the-reaction.blogspot.com - 13 days ago
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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 voting for the bill, then they should have ...
firedoglake.com - 14 days ago
fdlaction.firedoglake.com - 14 days ago
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The Stupak amendment would prevent any private health
insurance plan from covering elective abortion, if even one
of its customer used even one dollar of affordability tax credits. The problem is that the Stupak amendment will conflict directly with ...
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Stupak Amendment Could Likely Be Used By Insurance ...
swampland.blogs.time.com - 13 days ago
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Don't the Democrats control Congress? How did Nancy
Pelosi get to the point where she didn't have
enough votes in her own caucus to pass health reform unless she paved the way for language that, as Jon Cohn puts it, "mak[es] it more likely that ...
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Anatomy of a Health Reform Deal
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The House Health Care Vote
QandO —
... the 39 Democrats who voted “no” on Pelosi’s monstrosity (and those that voted for the Stupak amendment). ...
Michael J.W. Stickings: One Cheer for Joseph Cao
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com —
Only one Republican voted for the health-care reform bill that passed the House last night: Joseph Cao. So why not three cheers?
First, Cao only voted for it because it included the vile, anti-choice Stupak Amendment that had been passed by an alliance of anti-choice Republicans and Democrats (Stupak being a Democrat), and that was the way to buy off some of those Democrats reluctant to vote for the bill as it was. If the Stupak Amendment hadn't been included, he apparently would have voted no.
Second, Cao voted for it -- on top of ...
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weeklystandard.com 12 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?
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tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com 9 days ago — The Stupak amendment has touched off a furious argument among Democratic politicians and elites--one that, if not resolved by the time health care legislation comes up for a final vote in the House, could tank the bill.
For the most part, the ...
Clyburn: Stupak Amendment Won 10 Votes
tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com 10 days ago — On Monday, I noted that 40 Democrats had voted for the Stupak amendment--which would prohibit low- and middle-class women from buying health insurance policies that cover abortion--and then voted for final passage of the health care bill. That's a ...
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Wash Post In Congress 13 days ago
When Republican Anh "Joseph" Cao won a stunning victory in a heavily Democratic district in New Orleans last December, the GOP was so thrilled that House Minority Leader John A. Boehner sent a memo to his colleagues headlined "The Future is Cao."
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