With President Obama and the Democrat leadership in the House and Senate urging health care reform through reconciliation, several Senators are speaking out against using reconciliation. Reconciliation was set up to allow for budget items to get through Congress after both the House and Senate passed slightly different bills. However, both parties have used...
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Health Care Reform Through Reconciliation Wrong According to Many Senators
Charles Rangel Ethics Issues Spell Trouble for Nancy Pelosi
Nancy Pelosi will be busy in the next few weeks trying to determine how do deal with the Charles Rangel ethics issues. In 2006, Nancy Pelosi jubilantly declared that she would lead the most ethical congress ever. However, Pelosi did not consider all the ethics issues that would be presented by Congressman Charles Rangel...
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Pelosi Version of Obamacare Will Cost $1.8 Trillion
The Pelosi version of Obamacare will cost $1.8 trillion over 10 years according to the CBO. This is in contrast to the claims of Nancy Pelosi that it will only cost $900 million and be deficit neutral. How can Pelosi be so far off from the $1.8 trillion estimate? Here is a hint, she...
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3 Billion Reasons to Distrust House Health Care Reform Bill
Last week, Nancy Pelosi unveiled the nearly 2000 page new version of the the House Health Care Reform Bill. Pelosi pointed out that her version of the health care reform bill was under the $900 billion price tag that President Obama put on the plan. Pelosi indicated that the bill would cost just under...
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Pelosi Pushes for Tort Reform?
The Democrat controlled House unveiled their nearly 2,000 page Health Care Reform bill this week providing another version of Obamacare. One of the easier ways to reduce costs have been left out of most of the bills penned so far this year. However, the newest House bill that Nancy Pelosi introduced does include a...
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Rangel:The Culture of Corruption is Alive and Well
The New York Congressman and Chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee promised the “mother of all tax hikes” when the democrats took over congress in 2006. In fact, in his 38 years in congress he has always been in favor of tax increases. Especially increasing taxes on the “rich”. He is one...
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