Illinois' own Rep. Luis Gutierrez has brought immigration reform back to life in the U.S. House. Amid historic unemployment rates in their districts and a contentious health care battle on Capitol Hill, congressional Democrats -- along with the White House -- have been reluctant to move the immigrant rights agenda forward. But at' [...]
by Patti Bellock and Kristina Rasmussen
Much of the debate over national health-care legislation has centered on flashpoints like higher taxes, abortion and immigration.
Yet one major aspect of the health-care plans being developed on Capitol Hill has received relatively scant attention. House and Senate Democrats are planning on significantly expanding Medicaid in an attempt to [...]
URGENT from Life Advocacy Briefing on US Senate action today:
We have just received word from a key Capitol Hill staffer that the Nelson/Hatch Amendment to explicitly exclude abortion from the Senate’s version of ObamaCare is likely to come up in the Senate today – Monday, Dec. 7.
Please contact your two [...]
NY Times The Caucus (emphasis emphatically mine):Over the past year, Capitol Hill has been portrayed as ground zero in the health care debate. But the heart of the fight was never in D.C. Rather, it was in the millions of households across the country, where the uninsured and the underinsured live in fear, knowing that they [...]
