitens indicted, and Missouri legislature commences...
The Daily Kos Elections Morning Digest is compiled by David Nir, Jeff Singer, Stephen Wolf, and Carolyn Fiddler, with additional contributions from David Jarman, Steve Singiser, Daniel Donner, James...
View ArticleMorning Digest: In bizarre, rambling speech, Republican Rep. Tom Garrett...
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View ArticleLevin and Lugar publish op-ed on congressional oversight
I’ve had the privilege to talk to Carl Levin face-to-face, albeit briefly, on a few occasions. At some point after leaving the Senate, I jokingly said something I can’t remember now. He responded...
View ArticleNominations are now open for the Carl Levin Award for Effective Oversight
Apparently a Republican won the 2018 Carl Levin Award for Effective Oversight.State Representative Weston J. Newton (R-SC), was selected for the 2018 Carl Levin Award for Effective Oversight for his...
View ArticleFormer Sen. Levin urges Congress not to hesitate in using 'inherent contempt'...
Carl Levin is a Michigan Democrat who spent 35 years in the United States Senate, serving through the tenures of six American presidents. As someone thoroughly acclimated to service in both majorities...
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Mr. Holland's Opus in the Army
Mr. Holland (Richard Dreyfus) did not serve in the military. There are still parallels to be drawn between Colonel Harold Van Heuvelen (U. S. Army, retired) and the fictional music teacher in the film...
View ArticleOne week left to nominate lawmakers for the Carl Levin Award for Effective...
There is now only one week left now to nominate legislators for the Carl Levin Award for Effective Oversight. The deadline is November 1. From the Levin Center at the Wayne State University Law...
View ArticleVery sad news, our former US Senator has passed. Thanks for your service,...
Coming from MI one politician I greatly admired was our US Senator, Carl Levin.I just read he passed. I do not have time to list all of his accomplishments, but I thought that he most defiantly needs...
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Senator Carl Levin, in memoriam
Senator Carl Levin (D-Michigan, 1979 — 2015) died yesterday. Lt. Gov. Garlin Gilchrist issued this statement:Senator Levin was a giant whose power and dedication was felt throughout our state....
View ArticleDemocrat Carl Levin, whose 36-year stint made him Michigan's longest-serving...
Michigan Democrat Carl Levin, whose service from 1979 to 2015 made him the Wolverine State’s longest-serving senator, died Thursday at the age of 87. Levin, who twice led the Armed Services Committee,...
View ArticleMorning Digest: Ex-congressman primarying governor targeted by Trump barely...
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