Center for American Progress - Obama Presidency Oral History Center for American Progress Index / Organizations Transcript Andrew Stern ...healthcare?” Then we scheduled, with CAP [Center for American Progress], th... ...Then we scheduled, with CAP [ Center for American Progress ], the famous healthcare debate, whic... ...Walmart, along with Intel, AT&T, the Center for American Progress , and the mainstream group founded b... ...he had been tortured at the SEIU/ CAP first debate that he didn't do so wel... ...a very long time, and we had done the CAP healthcare event. I didn't really hav... ...Like Yeast] 's List, the Sierra Club, Center for American Progress , SEIU, I think the NEA [Nationa... ...group in his role as president of the Center for American Progress , got picked to run the transition, s... ...healthcare?” Then we scheduled, with CAP [Center for American Progress], th... ...Then we scheduled, with CAP [ Center for American Progress ], the famous healthcare debate, whic... ...Walmart, along with Intel, AT&T, the Center for American Progress , and the mainstream group founded b... ...he had been tortured at the SEIU/ CAP first debate that he didn't do so wel... ...a very long time, and we had done the CAP healthcare event. I didn't really hav... ...Like Yeast] 's List, the Sierra Club, Center for American Progress , SEIU, I think the NEA [Nationa... ...group in his role as president of the Center for American Progress , got picked to run the transition, s... Show more... Frances Beinecke ...called the Climate Action Partnership [ CAP ] with CEOs from all over America—an... ...the road going forward. We heard it in CAP and I've heard it, actually, globall... ...we're working under.” But, with CAP we did a blueprint, which laid ver... ...the labor community. So we were part of CAP , Climate Action Partnership, wit... ...We had worked with John at the Center for American Progress . He actually had been a senior fello... Neera Tanden ...reform. She then left for the Center for American Progress [CAP], where she became president i... ...for the Center for American Progress [ CAP ], where she became president in 2011... ...government roles I've had, or even at CAP basically working to wade through ho... ...transition chairs, and I knew John from CAP and other experiences. He wanted me t... ...him many times. I kind of knew him from CAP and from multiple other things, and ... ...reform. She then left for the Center for American Progress , where she became president in 2011... ...and then I came out of it and ran the Center for American Progress , which defended for many years agains... ...the president. Then, when I was at the Center for American Progress , we defended the ACA for years, but w... ... I would tell my staff all the time at CAP , “It's up to us to save this bill... ...Schumer's staff and Pelosi's staff, at CAP . This leader of this other group wa... ...You can do what you want, but the Center for American Progress is going to fight this bill tooth an... ...to leave? I had helped start the Center for American Progress . I will say candidly, the mos... ...be a deputy at the NEC or go back to CAP . I can say this now. But there wa... ...was this notion that if I came back to CAP and I did well, I could be on th... ...for Larry Summers as a deputy or go to CAP ?” Again, I would be COO at CAP and no... ...or go to CAP?” Again, I would be COO at CAP and not CEO. But whenever John [D... ...had a great privilege in the sense the Center for American Progress worked very closely with the Obam... ...not even three weeks from now. CAP , I thought, did great work in thinkin... ...or a year. In fact, I came back to CAP , and I developed the strategy—I ca... ...ideas over three years. The benefit of CAP was that I didn't have—it's always ... ...connects the ideas you're generating at CAP to the White House. In that time tha... ...people about the idea. The thing about CAP and the work we did—CAP is different... ...thing about CAP and the work we did— CAP is different, as a think tank. It'... ...than, say, an advocacy group because at CAP , we try to have a lot of people in th... ...through how you can make it—the goal of CAP is not to have an idea. The goal of CA... ...CAP is not to have an idea. The goal of CAP was to have an idea that would hav... ...of the shared personnel ties between CAP and the White House, or was it mor... ...was the chief of staff. He had been a CAP senior fellow [laughs]. Jennife... ...[laughs]. Jennifer Palmieri was at CAP and then had become communication... ...progress, and pushed on certain scores. CAP is a different kind of thing. It's ... ...story about the debate. There was a CAP forum. Have I told the CAP foru... ...There was a CAP forum. Have I told the CAP forum story? I don't think so. Thi... ...healthcare happened. I had worked at CAP , but I was on the Hillary Clinto... ...starting, basically, January of 2007. CAP organized a forum with SEIU [Servic... ...comes full circle, because it was a CAP event [laughs], and then we did it... ...reform. She then left for the Center for American Progress [CAP], where she became president i... ...for the Center for American Progress [ CAP ], where she became president in 2011... ...government roles I've had, or even at CAP basically working to wade through ho... ...transition chairs, and I knew John from CAP and other experiences. He wanted me t... ...him many times. I kind of knew him from CAP and from multiple other things, and ... ...reform. She then left for the Center for American Progress , where she became president in 2011... ...and then I came out of it and ran the Center for American Progress , which defended for many years agains... ...the president. Then, when I was at the Center for American Progress , we defended the ACA for years, but w... ... I would tell my staff all the time at CAP , “It's up to us to save this bill... ...Schumer's staff and Pelosi's staff, at CAP . This leader of this other group wa... ...You can do what you want, but the Center for American Progress is going to fight this bill tooth an... ...to leave? I had helped start the Center for American Progress . I will say candidly, the mos... ...be a deputy at the NEC or go back to CAP . I can say this now. But there wa... ...was this notion that if I came back to CAP and I did well, I could be on th... ...for Larry Summers as a deputy or go to CAP ?” Again, I would be COO at CAP and no... ...or go to CAP?” Again, I would be COO at CAP and not CEO. But whenever John [D... ...had a great privilege in the sense the Center for American Progress worked very closely with the Obam... ...not even three weeks from now. CAP , I thought, did great work in thinkin... ...or a year. In fact, I came back to CAP , and I developed the strategy—I ca... ...ideas over three years. The benefit of CAP was that I didn't have—it's always ... ...connects the ideas you're generating at CAP to the White House. In that time tha... ...people about the idea. The thing about CAP and the work we did—CAP is different... ...thing about CAP and the work we did— CAP is different, as a think tank. It'... ...than, say, an advocacy group because at CAP , we try to have a lot of people in th... ...through how you can make it—the goal of CAP is not to have an idea. The goal of CA... ...CAP is not to have an idea. The goal of CAP was to have an idea that would hav... ...of the shared personnel ties between CAP and the White House, or was it mor... ...was the chief of staff. He had been a CAP senior fellow [laughs]. Jennife... ...[laughs]. Jennifer Palmieri was at CAP and then had become communication... ...progress, and pushed on certain scores. CAP is a different kind of thing. It's ... ...story about the debate. There was a CAP forum. Have I told the CAP foru... ...There was a CAP forum. Have I told the CAP forum story? I don't think so. Thi... ...healthcare happened. I had worked at CAP , but I was on the Hillary Clinto... ...starting, basically, January of 2007. CAP organized a forum with SEIU [Servic... ...comes full circle, because it was a CAP event [laughs], and then we did it... Show more... Todd Stern ...time and then becoming a fellow at the Center for American Progress , which my friend John Podesta ha... ...about climate change. I'd worked at the Center for American Progress as a fellow, as I said. I did lots o... ...that. I think it was something that the Center for American Progress was also working on. Anyway, I was o... Zeke Emanuel ...tax to finance healthcare. The Center for American Progress had also developed a plan tha... Christy Goldfuss ...with John from my time at the Center for American Progress , so I was deeply concerned; because ... ...the Havasupai tribe, when I was at the Center for American Progress , about uranium mining there. Then... ...of it may be when I first came to the Center for American Progress . I had been on House Natural Resource... ...Service well, but when I got to the Center for American Progress , just by total coincidence, I was pu... Jeanne Lambrew ...because I was a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress [CAP], where we had been working o... ...at the Center for American Progress [ CAP ], where we had been working on tha... ...Podesta, who was the founding CEO of CAP , was committed to trying to figure ou... ...were moderated across the country by CAP —did those forums change how yo... ...Daschle, because my work with him at Center for American Progress created the relationship. We actuall... ...trouble by saying that when I was at Center for American Progress , I staffed this coalition calle... ...about the fact that back when I was at Center for American Progress , I was asked to help do a commissione... Show more... Related Topics go to the Climate, Environment, and Energy Climate, Environment, and Energy go to the Healthcare Healthcare Latin America Coming soon Criminal Justice Coming soon Public Health Coming soon