WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Opposition is growing in the U.S. House of Representatives to a proposal to tax high cost health insurance plans as a way to finance a sweeping healthcare reform that would provide medical coverage to millions of uninsured people, lawmakers said on Wednesday. Heavy lobbying by labor unions against the proposed tax has help strengthen the opposition to the proposed excise tax, Representative Gerry Connolly told reporters following a closed door meeting of House... Read Full Story
Late last night the House of Representatives passed the healthcare reform bill by a 220-215 vote with 39 Democrats voting against it and one Republican voting in favor.
The bill basically remained intact, the healthcare mandates (with possible jail time for those who don’t buy coverage) and public option are still in there so I guess at this point we can only look toward small victories.
Small victories is probably the wrong term to use when talking about abortion, but I am talking... Read Full Story
This is suppose to be a free country so, why is it fair to send Americans to prison for not purchasing federally mandated health care insurance. Speaker Nancy Pelosi and her band of merry minions...
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An editorial in today’s Washington Post celebrates President Obama’s signature today of “the nation’s first significant pro-gay rights legislation” (although I’d note it’s even more profound as our first major pro- LGBT legislation). They do point out however that much work remains to be done. This milestone represents our inevitable progress toward equality and now it is up to Congress (and the LGBT community and our allies to apply pressure) to take up ENDA, repeal of DADT and repeal of... Read Full Story
President Obama has declared the swine flu outbreak a national emergency , thus giving the federal government even more power.
There has never been a more overblown crisis in recent memory that I can think of. During a slow news cycle the media trumped up this crisis and the national politicians have run with it creating a story where none existed and now we now have the president declaring a national emergency over an outbreak of the flu. This looks to me to be nothing more than a... Read Full Story
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and fellow House Democrats touted their own $900 billion health care reform bill on Thursday in answer to the Senate’s version and as part of President Obama’s overall push for reform, a push that is getting closer to reality with each legislative tweak and congressional roll-out. Pelosi took to the steps of the U.S. Capitol to introduce a nearly 2,000 page, $894 billion piece of legislation designed to go far enough to please House liberals but include enough... Read Full Story
By the time this editorial appears in print, the U.S. House may have voted on a massive, game-changing health care reform bill backed by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif.
Here is the original:
One-party health care reform won’t get far (The Cincinnati Enquirer)
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Today it was announced that Greg Craig is stepping down from the Obama administration.
One of the first acts Barack Obama did as president was to sign the executive order to close GITMO by the end of this year. This was a feel good move and a bone that Obama threw to the far left in an effort to appease them. There was never any chance that GITMO was going to be closed by the end of the year. Barack Obama signed this executive order without even bothering to consider what he was going... Read Full Story
Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner. Photo: WDCpix
WASHINGTON — Appearing before a House panel on Thursday, Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner made his best pitch for legislation granting the White House broad new powers to seize Wall Street firms when their collapse might torpedo others in the industry.
It didn’t go so well.
A number of Democrats on the House Financial Services Committee unfurled a laundry list of charges against the proposal, including the prominent concern that... Read Full Story
Uruguay's Supreme Court has declared unconstitutional a law that gave amnesty to military officials accused of human rights violations during the nation's dirty war. The ruling applies only to the case of a young communist who was killed by the military in 1974. But it comes just days before Uruguayans vote Sunday on whether to overturn the amnesty law. Attorney Jose Errandonea told the AP on Monday that the judges voted 4-1 to declare the law unconstitutional as it applies to the 1974... Read Full Story
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