AARP of North Carolina issued a press release rapping the Senate for voting against allowing the importation of prescription drugs from abroad. Sens. Richard Burr and Kay Hagan both voted against allowing drug reimportation.
Rising prescription drug prices are a major problem for people of all ages, [...]
Today in a CSPAN interview, NC Senator Kay Hagan gave her views on the Senate health bill now being debated, including her thoughts on the lack of a public health care plan option and Medicare buy-in:
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Share and Enjoy: [...]The Winston-Salem Journal does an excellent job today dissecting the blatant political posturing of Bank Run Burr's in the matter of Obama's U.S. Attorney choice.
North Carolina's junior U.S. senator, Kay Hagan, has let the Obama administration know that she also opposes Holding being replaced until he is through with' [...]
During her Senate campaign part of Hagan’s platform called for a Medicare buy-in proposal so that people without insurance between the ages of 55 and 65 could purchase coverage through the popular public program for the elderly.
The proposal has attracted renewed attention as a possible compromise measure [...]
Governor Perdue is reportedly “furious” at a Superior Court Judge’s order to uphold the law and Constitution by releasing some inmates who have served the time that the law specified that they should serve (more, actually). Setting aside the fact that there are a ton of other things that [...]
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Look out folks. Says here that the city of Charlotte will spend $4m. to “study” street connectivity. But if you are looking for boost connectivity, would not the first, easiest, and cheapest thing to do be remove all the barriers built by the city in the 70s and 80s?
I’m [...]
Talking Points Memo picks up on some spilled acid from Madam Foxx's recent interview with the Winston-Salem Journal. Democrats have no ideas, sez she, so they talk about character, including, we assume, hers.
U.S. Sen. Kay Hagan specifically mentioned Cary-based SAS as a company that could provide the federal government with software designed to prevent health care fraud.
Hagan, a Greensboro Democrat, said the company doesn't have an inside track on getting a federal contract. She said she was using [...]
U.S. Sen. Kay Hagan said from the Senate floor Tuesday that software could prevent billions in Medicare and Medicaid fraud.
It was part of a package of amendments Senate freshman advanced that were meant to lower health care costs by eliminating fraud, abuse and waste.
In [...]
Two Florida senators have joined U.S. Sens. Richard Burr and Kay Hagan in urging the Navy to fund a study on water contamination at the Marines’ Camp Lejeune.
The Navy has not committed to fully funding a 2010 work plan on the contamination by The Agency for Toxic [...]
As health care reform legislation makes it's way through the Senate, Dome will track votes by the state's Senators, Republican Richard Burr and Democrat Kay Hagan.
ABORTION LIMITS: Limit insurance companies that are participating in a federal insurance exchange from covering abortions. The Senate voted to table, [...]
The U.S. Senate on Tuesday blocked an amendment that would restrict insurance companies’ ability to pay for abortion coverage for women.
The vote, a procedural move, was to table, or set aside, the amendment, Barb Barrett reports. It passed 54-45, meaning the amendment won’t come back up again.
The city of Charlotte has agreed to settle a lawsuit by the family of a Weddington woman killed when a tree fell and crushed her SUV on East Boulevard in the spring of 2008.
Kay Plyler, an assistant town manager of Matthews, was driving with her 14-year-old daughter, Taylor Yeaton, when [...]
U.S. Sen. Kay Hagan re-emphasized to U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder in a phone call this week that she wants current federal investigations into public corruption in North Carolina completed.
Hagan, a Greensboro Democrat, has told the White House that she wants U.S. Attorney George Holding, who [...]
In addition to two amendments she promoted Tuesday morning, U.S. Sen. Kay Hagan has two others she plans to introduce as the Senate continues debating health reform.
The first amendment would require health insurance companies to report at least once a year on their reimbursement rates paid [...]
U.S. Sen. Kay Hagan's amendments to the health care bill are part of a package offered by a group of Democratic freshman senators.
Hagan, a Greensboro Democrat, spoke on the Senate floor this morning about two of the group’s amendments which she submitted, Barb Barrett reports. [...]
U.S. Sen. Kay Hagan says the nation needs software to prevent health care fraud.
The pitch by Hagan, a Greensboro Democrat, is probably going to make state Rep. Paul Stam mutter something about already telling us so.
Stam, an Apex Republican and House minority leader, [...]
While Democratic U.S. Sen. Kay Hagan says she is unsure whether she'll hold up the confirmation of a new U.S. attorney for North Carolina's eastern district, Republican U.S. Sen. Richard Burr has no plans to hold up the process.
Yesterday U.S. Sen. Kay Hagan, D-NC, voted to cut $460 billion in Medicare payments in an effort to make the outrageous cost of Obamacare more palatable. Her vote, so enthusiastically given on the measure, is a far cry from her position during her successful campaign last year.
On her senatorial [...]
First, former state Sen. Cal Cunningham said no thanks. Now he’s back in the race for the Democratic nomination to challenge incumbent Sen. Richard Burr, reports the Washington Post’s Chris Cillizza. Could it be Cunningham’s gotten a Kay Hagan-style commitment from the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee?
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PROSECUTOR TROUBLE: President Barack Obama announced his pick to replace U.S. Attorney George Holding, a Republican who is currently investigating two of the state's most prominent Democrats. The announcement puts Democratic U.S. Sen. Kay Hagan, who has lobbied to let Holding finish his work, in the [...]
This obvious political dance from Sen. Kay Hagan is getting tiresome. She has the mechanism — the so-called blue slip– to hold up the replacement for U.S. Attorney George Holding and allow him to finish the investigations of Mike Easley and John Edwards.
No one disputes President Obama’s right [...]
