Progressive Caucus Offers Alternative Vision For U.S.

[babsbunny]

I love The Black Caucus! http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/latestnews/index.php?id=5723

[Lindsay]

1. The Progressive Caucus and the CBC are two different

groups, although a lot of CBC members are also Progressives.

[radio4progressives]

5. you beat me to it... it's important people understand this.. n/t

[mom cat]

2. Highly reccommended ...a must read. K&R

[Douglas Carpenter]

3. recommended - a must read

snip: ""If Democrats retake the House, 10 members of the Progressive Caucus would become chairmen of committees," said Katrina vanden Heuvel, editor and publisher of the Nation"


snip: ""Poll after poll shows that Americans are more progressive on core fundamental issues," vanden Heuvel said. "They want to increase the minimum wage. They want national health care. They want a secure foreign policy, not a crusading one.

PROGRESSIVE CAUCUS

link:

http://www.congressionalprogressivecaucus.org/

The Congressional Progressive Caucus was established in the U.S. House of Representatives in the early 1990s. It reflects the diversity and strength of the American people, and we seek to give voice to the needs and aspirations of all Americans and to build a more just and humane society. The new Co-Chairwomen of the 62-Member Congressional Progressive Caucus, U.S. Representatives Lynn Woolsey and Barbara Lee, welcome your interest in the growing Progressive Caucus..

Co-Chairs
Lynn Woolsey
Barbara Lee

Members
Neil Abercrombie
Tammy Baldwin
Xavier Becerra
Madeleine Bordallo
Corrine Brown
Sherrod Brown
Michael Capuano
Julia Carson
Donna Christensen
William “Lacy” Clay
Emanuel Cleaver
John Conyers
Elijah Cummings
Danny Davis
Peter DeFazio
Rosa DeLauro
Lane Evans
Sam Farr
Chaska Fattah
Bob Filner
Barney Frank
Raul Grijalva
Luis Gutierrez
Maurice Hinchey
Jesse Jackson, Jr.
Sheila Jackson-Lee
Stephanie Tubbs Jones
Marcy Kaptur
Carolyn Kilpatrick
Dennis Kucinich
Tom Lantos
John Lewis
Ed Markey
Jim McDermott
James McGovern
Cynthia McKinney
George Miller
Gwen Moore
Jerrold Nadler
Eleanor Holmes-Norton
John Olver
Major Owens
Ed Pastor
Donald Payne
Charles Rangel
Bobby Rush
Bernie Sanders
Jan Schakowsky
Jose Serrano
Louise Slaughter
Hilda Solis
Pete Stark
Bennie Thompson
John Tierney
Tom Udall
Nydia Velazquez
Maxine Waters
Diane Watson
Mel Watt
Henry Waxman

[Lydia Leftcoast]

4. Between them, the Progressive Caucus and the Black Caucus

(whose memberships overlap somewhat) contain almost all the guts and much of the brains of the D.C. Democratis.