washingtonpost.com - 11/24/2008
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Tomorrow President Bush will deliver his State of the Union address. While this speech is sure to be filled with the President's plans for moving the nation forward, it is also sure to be very different from one that a progressive would deliver. If we had a newly elected progressive President, ...
thinkprogress.org - 11/24/2008
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thinkprogress.org —
Later today, President-elect Barack Obama will announce that
our friend and former colleague Melody Barnes will be
named as Director of the White House Domestic Policy Council. The Council “ coordinates the domestic policy-making process in the White ...
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Obama to appoint Melody Barnes as head of Domestic ...
yglesias.thinkprogress.org - 11/24/2008
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yglesias.thinkprogress.org —
My ThinkProgress colleagues are reporting that Melody Barnes,
who was at CAP before I got on board,
will head the Domestic Policy Council in the Obama White House. The DPC is in charge of interagency coordination and policy formation for such ...
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Melody Barnes to Run Domestic Policy Council
youtube.com - 11/24/2008
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youtube.com —
Center for American Progress Executive Vice President for
Policy Melody Barnes interviewed by CSPAN's Brian Lamb for
Q&A CSPAN's program profiling influe...
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Melody Barnes - CSPAN Q&A (video)
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Barnes: What a Progressive President Might Say
Matthew Yglesias —
Here’s a January 2007 Melody Barnes op-ed on what a progressive president might say in a Sate of the Union address:
Here at home there is urgent work to do to fight the historically high — and growing — gap between our richest and poorest citizens. While the mean income of households on the low end of the income spectrum — the bottom 20 percent — is just $10,655 a year, the income of the top twenty percent of households averages almost $160,000. That’s 15 times as much. At the same time, according to the latest census ...
Getting to Know Melody Barnes
The Stump —
... listed her in 2007 as one of DC's ten best-dressed women. Also in 2007, she
penned an op-ed for The Washington
Post offering a State of the Union address that a progressive president
might give. ...
An Economic Team for Bold, Clear, Decisive Steps
Change.gov: The Obama-Biden Transition Team | Blog —
... Council: "To restore fairness to our system, I will embark on a multi-faceted approach including increasing our investment in public education, promoting genuine health care reform, and backing a higher minimum wage... Our economic security, our national security, our health, and the future of the global environment are fundamentally linked to the choices we make about energy." --"What a Progressive President Might Say," Op-ed, Washington Post, 1/22/07, link
Peter Orszag, Director-designate of the White House Office of Management and ...
Rove: We Don’t Need A Change In Our Health Care System
Think Progress —
... – Enrollment in Medicare private plans doubled. Through such plans, insurers “have increased the cost and complexity of the program without any evidence of improving care.”
– The combined profits of the nation’s largest insurance companies and their subsidiaries increased by over 170 percent between 2003 and 2007.
Obama is putting together a team, starting with Melody Barnes and Tom Daschle, who will be committed to ending the unfairness and inequity of the ...
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yglesias.thinkprogress.org 11/24/2008 — Here’s a January 2007 Melody Barnes op-ed on what a progressive president might say in a Sate of the Union address:
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change.gov 11/6/2008 — The Problem Inadequate Security and Political Progress in Iraq: Since the surge began, more than 1,000 American troops have died, and despite the improved security situation, the Iraqi government has not stepped forward to lead the Iraqi people and to ...
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