fdlaction.firedoglake.com - 22 days ago
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In the House, the Stupak anti-abortion amendment passed 240 to 194 with one member voting present. 64 Democrats votes yes on the Stupak amendment. The Stupak amendment would effectively ban insurance companies from selling insurance plans that cover elective abortion ...
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the-reaction.blogspot.com 22 days ago — By Creature Sixty-four Democrats voted in favor of the vile, anti-choice Stupak amendment . Of those sixty-four, I especially loath the twenty-six who voted against the health-care reform bill overall. If these twenty-six Dems had no intention of ...
Health care roulette
sideshow.me.uk 21 days ago — Aimai says, " Tell Me Not In Mournful Numbers ... But it should never, ever, have come to any Democrats voting for the Stupak amendment once it was submitted to the floor. And, frankly, I don't think it should ever have come to allowing Stupak to ...
The list of Stupak Democrats
openleft.com 27 days ago — As I noted yesterday , the House Committee on Rules still has not scheduled a time for a mark-up on the health care reform bill. They have to pass the bill before it goes to floor for debate, and the leadership won't send a bill to the floor until ...
64 Democrats on the Wrong Side of Stupak
dailykos.com 23 days ago — For future reference, here is the list of Democrats who voted "Aye" on the Stupak Amendment. AL-2 Bright, Bobby; AL- 5 Griffith, Parker; AL-7 Davis, Artur; AR-1 Berry, Robert; AR-2 Snyder, Victor; AR-4 AR-4 Ross, Mike; AR-4 Ross, Mike; CA-18 ...
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mahablog.com 22 days ago — House Democrats Who Voted Against the Health Care Bill
House Democrats Who Voted for the Stupak-Pitts Amendment
House Democrats Who Voted Yes on Stupak-Pitts and No on the Final Bill (the Worst of the Worst):
Jason Altmire (Pa. 4)
John Barrow (Ga. 12)
John Boccieri (Ohio 16)
Dan Boren ...
Dems "have the votes" in House; anti-abortion Stupak Amendment passes
the-reaction.blogspot.com 21 days ago — By Michael J.W. Stickings The Hill and Politico are reporting that Democrats have the 218 votes necessary to pass the health-care reform bill. As CNN is reporting, the awful Stupak Amendment passed 240-194 earlier this evening. It "bans ...
Killing the Stupak Amendment Wouldn't Have Killed the Bill
weeklystandard.com 21 days ago — On Saturday night the Democrats narrowly passed a monstrosity of a health-care bill. Some conservatives blamed the National Right to Life Committee. How is that possible?
In order to get enough votes to secure final passage, Nancy Pelosi allowed ...
House Dem: Conference committee will strip Stupak amendment
hotair.com 21 days ago — With the opposition to ObamaCare wondering whether Republicans should have voted “present” on the Stupak amendment rather than let it pass, The Hill reports that Democrats expect the amendment to get stripped in committee anyway. Rep. ...
The War Within: Democrats And The Stupak Language
politics.theatlantic.com 21 days ago — The flashiest health care controversy this weekend involved what's now known as the "Stupak" language, which was added to the House health care bill ostensibly to prevent pro-life Democrats from abandoning ship. The House leadership gulped it down as ...
A Stupak amendment of our own
openleft.com 21 days ago — Last night, 23 Democrats voted against providing 36 million Americans with health insurance while reducing the deficit, but in favor of the Stupak amendment to restrict reproductive rights for low-income women. Those 23 Democrats are :
Jason Altmire ...
The Stupak Minimum
redstate.com 20 days ago —
“ Democrats will throw zealous abortion advocates under the bus as fast as lightening if the end result is a federal take over of 1/6th the American economy.”
I didn’t think I had gone after National Right to Life Committee too ...
Jim Cooper Discusses Stupak Amendment Without Revealing He Voted for It
news.firedoglake.com 20 days ago — Rep. Jim Cooper (D-TN 5)
Today on Hardball, Jim Cooper was on to discuss the Stupak amendment and how the House and Senate can work through it to reach a compromise. He had a long conversation with Chris Matthews about how conservative Democrats ...
Pro-Choice, Pro-Stupak? —
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan
Nate Silver studies the Stupak amendment vote: I was surprised at the number of Democrats who have solid pro-choice
voting records but who nevertheless voted for Stupak Amendment. And the
vast majority of these Democrats voted for , not against, passage of the underlying health care bill. ..
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Legislative Voting Should be Done Blindly —
Open Left - Front Page
During the run up to the Stupak amendment, it appeared that the measure could be defeated by turning a few Democrats against it . In the end, 64 Democrats voted for it, 23 more than the 41 minimum needed to pass it (assuming all Republicans voted for it). During the vote, some ...
Responding to Stupak-Pitts —
Lawyers, Guns and Money
Via ema in comments, some crucial info about Stupak 's handiwork: The Stupak-Pitts amendment forbids any plan offering abortion coverage in the new system from accepting even one subsidized customer. Since more than 80 percent of the participants in the exchange will be subsidized, it seems ...
House Democrats who voted for Stupak amendment —
The Political Carnival
By GottaLaff This may have been the bitter pill we had to swallow in order to pass health care reform in the House, but that doesn't mean we have to like it, or agree with it. I sure don't. Abortions are legal, constitutional, and must be performed by, you know, doctors. Here is a list of ...
Targetting Dems In 2010 —
Open Left - Front Page
To begin the process of focusing our anger toward productive corrective action in next year's elections, I've compiled a table with some relevant information about Democrats who voted for the Stupak Amendment.
In the wake of House passage of the health care bill & the Stupak Amendment, we ...
Anti-Choice Democrats —
culturekitchen - fresh dissent served daily
Although I will take an anti-choice Democrat over an anti-choice Republican any day, I have to say that the 64 Democrats who voted for the anti-choice Stupak-Pitts Amendment are a serious disappointment. Some are expected. Some I really hoped for better and I can safely say I am unlikely to ...
64 Democrats on the Wrong Side of Stupak-Pitts —
Daily Kos
For future reference, here is the list of Democrats who voted "Aye" on the Stupak-Pitts Amendment. AL-2 Bright, Bobby; AL- 5 Griffith, Parker; AL-7 Davis, Artur; AR-1 Berry, Robert; AR-2 Snyder, Victor; AR-4 AR-4 Ross, Mike; CA-18 Cardoza, Dennis; CA-20 Costa, Jim; CA-43 Baca, Joe; CO-3 ...
Stupak Amendment Passes —
Crooks and Liars
DOWNLOADS: (8) PLAYS: (14) Well isn't this lovely? 64 Democrats decided to sell out women's health with this horrid vote. Final vote tally 240-194 with Shadegg voting present. Word is it will be stripped out in committee. We'll see. I agree with Rayne over at FDL--Stupak Amendment Passes; 64 ...
Stupak Amendment Passes; 64 Dems Ask for Primary Opponents —
Firedoglake
Do you like that headline? Because that’s what I’m feeling right now after the betrayal of my support for Democrats, now that the Stupak Amendment passed 240 to 194 and with 64 Democrats voting Yea.
It’s a fundamental part of our belief system in the Democratic Party, that ...
What is that orange guy talking about? —
Daily Kos
The unusually-tinted Minority Leader of the House, John Boehner (R-OH) has been to the floor repeatedly today to try to extract promises from the Democrats managing the health insurance reform bill that if the Stupak amendment is adopted, they'll work to ensure that the amendment's language ...
Health Care Debate and Vote Open Thread —
Open Left - Front Page
The order of voting tonight will be:
Stupak amendment ( action alerts can be found here
Republican health care bill
Democratic health care bill. A list of likely "no" votes among Democrats can be found here . Natasha and I need to step away for a while now that the debate in coming to and ...
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