This from the Washington Examiner:
The Senate's 2,074-page health care bill doesn't mention guns, but some gun owners are worried certain provisions could eventually be used to discourage or even restrict gun ownership as part of a government effort to influence behavior as it broadens its control over the health care system.
The day before [...]
This from Life News:
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has released the text of his new government-run health care bill to members of the Democratic Party. The new measure reportedly does not contain the Stupak amendment found in the House version that bans virtually all [...]
Democrat Bill Owens was sworn in by Nancy Pelosi and helped her pass the health care bill with his vote, but the votes that really count, haven't all been counted.
Conservative party candidate Doug Hoffman conceded the election after being told that he had lost by a narrow margin and Owens [...]
Democrat Bill Owens was sworn in by Nancy Pelosi and helped her pass the health care bill with his vote, but the votes that really count, haven't all been counted.
Conservative party candidate Doug Hoffman conceded the election after being told that he had lost by a narrow margin and Owens [...]
by Marcia Angell, M.D.
distributed by Huffington Post and Common Dreams
(Marcia Angell, M. D., is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School.)
The House health reform bill finally passed after one of Congress's longer, less enlightening debates. Two stalwarts of the single-payer movement split their votes; John [...]
An overwhelming majority of the Democratic lawmakers who opposed the bill — 31 of the 39 — represent rural districts that were won by Senator John McCain in the 2008 presidential election, and a third of them were freshmen. Nearly all of the fourteen freshmen Democrats who voted “no” represent [...]
Information from the Washington Post, January 9, 2009
Reps. Baron P. Hill(Ind.), Dan Maffei (N.Y), and Tom Perriello(VA) are Democratic Congressmen from predominantly rural districts. All three voted yes after concessions from the House Leadership.
For Hill the decision came down to a last-minute compromise that paved the way for [...]
by Lucida Marshall, Feminist Peace Network
Women’s reproductive rights were severely compromised to appease 41 members of Congress. The final vote on the health care bill was 220-215, so only a few of those votes were needed in the first place to secure the vote. For this, in the 11th hour, [...]
Washington — In the 10 minutes it took for Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid to outline his proposal for including a public option in the health care bill, the Nevadan went from being the political left’s punching bag for failing to lead on perhaps the biggest issue of his [...]
Congressman Yarmuth will attend the League of Women Voters meeting on Monday (November 9th) night to discuss Health Care Reform and answer questions. Feel free to invite anyone you know who is interested in this issue to this meeting.
The meeting is at 6:00 PM at the League's building, 115 South Ewing, [...]
The House voted 242 to 192 to approve the rules of the health care debate, a vote that officially permits the chamber to proceed to the substantive merits of the legislation. If all goes smoothly on the House floor, Democrats may be hours away from delivering on Obama's [...]
