"The President is wrong to embrace the corrupt corporate politics of Citizens United through the use of Super PACs."
Thoughts from Former Senator Russ Feingold on Defense Secretary Panetta's announcement that the United States wants to end its combat role in Afghanistan by as early as mid-2013.
Two years ago, the Supreme Court handed down one of the worst, and most radically activist rulings in its history, Citizens United. We call on both parties to remedy this grave harm to our political system.
Ten years ago today, President Bush signed the Patriot Act into law that gave unprecedented power to the government to arrest, detain, and spy on our nation’s citizens. We must redouble our efforts to rein in the abuses of power that law still allows.
The Iraq War was perhaps the greatest foreign policy blunder in a generation. The president’s announcement that our remaining troops finally will be coming home from Iraq shows that timetables work.
This past weekend, former United States Senator and current Professor of Law at Marquette University, Russell D. Feingold, received the historic Four Freedoms Award from the Roosevelt Institute.
On this solemn occasion, we pay tribute to those whose lives we lost in the attack of 9/11. And we give our deepest thanks to the men and women who have served our country bravely through their profound sacrifice.
I urge Leaders Reid and Pelosi to do the right thing by rejecting the usual suspects, and instead appoint progressive champions who will stand up to the corporate interests that will seek to shape the Super Committee’s deficit reduction legislation.
The debt ceiling deal should remove any doubt of the power corporate interests have over our government.
“Democrats who mirror the right-wing tactics of Karl Rove and David Koch do our nation no favors. Our democracy is best served by rejecting the fundamentally corrupt strategy of embracing unlimited corporate influence.”
This is tremendous news, and the entire country sends its thanks to the members of our Armed Forces and Intelligence Community who took part in this operation.
Senator Kohl has served the state with honor. He will be remembered for his advocacy for our state's dairy farmers, his work on behalf of children and his keen understanding of our state's business community. I sincerely wish him all the best.
While the ruling recognizes the importance of public financing as an alternative and leaves the door open for some future reforms, today’s Supreme Court decision once again favors big money.
Given the unwillingness of the FEC to do its job and enforce election laws, I was pleasantly surprised to see its decisions in both Stephen Colbert’s and Majority PAC's advisory opinion requests.
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