By The Hill Staff - 11/07/09 04:08 PM ET Below is a list of selected Democrats and their positions on the House healthcare reform bill based on media accounts, press releases and spokesmen for the lawmakers. UPDATED 11/7/09 4:08 p.m. YES OR LEANING YES Howard Berman (Calif.) Leonard Boswell (Iowa) G.K. Butterfield (N.C.) Steve Cohen (Tenn.) Called the measure "America's bill" Gerry Connolly...
Curtsy to Andrew Stuttaford , who noticed that Sen. Hatch inserted a requirement that insurers cover Christian Science prayer treatments into the Senate health care bill. No doubt he's just trying to be respectful of everyone's religion, and as prayer is cheap I don't begrudge it, but can't we just see where this is going to lead under our current PC regime? The usual suspects are groaning on about...
Health care bill has a provision that means you could face jail time for not purchasing government mandated health insurance. When a bill comes up for a vote, our representatives are SUPPOSED to read the bill. Outloud. But if there is a unanimous vote to dispense with this, then they don't. OF course, the vote to dispense with this is ALWAYS unanimous. Except this time- Tom Coburn says he is considering...
CNN reports: In a late night development, anti-abortion Democrats scored a major victory by persuading Democratic leaders to allow them to offer an amendment during the House health care debate Saturday that would ban most abortion coverage from the public option and other insurance providers in the new so-called "exchange" the legislation would create, three Democratic sources told CNN....
More than 50 House Democrats -- including Debbie Wasserman Schultz, Kendrick Meek, Alcee Hastings and Ron Klein --- sent a letter to Speaker Nancy Pelosi supporting current Cuba policy, which embargo-supporters say effectively squashes efforts to lift a ban on...
So David Dreier and the Republicans are making a bunch of attempted amendments to the rule, none of which are being allowed, as the Democrats vote as a block. Rep. Alcee Hastings actually read the rule out, and it appeared to me that Rep. Stupak's amendment on abortion language was going to be allowed on the floor. I'm trying to get confirmation on this. The AP had a story that this would happen, but...
U.S. Rep. Robert Wexler, D-Boca Raton, threw his support today behind Ted Deutch to replace him in Congress. Deutch was also endorsed by U.S. Reps. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, Ron Klein and Alcee Hastings. “Ted will be a leader in Congress...
Ted Deutch landed Rep. Robert Wexler's endorsement to fill the retiring Democrat's congressional seat -- along with that of Reps. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, Alcee Hastings and Ron Klein. The four South Floridians made the announcement during a joint press call....
After reading the hard copy of your hometown newspaper, start your web-day with the Florida Progressive Coalition . Our digest of, and commentary on today's Florida political news and punditry follows. Charlie's placeholder a drill shill "Up until he was appointed as Florida's newest U.S. senator, George LeMieux was advising a secretive pro-oil drilling coalition that is pushing a bill through...
Lots of e-mail, as you'd expect, from my post on the provision in the House defense bill (sec. 524 of HR 2647) to bar members of "hate groups" groups from enlisting. Most e-mails asked whether Boy Scouts would be barred under the proposed policy. Good question, especially since the original provision left it to Eric Holder to determine who would be included in the index of prohibited organizations:...
House Resolution 554 This bill would require Internet posting of all non-emergency bills for 72 hours before the final vote. Speaker Pelosi is blocking it from the House floor. The way to get around her block is what's called a "Discharge Petition". It discharges the bill or petition to the floor for an immediate vote. The names of members who have already signed the Discharge Petition are...
DOWNLOADS: (97) PLAYS: (127) Sean Hannity hosted not one but two whole segments last night devoted promoting the new book by Jerome Corsi -- godfather of the Swift-Boating of John Kerry -- titled America For Sale, which is basically an extended black-helicopter-style conspiracy tome straight out of the Patriot movement of the 1990s, updated for the new century. This is a classic case of conservatives...
The war in Afghanistan has been one of the most vexing issues facing President Barack Obama and Democrats, and the division over what to do was summed up this week by U.S. Rep. Alcee Hastings.
WASHINGTON — The war in Afghanistan has been one of the most vexing issues facing President Barack Obama and Democrats, and the division over what to do was summed up Wednesday by U.S. Rep. Alcee Hastings. "I'm conflicted," the South...
The United States Congress has numerous coalitions and caucuses which various Congressmen and Senators align themselves with, such as the Republican Study Committee , or the Blue Dog Coalition , however, there is one caucus in the United States Congress which associates itself with left-wing organizations such as the ACLU, NAACP, La Raza, Moveon.Org, and other liberal organizations which advocate far-left...
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