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Leaders of the Congressional Progressive Caucus Call for Reinstatement of Assault Weapons Ban
8/5/19Alongside the entire nation, the unspeakable acts of violence in El Paso and Dayton have left us horrified and brokenhearted. There is a gun violence epidemic in this country and it has gone unaddressed for far too long.
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Congressional Progressive Caucus Statement on the Budget Caps Agreement
7/24/19Budgets are moral documents. Line item by line item, they outline the priorities and values of a nation. And for far too long, our budgets have revealed a callous indifference to working families across the country, while Pentagon spending has skyrocketed. This deal does not address the bloated Pentagon budget, but it does begin to close the gap in funding for families, by allocating more new non-defense spending than defense spending for the first time in many year
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Congressional Progressive Caucus Unveils Stop Wall Street Looting Act
7/18/19With an assist from a corrupt tax code, predatory private equity firms have hollowed out companies, loading them with debt and leaving workers with the consequences. While these big firms get even richer, employees lose their jobs, salaries, and pensions.
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The Hill: A $15 minimum wage is exactly what our economy needs
7/16/19This week, Democrats in the House have the chance to end poverty wages and increase paychecks for 27 million American workers. There's no excuse not to get this done.
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CPC Co-Chair Rep. Raul Grijalva: Bailing On the Paris Climate Deal Would Be a Huge Security Risk
6/28/17By Rep. Raul Grijalva and Michael Shank Published in Time The Trump Administration is poised to isolate itself f...
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CPC Vice Chair Rep. Keith Ellison: Three myths about the minimum wage
6/28/17All workers, whether they get tips or not, deserve $15 an hour.
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Millionaire (and billionaire) taxes: An idea whose time has come?
02/08/19Originally Published in CBS News By Megan Cerullo The idea of hiking taxes on the richest Americans i...
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'Everybody In, Nobody Out': What We Know So Far About the Medicare for All Act of 2019
02/07/19With H.R. 676 no longer and Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-Wa.) to soon unveil a revised single-payer bill, here's our informed perspective on why the new version is shaping up to be a much stronger and more detailed piece of legislation
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'Green New Deal' lands in the Capitol
02/07/19The climate and economic plan backed by progressives and several Democratic presidential hopefuls calls for "massive" government action "on a scale not seen since World War II."
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