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SCHIP Poll

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The folks at Democratic Underground are encouraging each other to visit The National Center for Public Policy Research's new website covering SCHIP. We have a poll there asking the following: What should Congress do about SCHIP? Expand it Modify it ...
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The SCHIP/Frost Affair Continues; Paul Krugman Calls Me a Busybody

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I now have the dubious, but hardly unique, distinction of being the subject of an error-filled essay by the New York Times' infamous Paul Krugman. Subject: The SCHIP/Graeme Frost affair and whether adults on public assistance have a right to ...
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Behind Gore’s Nobel Peace Prize

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What is Al Gore's Nobel Peace Prize based upon? Peyton Knight takes a look: Al Gore's receipt of the increasingly politicized Nobel Peace Prize comes at a somewhat inconvenient time for the former vice president. British High Court Judge Michael ...
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Coalition Letter: Coalition Letter on the Clean Water Restoration Act

Coalition Letter on the Clean Water Restoration Act October 9, 2007 The Honorable Nancy Pelosi Speaker of the U.S. House of Representative H-232, U.S. Capitol Washington, DC 20515 Dear Speaker Pelosi: A bill is now making its way through the ...
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Oberstar and Feingold Bait-and-Switch: Deceptively-Named “Clean Water Restoration Act” Would Expand, Not Restore Federal Powers

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Washington, D.C. - A letter signed by over 100 people representing diverse interests and millions of Americans is being delivered to Congress this morning contending that the Clean Water Restoration Act (CWRA) would achieve the opposite of what its sponsors ...
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An SCHIP Fraud? Boy Who Delivered Democrat SCHIP Rebuttal May Not Be Low-Income

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A Freeper who goes by the nickname Icwhatudo has come up with evidence that the 12-year-old Baltimore child, Graeme Frost, who spoke for the nation's Democrats September 29 regarding his family's need for taxpayer-financed health insurance, goes to a private ...
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Celebrating America’s Heritage Act Wins in House Committee in Mostly Party Line Vote

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An update on this week's action by the House Resources Committee on the Celebrating America's Heritage Act, a step toward federal zoning (with pork attached). Peyton Knight contributes this update: On Wednesday, the House Natural Resources Committee passed the Celebrating ...
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Gore Tells Bush to be More Reaganesque

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Peyton Knight approves of some of Al Gore’s advice to President Bush: At former President Clinton's annual "Global Clinton Initiative" summit Thursday, Al Gore called on President Bush to be more like the Gipper. Gore said: I... call on President ...
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Congress’ SCHIP Deception

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When it comes to SCHIP, the Wall Street Journal (subscription required) is shocked by the behavior of certain Republicans: The Beltway political class is shocked that President Bush and his dwindling Republican allies are opposing the Democratic expansion of the ...
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John Berthoud: He Will Be Missed

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I don't want to post anything else on the blog this evening until I note with sadness the death of John Berthoud. John's death was announced earlier today by the National Taxpayers Union, which John led for the last 11 ...
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