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Neera Tanden
Neera Tanden (born 1970) is a political activist, domestic policy adviser and the President of Center for American Progress, a progressive public policy research and advocacy organization in Washington, DC.[1] She has served in this role since November 2011, before that serving as Chief Operating Officer from 2010 and in earlier roles.
She grew up in Bedford, Massachusetts, earning degrees from UCLA and a law degree from Yale University. Active in Democratic Party politics since working on Governor Michael Dukakis' presidential campaign, Tanden more recently has worked for Hillary Clinton on her senatorial campaign in New York. She served as Clinton's policy director for her bid for the presidency in 2008. Tanden later served as policy director for Democrat nominee Barack Obama, who was elected to the office. She was senior adviser to the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, working to gain passage of healthcare legislation.
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The New Yorker
March 21, 2018
“The way Trump won was by cheating,” Neera Tanden, the president of the Center for American Progress and a close ally of Clinton, said on Twitter, after the latest stories broke. “This. Russian hacking. Russian bots. Impossible to say all of this didn't affect 70k votes.” In the second Channel 4 report, ClintonÃâà...
RealClearPolitics
March 11, 2018
Former White House communications director Anthony Scaramucci defended President Donald Trump against critics who slammed Trump for saying he doesn't have to be presidential, in a panel discussion with CNN's Jim Acosta, Bakari Sellers, Neera Tanden, and Amanda Carpenter. "This is the mistakeÃâà...
The Charlottesville Newsplex
March 10, 2018
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (CBS19 NEWS) -- During the Tom Tom Founders Festival, there will be two panels discussing the current presidency through the lens of history. The University of Virginia Miller Center of Public Affairs and Tom Tom will bring together political leaders, journalists and scholars for theÃâà...
WJTV
March 10, 2018
... Chair, Senate Homeland Security Committee; Senator Elizabeth Warren, D-MA; Bakari Sellers, CNN Political Commentator; Amanda Carpenter, CNN Political Commentator; Anthony Scaramucci, Former White House Communications Director; Neera Tanden, President, Center for American Progress.
Charlottesville Tomorrow
March 9, 2018
Powerhouse pundit William Kristol of the conservative Weekly Standard, Neera Tanden of the progressive Center for American Progress, former Bush 43 Director of National Intelligence John Negroponte, and the Miller Center's William Antholis, Douglas Blackmon, and Nicole Hemmer will answer suchÃâà...
HuffPost
February 22, 2018
“There is a broad consensus within the broad progressive debate that health care is a right and that everybody should have health care,” Neera Tanden, president of CAP, told HuffPost. “And we recognize the virtue of a strong public plan available to all the people.” The center's plan has other provisionsÃâà...
Women's Agenda
February 22, 2018
We don't need more tax breaks for the mega-rich. What we need are greater investments from governments that benefit everyones, writes Neera Tanden, the President and CEO of the Centre for American Progress, who will be addressing the Labor International conference A Progressive Labor Agenda:Ãâà...
KSL.com
February 22, 2018
Even though it has no chance of passing in a Republican-controlled Congress, center president Neera Tanden said, "there is consensus on the progressive side that universal coverage should be the goal and health care is a right." As Democrats shift leftward, Republicans are saying the CAP plan showsÃâà...
Downtown Express
February 13, 2018
Neera Tanden, CEO of the Washington-based Center for American Progress, and West Side state Sen.Brad Hoylman hosted the Feb. 1 town hall at the CUNY Graduate Center in Midtown and were joined by City Comptroller Scott Stringer and Public Advocate Letitia James. While the remarks of eachÃâà...
Washington Examiner
December 6, 2017
Clinton and Obama campaign alum Neera Tanden on Rupert Murdoch's home burning down: 'There's a God. And she's ... Neera Tanden, president of the Center for American Progress Action Fund, tweeted this about Rupert Murdoch's burning home and vineyard in California: "There's a God. And she'sÃâà...
Deutsche Welle
October 18, 2017
When pressed about Hillary Clinton's private e-mail scandal and overall trust in the Democratic Party, Tanden said: "Why are you asking about Hillary Clinton at all?" Neera Tanden: "With all due respect, the idea that you're spending time focused on Hillary Clinton's veracity when we have a president whoÃâà...
CNN
December 31, 1999
A longtime ally and adviser to Clinton, Neera Tanden, responded to Moser's ad on Twitter, writing, "Honestly asking @lcmoser- do you mean this as an attack on @HillaryClinton or are you referencing something else? I'm definitely against party bosses choosing nominees but I don't know when that lastÃâà...
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