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Key progressive leaders will share their impatience with the White House and Congress’ failure to frontally attack unemployment with additional plans to create jobs, concerned that failure to act aggressively will undermine recovery.

A new report to be jointly released by the Service Employees International Union, Campaign for America’s Future and the Public Accountability Initiative will provide the most in-depth view yet into the vast depth and reach that financial services lobbyists have in Washington. more »

Charging that Wall Street billionaire Peter Peterson is exerting undue influence over the new White House Deficit Commission, a group of progressive economists and activists assembled by the Campaign for America's Future will launch a new campaign to keep policymakers' focus on the need for economic recovery — and to fight back against dangerous attacks on Social Security and Medicare.

While insurance industry lobbyists hoping to kill health care reform are shifting their attention to the Senate in the wake of House passage of health reform, Wall Street and bank lobbyists have opened a second front that could harm health reform in an effort to kill the provisions in the health care reconciliation bill that would cut banks out of the student loan business. more »

Senate Democratic leaders should conduct an up or down vote on the creation of an independent Consumer Financial Protection Agency on the Senate floor, the co-directors of the Campaign for America’s Future said Friday. more »

WASHINGTON – Leaders of more than 50 organizations declared their opposition to a deficit commission proposal by Sen. Kent Conrad, D-N.D. and Sen. Judd Gregg, R-N.H. on a news conference call sponsored today by the Campaign for America's Future. The Conrad-Gregg proposal is expected to be introduced on the Senate floor soon as part of the bill to raise the debt ceiling, a necessary step to keep the federal government operating.

WASHINGTON -- Several policy experts will meet with Washington Post executive editor Marcus Brauchli this afternoon to restate their demand that the Post sever its relationship with The Fiscal Times, a “news service” financed by wealthy conservative budget activist, Peter G. Peterson. Many journalists and media watchdogs have criticized the relationship as advocacy masquerading as news. more »

The Washington Post ‘s decision to publish special-interest-funded propaganda as a “news” story on New Year’s Eve could signal the death of the daily newspaper as an independent and objective news source, according to a group of 21 policy experts who protested in a Jan. 1 letter to the Post’s ombudsman. Having received no response, the group sent a new letter to The Washington Post Company chairman Donald Graham today demanding to meet with him. Campaign for America’s Future co-director Roger Hickey signed both letters.

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A coalition of liberal and conservative leaders, strategists, activists and public interest advocates called for a delay of the nomination of Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke to a second term. The coalition includes Campaign for America’s Future co-director Robert Borosage, Americans for Tax Reform president Grover Norquist, Campaign for Liberty president John Tate, Center for Economic and Policy Research co-director Dean Baker and FreedomWorks president Matt Kibbe.