'Shame on you': BP exec pilloried by lawmakers
WASHINGTON — Channeling the nation's anger, lawmakers pilloried the boss of the company that caused the Gulf calamity Thursday in a withering day of judgment. Unflinching, BP chief executive Tony Hayward said he was out of the loop on decisions at the well and coolly asserted, "I'm not stonewalling."That infuriated ...
VIDEO: Woman with tar on hands arrested at hearing
A woman with tar-stained hands was forcibly escorted out of the Energy and Commerce Committee hearing room after interrupting BP CEO Tony Hayward’s opening statement.The woman, Diane Wilson, who was one of the first members of the public allowed into the room, stood and screamed that Hayward needs to be charged ...
BP engineer's testimony contradicted by e-mail released by congressional investigators
Last month, Mark Hafle, BP's senior drilling engineer for the oil well that's now spewing millions of gallons of crude into the Gulf of Mexico, testified in Kenner that he and his team believed they had worked in concert with a contractor to come up with the safest possible design ...
BP cut corners in days before oil well blowout in Gulf of Mexico, documents say
BP made a series of money-saving shortcuts and blunders that dramatically increased the danger of a destructive oil spill in a well that an engineer ominously described as a "nightmare" just six days before the blowout, according to documents released Monday that provide new insight into the causes of the ...
"Nobody on Wall Street is too big for jail"Rep. Marcy Kaptur (D-OH) announced a letter addressed to Attorney General Eric Holder asking for a criminal investigation of Goldman Sachs immediately after the SEC announced fraud charges against Goldman.The Progressive Change Campaign Committee, a 400,000-member organization, spearheaded grassroots mobilization around the ...
Steele Warns GOP Against Getting 'Distracted' By RNC Troubles
Michael Steele delivered something of a mea culpa at the Southern Republican Leadership Conference this afternoon. In his first major address to his party since the string of scandals and resignations that has plagued the last two weeks at the RNC, Steele apologized for the problems at the party organization ...
Stupak at peace with health vote
MENOMINEE -- Regardless of whether he decides to fight to keep his current job, U.S. Rep. Bart Stupak is proud of his controversial vote that helped pass health care reform and is willing to defend it. Stupak, under fire from the right and left and the subject of national speculation ...
Lawmaker Stupak won't seek re-election: sources
(Reuters) - Representative Bart Stupak, a Michigan Democrat who raised anti-abortion concerns about President Barack Obama's healthcare overhaul but later voted to pass it, has decided not to seek re-election this year, Democratic sources said on Friday. Stupak's decision to support healthcare reform gave President Barack Obama the votes he ...
Lawmakers got a deal on rent, pastors charge
A group of Columbus pastors is asking the Internal Revenue Service to investigate whether certain members of Congress owe taxes and penalties on cut-rate rent from a Washington boarding house that has a tax exemption as a church. If the members did pay below-market rental rates to the C Street ...
Democrats face death threats and vandalism over healthcare reform bill
Leading Democrats moved today to condemn acts of vandalism and death threats against legislators after several members of Congress were targeted by angry opponents of the healthcare reform measure.The FBI was called in to help handle a torrent of abuse, from bricks through congressional office windows to sinister, obscene phone ...
Lawmakers concerned as health-care overhaul foes resort to violence
The pitched battle over health care has unleashed a rash of vandalism and attacks directed at politicians, with at least 10 House Democrats reporting death threats or incidents of harassment or vandalism at their district offices over the past week. More than 100 House Democrats met behind closed doors Wednesday ...
Rep. Randy Neugebauer: I yelled 'baby killer' during Rep. Bart Stupak's speech
The 'baby' talk can now stop.Randy Neugebauer, a Republican Congressman from Texas, has stepped forward and admitted to yelling 'baby killer' while Michigan Democrat Bart Stupak was addressing the House floor Sunday night. But Neugebauer says he was referring to the health care bill, not to Rep. Stupak."In the heat ...
House sends health care bill to Obama's desk
WASHINGTON - Summoned to success by President Barack Obama, the Democratic-controlled Congress approved historic legislation Sunday night extending health care to tens of millions of uninsured Americans and cracking down on insurance company abuses, a climactic chapter in the century-long quest for near universal coverage. Widely viewed as dead two ...
My Congressman, Bart Stupak, Has Neither a Uterus Nor a Brain ...a letter from Michael Moore
Friends, I live in Michigan, in one of the 31 counties represented in the U.S. House of Representatives by none other than Mr. Bart Stupak, a Democrat. You've probably never heard of him. He's a pretty quiet guy, a former Michigan State Police trooper who boldly decided to run some ...
Michael Moore on 'The Rachel Maddow Show'
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) MICHAEL MOORE (V.O.): Before they could take your house, they needed to change the regulations and the rules. What's this photo I found here? It was in an annual report of the FDIC. WILLIAM BLACK, FORMER BANK REGULATOR: John Gilleran [sic], the head of the Office of ...
Stupak Gets A Primary Challenge From The Left
A former teacher and county commissioner will challenge Rep. Bart Stupak in the Aug. 3 Democratic primary in Michigan, the Detroit Free Press reported this afternoon. Connie Saltonstall, a former commissioner in Charlevoix County, told me this evening she's challenging Stupak over his refusal to allow health care reform to ...
Stupak Says Anti-Abortion Bloc Would Risk Health Bill
The leader of a group of House Democrats pressing for tougher language banning the use of federal funds for abortion says he’s willing to risk the defeat of the health-care bill if the lawmakers don’t get their way. Representative Bart Stupak of Michigan says Senate-passed language on abortion isn’t acceptable ...
House backs anti-abortion amendment
WASHINGTON – The House of Representatives voted on Saturday to tighten a ban against using federal funds to finance abortions under the proposed Democratic healthcare reform legislation. Opposition Republicans joined forces with anti-abortion Democrats to pass the amendment to the healthcare legislation on a vote of 240-194. The House approved ...
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June 5th, 2013
Here's How We Built a Movie Theater for the People – and Why the MPAA Says It's #1 in the World
This past week, the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA), the main federation of Hollywood's six major studios, posted on their web site a list of what they believe ...
March 23rd, 2013
This evening is going be a big moment in turning our country around on the issue of gun violence. That's why I desperately want you ...
March 21st, 2013
I am hosting a nationwide series of house parties this Saturday night where tens of thousands of people will gather together in living rooms to ...
March 15th, 2013
The response to my Newtown letter this week has been overwhelming. It is so very clear to everyone that the majority of Americans have had ...
March 13th, 2013
America, You Must Not Look Away (How to Finish Off the NRA)
The year was 1955. Emmett Till was a young African American boy from Chicago visiting relatives in Mississippi. One day Emmett was seen "flirting" with ...
February 26th, 2013
My Final Word on Buzzfeed and Emad Burnat's Detention at LAX
Thanks to everyone for bearing with me as I spend so much time on what happened to Emad Burnat. It's important to me because he's ...
February 26th, 2013
Michael Moore Responds to Buzzfeed Story on '5 Broken Cameras' Co-Director Emad Burnat
On Tuesday, February 19th, Emad Burnat, the Palestianian co-director of the Oscar-nominated documentary '5 Broken Cameras,' was detained with his wife and son at Los ...
September 11th, 2010
If the 'Mosque' Isn't Built, This Is No Longer America
OpenMike 9/11/10 Michael Moore's daily blog I am opposed to the building of the "mosque" two blocks from Ground Zero. I want it built on ...
December 14th, 2010
Why I'm Posting Bail Money for Julian Assange
Yesterday, in the Westminster Magistrates Court in London, the lawyers for WikiLeaks co-founder Julian Assange presented to the judge a document from me stating that ...
May 12th, 2011
Some Final Thoughts on the Death of Osama bin Laden
"The Nazis killed tens of MILLIONS. They got a trial. Why? Because we're not like them. We're Americans. We roll different." – Michael Moore in ...
November 22nd, 2011
Where Does Occupy Wall Street Go From Here?
This past weekend I participated in a four-hour meeting of Occupy Wall Street activists whose job it is to come up with the vision and ...
September 22nd, 2011
A STATEMENT FROM MICHAEL MOORE ON THE EXECUTION OF TROY DAVIS
I encourage everyone I know to never travel to Georgia, never buy anything made in Georgia, to never do business in Georgia. I will ask ...
December 16th, 2010
Dear Swedish Government: Hi there -- or as you all say, Hallå! You know, all of us here in the U.S. love your country. Your ...
November 2nd, 2010
This letter contains (almost) no criticisms of how the Democrats have brought this day of reckoning upon themselves. That -- and where to go from ...
'The East'
Why have you started a comedy festival in northern Michigan in the middle of winter?
Because if you were here in the dead of winter in the middle of nowhere (which is actually somewhere to us), you'd need a few laughs too ... Continue Reading
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