JivinJehoshaphat (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
Wesley Smith notes a changed clause in Senator Reid’s health care bill could force insurance providers in states where assisted suicide is legal to include assisted suicide in their plans. If assisted suicide, or even euthanasia, are legally considered forms of “end of life care” in a particular state–as it is now in Oregon, Washington, and Montana–it seems to me that...
Marc Ambinder (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
Abortion isn't the main reason most opponents of Democratic health care reform dislike the proposals currently before Congress, Pew finds in a new survey . In fact, only three percent of opponents listed abortion as their main reason for opposing them, though 56 percent of those opponents list abortion as a "major reason" they oppose Democratic reforms. It's important to note, however, that...
FREEDOM EDEN (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
Wisconsin Right to Life reacts to Harry Reid's health care bill. Wisconsin Right to Life is joining with its parent organization, the National Right to Life Committee, in condemning Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's unacceptable language that would result in coverage of abortion on demand in two big new federal government programs. "Not surprisingly, Reid is doing the bidding of the Obama White...
The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
The health care reform package unveiled by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) Wednesday night bars the use of federal funds for abortion services, but does not go as far as the House bill -- which prevents women in many cases from buying insurance with their own money that covers abortion. The Senate version would require at least one plan within the health insurance exchange that the bill...
Marc Ambinder (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
Rep. Diana DeGette (D-CO), a co-Chairwoman of the House Pro-Choice Caucus, has been an outspoken critic of the abortion language included in the House health care bill. In the interview that follows, she makes the case that current language in the House health care bill--proposed by Rep. Bart Stupak (D-MI) and passed on the House floor shortly before the entire package was voted on--amounts to a massive...
Solar Energy News (Free subscription) | 11/13/2009
OXNARD, Calif.--( BUSINESS WIRE )--SunEdison and Procter & Gamble (NYSE: PG) celebrated today the activation of a 1.1 megawatt (MW) photovoltaic solar system at Procter & Gamble’s paper products manufacturing plant in Oxnard, California. The event was attended by Mayor Tom Holden of Oxnard; Senator Fran Pavley of the 23 rd District; Karen Kukurin, Deputy Director, Community Liaison Office...
Marc Ambinder (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009
Rep. Bart Stupak's (D-MI) abortion amendment, which passed Saturday night just before the House approved its comprehensive health care reform legislation, has set off a firestorm of criticism from pro-choice lawmakers and interest groups, and it's being viewed as a coup for pro-lifers in Congress. In an interview today, Stupak said his amendment does nothing more than apply current abortion law (the...
The New York Review of Books (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009
Michael Tomasky Canine checkup ( independent.com ) So what did the House Blue Dogs do on the health care vote last Saturday? They were more supportive than one might think: Of the fifty-two-member coalition, twenty-eight voted yea and twenty-four nay. Jim Cooper of Tennessee, the Blue Dog whom I identified in my piece in The New York Review as being among the most knowledgeable legislators in the...
Hullabaloo (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
Role Models by digby Politico has a big story this morning on the GOPs "women problem": Conservatives say they pushed Dede Scozzafava out of the House race in New York’s 23rd District a week ago because of her left-of-Republican social views — and not because she is a woman. But the growing schism between the Republican Party’s ascendant right wing and its shrinking moderate...
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...
Every Day Is a Miracle (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
I am truly horrified by the House Republicans, who shouted down and constantly objected to a group from the Democratic Women's Caucus, who were trying to make their points in favor of health insurance reform this morning. Among them was Rep. Lois Capps (D-CA), the sister of the wonderful neighbor who lived across the street from my parents for many years (and whose children Nadine and I babysat). Capps...
The Reaction (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
By Michael J.W. Stickings Think Progress : This morning, the House began consideration of the rule for debate of the House health care bill. As the Democratic Women's Caucus took to the microphone on the House floor to offer their arguments for how the bill would benefit women, House Republicans -- led by Rep. Tom Price (R-GA) -- repeatedly talked over, screamed, and shouted objections. "I object,...
........Scattershot........ (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
In the debate over the health care bill this morning, more than forty Democratic congresswomen took to the floor of the House of Representatives to voice their support for an amendment in the legislation that would expand health services for women and offer pre- and post-natal care to young mothers. In each and every case, the Republicans rose to object. That's my congresswoman Lois Capps being disrespected...
The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
On Saturday morning, a group of House Republicans -- led by Rep. Tom Price (R-Georgia) -- attempted to stop the Democratic Women's Caucus from making their arguments about how the health bill would benefit women by screaming over them. Rep. Lois Capps (D-Calif.) only had time to say "Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent to--," before Price shouted "I object." The presiding chair,...
Tennessee Guerilla Women (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
Gawd, you won't believe this video clip. Or maybe you will. All the A-holes are male and Republican. As the Democratic Women’s Caucus took to the microphone on the House floor to offer their arguments for how the bill would benefit women, House Republicans — led by Rep. Tom Price (R-GA) — repeatedly talked over, screamed, and shouted objections. “I object, I object, I object,...
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