If you've been following the Blue America PAC at all, you may already be aware that we've decided that we won't be endorsing any candidates for the House in 2010 unless they are genuinely enthusiastic about passing John Larson's Fair Elections Now Act ( HR 1826 ). We're not asking for some unenforceable pledge; we want nothing less than heartfelt enthusiasm. Right now Larson has 117 co-sponsors from...
A Courtesy to our Friends at KOS DEMOCRATS WHO VOTED TO SLAP WOMEN BACK TO THE STONE AGE ( HR # Bill: H R 3962 ) KOS diarist LaFeminista reflects the animus the Soros-left have after the passsage of the Stupak Amendment which, nominally, will keep Obamacare from funding abortion. In truth, a Medicare type supplement insurance will be available. Anyway, to help them out, and make retribution easier,...
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...
Get in the fight against statism. The life you save will be your own (and grandmas's and the kids, and Aunt Bessie .....) Subject: Vote on Healthcare Tonight Here's a list of the Democrats who are (reportedly) undecided or on the fence. Time to jam the phone lines. If they're not in your district it doesn't matter. Call 'em anyway. Call as many as you can. Someone who wants to force you to purchase...
The Hill has compiled the whip count for the Pelosi bill coming to the floor in 2 days. This is their list updated as of last night. The Hill contributors/data gatherers are: Mike Soraghan, Bob Cusack, Mary Ann Dreas, Samantha Guthrie and Dan Randlett. The Hill will be updating as new information comes in, and you can view that here . Reprinted below is their annotated list: YES OR LEANING YES Leonard...
Ponder a few questions as you read this. Would you want to own stock in this company? Would you want to contract with this company? Would you want to buy a car from this company? These are all questions that people ask every day about companies in the free market. Unless the answer to all three of these is yes, the company will likely fail. And with Congress calling the shots, the answers are pretty...
From Bleeding Heartland : When it came time for back to school shopping, my wife and I diligently went through the list of classroom supplies requested by our daughter's teacher, and purchased a couple of large shopping bags worth of stuff. Then, last week, my eight year old came home with a fundraising request from her school. Basically, the school was asking us to fill out cards with our friend's...
by Thúy-Lan Võ Lite I have a few updates on the case of slain anti-abortion activist James Pouillon, who was killed in front of a school on September 11 in Owassa, Michigan. A brief post on Jezebel informed me that two Congressmen – Reps. Dave Camp and Dale Kildee – from Pouillon’s home state introduced a resolution [...]
By Laura Angus WASHINGTON D.C. -- U.S. Reps. Dave Camp and Dale Kildee introduced House Resolution 759 honoring slain anti-abortion activist James Pouillon today, according to a press release on Camp' Web site. Pouillon and gravel pit owner Mike Fuoss...
From CQ's Politics in America 2010 : New York Democratic Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand studied abroad in China and Taiwan in college. She also spent a month on a fellowship in India where she interviewed the Dalai Lama and Tibetan refugees for a senior project. Septuagenarian Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, runs two to three miles nearly every day at a 9 ½ minute pace. New York Democratic Rep. John...
I heard he had a good song, I heard he had a style ............. Page 326 of the Obamacare opus. EUTHANASIA AND HEALTH CARE REFORM hat tip Daryl Catholic League president Bill Donohue discusses Section 1233 of H.R. 3200, the health care reform bill that was introduced in the House: There is language in this section of the bill that implies that the federal government may become involved in euthanasia....
The conservative Republican political analyst for the Washington Times discusses a proposal for some Gitmo detainees to be transferred to Michigan : "My hometown is hurting. It has been for some time, for far too many reasons to mention here. Not the least of which is the state's record-breaking 15 percent unemployment rate. (In contrast: when Republican John Engler was governor, just prior to...
"Democratic Sen. Carl Levin and Reps. Bart Stupak and Dale Kildee say Michigan prisons could house the Gitmo detainees" Michigan lawmakers want Gitmo detainees ...
WASHINGTON, July 24 (UPI) -- Some Democratic lawmakers from Michigan are viewing the Guantanamo detainees as a possible means of boosting their state's finances, legislators say. Several Democrat members in the U.S. House and Senate are floating the idea of housing detainees from the U.S. detention facility in Cuba in Michigan prisons set to close because of the state's budget crunch, The Hill reported...
Five centrist House Democrats, led by antiabortion-rights Rep. Tim Ryan (Ohio), on Tuesday issued a proposal that would neither require nor ban private insurers from covering abortion services as long as federal dollars are not used, the Washington Post's "Capitol Briefing" reports. In a letter sent to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), Ryan and Reps. Dale Kildee (Mich.), James Langevin...
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