VOWS LIKE THE ONE 230 CONGRESSMEN SIGNED PROMISING NOT TO RAISE TAXES CAN BE USED AS CATTLE PRODS BY THE BASE AND WEAPONS BY THE OPPOSITION—AND WORST OF ALL, THEY CAN STOP POLITICIANS FROM MAKING THE RIGHT DECISION. Weary of wily politicians who say one thing and do another, voters and advocacy groups insist presidential …
High-tech entrepreneur David Gilmour is advocating a completely different kind of innovation this time around. The Los Altos Hills resident and likeminded members of a new organization, No Labels, are seeking a fundamental change in government from extremist, polarizing politics to more bipartisan collaboration built on compromise. Gilmour said he was in the nation’s capital …
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Newtown’s Pat Oliver is part of a national political movement calling for “hyperpartisanship,” in support of a bipartisan solution to the country’s debt crisis. She along with more than 150 members of a group dubbing themselves, “No Labels,” rallied in Washington, D.C. on Monday asking lawmakers to reach a deal before the U.S. Treasury runs …
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Do you feel like your elected representatives are listening to you? Americans from all walks of life are concerned about whether those in Washington will reach a bipartisan agreement to raise the debt ceiling. There’s only 12 days left, and yet we’ve seen the same old partisan games and political posturing. The negotiations in Washington …
Washington, D.C. — Over 150 members of No Labels from 35 states took to the Capitol Monday to demonstrate against hyper-partisanship and in support of a bipartisan solution to our debt crisis. With time running short to reach a deal and avert a default, No Labels members, including some from Connecticut and Brookfield, descended on …
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Members of the Senate’s bipartisan “gang of six” will meet with the chamber’s leaders Friday morning to discuss the possibility of moving their deficit reduction proposal through Congress. The meeting was originally planned for Thursday afternoon, but it was postponed after Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) and Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) were …
WASHINGTON — Two weeks before the government faces default, President Obama and congressional leaders are pursuing very different solutions. The Democratic-led Senate is pursuing a bipartisan fallback plan to raise the $14.3 trillion debt limit in three installments and throw responsibility for deficit reduction to a new panel of lawmakers whose recommendations would require up-or-down …
Connecticut Post HARTFORD — They are politicians without a party. Both occupied the same Senate seat. Joe Lieberman and Lowell Weicker Jr., together again for a summit on fiscal responsibility Friday in Hartford, bemoaned the political and economic direction of the state and nation. The self-proclaimed independents separately addressed an assemblage of top Democrats and …
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Call me an optimist, but I feel we have the intelligence to solve all the big problems confronting our country — the deficit, energy, education, immigration, etc. Unfortunately, we have to use this intelligence, and our government doesn’t seem to be doing this. Our political leaders are more polarized and ideologically driven than ever before. …
For my maiden political stump speech, I faced a daunting challenge. I had not yet turned 30 years old, looked 22, and was desperately trying to convince a group of good-ole-boy county chairs that I was qualified to serve in the US Congress. I decided to address the 800-pound elephant head-on: I noted that my …
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