Jobs ! Jobs ! Jobs ! That was supposed to be the House Republican focus, but once again another monthly Labor Department Jobs Report was ignored by John Kline, the Chairman of the Education and Workforce Committee. For those that missed it, U.S. nonfarm payrolls added 175,000 jobs. Expectations were for 169,000 new jobs to [...]
Congress could learn a lot from Moriah Miles, the state chair of the Minnesota State University Student Association. Sadly, if you read Dr. Virginia Foxx (R-VA-05)’s press release concerning the April 16th Education and Workforce Committee hearing “Preparing for Higher Education Act Reauthorization, Subcommittee Explores the Role of Federal Student Aid”, you would not know [...]
Like having to pay for the clean up of Walmarts illegally dumping toxic waste, where tax payers involuntarily subsidize the profits of the Walton family, we are having to pay to make up the difference between a fair and significantly higher wage, and for the Walmart unfair, discriminatory and illegal labor practices, with the Walton [...]
The right wing politicos and their supporters like to whinge on and on and on, beating the drum of personal accountability. My observation is that you almost never, ever see any actual taking of responsibility by the right for the results of their policies or what they do legislatively. We see this in the failure [...]
QUERY Which Adage Best Describes John Kline : – If you’re not a part of the solution, there’s good money to be made in prolonging the problem. – If you’re not a part of the solution, you are the problem. – Both “As long as uncertainty hangs over our economy, small businesses and entrepreneurs will [...]
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Last fall, voters in Minnesota’s Second District had a choice for who should represent them in the House for the next two years. Incumbent John Kline was seeking his sixth term and campaigned on the need to amend the US Constitution with a Balanced Budget Amendment while claiming “we are all conservatives” … not Minnesotans, [...]
We have water problems; we have problems with long term drought, and we have problems with short term flooding. Flooding is the result of the too-rapid melting of our snow-pack, which does damage and which we then lose as run-off instead of replenishing our ground water. The MN GOP members of the legislature are whining [...]
This is a bookend post to one written by my colleague Holly at the beginning of last week. My apologies to my colleagues, because I had promised this to be done earlier, to build on the theme of the early child. It is late, not because I failed to work on it, but because no [...]
The Comment Chairman Kline Did Not Want To Hear : “Attempting to balance the budget by reducing federal aid to students diminishes our odds of future success.” That comment was made at a Field Hearing on “Reviving our Economy: The Role of Higher Education in Job Growth and Development” on April 9 at Monroe County [...]
With a record number of women in the workforce and two-thirds of women functioning as primary or co-bread winners for their families, one would think that a savvy politician like Erik Paulsen would read the Wall Street Journal for indicators of how voters feel on issues. Well, Representative Paulsen, who voted against the Lily Ledbetter [...]
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