If you haven't heard by now, St. James Cathedral has decided to host the strangely titled forum, "The Morality of Health Care Reform: The debate's missing link".Pro-abortion legislator Jay Inslee is one of the invited speakers. He was demoted from "keynote" speaker status to panelist late last week. Laura Rehrmann, president of the Group Health Foundation and "in-charge of...
Health care reform IS About saving lives NOT destroying them.On Saturday evening, Nov. 7 the congress of the U.S. approved the Stupak-Pitt amendment to HB 3962 by a vote of 240-194. This amendment, a pro life Statement true and true said to government “remove abortion funding and mandates from health care reform” period.Jay Inslee voted against this Amendment, in other words, support abortion...
E.S. So said House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, talking this afternoon in Seattle about the controversial abortion amendment that was added at the last minute to the House health insurance reform bill. Which is not to say she likes that the amendment had to be added. "I myself do not really think this issue should be part of this legislation," Pelosi said, flanked by two Washington congressmen,...
Fresh off Saturday night's vote to pass a bill overhauling the nation's health care industry , Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi will be on Broadway this afternoon to tour Swedish Medical Center and continue to drum up support for the legislation as it moves on to the Senate. It's more First Hill than Capitol Hill but in the neighborhood for any of you wonk types who want to come out and get Pelosi...
Take a good look at this snippet of map, from a larger map put together by The New York Times . It's a reminder that in the historic House vote on health insurance reform over the weekend, only one Democratic Congressman from Washington State voted no: Brian Baird . The other Democrats in our delgation—Jay Inslee, Rick Larsen, Jim McDermott, and Adam Smith—all voted yes. Joining Baird...
Office of Nancy Pelosi House Speaker Nancy Pelosi will be here early this afternoon for an event intended to remind us "how the groundbreaking health insurance reform legislation passed on Saturday by the US House of Representatives helps Seattle." Which begs the question: Why Seattle? The 7th Congressional District (that's us) is arguably the last place in the country that needs to brought...
Earlier tonight, by a vote of 220-215 , the House passed HR 3962, the Affordable Health Care for America Act, the first significant health care reform in decades. Within the Washington delegation, the aye votes were Jay Inslee (WA-01), Rick Larsen (WA-02), Norm Dicks (WA-06), Jim McDermott (WA-07), and Adam Smith (WA-09). As expected, based on his statement from yesterday , Brian Baird shamefully voted...
The Seattle Sons & Daughters of Liberty: A Seattle Action Network Call, fax, email congress NOW! Operation House Call is ON! NOW IS THE TIME TO MELT EVERY LINE OF COMMUNICATION - DC first, then locally. FLOOD these offices with messages! For the phone/fax numbers of nationally targeted Representatives and Senators, click here: http://bit.ly/3QgjZs . Locally, call these guys: Rep. Jay Inslee, Washington,...
Rep. Jay Inslee slams SuperFreakonomics: “People are still trying to write books to deceive the American public” on climate science.: [Via Climate Progress] This is a repost from Wonk Room. Yesterday, Rep. Jay Inslee (D-WA) rebuked the authors of SuperFreakonomics for participating in a “continuing effort to deceive the American public” on the science of climate change. [...]...
“Rep. Jay Inslee (D-WA) assailed the authors of SuperFreakonomics for participating in the effort to deceive the American public on the science of global warming, in particular for their “absolute deception” in their portrayal of the views of climate scientist Ken Caldeira. He criticized the book during a hearing of the House Committee on Energy [...] Midas Oracle = About + Archives...
While I was searching for Henry Waxman’s comments about Anna Eshoo’s PhRMA boondoggle which will leave cancer patients in financial ruin just to pay for lifesaving biologic drugs, I came across a bizarre claim from her cosponsor Jay Inslee. He seems to believe that these companies need to be granted a monopoly on these [...]
I love xkcd . - If you missed it, the excellent Rep. Jay Inslee (D-WA), who used to be my congresscritter [beam], gave what for to the climate denialism of Superfreakonomics . Though as David Roberts points out over at Grist , the media aids and abets global warming skeptics because they think it's more interesting than the truth, so we're probably going to keep seeing more of these modern day Neros...
JERSEY CITY, N.J., LONDON and HONG KONG, Nov. 2 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Knight Capital Group, Inc. (Nasdaq: NITE) today announced that Knight Libertas has established a Global Emerging Markets Sales team based in Greenwich, Conn., Hong Kong and London. Effective immediately, the following have joined the institutional fixed income broker-dealer: Augusto Castilho, Eamon Tubridy, Alfredo Viegas and...
No dose of health care reform stupidity today, my darlings. I refuse to take my medicine. I'd rather cheer on my Rep instead. First, he delivered the spanking that Jon Stewart should have done : During today’s forged letter investigation hearing in the House, Rep. Jay Inslee (D-WA) rebuked the authors of SuperFreakonomics for participating in a “continuing effort to deceive the American...
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