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Op-Ed

August 12, 2013
Op-Ed

By Elijah E. Cummings and Sander M. Levin

The writers are, respectively, the ranking Democrats on the House committees on Oversight and Government Reform and Ways and Means.


May 9, 2013
Op-Ed

For two-plus years, House Republicans have defaulted on their obligations to the American public. This week's vote to prioritize debt payments is the clearest and most bewilde


March 1, 2013
Op-Ed

Children, the unemployed most harmed by federal spending cuts going into effect today


December 21, 2012
Op-Ed

What lies before us is not the defeat of Speaker Boehner's so-called Plan B — a dead on arrival proposal on the impending fiscal cliff with no bipartisan support — but instead the culmination of the radicalization of the Republican Party.

What is the evidence?


December 20, 2012
Op-Ed

The economic crisis four years ago hit the American middle class as it was already reeling from three decades of stagnant wage growth.