Congressional Progressives vs. CP-USA

Congressman Allen West said he believed there were 78-81 members of the Communist Party in Congress by which he meant the members of the Congressional Progressive Caucus.
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Here's proof.  Which of these are verbatim items from the Congressional Progressive Caucus’ platform and which are from the Communist Party USA’s platform?  Too hard to tell because they are virtually identical!

1. Uphold the right to universal access to affordable, high quality healthcare for all.
2. Provide a health care system that is comprehensive and free with guaranteed access to quality care whenever needed.
3. Preserve guaranteed Social Security benefits for all Americans, protect private pensions, and require corporate accountability.
4. Increase Social Security benefits and COLAs, expand housing programs for low-income seniors, provide social support for culture accessible to all, acknowledge the contributions that seniors have made and continue to make to society.
5. Preserve prudent public interest regulations that encourage sustainable growth and investment, ensure energy diversity and system reliability, protect workers and the environment, reward consumer conservation, and support an expanding marketplace that rewards the commercialization of energy-efficient technologies
6. Create a sustainable economy that takes priority over profits.
7. Ensure working families can live above the poverty line and with dignity by raising and indexing the minimum wage.
8. Increase minimum wage.
9. Extend the Voting Rights Act and reform our electoral processes.
10. Demand people’s right to full participation in the decisions which affect their lives.
11. Bring U. S. troops home from Iraq as soon as possible.
12. A two-state solution and an end to the occupation of the Palestinian Arab lands.
13. Re-build U.S. alliances around the world, restore international respect for American power and influence, and reaffirm our nation’s constructive engagement in the United Nations and other multilateral organizations.
14. Foreign policy will be based on mutual respect, peace, and solidarity.
15. Enhance international cooperation to reduce the threats posed by nuclear proliferation and weapons of mass destruction.
16. U.S. policies threaten not only world peace but increasingly threaten the very existence of humanity. The most egregious examples are the U.S. imperialist invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan.
17. Increase efforts to combat hunger and the scourge of HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria, and other infectious diseases.
18. Recognize that the internationalization of economic and social life means that social problems anywhere in the world impact all countries, including the richest ones
19. The U.S. Constitution, as originally written, placed many restrictions on democracy, so from the time of the country’s founding there has been a continual battle to extend democracy -- from demanding that the Bill of Rights be included in the Constitution to legal battles to ensure that all people have inalienable rights, from eliminating property requirements for voting to outlawing poll taxes, from not only freeing the slaves but enrolling them as voters to extending the franchise to women, from the Voting Rights Act to lowering the voting age.
20. Invest in America and create new jobs in the U.S. by building more affordable housing, re-building America’s schools and physical infrastructure, cleaning up our environment, and improving homeland security.
21. Sunset expiring provisions of the Patriot Act and bring remaining provisions into line with the U. S. Constitution.
22. Export more American products and not more American jobs and demand fair trade.
23. Reaffirm freedom of association and enforce the right to organize.
24. Protect the personal privacy of all Americans from unbridled police powers and unchecked government intrusion.
25. Fight corporate consolidation of the media and ensure opportunity for all voices to be heard.
26. Ensure enforcement of all legal rights in the workplace.
27. Eliminate all forms of discrimination based upon color, race, religion, gender, creed, disability, or sexual orientation.
28. Honor and help our overburdened international public servants – both military and civilian.
29. Encourage debt relief for poor countries and support efforts to reach the UN’s Millennium Goals for Developing Countries.
30. Free ourselves and our economy from dependence upon imported oil and shift to growing reliance upon renewable energy supplies and technologies, thus creating at least three million new jobs, cleansing our environment, and enhancing our nation’s security.
31. Promote environmental justice in affirmation that all people have an inherent right to a healthy environment, clean air, and clean water wherever we live, work, and relax.
32. Change incentives in federal tax, procurement, and appropriation policies to:
33. Speed commercialization of solar, biomass, and wind power generation, while encouraging state and local policy innovation to link clean energy and job creation;
34. Convert domestic assembly lines to manufacture highly efficient vehicles, enhance global competitiveness of U.S. auto industry, and expand consumer choice;
35. Increase investment in construction of “green buildings” and more energy-efficient homes and workplaces;
36. Link higher energy efficiency standards in appliances to consumer and manufacturing incentives that increase demand for new durable goods and increase investment in U.S. factories;
37. Eliminate environmental threat posed by global warming and ensuring that America does our part to advance an effective global problem-solving approach.
38. Expand energy-efficient transportation choices by increasing investment in synthesized networks, including bicycle, local bus and rail transit, regional high-speed rail and magnetic levitation rail projects.