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VIDEO: Constituents Turned Away From Cantor’s “Public” Meeting Take Their Message Outside

VIDEO: Constituents Turned Away From Cantor’s “Public” Meeting Take Their Message Outside

In an rare appearance in his district, Rep. Cantor was met with more than 200 of his constituents who are angry with their congressman about his inattention to the jobs crisis, hi ...

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Hundreds Rally at Can’tor “Townhall” in Richmond

Hundreds Rally at Can’tor “Townhall” in Richmond

Where are the jobs, Rep. Cantor?Hundreds of Rep. Cantor's constituents tried to find out at Rep. Cantor's "Constituent Advisory Council" meeting tonight in Richm ...

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Strengthening property rights will improve our housing market

Strengthening property rights will improve our housing market

This is a guest post by Ali Faruk. Ali is the Director of the Center for Housing Leadership at Housing Opportunities Made Equal of Virginia (HOME). He holds a Master of Public Adm ...

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REPORT: Fixing Housing Crisis Would Pump $2 Billion into Virginia’s Economy and Create $29K Jobs in VA

REPORT: Fixing Housing Crisis Would Pump $2 Billion into Virginia’s Economy and Create $29K Jobs in VA

While Washington, D.C. gridlocks over job creation, The New Bottom Line has answers: by writing down all underwater mortgages to market value, the nation’s banks could pump ...

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Tea Party Downgrade

Tea Party Downgrade

Conservatives in Washington are working around the clock to try to shift the blame for Standard and Poor's first-in-history downgrade of the United States' credit rating.B ...

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Meet Alec

Meet Alec

Have you ever wondered how corporations seem to get everything they want from much of the legislation passed at the state level? Well, one shortcut corporate America has been usin ...

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Sandra Cook on the Debt Ceiling: We Will Not Quietly Submit

Sandra Cook on the Debt Ceiling: We Will Not Quietly Submit

Frustrated. Furious. Fed up. I don’t know about you, but I am disgusted about what is going on in Washington with the debt ceiling. Like most Americans, I have followed ...

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10 things the new Consumer Protection Bureau can do to protect consumers

10 things the new Consumer Protection Bureau can do to protect consumers

Thanks to Wall Street reform legislation, The United States Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) begins work on July 21, 201. The Bureau has plenty to do and plenty of powe ...

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Crunch time on the debt ceiling

Crunch time on the debt ceiling

It’s crunch time in Washington to raise the debt ceiling. Even Wall Street executives say a failure to avoid a default crisis would have a "severe and long-lasting impa ...

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The blame game

The blame game

From Moveon.org...This infographic/ Facebook status says it all!"Most of the things that spread fast on Facebook are pretty silly—videos of cats and the like. But recen ...

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