Corp 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...
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 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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