disinter (Free subscription) | 07/05/2008
The following candidates still have to win their primaries and need your help: Linda Goldthorpe (MI) District 1 v. Bart Stupak (D Incumbent) Primary: August 05, 2008 Geoge Lilly (CO) District 1 v. Dianna DeGette (D Incumbent) Primary: August 12, 2008 Michael Delavar (WA) District 3 v. Brian Baird (D Incumbent) Primary: August 19, 2008 Dean Santoro (FL) State Senate District 35 Primary: August 26, 2008...
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 07/03/2008
MORAGA, Calif., July 2 /PRNewswire/ -- On June 23 Rep. Bart Stupak (D-MI) chaired a hearing conducted by the House Energy & Commerce Oversight & Investigations Subcommittee. This hearing has been largely ignored. ...
The Rougblog (Free subscription) | 06/30/2008
Donning a superhero's cape and mask, Bart Stupak is going to get to the bottom of this energy crisis once and for all by investigating the impact that speculators are having on the price of oil. Think of him as Covering My Butt Man, who, through use superpower of pandering and a desperate need to control the energy usage of the rest of us, should issue his findings, right or wrong, about the time that...
Detroit Free Press (Free subscription) | 06/30/2008
It is absolutely appropriate for elected officials in Congress to explore the possibility that speculation is driving some of this year's incredible escalation in oil prices. U.S. Rep. Bart Stupak took on that task last week.
CNNMoney.com (Free subscription) | 06/27/2008
"Make no mistake about it," U.S. Rep. Bart Stupak, D-Mich., said Monday while chairing a meeting of the House Energy and Commerce subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations. "Excessive speculation in commodity markets is having a devastating effect at the gas pump that is rippling through our entire economy."
CNNMoney.com (Free subscription) | 06/27/2008
"Make no mistake about it," U.S. Rep. Bart Stupak, D-Mich., said Monday while chairing a meeting of the House Energy and Commerce subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations. "Excessive speculation in commodity markets is having a devastating effect at the gas pump that is rippling through our entire economy."
Medical News Today (Free subscription) | 06/26/2008
The Healthcare Distribution Management Association (HDMA) commends Representatives Bart Stupak (D-MI), Lamar Smith (R-TX) and Mary Bono Mack (R-CA) for introducing bipartisan legislation (H.R. 6353) to combat illegal online sales of prescription medicines.
The Club for Growth (Free subscription) | 06/24/2008
KEY VOTE ALERT "NO" on the Federal Price Gouging Prevention Act (H.R. 6346) The Club for Growth urges members of the House to vote "NO" on the Federal Price Gouging Prevention Act (H.R. 6346), sponsored by Rep. Bart Stupak. This vote will be included in our annual Congressional Scorecard. This bill seeks to prohibit the sale of gasoline at prices that are "unconscionably excessive" or that take "unfair...
Detroit Free Press (Free subscription) | 06/23/2008
How big a role is oil speculation playing in what you pay at the gas pump? U.S. Rep. Bart Stupak is trying to get to the bottom of that question, and at a hearing today he had charts that show "speculators" (anything from pension funds to hedge funds to individual players) hold 71% of futures contracts for oil, compared to about 37% in 2000. (The other participants in the market — whose share has shrunk...
Superior Investor (Free subscription) | 06/23/2008
Michael Masters of Masters Capital Management testified before congress today that oil speculators are playing a great role in the high cost of crude oil. According to the testimony by Masters to the House Energy and Commerce Committee, crude prices could quickly drop from $135 per gallon to $65 or $75. Other [...]
Team 651 (Free subscription) | 06/22/2008
Copied and Pasted from a .pdf file I received in my email: June 20, 2008 The Honorable Bart Stupak, Chairman Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigation Committee on Energy and Commerce United States House of Representatives Washington, DC 20515 Dear Mr. Chairman: Ten days ago, a broad coalition of consumer, labor, and business organizations joined to advocate immediate reforms in the widely-speculative...
JammieWearingFool (Free subscription) | 06/07/2008
Inventories are up. Demand is down. On Thursday, June 5, 2008, Congressman Bart Stupak (D-Michigan) was interviewed by KNX 1070 Business Editor Frank Mottek regarding the runup of oil and gas prices. Interestingly, Stupak didn't go into his usual Bush Derangement Syndrome mode. That should be news in and of itself. :-)
The Liberal Blog Network (Free subscription) | 06/06/2008
Well, I see that "Mad" Jack Hoogendyk has been smart enough these last couple of weeks to avoid signing on as co-sponsor the latest effort to weaken the teaching of evolution in science classes, although I wish I could say the same for Joel Sheltrown (I notice Bart Stupak's presumptive opponent, Tom Casperson, is likewise a sponsor). Joining them, naturally, is the goat killer his-own-self, Grandville's...
causa nostrae laetitiae (Free subscription) | 05/23/2008
from C-FAM Pro-Life Congressmen Thwart US Support for UN Abortion Initiative By Piero A. Tozzi and Susan Yoshihara (NEW YORK – C-FAM) Pro-life congressmen, lead by Chris Smith (R-NJ) and Bart Stupak (D-MI), rescued a congressional resolution supporting reduction of women's mortality at home and abroad from surreptitiously advancing the pro-abortion agenda advanced at the United Nations. House Resolution...
Medical News Today (Free subscription) | 05/22/2008
House Energy and Commerce Committee Chair John Dingell (D-Mich.) and Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Chair Bart Stupak (D-Mich.) in a recent letter warned four pharmaceutical companies to end the use of "misleading and deceptive" direct-to-consumer advertisements for medications,
