Delegation Supports Think Progress’ Wish List
Rhode Island’s entire congressional delegation supports Think Progress‘ new wish list of progressive policy proposals to get passed. Gone from the list is the Violence Against Women Act, which Obama signed into law yesterday … thanks Sens. Reed and Whitehouse and Congressmen Cicilline and Langevin, for supporting it! Here’s the newly revised list, in case [...]
Sheldon Introduced Two of 2012 Most Important Bills
How important was the Ocean State’s own Senator Sheldon Whitehouse to the national progressive agenda in 2012? Two bills he sponsored in the year that was were flagged by ThinkProgress as being among the five most important pieces of legislation blocked by Republicans. Whitehouse’s DISCLOSE Act (which RI Future was the first news organization to [...]
NN Panel: No Such Thing as Progressive Security Policy
That’s my takeaway from the Netroots Nation panel Intervention, Isolation, and the Future of Progressive Security Policy (watch the full panel in that link), which was moderated by Adam Weinstein of Mother Jones; and featured Tom Perriello (fmr. U.S. Representative for VA-5 and now president of the Center for American Progress Action Fund), Dr. Kristin Lord (here on [...]
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