Federal · GOP

FCC Commissioner to Join Comcast

https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-tech/post/fcc-commissioner-meredith-baker-to-join-comcast-nbc/2011/05/11/AFYfl1rG_blog.html Federal Communications commissioner Meredith Attwell Baker announced Wednesday that she will resign from the FCC on June 3 and join Comcast-NBC Universal as its senior vice president of governmental affairs. Baker, a Republican, joined the FCC in 2009 after working at the National Telecomunications and Information Administration under President George W. Bush. While at the NTIA, Baker oversaw… Continue reading FCC Commissioner to Join Comcast

GOP · Taxes

Budget Cuts Meet Poverty in the Heartland

https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/worst-ive-seen-far-budget-cuts-meet-poverty-heartland/ Congress and statehouses across the country are pushing budgets that would further cut assistance for poor people. https://www.cbpp.org/research/chairman-ryan-gets-nearly-two-thirds-of-his-huge-budget-cuts-from-programs-for-lower https://www.cbpp.org/blog/house-budget-committee-mistakes-were-made This finding emerges from a Center on Budget and Policy Priorities analysis of the Ryan plan.  Table S-4 of the plan, as Chairman Ryan unveiled it on April 5, showed that the plan contains net program cuts… Continue reading Budget Cuts Meet Poverty in the Heartland