Practice is Unnecessary, Discourages Program Participation and Wastes Money Following reports that more New Yorkers went hungry in 2008 than the year before, Representative Anthony Weiner (D – Brooklyn and Queens), a member of the Energy and Commerce Health Subcommittee and 27 Members of Congress called on Agriculture Secretary Vilsack to end the practice of fingerprinting food stamp applicants....
According to City Comptroller Bill Thompson's latest campaign fiance filings, the Observer reports that he spent "$9,003,711...on his campaign, which came within a few percentage points of beating Michael Bloomberg's $102 million re-election campaign ...In his latest filing period, Thompson spent $1,040,000 on television ads, along with $309,887 on consultants. Among Thompson's notable expenditures...
Reid and Obama in Las Vegas Sen. Harry Reid needs 58 democrats and 2 independents to pass the bill. That means a trigger for the public option, unless Joe Lieberman can be persuaded to get off his high horse. There are zero republicans who support a public option. Lieberman might be holding out for something in return: Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid predicted Monday he'll have the votes to enact...
Congressman Anthony Weiner is a News Hounds Top Dog. Not just because he smacked down every one of Stuart Varney's "socialized medicine" right-wing talking points but because he refused to allow Varney, guest hosting for Neil Cavuto Tuesday (11/24/09), to control the discussion. Video after the jump. (H/T Matt)...
From the GREAT STATE OF MAINE... Things for Which I am Thankful: 2009 Barack Obama is our 44th president and John McCain is not Joe Biden is our vice president and Sarah Palin is not That somehow we didn't fall into Great Depression II The hope of semi-significant healthcare reform - Howard Dean The Congressional Progressive Caucus Michelle and those arms Olbermann, Maddow, Schultz, Stewart, Colbert...
Of the endorsements she has received to date, the one Senator Kirsten Gillibrand received today might be the biggest endorsement from a member of the congressional delegation. Representative Jerrold Nadler announced today that he is endorsing Gillibrand, calling her a "great partner on many progressive causes" and praising her for the work she has done on a number of issues, including the...
A Republican Arizona Congressman who opposes the plan to hold the trials for Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four other suspected terrorists in Manhattan asked Mayor Bloomberg how he would feel if his daughter was "kidnapped at school by a terrorist." Though Bloomberg's daughters — Emma, 30, and Georgina, 26 — are well past school age, Rep. John Shadegg raised the question on the...
Representatives of law enforcement groups, public health organizations and trade associations today gathered on Capitol Hill to urge the Senate to pass S. 1147, the Prevent All Cigarette Trafficking Act of 2009 (PACT Act). This legislation will help combat online cigarette sales that have robbed hundreds of millions of dollars in tax revenues from the states and that undermine state laws that prevent...
Rep. John Shadegg isn’t winning many friends in New York after suggesting Mayor Bloomberg’s daughters could be “kidnapped at school by a terrorist” because Bloomberg wants the 9/11 culprits tried at the scene of the crime. Shadegg, of Arizona, won minor fame by wielding a baby in the House health care debate like a puppet. He took it up a notch late last night casting aspersions...
'Medicare for all," is the rallying cry on ObamaCare from congressional Democrats, led by Brooklyn's Rep. Anthony Weiner, who insist the medical program for seniors proves that a single-payer system works, and works well. Alas, it proves nothing ...
I thought the auto bailouts were a bad idea. If General Motors can run its business in a profitable fashion then it should fail so that it can be replaced with a company that can run itself profitably. But the geniuses in Washington DC don’t see things that way. “Too big to fail.” And what would happen to the poor darlings at the United Auto Workers Union if they didn’t have...
You know, you have to appreciate that guys like Anthony Weiner and Joe Sestak will go on Bill O'Reilly's show to try to bravely counter his nonstop deluge of right-wing talking points. But as he demonstrated last night when he had them on to talk about the New York City terrorism trials, he just proved once again why it's never a winning proposition to go on his show, no matter how hard you try. O'Reilly...
Nothing. PNHP's Oliver Fein : Insurance companies play no constructive role in providing health care. They do not give you a physical exam; they do not perform your surgery. What they do instead is fight claims, issue denials and screen out the sick, diverting huge sums away from much-needed care. The savings rendered by cutting out private insurance companies and establishing a single-payer plan...
Anthony Weiner is absolutely right when he says, as he did in Wednesday's New York Times , that Mayor Bloomberg and his re-election team were scared of him. But Weiner is forgetting another perfectly valid point: He was scared of them, too. And he blinked. It's no accident that he's not talking about this aspect of his decision-making process. The Brooklyn congressman, who nearly took Fernando Ferrer...
A week after Mayor Bloomberg's narrower-than-expected victory , Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-Brooklyn/Queens) has come out of the woodwork claiming that he could have defeated the incumbent. The Congressman — who abandoned his short-lived Mayoral campaign in May — claims that in order to win, Bloomberg would have needed to spend at least $150 million (about $50 million more than the Mayor's...
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