Annual Report

2009

CONGRESS.ORG
 Table of Contents

From the Executive Director....................................................................................... 3

Overview of Organization............................................................................................. 4

Year in Review...................................................................................................................... 7

Partner Organizations...................................................................................................... 9

Executive Director
and Board of Directors.................................................................................................11

In the News..........................................................................................................................13

Looking Forward: Proposed Core

Programs 2010–2011..................................................................................................17

Contribution Form..........................................................................................................19

2009 Financial Report.................................................................................................20

2009 Donors......................................................................................................................21

CONGRESS.ORG
CONNECTING THE PROGRESSIVE MOVEMENT, IDEAS, AND CONGRESS

ProgressiveCongress.org
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Washington, DC 20003

www.progressivecongress.org.
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FROM THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
Just over a year ago, we took the first significant steps toward
implementing the long-held vision of connecting progressive leaders
inside Congress with their allies on the outside for an inside-outside
bridge to enable better policymaking. ProgressiveCongress.org (formerly
American Progressive Caucus Policy Foundation) was launched in 2009
to be that bridge, convening critical discussions and bringing key policy
ideas and expertise across congressional boundaries, with a focus on
peace and global security; energy independence and environmental
sustainability; civil rights, civil liberties, and human rights; public
health; education; and economic opportunity.
When we began in 2009, the model we were proposing was entirely
untested. Over the course of 2009 and the first quarter of 2010,
we were able to build and refine a model for inside-outside work
with Congress that has the potential to reshape how we approach
progressive governance at a national level.
We’ve realized significant lasting benefit from the investments that
were made. The capacity to discuss key issues and facilitate the flow of
information and collaboration has been greatly improved by our efforts.
We are excited to build on this inside-outside model in 2010, leveraging
the progressive movement’s vast resources to create lasting progressive
policy changes.
We sincerely thank our individual donor and foundation partners for
making our work this last year possible. Starting a new organization
during our country’s worst financial crisis in recent years was not an
easy task. Without your support, ProgressiveCongress.org would not
Darcy Burner
have made it through its inaugural year. Now into year two, with your Executive Director
continued partnership we will actively engage in the many opportunities
that exist to strengthen the progressive movement and facilitate ideas
into reality.
As we head into a period in which our country faces challenges in
almost every area, the need for progressives to participate aggressively
in the debate and policymaking is only increasing. We hope you will
join us in 2010 as we continue our work to connect the progressive
movement, ideas, and Congress.

Sincerely,

Darcy Burner
Executive Director

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 OVERVIEW OF ORGANIZATION
Congress has traditionally acted far less progressively than the people
of the United States want them to. Contrary to the insistence of some
in the media that this is a “center-right” nation, polling shows that
the people of the United States are quite progressive: overwhelming
majorities support progressive policies on everything from environmental
regulation to health care reform to government guarantees of adequate
food and shelter.*
Despite this, however, Congress has behaved far less progressively than
the people they are supposed to represent.
Aggressive investments to remedy this in the last decade have begun to
bear fruit in two distinct areas:
H 
We have seen success in building progressive institutions such
as the Center for American Progress, MoveOn.org, the Campaign
for America’s Future, EPI, and so forth; and
H We have elected new progressives to both the House and the Senate.
The strategic key to a more progressive America is leveraging both sets
of investments by building a direct connection between the progressive
movement and elected progressives in Congress.
The internal infrastructure has long existed in the form of the
Congressional Progressive Caucus; until 2009, though, that internal
infrastructure wasn’t linked to the outside.
In 2009, we built the bridges to create this leverage and saw significant
changes in the U.S. House of Representatives—particularly around health
care reform. Now it’s time to go to the next level

PROGRESSIVECONGRESS.ORG AT THE INTERSECTION

“ProgressiveCongress.org ProgressiveCongress.org was built at the intersection between the
Congressional Progressive Caucus (CPC) and the progressive movement
has been a solid ally in to connect the progressive movement, ideas, and Congress. Founded by the
policy fights and continues leadership and staff of the CPC and key leaders in the progressive
movement, the board includes a broad cross-section of the progressive
to be a good partner in community in the United States and the leadership of the CPC.
lending us intellectual Like the CPC, ProgressiveCongress.org focuses its efforts around four
key policy areas:
and political support.”
H Peace and global security;
Congressman Raúl M. Grijalva H Energy
(Arizona-07)
independence and environmental sustainability;
H 
Civil rights, civil liberties, and human rights;
H 
Public health, education, and economic opportunity.

BUILDING LEVERAGE
In a nutshell:
H 
The progressive movement has built structures and processes to get
people elected, but until 2009 did not have adequate mechanisms
for helping them govern once they succeed; and
H Progressives in Congress haven’t had the resources to adequately
shape either policy or the public debate.
*Pew Research Center for the People and the Press, 2009 Values Survey, April 2009

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In the House, the Blue Dogs provided a model to demonstrate how a
bloc of members who can swing sufficient votes to provide the margin
of victory for legislation can use that leverage to change policies.
Until the fight over the public option as part of health care reform,
the Congressional Progressive Caucus had not been effective at using
this leverage—in part because they lacked a key piece of infrastructure
allowing them to harness progressives outside of Congress to their cause
to help them evaluate policy options and to frame the public dialogue.
However, in the fight over the health care bill, newly formed
ProgressiveCongress.org built those key connections—transforming the
debate both on and off of Capitol Hill.
For the first time since they
ProgressiveCongress.org played the key organizing role in:
H Bringing outside experts in to educate members of Congress and formed in 1995, the Blue Dogs
staff on the substantive policy behind a public option; have been out-organized by
H Convening daily discussions through meetings, phone calls, and
online discussion groups for staff and outside experts, keeping their liberal counterparts.
everyone informed on what was happening and providing them Huffington Post
with opportunities to act in concert;
H Creating the echo chamber to talk about the public option,
working with organizations like MoveOn.org and DailyKos
as well as placing people and quotes in the press on MSNBC,
C-SPAN, the Washington Post, the New York Times, Huffington
Post, and so forth to change the consensus view both inside and
outside of D.C.
In addition to playing these key roles in health care reform,
ProgressiveCongress.org has done similar work around national security
(with an emphasis on Afghanistan, where we arranged a six-part briefing
series for members and staff), job creation, and the use of the budget
reconciliation process to move progressive legislation.
ProgressiveCongress.org has also created key databases of progressive
organizations, key individuals, and seminal papers, as well as a mechanism
for contacting all progressive staffers in the House and Senate assigned to
particular policy areas.

MISSION
The mission of ProgressiveCongress.org is bringing together the
collective wisdom and experiences of progressives inside and outside of
Congress and Washington, D.C. to promote
H 
Peace and global security;
H Energy independence and environmental sustainability;
H Civil rights, civil liberties, and human rights;
H Public health, education, and economic opportunity.
ProgressiveCongress.org is a unique and much-needed progressive
intersection and a communications, fact-finding, research, and education
hub for progressive organizations, leaders and other public policy-makers,
issue advocates from the national to the grassroots levels of civil society,
the media, and the general public inside and outside of Congress and
Washington, D.C.

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 THE PROBLEM
INSIDE-OUTSIDE INFRASTRUCTURE
The resource imbalance between progressives in Congress and more
conservative members has long been a problem for advancing progressive
ideas and policies. While business interests have long funded think tanks
and an extensive network of lobbyists whose principal purpose is to
provide information, resources, and messaging to more conservative
members of Congress to shore up their positions, progressive members of
Congress and the staff who support them have been largely on their own.
The rise of progressive organizations and an active progressive grassroots
Outside
in the last several years have had the potential to act as a significant
progressive Progressive
groups counterweight if leveraged, but the bridges needed to connect those
grassroots
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Members of Congress—and particularly House members—don’t
independently have adequate resources to advance progressive policies.
More than 75 percent of staff resources are used on basic constituent
services. That leaves an average of just under three staff per House office
to do everything else—from evaluating legislation to writing speeches to
Congressional scheduling the member. Few resources are available to invest in strategy
Progressive and organizing necessary to advance policy. This problem was created with
Caucus the defunding that accompanied the Gingrich revolution and can be solved
(members & staff) through leveraging both the ability of members to act as a coalition and
the alignment of progressives on both the inside and outside.
In January of 1995, Newt Gingrich used his newly elected majority in
Congress to consolidate power in his Speaker’s office. He defunded
congressional organizations like the Democratic Study Group which had
provided policy research and services to members of Congress, and he
left individual congressional offices with inadequate resources to deal
with the challenge. Because he then controlled the information members
Amplify had, it was much more straightforward for him to control what the
House did.
At this point, the only way for individual members to influence the
content of legislation has been to address the leadership as a bloc and
say they have enough votes to block it. The ideological caucuses form
the critical blocs needed to exercise this strategy.
The Blue Dogs on the right side of the Democratic Party have
Outside Progressive demonstrated the effectiveness of this technique, repeatedly leveraging
progressive grassroots their cohesion into policy changes aligned with their ideology. The
groups
CPC, however, has traditionally not been nearly as effective. One factor
contributing to this has been the lack of a key outside organization to
help them evaluate policy options and to frame the public dialogue.
The progressive movement has much greater mass and resources than
are available anywhere else on the political spectrum; the key is to
harness these.
GOALS
1. PROGRESSIVE HUB
We are a hub connecting members of Congress with the progressive
movement outside of Congress, and connecting the pieces of the
progressive movement with each other.

2. PROGRESSIVE POLICY INCUBATOR

We serve as a progressive policy incubator, funneling progressive
concepts from think tanks and the world outside of D.C. into
workable proposals and talking points usable by members of
Congress and their staffs.

3. PROGRESSIVE ECHO CHAMBER

We frame the critical policy debates the country faces in
progressive terms and use all available channels—including
traditional media and the grassroots—to get the public to think
of the issues in terms that lead to progressive conclusions.

YEAR IN REVIEW
SUMMARY OF ACCOMPLISHMENTS
Prototyped unprecedented model for alignment and coordination The White House expressed
of progressives inside and outside of Congress
H Brought key progressive outside experts in to brief members surprise last week that the
of Congress and staff on national security and Afghanistan, “left of the left” had clung
health care reform and the public option, and the economy
and job creation. so forcefully to the public
H Created venues for daily inside-outside coordination between insurance option as a must-
staffers and outside groups and experts, including daily
coordination phone calls, weekly meetings, and topic-specific have element of health care
online discussion groups around health care reform. These reform. Some old hands in the
activities engaged a broader range of outside entities than any
previous efforts. administration were more likely
H Created a mechanism for members of the public to submit and surprised by the simple fact
vote on questions to ask members of Congress, and for members
of Congress to answer those questions on C-SPAN and in the that, at this late stage, they still
Congressional Record.
have to deal with progressives
Developed and used aggressive PR operation and echo chamber to
advance progressive ideas in the public discourse in Congress. And who can
H Developed a press operation that placed quotes and key blame them?...“The fact that we
progressive members of Congress in the media—surpassing in a
single year the coverage House progressives had gotten in the have stuck to our guns about
entire decade prior to that. Harnessed the progressive media, the public option has surprised
including blogs and organizations like MoveOn.org, to act as an
echo chamber amplifying the message. people,” said Rep. Raúl Grijalva.
H Blogged on the front pages of leading national blogs, including Huffington Post
Huffington Post, Daily Kos, OpenLeft, and Crooks and Liars.

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 Created infrastructure for inside-outside bridges
H Created comprehensive database of the legislative staff members
assigned to cover health care, the economy, defense, foreign
policy, homeland security, and seven other topic areas in every
Democratic office in the House and the Senate.
H Putin place the infrastructure to crowdsource a database
of outside progressive experts and organizations for use by
members of Congress and staff.
Convened and trained on a progressive national security paradigm
H Delivered unprecedented six-part series on Afghanistan to
members of Congress and their staffs, resulting in the creation
of a set of principles that form the basis for progressive
members’ Afghanistan policies.
H Convened national security working group now meeting
monthly to bring insiders and outsiders together to work on
national security problems.
Worked toward reframing the public debate on national security
H Made multiple front-page posts on national security issues in the
largest-read blog on the Internet.
H Gave presentations on progressive approaches to national
security at multiple conferences and events.

BLESSED ARE THE BOTHERSOME,

FOR THEY SHALL HAVE HEALTH CARE
On the evening of December 8, news outlets were
touting the death of the public option. Gathered in the
cold on Capitol Hill were health care reform activists and
CLICK TO representatives of several dozen progressive groups, faith-
“We have never had WATCH
based organizations, and health care providers, along with
VIDEO
the Progressive Caucus seven Congress members, to declare their commitment to
continue to fight for the most progressive health reform
organized the way it is possible in this legislative time.
right now,” Burner said Senators Sanders and Burris, and Representatives Grijalva,
Lee, Jackson-Lee, Christensen, and Woolsey spoke about the
during a Friday roundtable importance of the diverse organizations brought together
with Roll Call. “This is not around the vigil, and the work of these organizations in
driving home the sense of urgency and moral necessity that
the normal scenario. And frames this debate over health care reform.
Speaker [Nancy] Pelosi Leslie Boyd spoke of her son, Mike, who died of cancer
while unable to get health insurance. Amidst candles and
[D-Calif.] knows it.” among faith leaders, activists, and members of Congress,
CLICK TO
Roll Call WATCH she held a framed photo of her son before a backdrop
VIDEO of the Capitol, where last-minute health care reform
agreements were being negotiated.
In between speakers, a marching band played St. James
Infirmary, and a Jewish cantor sang. The evening ended
with the declaration, “Blessed are the bothersome, for
CLICK TO they shall have health care!” And a call was issued for
WATCH
VIDEO continued vigilance and organizing as the Senate began to
move toward their final bill and the progressives to push
for a better result from the conference committee.
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The vigil was co-hosted by MoveOn, NAACP, National Physicians
Alliance, Health Care for America Now, Campaign for America’s
Future, DC for Obama, Faithful Reform in Health Care,
ProgressiveCongress.org, United Methodist Church – General Board
of Church and Society, American Medical Student Association,
NETWORK: A National Catholic Social Justice Lobby, Union for
Reform Judaism, Disciples Justice Action Network (Disciples of
Christ), United Church of Christ Justice and Witness Ministries,
Doctors Council of DC/NUHHCE/AFSCME, Plymouth Congregational
United Church of Christ (Washington, D.C.), Bon Secours Health
System Inc., American Muslim Health Professionals, Racial and Ethnic
Health Disparities Coalition, African American Health Alliance, The
Cave Institute, and Presbyterian Church (USA) Washington Office.

PARTNER ORGANIZATIONS
ProgressiveCongress.org has significant partnerships with key D.C.
organizations, including established progressive organizations,
progressive membership–based organizations, independent and
progressive media, organizations representing communities of color,
and online netroots leaders and bloggers. They include:

CURRENT ORGANIZATIONAL PARTNERS

African American Health Alliance
AFL-CIO
Alliance for Health Care
American Federation of Government Employees
Americans for Democratic Action
American Medical Student Association
Black Nurses Association
Campaign for America’s Future
Campaign for Better Health Care, Illinois
Campus Progress
Center for American Progress
Center for Community Change
Center for Policy Analysis
ColorOfChange.org
CREDO
Crooks and Liars
Daily Kos
Democracy for America
Democracia USA Action
Doctors Council of the District of Columbia/NUHHCE/AFSCME
Dolores Huerta Foundation
Economic Policy Institute
Equal Justice Society

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 Faith United Church of Christ
Fenton Communications
Future Majority
Generational Alliance
Health Care for America Now
Herndon Alliance
Huffington Post
Institute for Policy Studies
LULAC
Media Matters Action Network
Metro New York Health Care for All Campaign
Metropolitan Washington Council, AFL-CIO
MoveOn.org Political Action
NAACP
National Black Nurses Association
National Center for Lesbian Rights
National Physicians Alliance
National Security Network
National Union of Hospital and Health Care Employees
National Union of Hospital and Health Care Employees,
District 1199J
Netroots Nation
OpenLeft.com
People for the American Way Foundation
Peoples Congregational United Church of Christ
“ProgressiveCongress.org has Plymouth Congregational United Church of Christ
such huge promise, with Power PAC
Progressive Congress Action Fund
strong progressive principles,
Progressive States Network
significant numbers, and Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities Coalition
sharp strategic focus.” Raising Women’s Voices for the Health Care We Need
Roger Manno, Maryland State Delegate
Scott Wallace,
Co-Chair, Wallace Global Fund Roosevelt Institute Campus Network
SEIU
The Cave Institute
The Commonweal Institute
United Church of Christ, Justice and Witness Ministries
United Methodist Church – General Board of Church and Society
Universal Health Care Action Network
USAction
WAND
Win Without War Coalition
Young Americans for Health Care Reform
Young Invincibles

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EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
DARCY BURNER, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
Darcy Burner is the executive director of ProgressiveCongress.org and
the Progressive Congress Action Fund. As such, she is responsible for
strategy and management of the organizations.
She has been a guest featured on MSNBC’s “Hardball with Chris
Matthews” and “The Ed Show,” C-SPAN, ABC, NPR, Pacifica Radio,
and a host of local programs, and featured in Roll Call, Politico, The
Hill, The Washington Post, The New York Times, Huffington Post, Daily Kos,
The Nation, Mother Jones, and as a keynote speaker at Netroots Nation
alongside Bill Clinton and Howard Dean. She is a regular front-
page contributor to OpenLeft.com discussing matters pertaining to
Congress, and writes for Daily Kos, Crooks and Liars, and Huffington Post
as well.
She’s a board member of NARAL Pro-Choice America, Campaign for a
Livable World’s PeacePAC, the SNAP PAC Advisory Board, the Progressive
Ideas Network Advisory Board, Congressional Progressive Caucus PAC,
and the Netroots Arts and Education Initiative, a part of Netroots Nation.

BOARD OF DIRECTORS
“ProgressiveCongress.org has
PROGRESSIVECONGRESS.ORG BOARD OF DIRECTORS
been instrumental in broadening
U.S. Rep. Raúl Grijalva volunteer
Congressional Progressive Caucus Co-Chair much-needed channels of
U.S. Rep. Keith Ellison volunteer regular communication between
Congressional Progressive Caucus Vice Chair
progressive leaders in Congress
U.S. Rep. Barbara Lee volunteer
Congressional Progressive Caucus Co-Chair Emeritus and the broader progressive
Robert Borosage movement across the country.”
Chair of Board, Founder and Co-Director
Congressman Keith Ellison
of Campaign for America’s Future (Minnesota-05)
Conrad Martin
Treasurer of Board, Executive Director,
Fund for Constitutional Government
Stephen Shaff
Secretary of Board, Founder and President
of Community Vision Consultants
Wes Boyd
Co-Founder of MoveOn.org
John Cavanagh
Executive Director, Institute for Policy Studies
Lisa Hasegawa
Executive Director, National Coalition
for Asian Pacific American Community Development

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 Keith Harper
Partner and Head, Native American Affairs Practice Group,
Kilpatrick Stockton LLP
Amy Isaacs
Former National Director, Americans for Democratic Action
Jeff Krehely
Center for American Progress, Director of LGBT Research
and Communications Project
Larry Mishel
President of the Economic Policy Institute
Markos Moulitsas
Founder of DailyKos.com
Angela Oh
Attorney, Teacher, and Public Lecturer
Katrina vanden Heuvel
Publisher and Editor-in-Chief, The Nation

BOARD OF DIRECTORS
PROGRESSIVE CONGRESS ACTION FUND
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Michael Wolkowitz
Chair of Board, Chair of the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence
Howie Klein
“If the thousands of progressive Treasurer of Board, Board Member of People for the American Way
Heather Parton
groups across the country had Secretary of Board, Blogger at Digby’s Hullaballoo
a transmission belt to aggregate Robert Borosage
their collective power with Founder and Co-Director of Campaign for America’s Future

their progressive counterparts Wes Boyd

Co-Founder of MoveOn.org
in Congress, imagine what we Celinda Lake
could accomplish. Today, such Principal at Lake Research Partners

a transmission belt exists in Mike Lux

ProgressiveCongress.org.”
John Cavanagh,
Director, Institute for Policy Studies
Board member of nearly everything progressive,
former Clinton White House staffer
James Rucker
Executive Director, Color of Change
Pam Spaulding
Blogger at Pam’s House Blend

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IN THE NEWS
ON MESSAGE: PROGRESSIVECONGRESS.ORG
AND THE CONGRESSIONAL PROGRESSIVE CAUCUS
Since June 2009, ProgressiveCongress.org worked to amplify the
CPC’s work around health care and specifically its push to include
a public option. We worked with key communications staff from
CPC leadership offices to help broaden the reach of their press
outreach and, in compliance with House rules, pushed out their press
statements, releases, and advisories. It resulted in the the CPC being
mentioned in the mainstream media more in a four-month time period then it
was in the previous 10 years combined.
To raise the profile of ProgressiveCongress.org, Darcy Burner,
Executive Director, had one-on-one meetings with key political and
health care reporters from ABC News, Washington Post, Roll Call, The
Hill, Politico, Huffington Post, and The Nation to brief them on the work
of the organization. In addition, Darcy appeared on political programs
CLICK TO
on ABC News, MSNBC, and C-SPAN to discuss developments around WATCH
health care. Darcy has also appeared on numerous radio shows all VIDEO
over the country.

NEWS SUCCESS: PRESS CLIPS

Huffington Post, 4/8/2010 – Power Struggle: Inside the Battle for the
Soul of the Democratic Party
As the remaining reporters file out, Grijalva says he will begin the fight
again tomorrow. He’ll have company. Organized labor, MoveOn.org, and
progressive members of Congress are increasingly breaking from the A review of press coverage
orbit of the White House and the Democratic establishment, beginning
to take on the administration, build an independent infrastructure, shows that the Congressional
and back progressive primary challengers. Unions are working to
groom progressive candidates in small, local races and inside Congress, Progressive Caucus has been
the progressive caucus—after years of being treated like the stepchild of the discussed more often by the
House—has the potential leadership and organizing vision in place to be ready
the next time the nation clamors for a step forward and, in the meantime, to press in a four-month period—
finish what was started on March 21, 2010.
more than 1,200 mentions in
Huffington Post, 2/22/2010
But if the final bill is to include a public option, leaders in Congress and
mainstream media since
outside organizations advocating on its behalf will need to do it without June 1, 2009—than in the
Obama. “Congress and the people of the United States will have to lead
in truly taking on the insurance companies,” Burner said. decade prior to that.
Huffington Post, 9/23/09
For the first time since they formed in 1995, the Blue Dogs have been
out-organized by their liberal counterparts.
Roll Call, 8/31/09
Darcy Burner, executive director of the ProgressiveCongress.org, said
the health care debate has rallied traditionally disparate congressional
liberals to hang together, while galvanizing support for their position
from an array of left-leaning outside groups. The result, she said, is
that Democratic leaders will not be able to clear a package through the

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CLICK TO
WATCH
VIDEO
An early experiment this
spring confirmed for her the
potential power of the linkage.
She solicited the netroots for
questions to put to progressives
that they would answer on the
House floor, live on C-SPAN,
during the group’s weekly
“special orders” session on
Thursday nights. Burner said she
expected a couple thousand
people to participate, but in the
first four weeks, 60,000 people
weighed in.
Roll Call
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House if it does not include the public plan. “We have never had the
Progressive Caucus organized the way it is right now,” Burner said during
a Friday roundtable with Roll Call. “This is not the normal scenario. And
Speaker [Nancy] Pelosi [D-Calif.] knows it.”
Roll Call, 8/31/09
An early experiment this spring confirmed for her the potential
power of the linkage. She solicited the netroots for questions to put
to progressives that they would answer on the House floor, live on
C-SPAN, during the group’s weekly “special orders” session on Thursday
nights. Burner said she expected a couple thousand people to participate,
but in the first four weeks, 60,000 people weighed in.
Roll Call, 8/31/09
The group’s organizational strength faces its most serious test this fall,
and Burner acknowledged it is incumbent on liberals to convince the
White House it will have an easier time getting a bill through the
Senate with a public insurance option than getting one through the
House without one. “If progressives aren’t willing to do the work to
make the President do the right thing, it’s unlikely he will,” she said.
Huffington Post, 8/25/09
The caucus also brought on Darcy Burner to help with outreach to
progressive groups. Burner had twice run for Congress and is a hero of
the netroots community of bloggers and activists. She arranged for Jacob
Hacker, the intellectual architect of the public option, and Diane Archer,
co-president of the Health Care for All Project, which is run by the
Institute for America’s Future, to brief the caucus.
Huffington Post, 8/25/09
The White House expressed surprise last week that the “left of the left”
had clung so forcefully to the public insurance option as a must-have
element of health care reform. Some old hands in the administration
were more likely surprised by the simple fact that, at this late stage,
they still have to deal with progressives in Congress. And who can
blame them? “We’re the group that speaks to the righteousness of an
issue, [but] inevitably the decisions about how that issue’s going to
be addressed are conducted somewhere else,” said Rep. Raúl Grijalva
(D-Ariz.), describing the traditional fecklessness of progressives in
Congress.“The fact that we have stuck to our guns about the public option has
surprised people.”
Huffington Post, 8/25/09
A majority of the 81 Congressional Progressive Caucus members of the
House have vowed to oppose any health care bill that does not include a
“robust public option.” That threat has kept it alive. With 256 seats in the
House and 218 needed to pass a bill, Democrats simply can’t move health care
reform on their own without progressive caucus support.
The Nation, 6/15/09
“I’m a huge believer in small-d democracy—the idea that you want as
many people to be actively participating in government as you can
manage,” she said. Burner wants to translate the “huge upsurge” in
progressive participation in elections “into an upsurge in participation
in governing…This is the next obvious step. How do you get from merely
electing people—which I’ll grant is very important—to actually having people
participate on a day-to-day basis in the process of governing?” Both the
grassroots and the CPC stand to benefit from this kind of focus on the
progressive infrastructure.
NEWS SUCCESS: PRESS CLIPS
Darcy posted on many occasions at Huffington Post, OpenLeft, and Daily
Kos, often appearing on the front page of these widely read blogs. “I’m a huge believer in small-d
How we can get the health care bill across the line, 1/25/2010 democracy—the idea that
www.huffingtonpost.com/darcy-burner/how-we-can-get-the-health_b_435286.html
you want as many people to
How much does President Obama want a health care bill? 1/22/2010
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2010/1/22/829068/-How-much-does-President- be actively participating in
Obama-want-a-health care-bill
government as you can manage,”
My resolutions for the new decade, 12/31/09
www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2009/12/31/820957/-My-resolutions-for-the-new-decade she said. Burner wants to translate
Health care, the 16% problem, and a leaky roof, 12/24/09 the “huge upsurge” in progressive
http://openleft.com/showDiary.do?diaryId=16652

Joe Lieberman’s health care bill is worse than doing nothing— participation in elections “into
Kill it, 12/15/09 an upsurge in participation in
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/darcy-burner/joe-liebermans-health care_b_392139.html

With no public option, lowering the Medicare age to 55

governing…This is the next obvious
will make our problems worse, 12/8/09 step. How do you get from merely
www.huffingtonpost.com/darcy-burner/with-no-public-option-low_b_384122.html
electing people—which I’ll grant is
The REAL Republican plan, compared to Alan Grayson’s summary, 11/2/09
www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2009/11/2/799834/-The-REAL-Republican-plan, very important—to actually having
compared-to-Alan-Graysons-summary
people participate on a day-to-day
Gravitational slingshots: Health care reform and building
progressive power, 11/2/09 basis in the process of governing?”
http://openleft.com/showDiary.do?diaryId=15796
Both the grassroots and the
Rep. Alan Grayson apologizes (just not to the Republicans), 9/30/09
www.dailykos.com/story/2009/9/30/788209/-Rep.-Alan-Grayson-apologizes-(just-not- CPC stand to benefit from
to-the-Republicans)
this kind of focus on the
Why bipartisanship can’t work right now: The other axis, 9/22/09
http://openleft.com/showDiary.do?diaryId=14869 progressive infrastructure.
Just a touch of math, 9/8/09 The Nation
http://openleft.com/showDiary.do?diaryId=14982

Why the House progressives should kill health care reform

if there’s no public option, 9/6/09
http://openleft.com/showDiary.do?diaryId=14959

Public option: Nope, still not dead yet, 8/31/09 CLICK TO

www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2009/8/31/15839/7451 WATCH
VIDEO
Energy bill: Damned if we do, damned if we don’t, 6/25/09
www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2009/6/25/746862/-Energy-Bill:-Damned-if-we-do,-
damned-if-we-dont

NEWS SUCCESS: PRESS CLIPS (continued)

Now ask them about energy, 6/9/09
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2009/6/9/740531/-Now-ask-them-about-energy

You asked, they answered—on C-SPAN and on the record, 6/8/09

www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2009/6/8/740146/--You-asked,-they-answeredon-C-
SPAN-and-on-the-record

Health care reform and political realities, 6/6/09

www.dailykos.com/story/2009/6/6/115640/6964/918/739460

Q&A for the Congressional Progressive Caucus again tonight, 6/4/09

www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2009/6/4/738709/-QA-for-the-Congressional-Progressive-
Caucus-again-tonight
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“ProgressiveCongress.org has
already demonstrated its worth
in the health care debate
by acting as an effective link
between progressive members
of Congress and the rest of the
progressive movement. This is
incredibly important work, and
there’s so much more to do and
so much more impact to be had!
I look forward to being part of
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It’s high time the people we elected to
Congress answered to us, 5/20/09
www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2009/5/20/733564/-Its-high-time-the-people-we-elected-to-
Congress-answered-to-us
Commitment, and bending the arc of the moral universe, 4/27/09
http://openleft.com/showDiary.do?diaryId=13060
BLOG POSTS BY LORELEI KELLY, 2009 NATIONAL
SECURITY PROGRAM DIRECTOR
Lorelei posted on several occasions at the most widely read political
blog in the country, Huffington Post, and her posts were featured
on the front page.
Can the Pentagon do hope and change? 1/26/09
www.huffingtonpost.com/lorelei-kelly/can-the-pentagon-do-hope_b_160771.html
Iraq War Year Six: Our long goodbye to the Cold War, 3/19/09
www.huffingtonpost.com/lorelei-kelly/iraq-war-year-sixour-long_b_176812.html
Prague ’09: Swan song for Star Wars, 4/3/09
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/lorelei-kelly/prague-09-swan-song-for-s_b_182743.html
Getting our game back: The first hundred days, 4/29/09
www.huffingtonpost.com/lorelei-kelly/getting-our-game-back-the_b_192618.html
A progressive case for the supplemental, 5/14/09
www.huffingtonpost.com/lorelei-kelly/a-progressive-case-for-th_b_203401.html
Our President in Cairo: Muslims listened. Did America? 6/5/09
www.huffingtonpost.com/lorelei-kelly/our-president-in-cairo-mu_b_211745.html
Congress, the F-22, and the monkey on our back, 6/24/09
www.huffingtonpost.com/lorelei-kelly/congress-the-f-22-and-the_b_219927.html
Liz Cheney: Wrong on national security,
wrong about our President, 7/14/09
www.huffingtonpost.com/lorelei-kelly/liz-cheney-wrong-on-natio_b_231325.html
The exit strategy we need at home, 9/1/09
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/lorelei-kelly/the-exit-strategy-we-need_b_273758.html
LOOKING FORWARD
PROPOSED CORE PROGRAMS 2010–2011

NATIONAL SECURITY
Build progressive capacity to influence the U.S. approach to national
security in order to build a more secure and sustainable peace by:
H Building an internal-external consensus around progressive agendas
for Afghanistan and for Iraq as well as other national security
issues as they arise (e.g., Iran).
H Creating internal and external consensus around a congressionally
driven new framework for national security based on
multilateralism and better use of non-military power in conflict
resolution and peace-building.
H Expanding capacity among progressives in Congress to
understand, discuss, and formulate policy in the national security
and related arenas.

ECONOMY
Build progressive capacity to make the U.S. economy function in a more
progressive way by:
H Championing progressive approaches to job creation, including
helping progressive members of Congress frame the debate for
the public. Train and place progressive champions in the media to
argue for progressive solutions during the national discussion over
the next year.
A majority of the 81
H Creatingalignment around progressive approaches to financial Congressional Progressive
sector reform, building on work done by Congressmen Frank and Caucus members of the House
Grayson, Elizabeth Warren and her congressional commission, and
economists such as Dean Baker. have vowed to oppose any
H 
Developing inside-outside strategies related to improving wages health care bill that does not
and working conditions (aka fixing the real economy), partnering
particularly closely with organized labor.’ include a “robust public option.”
H 
Developing inside-outside strategies to make progress on leveling That threat has kept it alive.
the playing field economically for persons of color and women. With 256 seats in the House
EXPANDING OUTREACH TO PARTNER ORGANIZATIONS and 218 needed to pass a
AND CONSTITUENCIES bill, Democrats simply can’t
Broaden the circle of influence and partnership for the Congressional
Progressive Caucus by engaging communities and organizations that move health care reform on
reach communities of color, progressive faith-based communities, their own without progressive
organized labor, women, and young people.
caucus support.
Huffington Post

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 ORGANIZATIONAL CAPACITY-BUILDING
Expand the capacity of the organization to be of assistance to the CPC by:
H 
Developing key technologies to facilitate progressive inside-
outside coordination, including a new website, broader email list,
online public whip tool, and tools to facilitate online discussion.
H Launching a wiki to index the progressive movement and its key
people, organizations, and ideas.
H Develop expertise and capacity to influence a progressive bloc on
the Senate side.

FILIBUSTER REFORM: A PROJECT OF

PROGRESSIVECONGRESS.ORG
Work inside-outside strategies to reform the undemocratic Senate
filibuster rules at the window when it’s possible in January 2011:
H Educate and serve as a resource on procedures around the
filibuster for organizational leaders, the progressive grassroots,
Members of Congress, congressional staff, and the press.
H Alignand coordinate progressives inside and outside of Congress
around a coherent strategy for ending the filibuster.
H 
Use the bully pulpit enjoyed by progressive Senators and House
members, and the echo chamber of the progressive grassroots,
Netroots, and progressive press, to frame the debate in the minds
of the public so that they support filibuster reform.

PLANNING SUMMIT
Convene a summit of Congressional Progressive Caucus Members
and staff as well as key leaders from progressive outside partner
organizations and constituencies to create a progressive strategic
plan for the upcoming session of Congress:
H Educate and serve as a resource on procedures around the
filibuster for organizational leaders, the progressive grassroots,
Members of Congress, congressional staff, and the press.
H Align
and coordinate progressives inside and outside of
Congress around a coherent strategy for ending the filibuster.

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FINANCIALS



General
Project
Fundraising National Health Care Progressive
Security Program Map
TOTAL

Income
43400 Direct Public Support
43420 Grants 160,000.00 0.00 110,000.00 0.00 0.00 270,000.00
43440 Gifts in Kind – Goods 10,037.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 10,037.00
43450 Individual, Business Contributions 59,322.25 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 59,322.25
Total 43400 Direct Public Support 229,359.25 0.00 110,000.00 0.00 0.00 339,359.25
Total Income 229,359.25 0.00 110,000.00 0.00 0.00 339,359.25
Gross Profit 229,359.25 0.00 110,000.00 0.00 0.00 339,359.25

Expense
Depreciation 745.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 745.00
60900 Business Expenses
60920 Business Registration Fees 65.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 65.00
60930 Filing Fees 140.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 140.00
60940 Dues / Subscriptions 5,526.92 2,599.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 8,125.92
Total 60900 Business Expenses 5,731.92 2,599.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 8,330.92

62100 Contract Services

62110 Accounting Fees 5,250.00 0.00 1,705.00 0.00 0.00 6,955.00
62150 Outside Contract Services 0.00 150.00 5,000.00 0.00 0.00 5,150.00
62160 PR Consulting 0.00 0.00 0.00 38,718.50 0.00 38,718.50
62170 Paychex Fees 4,371.49 0.00 612.77 0.00 0.00 4,984.26
Total 62100 Contract Services 9,621.49 150.00 7,317.77 38,718.50 0.00 55,807.7

62800 Facilities and Equipment

62840 Equip Rental and Maintenance 238.43 0.00 0.00 328.50 0.00 566.93
62890 Rent, Parking, Utilities 3,030.41 500.00 4,122.00 7,719.50 0.00 15,371.91
62800 Facilities and Equiipment – Other 3,277.07 0.00 0.00 916.00 0.00 4,193.07
Total 62800 Facilities and Equipment 6,545.91 500.00 4,122.00 8,964.00 0.00 20,131.91

65000 Operations
65020 Postage, Mailing Service 305.59 0.00 43.60 0.00 0.00 349.19
65040 Supplies 3,215.25 325.82 2,402.33 0.00 0.00 5,943.40
65050 Telephone, Telecommunications 810.70 0.00 307.32 1,004.81 0.00 2,122.83
65060 Website 32.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 98.26 130.26
65190 Bank Fees 24.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 24.00
Total 65000 Operations 4,387.54 325.82 2,753.25 1,004.81 98.26 8,569.68

66000 Payroll Expenses

66100 Salary 18,750.00 12,000.00 87,000.00 103,458.29 0.00 221,208.29

66200 Payroll Taxes

66210 Social Security Employer Share 1,081.90 744.00 5,356.88 6,346.26 0.00 13,529.04
66220 Medicare Employer Share 253.03 174.00 1,252.78 1,484.25 0.00 3,164.06
66230 FUTA 43.60 60.00 67.20 95.21 0.00 266.01
66240 State Unemployment 702.80 292.50 291.61 469.34 0.00 1,756.25
Total 66200 Payroll Taxes 2,081.33 1,270.50 6,968.47 8,395.06 0.00 18,715.36
66400 Health Insurance 6,193.20 1,510.20 3,776.44 3,775.50 0.00 15,255.34
66500 Retirement Expense 210.00 360.00 240.00 1,670.00 0.00 2,480.00
Total 66000 Payroll Expenses 27,234.53 15,140.70 97,984.91 117,298.85 0.00 257,658.99

68300 Travel and Meetings

68310 Conference, Convention, Meeting 421.04 0.00 3,096.82 0.00 0.00 3,517.86
68320 Travel 958.75 0.00 5,500.00 283.80 0.00 6,742.55
68330 Meals 424.22 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 424.22
Total 68300 Travel and Meetings 1,804.01 0.00 8,596.82 283.80 0.00 10,684.63
Total Expense 56,070.40 18,715.52 120,774.75 166,269.96 98.26 361,928.89
Net Ordinary Income 173,288.85
-18,715.52 -10,774.75 -166,269.96 -98.26 -22,569.64
Transfer from Carryover 48,902.57 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 48,902.57
Transfer from General -195,858.49 18,715.52 10,774.75 166,269.96 98.26 0.00
Net Income 26,332.93 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 26,332.93

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