cqpolitics.com - 1/26/2009
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CQ WEEKLY – VANTAGE POINT Jan. 25, 2009 – 2:12 p.m. Within Stimulus Bill, Democrats Move to Expand Medicaid By Rebecca Adams, CQ Staff Democrats and President Obama are moving on so many fronts to change policies of the Bush administration that Republicans might not even notice them all right ...
thinkprogress.org - 1/26/2009
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thinkprogress.org —
In recent days, conservatives have been stepping up
their opposition to any stimulus proposal that favors smart...
spending over tax cuts for businesses. To push their argument — which most economists have discredited — they have tried to ...
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New Right-Wing Stimulus Myth: Progressives Want To Spend ...
washingtonindependent.com - 1/27/2009
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washingtonindependent.com —
President Barack Obama has signaled he will not
go to bat for birth control in the economic...
stimulus bill — a move likely to set off a firestorm among powerful forces in the Democratic Party. Obama has asked House Energy and Commerce Committee ...
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Obama Begs Waxman to Yank Birth Control from Stimulus
blog.heritage.org - 1/27/2009
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blog.heritage.org —
With countless news stories, papers, editorials and experts
giving their view of why Congress should or shouldn’t...
enact the Pelosi-Reid-Obama Debt Plan, we thought it would be helpful to give you a short index of why spending does not equal ...
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Stimulus 101: The Pelosi-Reid-Obama Debt Plan
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Pelosi: Cutting Poor Babies Accelerates Economic Growth
ScrappleFace —
... we just can’t afford,’ said Rep. Pelosi, “They cost us a lot of money to maintain; what with food stamps, housing and health care. So if we can rapidly reduce the number of poor people through contraception and abortion, that’s a net gain for federal and state budgets, and a fast track to economic recovery. Every poor baby prevented is like money in the bank.” ...
Republicans Irate Over Expansion of Republican-Approved Program
TPM Election Central —
... What's being proposed is an expansion in the number of states that can use Medicaid money, with a federal match, to help low-income women prevent unwanted pregnancies. Of the 26 states that already have Medicaid waivers for family planning, eight are led by Republican governors (AL, FL, MS, SC, CA, LA, MN and RI -- a ninth, MO, had a GOP governor until this past November). If this policy is truly a taxpayer gift to "the abortion industry," as John Boehner and House Republicans claim, where are the GOP governors promising to end the program in their states? ...
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On Obama's Urging, House Dems To Drop Family Planning From Stimpak
marcambinder.theatlantic.com 1/27/2009 — According to the AP , President Obama called Henry Waxman and personally asked that the provision making it easier for states to pay for family planning funding for Medicaid be stricken from the bill. Though details aren't final, and though Waxman ...
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