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Poor Women are Not "Pork"
Responding to President Obama's request, House Democrats cut a provision from the stimulus package that would expand contraceptive family planning for Medicaid patients--usually poor women and girls. He, in turn, was responding to Republicans' opposition to expanding Medicaid family planning ...
Source: Obama Plans to Get Family Planning Aid Done Soon
tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com — Women's health advocates were dismayed this week to see the removal of family-planning aid from Congress' economic... recovery bill after a push by Republicans to politicize a generally cut-and-dry issue of Medicaid waivers. ( Time has some good ... (more) Source: Obama Plans to Get Family Planning Aid Done Soon
A 10% cut at the Pentagon?
A 10% cut at the Pentagon?
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Behind the Family-Planning Flap
Behind the Family-Planning Flap
time.com — Early Wednesday evening, the House of Representatives passed President Obama's $819 billion plan to stimulate the struggling... U.S. economy . But while the package that passed on a 244-188 near-party-line vote (and didn't garner a single Republican ... (more) Behind the Family-Planning Flap
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AP: Dems Poised to Cave to GOP on Family Planning FundsTPM Election Central
The AP reports this morning that House Democrats are on the verge of removing a Medicaid provision added to their stimulus bill which would have eliminated the need for states to seek a waiver before providing more family-planning services to lower-income women. The Medicaid provision had ...