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12M idled workers lost health insurance: study
Rep. Underwood leads Illinois congressional delegation in calling for insurers to reinvest pandemic profits
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Ted CoxCoronavirus, Illinois Coronavirus, COVID-19, Illinois COVID-19, Economic Policy Institute, Health Insurance, Employer-Sponsored Insurance, U.S. Unemployment, COVID Unemployment, Single Payer, Dick Durbin, Jan Schakowsky, Lauren Underwood, Humana, Cigna, Cheri Bustos, Robin Kelly, Danny Davis, Jesus "Chuy" Garcia
Neither snow, nor rain, nor 'gangster' Trump...
House Dems declare they’ll ‘prevent the president from playing Al Capone with our Postal Service’
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Ted CoxUSPS, Al Capone, Mike Quigley, Donald Trump, Danny Davis, Raja Krishnamoorthi, Louis DeJoy, Jan Schakowsky, Keith Richardson, American Postal Workers Union, Sean Casten, Brad Schneider, Delivering for America Act, Jesus "Chuy" Garcia, Mack Julion, National Association of Letter Carriers, Tammy Duckworth, Kwame Raoul
Durbin, Garcia defend Postal Service
Garcia pledges action, charging, ‘Donald Trump is tampering with the post office’
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Gun violence is a public-health issue
Congressional subcommittee meets on Chicago’s South Side, hears calls to research root causes of gun crimes
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Ted CoxGun Control, Chicago Gun Violence, Gun Violence, Bobby Rush, Kenndy-King College, John F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King, U.S. House Committee on Energy & Commerce, Anna Eshoo, Selwyn Rogers Jr., Danny Davis, NRA, Jesus "Chuy" Garcia, Niva Lubin-Johnson, Robin Kelly, Ronald Stewart, Jan Schakowsky, G.K. Butterfield, Spencer Leak Sr., Norman Kerr, Brenda Mitchell, Yvette Clarke, Gabby Giffords, Steve Scalise, Donald Trump, Adam Kinzinger
The Gini is out of the bottle
It’s time to take advanced metrics and apply them to economic issues that actually matter to working families
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Ted CoxEconomic Statistics, Gini Index, Advanced Metrics, Sabermetrics, Bill James, Corrado Gini, Unemployment Rate, Stock Index, NYSE, Dow Jones Industrial Average, Donald Trump, U.S. Census Bureau, Lauren Underwood, Raja Krishnamoorthi, Danny Davis, U.S. Gini Index, Illinois Gini Index, Allen Sanderson
Trump imposes 'illegal directive' on EPA
Members of Congress join EPA workers in charging ‘attack on science,’ environment, and civil servants
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Ted CoxDonald Trump, Jan Schakowsky, Danny Davis, Don Villar, Scabby the Rat, EPA, Nicole Cantello, Climate Change, Working Families, Illinois Working Families, Illinois Environmental Council, Colleen Smith, Matt Muchowski, AFGE, AFGE Local 704, Chicago Federation of Labor
Schakowsky, Casten join calls for impeachment
Leading House Democrat and freshman congressman say the time has come to hold Trump accountable
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Ted CoxJan Schakowsky, Sean Casten, Donald Trump, Trump Impeachment, Nancy Pelosi, Mike Quigley, Danny Davis, Jesus "Chuy" Garcia, Bobby Rush, Robert Mueller, Mueller Report
Illinois congressmen call for impeachment probe
Quigley, Davis, Garcia seek congressional inquiry into President Trump, as Rush calls for outright impeachment
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Ted CoxDonald Trump, Mike Quigley, Danny Davis, Jesus "Chuy" Garcia, Bobby Rush, Trump Impeachment, Robert Mueller, Mueller Report, Trump Obstruction, Cheri Bustos, Nancy Pelosi
'End shutdown, furlough Trump': New video!
Members of Congress lead rally with government workers idled or going without pay during shutdown
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Ted CoxDonald Trump, Mitch McConnell, Jan Schakowsky, Danny Davis, Sean Casten, Robin Kelly, Bill Foster, Jesus "Chuy" Garcia, Don Villar, Chicago Federation of Labor, Michael Mikulka, EPA, USDA, Florence Cannon, Pete Rosa, Professional Aviation Safety Specialists, Lauren Underwood
Ill. reps. display surprising support for Trump
But that might be changing, as two of the president’s strongest backers lost in the midterms
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Ted CoxDonald Trump, Peter Roskam, Randy Hultgren, Rodney Davis, Mike Bost, Mike Quigley, Tammy Duckworth, Dick Durbin, Sean Casten, Lauren Underwood, Adam Kinzinger, John Shimkus, Darin LaHood, Brad Schneider, Danny Davis, Bobby Rush, Robin Kelly, Luis Gutierrez, Raja Krishnamoorthi, Bill Foster, Jan Schakowsky, Cheri Bustos, FiveThirtyEight.com, Nate Silver, Trump Support, Trump Congress