6 ways Progressive Democrats are setting the agenda in Congress

http://www.alternet.org/activism/6-surprising-ways-progressives-are-actually-kicking-butt-congress?akid=13023.294211.CjyBZQ&rd=1&src=newsletter1035128&t=3

1. Social Security: Progressives have been arguing for several years that the country's primary program for the elderly, disabled and survivors needs to be expanded, not cut back.
2. Financial reform: In January, the House Democrartic leadership took a swipe at Wall Street with a proposal for a financial transactions tax, a step progressives have long advocated to rein in the financial sector's manic trading culture. 
3. Jobs and wages: For the last five years, the CPC has introduced a People's Budget as an ideological counterweight to the draconian budget cuts and tax giveaways in the Republican leadership's proposals.