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Statement By USAction Policy Director Alan Charney on Passage of Financial Reform
USAction Policy Director Alan Charney today hailed passage of financial reform legislation, a step he said will "protect our families, our neighborhoods, our homes and our communities."
Date: July 15, 2010
A Small Step For Today. A Giant Step For Tomorrow
Courageous Vote In House Lays Foundation For A Health Care System We Can Take Pride In
Health care reform is on its way and here to stay – but the work toward building a health care system that serves the people instead of the special interests has just begun, USAction said Sunday.
Date: March 21, 2010
Media Advisory: Senator Harry Reid To Receive Condolences For Melanie
Tens of thousands of people left messages for breast cancer victim; condolences to be delivered in Dirksen Building at the end of "March for Melanie"
Steve Hart, surviving partner of Melanie Shouse, will deliver a special book of condolences to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid at 2 p.m. Wednesday in Room 50 of the Dirksen Building.
Date: February 23, 2010
USAction Praises Senate For Patricia Smith Confirmation; Calls For Approval of NLRB Nominees
USAction today praised the Senate's 60-to-37 vote to confirm Patricia Smith, President Obama's nominee for Department of Labor Solicitor, and called on the Senate to swiftly confirm President Obama's nominees to the National Labor Relations Board.
Date: February 5, 2010
$1 Million Goal Reached
In One Day Progressive Groups Unite to Raise $1,023,374 for Haitian Relief Effort
The appeal went out shortly after 1 p.m. Thursday: visit the web site www.ProgressivesforHaiti.org and donate to Doctors Without Borders, a group with an effective track record and one of the largest working clinics in Port au Prince.
Date: January 15, 2010
Groups Announce Broad New Coalition, National Push for Jobs Legislation
Jobs for America Now, a broad coalition of 60 national organizations, today announced specific policy points and a grassroots, coordinated campaign to pass legislation in Congress that will put America back to work.
Date: December 16, 2009
'Back From the Brink'
House Passes Financial Reform and Creates CFPA - A Major Step Toward Protecting Consumers As We Move Forward, USAction Says
The U.S. House, bucking the wishes of the Chamber of Commerce, the largest banks and the most powerful lobbyists, today voted for financial reform and to create the Consumer Financial Protection Agency. If the Senate follows the House, it would mark the first time a federal entity has been created whose sole mission would be to safeguard American consumers in the financial markets.
Date: December 11, 2009
USAction Supports Afghan Exit But Opposes Troop Escalation: Too Great a Risk, Too High a Cost
USAction today praised President Obama's goal of a concrete end to the war in Afghanistan, coupled with political and military benchmarks for success, but expressed profound concern over plans to commit at least 30,000 new troops to the war effort.
Date: December 2, 2009
60 VOTES.
Democratic Caucus Must Move Forward With Promise of Quality, Affordable Health Care For All With A Public Insurance Option
Now that a bill has been introduced in the Senate, USAction today called upon every member of the Democratic Caucus to vote to allow debate to begin so that the country can move closer to the promise of quality, affordable health care for all.
Date: November 19, 2009
Reid Moves Toward Progressive Financing Measure To Help Fund Health Care Reform
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid reportedly is moving closer toward a progressive way to fund quality, affordable health care for all.
Date: November 12, 2009
History In The House: Quality, Affordable Health Care for America Is One Step Closer
USAction this evening hailed passage of the Affordable Health Care for America Act, which will make health care more affordable for consumers, hold insurance companies accountable and increase access to health care for millions of Americans through a public option.
Date: November 7, 2009
AFFORDABILITY. ACCOUNTABILITY. CHOICE.
USAction Calls On House To Pass Historic Health Care Reform Legislation
The Affordable Health Care for America Act will make health care more affordable for consumers, hold insurance companies accountable and increase access to health care for millions of Americans.
Date: November 5, 2009
'Toward a Level Playing Field'
House Financial Services Committee Takes Important First Step Toward Financial Security For Consumers, USAction Says
The House Financial Services Committee passed on a vote of 39-29 legislation to create a new Consumer Financial Protection Agency (CFPA). If the bill passes the full Congress and is signed into law, this would mark the first time a federal entity has been created whose sole mission would be to safeguard American consumers in the financial markets.
Date: October 22, 2009
What Baucus Lacks: Affordability, A Public Option, Inclusion, Coverage for All and Relief for Middle Class Families
Senate Finance Committee version of health care reform falls far short of HELP bill and House version; USAction calls for improvements as the two Senate bills are merged
USAction today called on Senate Majority Leader Reid and his colleagues to make good on the promise of quality, affordable health care for all Americans, with a strong national public health insurance option.
Date: October 13, 2009
Senate Finance Vote: Ten Senators Stand Strong – Debate Over Public Option Moves Forward
Ten senators today stood strong for the public health insurance option and for giving Americans a guarantee of quality, affordable health coverage.
Date: September 29, 2009
On The Eve of Senate Finance Markup, USAction Urges Fixes To Baucus Legislation
Senator Rockefeller and his colleagues thanked for standing firm on public health insurance option
USAction today called on the Senate Finance Committee to rewrite Sen. Max Baucus' health care bill so that it guarantees Americans good health insurance they can afford with the choice of a strong national public health insurance option.
Date: September 21, 2009
Momentum
After President's Speech, USAction Members Pledge $84,264 In Wee Hours Of The Morning
The online appeal went out at 10 p.m., not long after President Obama wrapped up his address on health care to a joint session of Congress.
Date: September 10, 2009
USAction To Congress: 'Let's Get It Done!'
Without a public option that will hold the insurance companies accountable, no meaningful health care reform
Responding to President Obama's address to Congress Wednesday evening, USAction President William McNary called on Congress to represent the interests of the American people – not the insurance companies – and pass quality, affordable health care reform with a public health insurance option.
Date: September 9, 2009
'Let's Get It Done!'
From Coast to Coast, USAction Affiliates Rally This Week For Quality, Affordable Health Care
As Congress prepares to return to work, USAction affiliates and partner organizations are participating in at least 102 rallies and other events in 20 states in support of quality, affordable health care with a public health insurance option.
Date: August 31, 2009
Statement By William McNary, USAction President and Citizen Action/Illinois Co-director, On Passing of Sen. Edward Kennedy
What distinguished Senator Kennedy’s values from the political mainstream was not just his support for a set of policies, but his willingness to take risks and fight for what he believed in.
Date: August 26, 2009
Company Reverses Course: The Billboard Roy Blunt Doesn't Want You To See Will Go Up After All
Springfield, Mo — In the end, freedom of expression prevailed.
Date: August 14, 2009
Blunted By Roy Blunt: The Billboard
The Congressman Doesn't Want You To See
Springfield, Mo — As the debate over health care reform heats up, an effort to place a billboard in U.S. Rep. Roy Blunt's home district has been, well, blunted.
Date: August 13, 2009
New Ad Tweaks Blunt On Medicare, Contributions From Insurance Industry: 'Roy Blunt Just Doesn't Get It'
A new radio spot now airing in the district of U.S. Rep. Roy Blunt points out that the Republican leader has questioned the worthiness of Medicare and taken more than $500,000 in contributions from the insurance industry during his congressional career.
Date: August 12, 2009
Murtha Folds: Announcement On F-22 Fighter Jet Shows the Old-school 'Purveyors of Pentagon Pork' Can Be Defeated
But will Rep. Bill Young get the message?
Rep. John Murtha today abandoned efforts to keep the F-22 production lines open, announcing he will offer an amendment to his own defense spending bill that will strip funding for future fighter jets.
Date: July 22, 2009
'The Old Ways Are Dead:' Senate Vote Striking Down F-22 Shows Wasteful Pentagon Spending Is No Longer Sacrosanct
Meanwhile, new USAction/TrueMajority radio spot tweaks House member who took defense contractors’ money and did their bidding.
Today’s
U.S. Senate vote to end funding for new and unnecessary F-22 fighter
jets shows a new willingness among some members of Congress to examine
wasteful Pentagon spending, despite the considerable amount of
influence defense contractors wield, USAction said Tuesday.
Date: July 21, 2009
Groups Praise Merits of Surcharge Proposal to Fund Quality, Affordable Health Care
Citizens
for Tax Justice, USAction and Wealth for the Common Good today praised
a House Ways & Means proposal to apply a surcharge on the income of
the wealthiest one percent of Americans.
Date: July 14, 2009
Groups
Unveil Revenue Proposals To Fund Comprehensive Health Care
Reform
Medicare
tax reform, limiting itemized deductions could pay for quality,
affordable health care for all with a robust public option – while only
affecting a tiny percentage of Americans
Citizens
for Tax Justice, SEIU and USAction today released a new
report
that lays out options for paying for quality, affordable health care
reform that includes a public health insurance option.
Date: July 7, 2009
Leading
Progressive Organizations, Unions Announce Major Campaign to Pass
President Obama’s Historic Budget, a Blueprint for Rebuilding and
Renewing America
Groups Which Led Fight to Pass
Economic Stimulus Package promise to “Gear Up to Get it On”
Leading
progressive organizations and unions which led the fight to pass
President Obama’s jobs and economic recovery package held a national
press conference call today to announce a major new campaign to pass
President Obama’s historic budget.
Date: March 4, 2009
PRESIDENT OBAMA TO
CONGRESS: QUALITY, AFFORDABLE HEALTH CARE FOR ALL IN 2009
“HEALTH CARE REFORM CANNOT WAIT,
IT MUST NOT WAIT AND IT WILL NOT WAIT ANOTHER YEAR”
USAction
today called on Congress to move swiftly and surely toward passage of
quality, affordable health care for all, especially in light of the
number of people losing their jobs and their health care every
day. Read
more...
Date: Feb. 25, 2009
USACTION/TRUEMAJORITY.ORG
ENDORSE SPENDING CUTS FOR WASTEFUL AND OBSOLETE WEAPONS SYSTEMS
U.S. Rep. Barney Frank has it
right: health care, homes and jobs are the way to true security for our
country
USAction
and its online project, TrueMajority.org today embraced U.S. Rep.
Barney Frank’s call for significant cuts to obsolete weapons systems –a
direction that stands in sharp contrast to eight years of George W.
Bush’s bloated and wasteful military budgets. Read
more...
Date: Feb. 24, 2009
A NEW CHAPTER IN
AMERICAN HISTORY
HOUSE VOTE ON JOBS AND ECONOMIC
RECOVERY REPRESENTS MOST SIGNIFICANT VICTORY FOR AMERICAN PEOPLE IN
MORE THAN A GENERATION
U.S.
House passage of the jobs and economic recovery legislation marks a
reversal of nearly 30 years of failed economic policies and provides a
glimpse of what could happen in the areas of health care, education,
energy and the environment and rebuilding America’s infrastructure. Read
more...
Date: Feb. 13, 2009
Greenspan
Admits Financial Markets Need Government Oversight
Washington
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For weeks USAction and a growing number of the nation's most respected
economists have called for greater financial regulation and government
oversight of financial institutions as a result of the Wall Street
collapse and $700 billion government bailout package. more...
Date: 10/23/2008
INDEPENDENCE
DAY AD BUYS TO THANK SENATORS DODD, FEINGOLD FOR STANDING UP ON FISA
USAction/TrueMajority.org
to air radio spots in Connecticut, Wisconsin
WASHINGTON,
D.C. –
As vacationers in Connecticut and Wisconsin begin the Fourth of July
holiday weekend, USAction/TrueMajority.org announced it is launching a
radio ad campaign thanking Senators Dodd and Feingold for opposing
legislation that would grant immunity to phone companies who spied on
Americans. The ad campaign is supported by USAction’s state affiliates,
Connecticut Citizen Action Group and Citizen Action of Wisconsin.
more...
Date: 7/2/2008
SENATE
LEADERSHIP GIVES IN TO TRUE MAJORITY PRESSURE; FISA VOTE DELAYED
After 26,000
emails, followed by 13,000 phone calls, FISA vote is pushed back to July
WASHINGTON,
D.C. –
The U.S. Senate leadership announced Thursday that it is pushing back a
vote on legislation that would grant immunity to phone companies who
spied on Americans. This happened after more than 13,000 calls to
senators were made by TrueMajority.org supporters during the past 48
hours to urge them to oppose the measure. TrueMajority.org is the
online arm of USAction.
more...
Date: 6/26/2008
TENS
OF THOUSANDS TELL SENATE THEY DON’T LIKE BEING SPIED ON
After 26,000
people contact three U.S. Senators to complain about FISA legislation,
a filibuster is announced
WASHINGTON,
D.C.
– During the past 24 hours, more than 26,000 TrueMajority.org members
have contacted three U.S. Senators to urge them to stop legislation
that would grant immunity to telephone companies guilty of spying on
Americans.
more...
Date: 6/25/2008
TENS
OF THOUSANDS CALL FOR ACCOUNTABILITY AND DIVESTMENT FROM KBR
Largest
contractor in Iraq – linked to massive fraud, war profiteering, claims
of rape – is supported by public retirement funds in CA, CO, NY, OH and
TX
WASHINGTON,
D.C. – TrueMajority.org,
a project of USAction, today announced a joint online and call-in
campaign aimed at pressuring public retirement systems across the
country to divest their holdings from KBR.
more...
Date: 5/29/2008
DESPITE
VOTE FOR CONTINUED FUNDING, MOMENTUM TO END THE WAR IN IRAQ BUILDS
Meanwhile, U.S.
Senate rebukes President Bush, approves funding for GI Bill and
extending unemployment insurance
WASHINGTON,
D.C. – The U.S. Senate today voted to continue funding, without
restrictions, the war in Iraq. But the number of senators voting
against unrestricted funding continues to build, a signal that Congress
is beginning to acknowledge Americans’ staunch opposition to the war,
which has now entered its sixth year.
more...
Date: 5/22/2008
CLEAR
MOMENTUM FOR ENDING THE WAR: HOUSE VOTES TO CUT FUNDING, INVEST IN
AMERICA’S FUTURE
Meanwhile, many
Republicans play ‘hide and seek’
WASHINGTON,
D.C. – The U.S. House of Representatives today voted 149 to 141 to cut
off funding for the war in Iraq, with a majority of Democrats voting to
stop funding and many Republicans opting to vote “present” instead of
casting an up-or-down vote on one of the most important issues facing
the U.S. today.
more...
Date: 5/15/2008
New
Poll Shows Swing Voters Want Commitment to Progressive Agenda,
Investment in America’s Future
USAction/USAEF
launch major, $10 million-plus effort for 2008: 'Invest in America's
Future'
Washington—Swing
voters across the country are more receptive than ever to an agenda of
investment in America’s future, according to a poll released today by USAction
and USAction Education Fund.
The poll, conducted by Greenberg Quinlan Rosner Research,
surveyed 600 likely swing voters in swing districts from Jan. 22-28,
2008. The study is believed to be the first of 2008 that
draws
respondents strictly from swing voters in swing states and districts.
more...
Date: 2/13/2008
USAction
Applauds Lawmakers Who Opposed Blank Check for Iraq War
Almost
two-thirds of the House majority rejected minority’s effort to hold
human-needs priorities hostage to endless war
Washington—The
141 members of the House Democratic caucus who rejected blank-check
funding for the Iraq war in Wednesday's vote on the FY08 omnibus
appropriations package are true leaders in the campaign to invest in
America's priorities, USAction said
Thursday.
more...
Date: 12/20/2007
USAction
Rejects Omnibus Package with Blank Check for War in Iraq
Billions in new
Iraq war funding without a timetable for withdrawal is unacceptable
Washington—USAction
Senior Program Manager Marvin Silver
released the following statement on Wednesday, following the Senate's
Tuesday night vote on the FY08 omnibus appropriations bill:
more...
Date: 12/19/2007
USAction
Slams Bush’s Second Veto of Children’s Health Care Bill
Bush hides from
working families while he denies quality, affordable health care to
their children
Washington—USAction
Senior Program Manager Marvin Silver released the
following statement Thursday, following President Bush's second veto –
"in private," the New York Times reported – of
legislation to renew and expand the State Children's Health Insurance
Program:
more...
Date: 12/13/2007
USAction
Opposes Any Omnibus Bill That Includes Blank Check for Iraq War
Group is a
longtime human-needs champion and antiwar leader; urges members of
Congress to reject phony compromise
Washington—USAction
called
on members of Congress Monday to oppose any omnibus appropriations
package that includes unrestricted funds for the war in Iraq.
more...
Date: 12/10/2007
USAction
Applauds House SCHIP Vote, Slams Members Who Ignored Bipartisan
Compromise to Stand with President Bush
Bush's
remaining House allies continue to oppose children's health plan, even
after bipartisan compromise addresses their objections
Washington—USAction
applauded members of Congress Thursday for again passing a bipartisan
plan to renew and expand the State Children’s Health Insurance
Program. President Bush has threatened to veto the
legislation,
which would guarantee 10 million children access to quality, affordable
health care.
more...
Date: 10/25/2007
USAction
Slams Bush Veto of Health Care Funding for Children
McNary:
"It is obscene for President Bush to veto funding for children's health
care while continuing his mismanaged, endless war in Iraq."
Washington—USAction President William
McNary
released the following statement on Wednesday, following President
George W. Bush's veto of the State Children's Health Insurance Program
authorization bill:
more...
Date: 10/3/2007
USAction,
TrueMajorityACTION Merge to Create New Model for Mobilizing
Progressives at Grassroots, Online
New hub for
progressive action to lead fight for children's health care
Washington—USAction
and TrueMajorityACTION
today announced that the two organizations will merge to create a new
model for mobilizing progressives online and at the grassroots across
America. The new USAction combines its capacity as the nation's leading
progressive coalition builder with TrueMajorityACTION's
well-established presence as one of the most effective online advocacy
organizations. TrueMajorityACTION staff will join USAction's enhanced
Online Organizing department.
more...
Date: 9/27/2007
USAction,
National Priorities Project Team Up to Reveal Iraq War's Cost to States
and Communities
New
data shows new investments in health care, education, job training,
other priorities are a tiny fraction of Iraq war spending every month
Washington—USAction President William
McNary
held a media conference call this morning to announce the release of
reports detailing the cost of the Iraq War to states across the
country. The individual reports are being released this week by
USAction affiliates in 24 states and will detail states' share of the
$456 billion+ spent thus far on the Iraq War and what that funding
could have provided for neglected priorities such as education and
health care in communities across the country.
more...
Date: 8/15/2007
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