Kit Bond suggested last night on the Senate Floor and again this morning on Fox News Sunday that the Senate Health Care bill is like Bernie Madoff's criminal ponzi scheme. Does it make any sense? Of course not. But it sounds scary, and that's [...]
Kit Bond suggested last night on the Senate Floor and again this morning on Fox News Sunday that the Senate Health Care bill is like Bernie Madoff's criminal ponzi scheme. Does it make any sense? Of course not. But it sounds scary, and that's [...]
Sen. Claire McCaskill yesterday twittered this:
"If we printed the health care bill in regular size font it would be same legnth as Sarah Palin's book, but with more meat on the bone."
Snappp!
Sen. Harry Reid released a combined Senate health care bill and price tag today. The CBO says it will cost $849 billion over 10 years, cover 94% of the country’s population and reduce the deficit by $127 billion.
The Notebook: "The most glaring portion of the [PPP] poll is [...]
Luetkemeyer
Updated 12:41 p.m. with a response from Luetkemeyer.
Missouri U.S. Rep. Blaine Luetkemeyer was one of several members of Congress to submit a statement on the health care bill using the exact language submitted by biotech lobbyists, the New York…
[...]Union Station helped anchor downtown revitalization
Blunt talking to Steelman about campaign?
Mistakes with government health care would be costly
A blogger wonders how much political capital was expended by the Democrats to pass a federal health care bill, Gov. Jay Nixon is set to go deer hunting, and when [...]
JEFFERSON CITY — U.S. Senate candidate Robin Carnahan, a Democrat, continued her campaign strategy of avoiding direct positions on legislation under debate in Congress yesterday.
Carnahan, the Secretary of State, was asked at a news conference…
[...]From the AP:
Democratic Senate candidate Robin Carnahan says she is both excited and concerned about House-passed legislation that would overhaul the nation's health care system.
But Carnahan, who is Missouri's secretary of state, declined to specifically say Tuesday whether she supports the bill.
Rep. Roy Blunt voted against the bill that Democrats [...]
This seems like a fairly obvious point, especially given the frustration from progressives (including me) over his vote on the House Democrats' health care bill, but Ike Skelton isn't exactly a pawn in some sort of leftist plot to destroy America.
Just in case you missed it, the Senate and House health care bills contain hundreds of instances of the word "tax" (with all its variations).
DNR Laying Off 48 State Parks Workers (News-Leader)
After rushing through a decision to lay off 100 state parks workers, the DNR scales [...]
Did all of the Republicans who hyperventilated about reading every word in the Democratic leadership's health care bill read every page of the GOP health plan before voting on it yesterday?
[...]This tweet from the News-Leader's Chad Livengood about the House Democrats' health care bill got my heart racing yesterday:
Under House health care bill, failure to buy insurance will become a felony w/ 5-year jail time: [tinyurl.com]
This makes about as much sense as saying there are new criminal penalties' [...]
Seventh District Congressman Roy Blunt spoke against the health care bill earlier today on the House floor:
In a vote completed moments ago, the U. S. House passed the health care bill by a 220 to 215 vote.
The House Committee on Education and Labor has a neat-o interactive widget summarizing the benefits of the House Dems' health plan for different groups.
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House Republicans seem pretty excited this morning about a small slice of the Congressional Budget Office's initial look at their health care bill. But they're not sharing the whole picture, of course. The Washington Post's Ezra Klein breaks it down:
CBO begins with the baseline estimate that 17 percent of legal,' [...]
Officials are telling The Associated Press that AARP - the seniors' lobby - will endorse the health care overhaul bill that House Democrats are preparing to take to the floor.
Officials with knowledge of the group's decision told The Associate Press on Wednesday that the' [...]
Rep. Ike Skelton
WASHINGTON — While the public option has dominated much of the health care debate, language in the House health-care bill about paying for abortion procedures is becoming a hot issue.
Rep. Ike Skelton, D-Mo., and other anti-abortion rights House…
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