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...
It's the next round in the ongoing battle between organized labor and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce: paid sick leave in light of the swine flu epidemic. Labor has long supported mandatory paid sick leave. Now, in light of the H1N1 flu epidemic, labor and labor-friendly Democrats are trying to pass legislation through Congress that would mandate paid sick leave for American workers--they could earn up...
As the City Council debates a bill to force employers to offer paid sick leave, Dem ocrats in Congress aim to pass a similar federal law. Sen. Chris Dodd and Rep. Rosa DeLauro (both D-Conn.) on Tuesday released the Pandemic Protection for Workers...
Open Left : One of the few - and I sincerely stress the word "few" - concrete legislative successes progressives notched in the Republican Congress under President George W. Bush came on the evening of July 26th, 2002, when they humiliated the House into passing a bill sponsored by Rep. Rosa DeLauro (D-CT) banning federal contracts from going to companies that engage in tax "inversions."...
By Allison Fletcher Acosta , on November 12th, 2009 If you’re one of the 57 million workers in the U.S. without paid sick days, chances are the answer is “yes”. Thirty-nine percent of us have a difficult choice to make when we’re sick: go to work and risk infecting our co-workers (and risk making our illness worse), or stay home and put our finances and our jobs in jeopardy....
Buried deep within the version of the health care bill passed by the House, a provision to require calorie counts on your drive-through board and vending machine buttons: The provision—Section 2572—requires retail food establishments "part of a chain with 20 or more locations" to list calorie counts "on the menu board including a drive-through board," as is currently...
Upon taking a close look at the latest Q-poll, there seems to be some numbers within the data that makes absolutely no sense. While I was preparing my post on the funny numbers, Connecticut Democrats Communication director Colleen Flanagan sent out this release that pretty sums up everything I was about to say: Litchfield County Numbers: Litchfield County, the smallest of Connecticut's counties in...
Hump day, hump day, take me half the way to the weekend. :D Okay, we'll do serious news item and then we'll talk fun stuff. First off, Barack's Big Insurance Give Away got worse than even the most jaded of us could have expected when the House voted over the weekend and included a measure which would remove abortion from medical care. It's an anti-choice measure and it's so offensive. This is from...
Freedom to Confuse Thanks to the abortion amendment, liberals suddenly care about "choice" in our health care system. David Harsanyi | November 11, 2009 Listen to Audio Version (MP3) If liberals are so disturbed by Congress' dictating whether abortion is a legitimate health care issue or not, it only makes sense that they should be equally troubled by government management of other health...
I understand that some may be confused after reading recent media reports on health care reform. I want to set the record straight and there is no better way of doing that than by communicating directly with you. In short, I voted for an imperfect House Bill on Health Care Reform to keep it alive so that we can improve it in the US Senate and in Conference Committee. Martha Coakley has said she would...
One of the few - and I sincerely stress the word "few " - concrete legislative successes progressives notched in the Republican Congress under President George W. Bush came on the evening of July 26th, 2002, when they humiliated the House into passing a bill sponsored by Rep. Rosa DeLauro (D-CT) banning federal contracts from going to companies that engage in tax "inversions." These...
An FDA advisory committee last month discussed the possibility of outsourcing decisions about previously approved antibiotics to a group called the Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute, or CLSI, a nonprofit that promotes the use of standards in health care. And Rosa DeLauro, a Connecticut Congresswoman who chairs a House subcommittee that appropriates money to the agency, [...]
And now the Democratic party has returned to form, re-establishing its reputation as one big circular firing squad, incapable of being the majority party. Witness the breakdown in healthcare. POLITICO : The House health care bill wasn't supposed to become a referendum on abortion rights. But Rep. Bart Stupak, a Democrat from Michigan, reshaped the legislative landscape when he offered an amendment...
We found out this week that all the Democrats that had been insisting Obama-Care wouldn't fund abortion were lying . Liar! This was evidenced by the "Stupak Amendment", added to Pelosi's bill on Saturday, which removed the backdoor abortion funding from the bill. Obama is now calling for revision of the amendment so neither side feels betrayed (Can there be a compromise here? Either taxpayer...
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