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| Democrats didn't change Senate rules out of fear they'll soon be out of power. That may well guarantee it.
A coalition of progressive groups called Fix the Congress Now has been pushing Reid and Democrats to use the nuclear option and change the rules. Now one leading member of that coalition, Communication Workers of America president Larry Cohen, is threatening Dems who balk at a rule change with loss of union support.
"We're done," Cohen told reporters on a conference call Monday. "We have said to them that we are not going to sit back and see these agencies literally fall apart " We expect them to step up and tell us why we [should] care if on something this moderate -- the ability of the White House to govern -- you're not with us."
Cohen wants the rule change to facilitate not just the confirmation of judicial nominees, as some have suggested, but agency appointments |
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Rob Kall has spent his adult life as an awakener and empowerer-- first in the field of biofeedback, inventing products, developing software and a music recording label, MuPsych, within the company he founded in 1978-- Futurehealth, and founding, organizing and running 3 conferences: Winter Brain, on Neurofeedback and consciousness, Optimal Functioning and Positive Psychology (a pioneer in the field of Positive Psychology, first presenting workshops on it in 1985) and Storycon Summit Meeting on the Art Science and Application of Story-- each the first of their kind. Then, when he found the process of raising people's consciousness (more...)
