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PELOSI: Buy a $15,000 Policy or Go to Jail

Fri, 6 Nov 2009 20:30:50 +0000

Today, Ranking Member of the House Ways and Means Committee Dave Camp (R-MI) released a letter from the non-partisan Joint Committee on Taxation (JCT) confirming that the failure to comply with the individual mandate to buy health insurance contained in the Pelosi health care bill (H.R. 3962, ...

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Compromise Reached On Health Care Bill: Anti-Abortion Amendment To Be Given Floor Vote

Sat, 7 Nov 2009 07:50:32 +0000

As the House of Representatives inches toward a final vote on comprehensive health care reform this weekend -- the most dramatic domestic policy debate in several generations, a reorganization of a sixth of the economy - the only thing the parties can talk about is abortion and immigration. ...

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Is the Tea Party Gang Turning GOP into a Party of Hate?

Fri, 6 Nov 2009 16:24:44 +0000

When John Boehner, the Republican leader of the House, appeared at the Tea Party rally at the Capitol on Thursday afternoon, it was a dramatic signal: the wing-nuts have taken over the GOP. Think I'm being harsh? The angry folks at the protest -- which attracted several thousand conservatives -- ...

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Democrat trap: Pelosi's wrath or voter backlash

Fri, 6 Nov 2009 15:30:04 +0000

The House is in the final rush toward passage of a national health care bill, and there's one thing Speaker Nancy Pelosi absolutely, positively does not want her Democratic lawmakers to do: Go home."You meet constituents and get an earful from them -- that's the last thing she wants," says a key ...

Instapundit found this 19 hours ago on washingtonexaminer.com

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Democrats secure abortion funding deal on eve of expected health vote

Sat, 7 Nov 2009 07:59:17 +0000

Pelosi and others work into the night to try to clear roadblocks on the healthcare overhaul bill. > With a historic floor vote looming on their healthcare bill, House Democratic leaders secured an 11th-hour compromise late Friday night to settle a long-simmering debate over how to restrict federal funding for abortion.

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Report: 237 millionaires in Congress

Sat, 7 Nov 2009 05:29:00 +0000

Center for Responsive Politics releases new report describing the wealth of members of Congress.

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GOP's special elections losing streak

Fri, 6 Nov 2009 02:14:54 +0000

The result of NY-23 isn't a shocker: Republicans have lost 20 of the past 29 House special elections.

Taegan Goddard's Political Wire found this 33 hours ago on politico.com

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Cantor Says Tea Party's Dachau Photos 'Inappropriate,' Takes Issue With Limbaugh

Fri, 6 Nov 2009 22:07:08 +0000

At yesterday's tea party rally on Capitol Hill, at least one protester brandished a large graphic photograph of the victims of the Dachau Nazi concentration camp, comparing health care reform to Nazi policies. Today, Rep. Eric Cantor's (R-VA) spokesman called the photograph "inappropriate." ...

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No one said freedom was pretty

Fri, 6 Nov 2009 09:30:00 +0000

The call to arms went out last week.

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Patriot Games: GOP Reps Pick Tea Party Rally Over National-Security Votes

Fri, 6 Nov 2009 18:14:15 +0000

When it's a choice between strengthening the Patriot Act, or showing up for the Tea Party Patriots, what's a GOP lawmaker to do? We'll give you one guess... Several Republican members of Congress yesterday blew off votes on the signature anti-terror legislation of the post 9/11 era to attend ...

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Opinion: The More the Public Knows About Our Reform, the More They Like It

Sat, 7 Nov 2009 04:37:45 +0000

Filed under: Opinion Rep. Steny Hoyer, D-Md., is the House Majority Leader. For too long, skyrocketing health care costs have strained our families' budgets, hampered our small businesses, and eaten up a greater and greater share of our economy each year. It's time to put a stop to it. The ...

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Civil War In Corporate America: Banks Battling The Chamber On Accounting Rules

Fri, 6 Nov 2009 19:10:20 +0000

Amid the ongoing financial regulation overhaul, the banking industry is hoping to pull off a quiet power grab that has eluded its grasp since the Great Depression, by stripping the independence of the board that sets financial accounting standards. The move could effectively let banks set ...

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Chuck DeVore: The New Conservative Darling, Birther Connections And All

Sat, 7 Nov 2009 04:31:20 +0000

One of the next great conservative hopes seems likely to be a California Republican who has already taken on Senate Republicans, has ties to birthers and tea-partiers and is virtually unknown by the mainstream media establishment. Chuck DeVore, a Republican member of the California State ...

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Orlando Sentinel: Downtown Orlando shooting - 1 dead, 5 injured

Fri, 6 Nov 2009 18:49:00 +0000

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Breaking up 'too big to fail' firms

Thu, 5 Nov 2009 17:46:34 +0000

Rep. Kanjorski proposes power to dismantle firms "too big to fail" even if they’re not financially at risk.

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The House's Health Care Bill

Fri, 30 Oct 2009 10:17:41 +0000

The House speaker, Nancy Pelosi of California, on Thursday unveiled a $894 billion health care package that would provide insurance to up to 36 million people by broadly expanding Medicaid, the state-federal insurance program for the poor, and by offering subsidies to moderate-income Americans ...

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11/5 Capitol Protest Collectible Postcard

Sat, 7 Nov 2009 00:47:00 +0000

Isn't entrepreneurship wonderful? No sooner had concerned citizens descended on Washington than the gift shops started selling these collectible postcards.Click to bigg-ifyBest question posed by protesters: "Will the public option pay for Pelosi's botox?"Collect 'em all!

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Blogger Call, Carly Fiorina for California

Fri, 6 Nov 2009 23:36:32 +0000

Blogger Call, Carly Fiorina for California

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Rep. Israel Condemns Tea Party Protest Holocaust Signs (video)

Fri, 6 Nov 2009 21:26:00 +0000

Rep. Steve Israel (D - New York) condemns the use of Holocaust images by Tea Party protesters and calls on Republican leaders to apologize.

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Carly Fiorina: Reagan Republican

Fri, 6 Nov 2009 22:31:35 +0000

It seems some conservative bloggers are so devoted to defeat the more establishment Republicans in the race that they assume all contests on the right are between a “stimulus” supporters like Charlie Crist and Marco Rubio or Dede Scozzafava and Doug Hoffman. Here, in the Golden ...

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