Let's Start Over On Health Care
After decades of trying to enact comprehensive health reform for our country’s most vulnerable, and many recent months of debate and negotiation to move our current health reform bill to the goal line,...
View Article"If You Took The Word 'No' Out Of The Dictionary, The Republican Party Would...
Yesterday, my colleagues and I considered the Restoration of Emergency Unemployment Compensation Act. This legislation would extend unemployment insurance (UI) through November 30, 2010 and...
View ArticleIf Pictures Speak Louder...
Republicans in the House are determined to keep tax cuts for their wealthy friends, and I want to share a graph I put together based on recent statistics gathered by the Joint Committee on Taxation.
View ArticleUPDATE: Bad Policy, Bad Politics
Wall Street has trumped Main Street yet again. President Obama believes that this ‘agreement’ solves the problem without a partisan fight – but what we need right now is an open debate about which...
View ArticleToday's Civil Rights Struggle
Today, we celebrate the amazing life and legacy of a minister who went far beyond his call to organize the movement that challenged the longstanding, paralyzing racial divide in our society. Dr....
View ArticleUnder the GOP Budget, Medicare is Medi-gone.
I just took to the House floor a short while ago to explain how the GOP Budget seeks to end Medicare. Have a watch:
View ArticleWill the Secretary of Defense Personally Stand Behind Limbaugh?
The media storm around Rush Limbaugh’s vile attacks on Sandra Fluke has subsided, but I’m continuing to work on making sure this type of language isn’t being subsidized or promoted by the United States...
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