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Rep. Kathleen Rice (D-NY) speaking at a press conference in June
How Kathleen Rice Is Threatening the Biden Agenda: Rice and two other House Democrats oppose
aggressive drug price reform, which provides the budget savings available to fuel spending in the Build Back Better Act. Executive Editor David Dayen has the story.
Why We Must Monitor the Sale of Surveillance Tech: Contributor and former Google AI research scientist Jack Poulson on
how the government and tech companies hide their collaborative defense projects in plain sight.
Congress's Latest Giveaway to Weapons Makers: While 7.5 million workers lose unemployment, members of Congress want to bail
out the military industry. Contributor Sarah Lazare has the story.
Infrastructure Summer: A Surprisingly Radical Housing Bill: Staff Writer
Alexander Sammon reports that practically all the solutions to diminishing the high cost of housing, from nudges to public options, are present in the housing piece of the reconciliation bill.
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