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Consumer Groups Love Dodd's Proposed Financial Regulation | McClatchy Washington Bureau

Cecille Isidro — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 19:07:00 -0500

"The House and the Senate are singing from the same songbook," said Reid Cramer, a financial services expert at the New America Foundation, a moderate to ...

How Chavez May Have Spoiled Ousted Honduran Leader's Return | McClatchy Washington Bureau

Cecille Isidro — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 19:51:00 -0400

"Chavez once again shot his mouth off," said Jorge Castaneda, a former Mexican foreign minister and respected writer on the Latin American left. ...

Baucus Unveils Health Plan, Draws Fire from All Sides | McClatchy Washington Bureau

Cecille Isidro — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 17:57:00 -0400

"What you're seeing is people offering substantive changes," said Elizabeth Carpenter, the associate policy director at the liberal New America Foundation's ... and more »

As Usual, Congress Is Way Behind on Budget Bills | McClatchy Washington Bureau

Cecille Isidro — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 14:30:00 -0400

... budget process is broken, and this is another one," said Maya MacGuineas, president of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, a watchdog group. ... and more »

Obama's Challenge: Selling Health Reform to the Middle Class | McClatchy Newspapers

Cecille Isidro — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 15:19:00 -0400

"The middle class absolutely is the constituency that will determine" the outcome of the health care debate this year, said Len Nichols, director of the health policy program at the New America Foundation, a Washington think tank. "It will come down to Obama's portrayal of the benefits of the new world" of change versus the status quo of rising premiums and the difficulties of getting individual insurance...

Congress Stuffs War-Funding Bill with Cash for Other Items | McClatchy Newspapers

Cecille Isidro — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 16:00:00 -0400

"It's politics as usual in Washington," said Marc Goldwein, the policy director at the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, a nonpartisan budget watchdog group. Few members of Congress objected to the spending surge. One dissenting Senate voice ...

Health Overhaul Hard Enough, But Then There's Paying for It | McClatchy Newspapers

Cecille Isidro — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 17:42:00 -0400

Marc Goldwein, the policy director for the nonpartisan Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, estimates that Obama's health care policies would cost more than the White House figured -- he estimated $150 billion a year. ...

Why Iran's Election Result is Suspect | McClatchy Newspapers

Cecille Isidro — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 22:55:00 -0400

The groups Terror Free Tomorrow and the New America Foundation conducted the telephone poll of 1001 voters. There also are good reasons to be suspicious, however. Things seemed to go well on election day, when Iranians by the millions -- a record ...

Blue Dog Democrats Could Have Major Role in Shaping Health Bill | McClatchy Newspapers

Cecille Isidro — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 21:31:00 -0400

Maya Macguineas, the president of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, cautions Congress against creating a new entitlement program when the government is struggling with the cost of Medicare, the federal program for the elderly, ...

With Elections in February, Israel Searching for Its Obama | McClatchy Newspapers

Cecille Isidro — Thu, 28 May 2009 21:08:00 -0400

The problem in Israel, said former Israeli adviser Daniel Levy, is that the nation's voters are still largely driven by fear, whereas Obama's election was a direct rejection of the politics of fear. In the upcoming election, voters are facing a choice ...