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Blaine Luetkemeyer
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Does Eric Cantor think he's doing Blaine Luetkemeyer a favor here?
Blaine Luetkemeyer has really hit the ground running," Cantor said.
As an example, he continued, "Blaine has been a part of the crafting of the Republican alternative on the health-care front."
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Jason Rosenbaum has a very interesting nugget in the Columbia Business Times blog today about UM System president Gary Forsee's decision to oppose federal climate legislation:
University of Missouri system president Gary Forsee’s letter opposing federal legislation aimed at reducing carbon emissions is still attracting attention several weeks after it was released to the media.
Paul Sloca, the spokesman for U.S. Rep. Blaine Luetkemeyer, R...
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The New York Times reports today that Rep. Blaine Luetkemeyer published a statement in his own name that was actually written by lobbyists for the biotech company Genentech.
Statements by more than a dozen lawmakers were ghostwritten, in whole or in part, by Washington lobbyists working for Genentech, one of the world’s largest biotechnology companies...
In separate statements using language suggested by the lobbyists, Representatives...
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Rep. Blaine Luetkemeyer released a list of reasons why he opposes the House Democrats' health care plan yesterday. It's a pretty standard list of Republican talking points: laughable claims from the insurance industry-owned Lewin Group (Blaine calls them "on-partisan actuaries"), bureaucrats are bad, anything "government-run" is bad, etc.
The first point in his list is unusually misleading. It reads:
Section 202(c) prohibits the sale of...
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Rep. Blaine Luetkemeyer's response to the House Democrats' health care proposal (noted here yesterday) is amazing display of half-truths and deliberate misinformation. Taken almost verbatim from a "Reading Guide" published by the House Republican Conference, Luetkemeyer gets it wrong on the supposed prohibition of private individual health insurance policies, 'bureaucrats' dictating plans, the horrors of a 'government-run' plan and...
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Via ClimateProgress, I see there are a slew of organizations that Rep. Blaine Luetkemeyer ought to shut down for engaging in "junk science" and "dubious science."
Yesterday, scientists from 18 organizations sent a letter to the Senate yesterday affirming the climate is changing, human activities are the primary driver, and that "If we are to avoid the most severe impacts of climate change, emissions of greenhouse gases must be...
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Rep. Roy Blunt was scheduled to speak at the Boone County Republicans chili supper Friday night, along with state Sen. Chuck Purgason, Rep. Blaine Luetkemeyer, Allen Icet, Thomas Schweich and others. However, Blunt did not attend the event for unspecified reasons.
The House adjourned in plenty of time for Blunt to make it Columbia (Luetkemeyer was there) and Blunt walked in the Mizzou Homecoming Parade early the next morning.
There may be...
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