Specter & Casey vote to advance health care legislation…
[...]In other words, no real health care reform at all and no relief for the voters for years. If this is how they roll, the Democrats have already lost the midterm elections:
After announcing her intent to support a health care debate this afternoon, Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-LA) told reporters [...]


STATEMENT OF ADMINISTRATION POLICY
H.R. 3590 - Patient Protection and Affordable Care [...]
US Representative Jack “If I’m corrupt, it’s because I take care of my district” Murtha is loved by voters who think they are getting something for nothing and they do not realize the cost to them in dignity. They are now dependent on Murtha, the government and [...]
Harry Reid is bribing Senators to vote for his health care boondoggle.Thank God for the Congressional Black Caucus, whose members so often stand up for working people:
A bloc of African American House Democrats, angry and worried that not enough is being done about high unemployment by the administration, forced the postponement of a much-anticipated vote Thursday on comprehensive financial regulation [...]
Dems up pressure on health bill’s holdouts
The county commissioners on Wednesday rejected, by a 2-1 vote, a spring arbitration award that gives county corrections officers raises in 2010 and 2011. The arbitration panel gave the 185 corrections officers, who are represented by AFSCME Council 89, a 7 percent pay this year. The officers are contributing [...]
One of the most common critiques of full-time state legislatures is the sheer amount of seemingly useless resolutions - to pander to certain groups of voters - that take up legislative agendas. While interning for the House of Representatives, I saw this was very common from both parties on the [...]
Yesterday, US Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid put forth a new, 2,074 page health care reform bill. The Senate is expected to vote on it in the next few days. Click here to read the whole thing. That is too much for me, so I will instead read both [...]