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• Senator Sanders, Rep. Doggett Prove Their Leadership By Improving Traditional Medicare
  Today, Sen. Bernie Sanders released the Medicare Dental, Hearing and Vision Expansion Act on the floor of the U.S. Senate. The bill would greatly expand enrollees' access to dental, vision, and hearing services through the traditional Medicare Program. A similar bill was also introduced in the House by Rep. Lloyd Doggett (TX). Public Citizen Health […]
• Medicare Advantage Companies Spend $330M+ To Influence Policy
  Ahead of Friday’s Senate confirmation hearing for Dr. Mehmet Oz to lead the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS), Public Citizen released a new research brief shining a light on the hundreds of millions of dollars Medicare Advantage companies have spent on lobbying.“If Oz is confirmed as the CMS Administrator, attacks on traditional Medicare are […]
• House Republicans Poised to Clear the Way for Big Tech Financial Fraud
  Putting the millions of Americans who use digital payments systems at risk of fraud, the Republican-led House Financial Services Committee (HFSC) is taking up a resolution to block the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s (CFPB) “larger participant rule” aimed to prevent Big Tech firms like PayPal, Venmo, Cash App, Apple Wallet, and Elon Musk’s X-Money from […]
• Amidst Abiding Evil, Stupid and Racist, Selma Is Now
  In Orwellian juxtaposition, this weekend marked the 60th anniversary of Bloody Sunday, when racial justice marchers "rewrote the story of the civil rights movement in their blood" even as the current regime moves ever further to erase that story and many others by deleting thousands of images of unholy diversity - women, minorities, yes the […]
• ACLU Strongly Condemns Unlawful Arrest and Detention of Columbia Student Activist
  On Saturday night, Department of Homeland Security (DHS) agents detained Mahmoud Khalil, a Palestinian student at Columbia University and one of the lead negotiators on behalf of pro-Palestine protesters at the Gaza solidarity encampment in spring 2024. Mr. Khalil, a U.S. green card holder, was detained in New York while returning from an iftar dinner […]
• Oil Change Response to Energy Secretary Chris Wright’s Speech at Major Oil and Gas Conference
  In response to U.S. Energy Secretary and former fracking CEO Chris Wright’s opening remarks at CERAWeek, the fossil fuel industry’s largest annual conference, Allie Rosenbluth, United States Campaign Manager at Oil Change International, said: “Chris Wright, a former fracking CEO who essentially purchased his Cabinet position through $450,000 in Trump campaign contributions,[1] personifies the deadly […]