Elizabeth Warren announces bid for Senate seat in Massachusetts
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on September 15th, 2011 4:33 am by HL
Elizabeth Warren announces bid for Senate seat in Massachusetts
Elizabeth Warren, a Harvard law professor and former Obama administration official, announced Wednesday morning via Web video that she will challenge Republican Sen. Scott Brown for his seat in Massachusetts.
Warren began her first day of campaigning at a subway stop in South Boston — an area filled with the kind of conservative Democrats that Warren, a 62-year-old Oklahoma native,must win over.
Alliance pledges to defend federal workforce from ‘irresponsible cuts’
A coalition of 22 labor organizations representing federal employees is pledging “to defend the federal workforce from irresponsible cuts in the forthcoming congressional ‘super committee’ negotiations.”
The Federal Workers Alliance (FWA) says it represents more than 300,000 workers who, along with the entire workforce, face “a very uncertain future” because of the super committee’s mandate to cut the deficit by $1.5 trillion. That sum is on top of nearly $1 trillion in deficit cuts that Congress and President Obama agreed to earlier.
It hasn’t been a good month for President Obama, but beneath it all, the American people are still ready to hear him out when it comes to his jobs plan.
And in fact, at first glance, they seem to like it.
Two new polls show more Americans like the president’s jobs plan than dislike it. A CNN/Opinion Research poll shows 43 percent favor Obama’s jobs plan, while 35 percent oppose it. And Gallup shows an even wider gap, with 45 percent in favor and 32 percent opposed.
Could Pennsylvania Republicans end the electoral college as we know it?
Republican leaders in Pennsylvania are pushing forward with a plan that would change that way the state awards its electoral votes for president and could have a significant impact on the 2012 presidential race.
The plan, which is backed by Gov. Tom Corbett (R), would scrap the state’s current winner-take-all method for awarding the state’s 20 electoral votes and dole them out depending on the result in each of the 18 congressional districts.
