Charlie Rose with Michael Isikoff & John Harris; Jesse Jackson, Gardner Taylor and John Conyers; Marcus Roberts (June 20, 1996)
Corrente (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
Arthur urges us to go read David Swanson on... ... how and why John Conyers, once an admirable politician in many ways, slowly and inevitably surrendered certain key principles that Conyers himself had repeatedly declared to be of supreme importance to him. History doesn't repeat, but it rhymes. And as for surrender of key principles... read more
Don Surber (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
Democratic Congressman John Conyers, whose councilwoman wife just pleaded guilty to bribery and who represents a Detroit that is now 30% abandoned land, has some advice some advice for President Obama: “The president could take a few pages from Lyndon Johnson’s book… and start knocking heads together.” Conyers is absolutely wrong and mischaracterized President Johnson, who...
Ablogination (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
The Great Congressional Representative, John Conyers, recently advised the President to start “knocking heads” if he wants Health Reform to pass the Senate. Aside from his support of HR 676, Conyers has never been so right. The time for child’s play is over. The House has approved inadequate-but-effective Health Reform legislation. Barack Obama must now assert his authority as the...
MSNBC.com (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
"The president could take a few pages from Lyndon Johnson's book ... and start knocking heads together," said Rep. John Conyers, D-Mich., the most senior African-American in Congress, of Barack Obama's plight for a health care overhaul.
Detroit Free Press (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
Veteran U.S. Rep. John Conyers is urging President Barack Obama to get tough with those senators he says are standing in the way of passing legislation designed to overhaul the nation's health care system.
The Rougblog (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
In 1965, when John Conyers first took office in the House of Representatives, Lyndon B. Johnson was President of the United States. Conyers still has a soft spot in his heart for those early years when his future wife Monica was in diapers and members of his own political party were trashing the Civil Rights Act. Conyers remains sentimental over that political period and wishes that Barack Obama would...
Healthcare-NOW! (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
By Marcia Angell, M.D. for Huffington Post - Well, the House health reform bill — known to Republicans as the Government Takeover — finally passed after one of Congress’s longer, less enlightening debates. Two stalwarts of the single-payer movement split their votes; John Conyers voted for it; Dennis Kucinich against. Kucinich was right. Conservative rhetoric notwithstanding, the...
Corrente (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
John Conyers and Dennis Kucinich are correct, it isn't HR 676 and it's not as good as HR 676 . It is however a very good compromise, and for all the incrementalists and political realists out there in TVland, it provides a good foundation to build on. What it is is HR 676 with a chunk of HR 3200 added on at the end, some revenue provisions added, illegal aliens excluded, covered benefits slightly...
The Lonely Conservative (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
What John Conyers (D-MI) is saying is that we don’t have the money to pay for the democrats $1 trillion+ take over of health care in the US. News flash for Conyers: We can end the war. Government entitlement programs never end – at least they won’t end until they’ve completely bankrupted the republic.
Bloggin on down the Rogue (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
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...
Corrente (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
Marcy Kaptur is on C-Span right now talking glowingly about the anti-women's rights addition to the Insurance Industry Protection Act. Sigh. Now somebody else [Christopher Smith] is up, talking about the huge number of babies who would have been killed and all the mothers who would have been wounded without the intervention of the brave right-to-life souls who got this amendment into the bill. Eric...
PEU Report (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
Tyler Durden of ZeroHedge summed a Moody's report on flagging private equity underwriting (PEU) deals. He posted the detailed analysis. The Carlyle Group's distressed affiliates include: ARINC Allison Transmissions Freescale Semiconductor Frontier Drilling Harrahs -(not credited to Carlyle in the report) Hawaiian Telecom- bankruptcy HD Supply LifeCare Holdings Oriental Trading PQ Corporation Sequa...
The Public Record (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
Congressman Anthony Weiner, D-New York, has agreed with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi not to have a floor vote on his Medicare for All bill. A press release from Congressmen Dennis Kucinich, D-Ohio, and House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers (sponsor of HR 676, a single payer bill) opposing it helped tip the scale.
2008 Democratic Convention Watch (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
Back in August, Nancy Pelosi said that she would be HR 676 to the floor. I called her office and they assured me her comments on Single Payer to the floor had referred to 676. The rumour is something about Single Payer is coming to the floor. Dennis Kucinich and John Conyers are not too thrilled with that. I've placed the text of their letter, and a link to the petition, after the jump. Now, it's...
Lynn Sweet (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
below, release.... From Congressmen Dennis Kucinich and John Conyers Dear Friends, We thank you for your continued devotion to the cause of health care for All Americans. We have worked together for many years to write, promote and campaign for HR676, a single payer, not for profit health care system. Your work, in communities across America, has been instrumental in helping at least ten states create...
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politicalfish | 07/27/2009
http://www.thepoliticalfish.com/2009/07/27/read-the-bill-why/ Rep. John Conyers spouts off about why legislators shouldn't have to read the legislation that passes through the House. This is rich...
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