Lauren McCauley

Big Pharma-Backed Dems Join GOP To Block Sanders Effort To Lower Drug Prices

Sen. Cory Booker and others draw sharp rebuke from observers, who pointed out that many who voted « no » receive substantial contributions from the pharmaceutical industry.

Lauren McCauley
Par Lauren McCauley
Senator Bernie Sanders (Independent of Vermont) makes remarks as the BiCameral Democratic Leadership meets reporters after their gathering with US President Barack Obama to strategize on how to counter Republican plans to repeal the Affordable Care Act (ACA) in the US Capitol in Washington, DC on Wednesday, January 4, 2017. (Photo: Ron Sachs/CNP /MediaPunch/IPX)

(ANALYSIS) --- While the Republican Party is publicly dismantling millions of Americans' health safety net, more than a dozen Democrats late Wednesday quietly threw their weight behind Big Pharma and voted down an amendment that would have allowed pharmacists to import identical—but much less expensive—drugs from Canada and other countries. The

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DOJ Source Says Chelsea Manning On Obama’s « Short List » For Commutation

‘President Obama has nine days to do the right thing and commute her sentence.’

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Par Lauren McCauley
CHELSEAMANNING

(REPORT) --- Whistleblower Chelsea Manning is on President Barack Obama's "short list" for a potential commutation, a Department of Justice source told NBC News, which adds that the president's decision could be announced as early as Wednesday. Manning, who is serving a 35-year sentence for leaking evidence of military crimes, has faced solitary

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Black Men Still Predominant Victims Of Police Violence In 2016

Efforts by the Justice Department under President Barack Obama to improve accountability are likely to be dashed under Trump administration.

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Par Lauren McCauley
Michael Brown lays dead in the street after being shot and killed by police in Ferguson, Missouri.

Despite the protests, media scrutiny, and all around heightened national attention, young black men in 2016 continued to be the predominant victims of police violence in the United States. According to year-end figures published Sunday by the Guardian database The Counted, "[b]lack males aged 15-34 were nine times more likely than other

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Republicans Conceal Cost Of Repealing Affordable Care Act

Many are hoping that the same organized outrage that lead to the Republicans’ backtrack on the ethics rule change can also pressure lawmakers to rethink other unpopular—and outlandish—policies

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Par Lauren McCauley
House Speaker Paul Ryan of Wis. speaks during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP/Cliff Owen)

(ANALYSIS) --- Republican leaders racing to tear down as many as 20 million (pdf) individuals' healthcare without providing a replacement, it turns out, also don't want the American people to know how much the repeal will cost. The very same rules package (pdf) in which the GOP had attempted to gut the Office of Congressional Ethics also

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As Resistance Grows, Trump’s Deportation Plans Unravel

Cost, impossible logistics, political opposition, and community resistance could spell the end of the president-elect’s anti-immigrant scheme.

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Par Lauren McCauley
IMMIGRATION

(ANALYSIS) ---- President-elect Donald Trump built his campaign on a pledge to build a wall and deport two to three million undocumented immigrants, but the likelihood that his promises will be kept are looking increasingly slim, as reality takes hold and lawmakers and community leaders begin to build their resistance. The failure to

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Damning Investigation Finds Trump’s Philanthropy Largely A « Facade

One of the Trump Foundation’s most consistent causes was Donald Trump himself.

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Par Lauren McCauley
Donald Trump stands on the 14th fairway during a pro-am round of the AT&T National golf tournament at Congressional Country Club in Bethesda, Md.

(ANALYSIS) --- President-elect Donald Trump continues to boast about his charitable giving, but those claims were cast into further doubt on Thursday after a damning Washington Post investigation into his philanthropy concluded that it is, for the most part, a "facade." Despite claims of tens of millions of dollars donated to charitable causes,

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