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Just ahead of the State of the Union message, President Obama and Vice President Biden announced some new programs for working and middle-class families, part of the work of the Task Force on the Middle Class that Biden heads.

CWA Larry Cohen made a strong case that the Supreme Court's decision last week allowing corporations and unions to use unlimited treasury funds to make "independent expenditures was just wrong.

In his State of the Union message, President Obama pledged to keep up the fight for health care reform. The President said: "Here's what I ask Congress: Don't walk away from reform. Not now. Not when we are so close. Let us find a way to come together and finish the job for the American people."

Just ahead of the State of the Union message, President Obama and Vice President Biden announced some new programs for working and middle-class families, part of the work of the Task Force on the Middle Class that Biden heads.

CWA is investigating the accidental death of Local 3212 member William Britt Hunt, 39, an AT&T technician from Summerville, Ga., who was killed Jan. 13 when he became entangled in wires being rolled up by his truck's spindle.