Health Care
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Unions Protest AHIP Convention at Ritz
Roll Call - Vested Interests &bull 3 Hours Ago
Inside the Ritz-Carlton hotel on Tuesday, insurance executives shuttled between panel discussions on such topics as health care policy priorities and public opinion on health care reform. However, if they wanted a live sample of one slice of public opinion, they need only to have stepped outside the swank Washington, D.C., hotel and beyond the line of law enforcement. There a crowd of union employees and liberal activists staged a boisterous protest against what they claim is… Full Story »
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Earmark Advocates Skeptical of Ban
Roll Call - Vested Interests &bull 3 Hours Ago
This comes up almost every year, said Democrat Rich Gold, head of Holland Knights government relations operation. Something like 80 to 90 percent of the caucus is opposed to these bans. Rep. Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.), a chief advocate for banning… Full Story »
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Groups Aim One Last Time at Reform Bill
Roll Call - Vested Interests &bull 3 Hours Ago
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce and a coalition of other business interests launched a multimillion-dollar television ad campaign Tuesday attacking Democrats latest health care reform plans. The business-backed Employers for a Healthy Economy billed the campaign, worth at least $4… Full Story »
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K Street Files: New Sheriff in Town
Roll Call - Vested Interests &bull 3 Hours Ago
Any lobbyist who had a problem filing a Senate lobbying report got acquainted with longtime Senate Superintendent of Public Records Pam Gavin. But following Gavins retirement last month, another Senate employee, Dana McCallum, is tasked with the job. Today, the three associations are scheduled to meet with… Full Story »
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Abortion Vexes Leaders Seeking Reform Deal
Roll Call - News &bull 3 Hours Ago
With the politics of abortion continuing to threaten passage of their health care reform overhaul, House Democratic leaders are wrestling with what appear to be three routes for moving forward and none is particularly easy. Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) clearly would prefer to find the votes to pass the Senates less restrictive abortion language over the objections of the Catholic bishops, Rep. Bart Stupak (D-Mich.) and a clutch of House Democrats who oppose abortion rights. But that will require Pelosi to offset the votes of Stupak and as many as 10 other Democrats he says stand with… Full Story »
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Immigrant Advocates Turn Up Heat
Roll Call - News &bull 3 Hours Ago
With the onus now on Congress to finish health care reform, President Barack Obama is turning his attention to a key constituency whose complaints about being ignored have reached a fever pitch: immigration reform advocates. Between the yearlong slog on health care and a spike in Democratic anxiety after the GOP upset in the election to replace the late Sen. Edward Kennedy (D-Mass.), proponents of immigration reform say Obama has failed to deliver on a campaign promise to advance their issue. The final straw for many was… Full Story »
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Hill Reconsiders Bill Conferences
Roll Call - News &bull 3 Hours Ago
After three years of avoiding conference committees to negotiate big-ticket legislation, House Democrats want to get back in the room and have started a campaign to convince their Senate counterparts to start holding the cross-Dome sessions again. I like conference committees. I hope we can do more of them, but not if it takes three weeks to get the whole thing going, Senate Democratic Conference Vice Chairman Charles Schumer (N.Y.) said of… Full Story »
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House Conservatives Fund Endorses 10
Roll Call - News &bull 3 Hours Ago
Candidates who will receive contributions from the PAC are: Stephen Fincher in Tennessees 8th district, Sam Caligiuri in Connecticuts 5th district, Sean Duffy in Wisconsins 7th district, Andy Harris in Marylands 1st district, Joe Heck in Nevadas 3rd district, Jim… Full Story »
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Play-by-Play
Roll Call - Opinion &bull 3 Hours Ago
Sen. Tom Harkin (D-Iowa) was calm enough when he sat down for a cup of coffee with political reporter David Yepsen back in 1998. But the conversation soon turned passionate. The Obama administration has already implemented a program to bring… Full Story »
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Teddy Reagan: Correctly Label Obama First, Then Attack
Townhall.com - User Blogs &bull 4 Hours AgoWe conservatives are mocked and ridiculed these days due to inaccurate portrayals of who Barack Obama is. I believe we have ignorantly labeled him as a Communist, a Nazi, a Socialist, a closet Muslim, a flaming liberal, etc.. Who is Barack Obama? What word or words truly describe him? Before we can answer these questions, we… Full Story »
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Democrat Rep. Dale Kildee Flips Vote to "Yes" on Healthcare
Redstate &bull 4 Hours Ago
Rep. Dale Kildee (D-MI), a key supporter of Rep. Bart Stupak's (D-Mich.) anti-abortion language intended for the health care bill, said Tuesday night that he's satisfied the Senate abortion language prohibits federal funding of abortions and will likely vote for… Full Story »
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Kucinich: 'Heads They Win, Tails We Lose'
Truthdig &bull 4 Hours Ago
President Barack Obama greets Rep. Dennis Kucinich as he leaves the chamber after his speech about health care reform before a joint session of Congress. Rep. Dennis Kucinich tells us why he isn't buckling under pressure to vote for the… Full Story »
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Obama using 'bounty hunters' to root out fraud
Seattle Times &bull 4 Hours Ago
President Barack Obama said Tuesday he'll bring in high-tech bounty hunters to help root out health care fraud, grabbing a populist idea with bipartisan backing in his final push to overhaul the system. President Barack Obama said Tuesday he'll bring… Full Story »
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Another health care attack ad
Ben Smith - Politico.com &bull 4 Hours Ago
Americans for Responsible Health Care, a new 527 group funded by a single wealthy donor, launched this radio spot Tuesday as part of a series attacking seven vulnerable House Democrats for supporting "Barack Obama's national health care scheme." A spokesperson… Full Story »
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Walter E. Williams: Is Health Care a Right?
Townhall.com - Columnists &bull 4 Hours AgoMost politicians, and probably most Americans, see health care as a right. Thus, whether a person has the means to pay for medical services or not, he is nonetheless entitled to them. Let's ask ourselves a few questions about this vision. Say a person, let's call him Harry, suffers from diabetes and… Full Story »
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Michelle Malkin: Desperate Dems Cling to Human Kiddie Shield
Townhall.com - Columnists &bull 4 Hours AgoHave you noticed something about the audiences that President Obama has cherry-picked to cheer his government health care takeover roadshow? They're getting younger and younger. On Wednesday, Obama brings the traveling campaign to St. Charles High School in St. Louis,… Full Story »
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Ken Blackwell: Guess Who's Coming to Your House? Hidden Dangers in Obamacare
Townhall.com - Columnists &bull 4 Hours AgoIt's all supposed to be voluntary, those "home visits" that are tucked into the mammoth ObamaCare bill. If you have a strong stomach, and stronger bottom, you can find home visitation on pages 568-595. That's Section 2951 of H.R. 3590,… Full Story »
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Dick Morris and Eileen McGann: The Democrats' Pickett's Charge
Townhall.com - Columnists &bull 4 Hours AgoAnd now the House Democrats line up at the instruction of their blind commanders for a final charge into glory as they battle to foist a health care system on a country that neither wants it nor can afford it.… Full Story »
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Video: Healthy Food Substitutes
Pure Horserace (CBS News) &bull 5 Hours Ago
Rep. Eric Massa, (D) New York, had some choice words recently about Rahm Emanuel, calling him "the son of the Devil's spawn." David Mark, Senior Editor for POLITICO, examines Rahm Emanuel and how he helps and hurts the Obama Presidency.… Full Story »
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N.H. Activist 'Granny D' Dies at 100
Roll Call - Politics &bull 5 Hours Ago
Political activist Doris Granny D Haddock, who at the age of 94 challenged Sen. Judd Gregg (R-N.H.) and won 34 percent of the vote in 2004, died Tuesday at her home in Dublin, N.H., the Keene Sentinel reported. Haddock was… Full Story »
