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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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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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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Tom Blumer at Bizzy Blog says: How about we fix what’s broken in SCHIP and Medicaid before embarking headlong on an ill-advised expansion? President Bush was right to veto SCHIP; the minority in Congress will be right should they sustain ...
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Peyton Knight contributes this update: Tuesday, a congressional staff and media briefing titled "European Progress on Reducing Global Warming Emissions - A View from Italy of the Kyoto Protocol" was held on Capitol Hill.The guest speaker at the briefing was ...
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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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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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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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Sound writing questions why federal tax dollars should be spent to rebuild New Orleans, given the economics of the matter and the fact that all the spending still won't eliminate the city's unusually high vulnerability to destruction by storm. In ...
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Daniel Macintyre says: I've personally known grown men and women reduced to tears when facing the prospect of taking a sick or injured child to a military hospital......That is, of course, because socialized medicine, far from offering everyone the same ...
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