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Nancy Pelosi Q&A: Financial Law Reform Is a Modern 'New Deal'
By Bonnie Erbé - Politics DailyLove her or not, Speaker Nancy Pelosi's list of legislative accomplishments is formidable. On Wednesday, she capped four years of negotiating, cajoling, compromising and pressuring lawmakers by witnessing President Barack Obama sign the biggest remake of the financial regulatory system since the Great Depression. Pelosi calls the landmark legislation nothing less than a modern version of the 1930's New Deal. Since Pelosi became speaker in 2006, she has pushed through the U.S. House of Representatives a half-dozen pieces of transformative legislation, starting with the first increase in the ...
'Supreme Power': Jeff Shesol's Book on 1930s Court Has Deja Vu Quality
By Andrew Cohen - Politics DailyIt is altogether fitting that Jeff Shesol's magnificent new book, "Supreme Power: Franklin Roosevelt vs. the Supreme Court," is out and about after the release of the high court's controversial Citizens United ruling on campaign finance reform, and before the Senate Judiciary Committee's confirmation hearing for court nominee Elena Kagan. Shesol's important work serves as a solid narrative link between the past mischief that often has marked the court's role in political life and the silliness that surrounds the ramp-up to Kagan's hearing later month. His rich story also gives us some ...
CETA: A '70s Government Jobs Program That Didn't Work
By Walter Shapiro - Politics DailyIn the late 1970s in the Jimmy Carter administration, I had a ringside seat for the political collapse of the last modern attempt to replicate a massive New Deal jobs program. This repudiation of public service employment marked the symbolic end of 20th century big government liberalism, although as an aide to Secretary of Labor Ray Marshall I only dimly sensed the coming Reagan Revolution. Normally, this is not a story that turns me into a prized raconteur at dinner parties. But this half-forgotten attempt to deal with the human cost of high unemployment (7.5 percent when Carter took office) ...
Edwards' New Deal
By Justin Paulette - Politics DailyWhen a person's emotions are running high, they often blurt out truths which they might not have divested under calmer circumstances. The same basic principle may explain the recent explosion of big ideas from John Edwards. Responding to his increasing irrelevancy in the Democratic presidential contest, Edwards has begun referencing FDR's New Deal as he champions a bundle of policies and programs far exceeding the usual, soft-left-socialism espoused by Democratic politicians. ...
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