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Daschle: Federal Health Care Plan a No-Go for Now

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Former Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle's decision to give up for now on a federal public health care plan has to be a blow to the Administration and the left. Daschle, while retired from the Senate, remains an influential and ...
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CWRA’s Chances of Passage

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Senator James Inhofe believes it is doubtful the the Clean Water Restoration Act will pass the full Senate. I am a bit less sanguine, but readily acknowledge his superior familiarity with the Senate. Here's hoping he's right ...
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Quote of Note: Clean Water Restoration Act Means Troubled Waters

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"For years, the 1972 Clean Water Act has been misused in the name of protecting America's waters and wetlands. The statute’s original limitation that its key provisions only apply to navigable waters was largely ignored. Instead, the law was broadly ...
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“The Biggest Bureaucratic Power Grab in a Generation”

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If you haven't visited the National Center for Public Policy Research's new Clean Water Restoration Act Information page (or even if you have), you can get a good 2 1/2 minute summary of CWRA from Senator James Inhofe (R-OK) from ...
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Incessant Twittering Over the Heads of the Media

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It's not often one can say a wonky op-ed on health care reform is funny as well as wise, but this one by Holman Jenkins in Wednesday's Wall Street Journal certainly is. (I stole the title of this piece from ...
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Quote of Note: How Big Would a U.S. Health Bureaucracy Be?

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"The British National Health Service is the biggest employer not just in the United Kingdom, but in the whole of Europe. Care to estimate the size and budget of a U.S. health bureaucracy?" -Mark Steyn, "Being Taken Care of Weakens ...
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Is the Liberal Health Care Plan a Trojan Horse for Socialized Medicine?

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Get the answer from the liberals who know. Watch this 4-minute video from Glenn Beck's June 15, 2009 television program. E-mail any comments to the National Center for Public Policy Research at [email protected] Subscribe to this blog's feed. Labels: Government ...
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Obama Breaks Health Care Pledge… Before He Makes It

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Everyone expects politicians to break their promises, but Barack Obama may have set a record yesterday by breaking one before he made it. In his speech before the American Medical Association's annual meeting in Chicago Monday, President Obama pledged: ...no ...
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Obama Disses Kennedy

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The White House is running away from Senator Ted Kennedy's health care reform bill, now that the bill is receiving adverse publicity. I don't believe any of the liberal bills calling for an increase in the government's role in our ...
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Regarding Cap and Trade, Is Caterpillar CEO in Over His Head?

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Timothy Carney of the Washington Examiner has taken a look at our Tom Borelli's question to Caterpillar CEO Jim Owens last week. Carney believes Owens may be in over this head. Read it for yourself here ...
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