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...
On a party line vote with one RINO in favor, the Neo-com Democrats pass PelosiCare (the House version of Obamacare). Here are the miscreants that will rob the elderly of medicare and create a death panel so they wont need medicare: From the NY Times Voted YEA Neil Abercrombie D HI-1 Gary L. Ackerman D NY-5 Robert E. Andrews D NJ-1 Michael Arcuri D NY-24 Xavier Becerra D CA-31 Howard L. Berman D CA-28...
About an hour ago, the House of Representatives passed HR 3962, the Affordable Health Care for America Act, which brings us one step closer to health care reform. After the vote, the Connecticut delegation issued a series of releases: Joe Courtney: This evening, the House of Representatives took an historic step in the right direction for our nation's health care system by passing H.R. 3962, the Affordable...
The Troops to Teachers program would be rejuvenated to attract younger veterans to work as public school teachers under a bipartisan plan announced Tuesday.The existing program, created in 1994 to help find post-service work for people whose military careers were being cut short by the post-Cold War drawdown, has been limited to career service members with at least six years of active service or 10...
Joe just called to let me know that he and his friend Courtney have survived the Marine Corps Marathon. Joe's time was pretty much the same as last year, I believe he said it was 4 hours and 40 minutes. I can't even imagine running for that long (or wanting to :-) So a big congrats to Joe and Courtney. Joe is celebrating by pigging out on burgers from Five Guys.
Jennifer Grogan of theday.com writes, U.S. Rep. Joe Courtney wants to get the stalled National Coast Guard Museum project going again by creating a public-private partnership to support the endeavor. Courtney, D-2nd District, discussed the project with Adm. Thad W. Allen, Coast Guard commandant, late last month and requested a letter reaffirming the service’s support for the [...]
With the Senate poised to consider comprehensive health care reform soon, more than 100 workers and activists from two dozen states converged on Capitol Hill yesterday to remind lawmakers that the union members and working families who worked so hard on their campaigns last fall are the same people who strongly back health care reform. They delivered more than 42,000 personally written letters from...
Union members represent one of the biggest and most powerful Democratic constituencies and their support of any health care reform proposal is viewed as essential to getting a bill passed in Congress. So far Big Labor is all for Obamacare, the SEIU even sent bouncers to some of the town hall events to beat up on some of the anti-Obamacare protesters at the events. Of course when some of the burden...
By Lori Montgomery More than half of House Democrats say they oppose taxing health benefits to help pay for an overhaul of the nation's insurance system, setting the stage for a battle with key senators who say the provision is critical for controlling health care costs. In a letter sent Wednesday to the White House and Senate leaders, as well as to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), 157 of the...
The Democrats could pay for much of the health care bill by taxing people who make a million dollars a year in income. Or, they could pay for much of it by taxing so-called 'Cadillac' health care plans that cost way over the national average. Never mind that Cadillac's General Motors recently went bankrupt, the name is still supposed to have some caché. And the auto workers who build those Cadillacs...
This morning, proud non-voter Peter Schiff officially entered the ring of the 2010 #CTGOPbattleroyale . This is the man about whom Stuart Rothenberg said earlier this year that he saw: "...no evidence that he understands how to talk to voters who have the kinds of problems that average Americans in Connecticut face each and every day, no evidence that he'd be effective in the Senate and no evidence...
Last night I attended the Ashford Democratic Town Committee meeting. I'm an active member and I'm running again for the Region 19 Board of Education so there are always details about getting elected that need to be understood. But at tonight's meeting I had asked if anyone was interested in drafting a letter of support for the public option. I had passed along a liberal critique [smirking chimp article]...
Fellow blogger over at Exultet , who goes by Mike in CT has written a more detailed post than mine on the Town Hall Meeting of our Congressman Joe Courtney on September 2. Go on over and get a different yet fair take on what he calls the shell game the Dems are playing with the health care plan. script" type="text/javascript" src="http://rpc.blogrolling.com/display.php?
As promised, we have drawn the second four names of representatives selected by random lottery to submit voluntarily to legislation of their own making (H.R. 3200). If the representatives feel this puts them on the spot, good! We feel they have some explaining to do to those of whom they pretend to represent. . A commenter has made us aware of one member of our U.S. Congress who actually did step forward...
A very intelligent questioner mentioned that there needed to be more transparency in the health care bill. He noted that if this is approved, Congress could come up with amendments which gut the present bill and we have no idea what will happen. script" type="text/javascript" src="http://rpc.blogrolling.com/display.php?
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