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Tactics of the GOP First Unit Bill

Joe The Nerd Ferraro | Posted 11.10.2009 | Politics

Read More: House of Representatives, Joe the Nerd, Democratic Leadership, Gop, Politics, Congress, Senate, Bluedogs, Health Care Reform, Health Care Vote, Health Care, Politics News

The problem is the Democrats in Congress pride themselves in being a bunch of twigs. By not sticking together, they lost for everybody.

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Stupak Amendment Threatens the Rights of Every American

Karen Finney | Posted 11.10.2009 | Home

Read More: Health Care Reform, Abortion, Stupak Amendment, Women's Rights, Obama, Congress, U.S. Constitution, Health Care Votes, Abortion Rights, Home News

The members of Congress who voted in support of the Stupak amendment sent a message to America's women: after more than 200 years we are still not fu...

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Bomb Appalachia (and Face the Music)

Michael Gould-Wartofsky | Posted 11.09.2009 | Green

Read More: Clearcutting, Coal, Center for Public Integrity, West Virginia, Campaign, Coal Industry, Climate, Grassroots, Coal River Mountain, Climate Change, Virginia, Coal Lobby, Mountaintop Removal, Unions, Environmentalism, JP Morgan Chase, American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity, Wto, Mother Jones, Labor, Clean Energy, Congress, Green, Global Warming, Government, Mountains, Epa, Harlan County, Mines, Bush Administration, Blair Mountain, Tennessee, Climate Action Partnership, President Obama, Washington, Obama, Coal Czar, Bush, Environment, Environmental Protection Agency, Naacp, Appalachia, Workers, Climate Justice, Office of Surface Mining, Civil Disobedience, Kentucky, Henry Waxman, Forests, Department of the Interior, Dirty Coal, Green Jobs, Wall Street, Astroturfing, Coal Mining, Duke Energy, Green News, Mining, Water, Clean Coal, Osr, Appalachian Mountains, Activism, Protest, Massey Energy, Green News

Theirs is a coast-to-coast campaign to save Appalachia's mountains and streams -- and Appalachians' homes, jobs, and culture -- from the devastating coal mining practice known as mountaintop removal.

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Dennis Kucinich: The Lone Ranger

Jennifer Utz | Posted 11.09.2009 | Politics

Read More: Health Care Reform, U.S. Senate, Congress, Democratic Congress, Health Care, Barack Obama, Dennis Kucinich, Politics News

House lawmakers voted 220 to 215 to approve the plan. Thirty-nine Democrats voted against the bill, one of whom was Ohio Congressman Dennis Kucinich. In a statement on his website, he explained why.

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"Informed Sources": What Really Happened When Rush Limbaugh and Sarah Palin Got Into Upstate New York Politics

Reese Schonfeld | Posted 11.09.2009 | Politics

The latest tempest involved New York's 23rd Congressional district, where the Republican candidate was forced out of the race because of her positions on gay and abortion rights.

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Congressmen Admit They No Longer Remember Which Health Care Bill They Are Voting On

Andy Borowitz | Posted 11.07.2009 | Comedy

Read More: Borowitz Report, Congress, Andy Borowitz, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Nancy Pelosi, Health Care Reform, Health Care Protesters, Davis Logsdon, University of Minnesota, Comedy News

"Maybe I'm not the sharpest tool in the shed, but I can't for the life of me remember whether this is the bill I liked or the bill I despised," said Rep. Rand DeVane (D-OH). "I'm only human."

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Denver Archbishop: Broken Promises On Abortion Funding In Health Care Reform

Posted 11.06.2009 | Denver

Read More: Archbishop, Catholic Church, Congress, Charles Chaput, Abortion Rights, Health Care Reform, White House Health Care, Denver, House Health Care Bill, Denver News

Denver's Catholic Archbishop Charles Chaput is urging his congregation to oppose federal health care legislation that funds abortions. KDVR and th...

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It's the Poverty, Stupid, Not Pre-K Skills

Susan Ohanian | Posted 11.06.2009 | Politics

Read More: Business Roundtable, US Department of Education, Food Stamps, Arne Duncan, Poverty, Healthy, Congress, Dental Caries, Skills, Neo-Liberal, Pre-K, Politics News

Agitating for Pre-K legislation is a smokescreen, pretending that a lack of skills is the problem when the real problem is poverty.

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Bachmann Tea Party Overdrive: A Tasty and Hot Playlist for Michele and All Her Foxy Friends

David Wild | Posted 11.05.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Cowboy Junkies, Emmylou Harris, Tea Party Protests, The Wiggles, Anne Murray, Count Basie, Brendan Benson, Nirvana, Capitol, Led Zeppelin, Congress, The Police, Michele Bachmann, The Who, Sister Hazel, Ella Fitzgerald, Cat Stevens, Tea Party, Entertainment News

I just read here that Rep. Michele Bachmann is hosting a very special tea party at the Capitol today. I'm sure it will be a lovely affair, so I wanted to send along this playlist for Congress' hostess with the mostest.

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237 Millionaires In Congress, Even After Members' Average Wealth Declined In 2008

The Huffington Post | Jenna Staul | Posted 11.06.2009 | Business

Read More: Congress, Lobbyblog, Personal-Financial-Disclosure-Forms, Business News

Washington lawmakers are feeling the effects of the recession, reports the Center for Responsive Politics -- just not as much as the rest of us. Acc...

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Homebuyer Tax Credit: Congress Gives New Buyers A $6,500 Break

AP | STEPHEN OHLEMACHER | Posted 11.05.2009 | Business

Read More: Mortgags, Congress, Homebuyer Tax Credit, First-Time Tax Credit, Tax, Home Prices, Real Estate, Homebuyers Tax Credit, Business News

WASHINGTON — Missed out on Cash for Clunkers? Congress has another deal for you: Buy a home before May 1 and collect up to $6,500 from the gover...

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Concern for the Attacks on Rangel

David Jones | Posted 11.04.2009 | New York

Read More: Government, Elected Official, Congressman Rangel, Congress, Charles Rangel, New York City, New York News

It seems to me that a whole generation of elected black officials is under scrutiny for financial improprieties and missteps. Woven into some of these attacks is a much less savory motivation of moneyed elites.

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Beyond Guantanamo

Ginny Sloan | Posted 11.05.2009 | Politics

Read More: Guantanamo, Congress, Lindsey Graham, Human Rights First, The Constitution Project, President Obama, Detainees, Politics News

The Declaration represents the largest collection of policy experts yet to lend their voices to a responsible plan to process the cases of suspected terrorist detainees held at the Guantanamo detention facility.

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Food Lobby Mobilizes, As Soda Tax Bubbles Up

HuffPost Investigative Fund | Posted 11.05.2009 | Green

Read More: Funds, Fast Food, Congress, Nhma, Snapple, Senate Finance Committee, Lobbyists, Agriculture, American Beverage Association, Soda Tax, Food Loby, Funding, Hispanics, National Corn Growers Association, Health Insurance, Policy, National Hispanic Medical Associaiton, Huffington Post Investigative Fund, Coca-Cola, Soft Drinks, Chuck Grassley, Dr. Pepper, Food Politics, Health Care, Beverage Tax, Aba, Lobbying, Corn, Americans Against Food Taxes, Supermarkets, Coke, Alex Padilla, Pepsi, Corn Syrup, Nutrition, Grocery Stores, Health Care Reform, Max Baucus, Green News

By Christine Spolar, Huffington Post Investigative Fund and Joseph Eaton, Staff Writer, Center for Public Integrity Washington lobbyists have been en...

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Calls for "Tort Reform" Desperate Distraction From Health Care Debate

Anthony Tarricone | Posted 11.04.2009 | Politics

Read More: Medical Errors, Congress, Medical Negligence, Medical Malpractice, Health Care, Politics News

There's an epidemic of medical negligence, not lawsuits. Only one in eight people injured by medical negligence ever file suit.

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Why Your Representatives Should Make You Mad as Hell

John W. Whitehead | Posted 11.04.2009 | Politics

Read More: Congress Perks, Congress, 2009 Elections, Congress Work Week, Network, Congress Approval Ratings, Ward 72, John Kerry, Pork Barrel Spending, Herb Kohl, Water Reed, Politics News

Congress should be America's representative body, yet too many of its members bear little resemblance to those they have been elected to represent.

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Congress, Accountability, and the Goldstone Report

Salena Tramel | Posted 11.04.2009 | World

Read More: Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Congress, Human Rights, United Nations Human Rights Council, Gaza, Middle East Peace Process, Breaking Politics News, Hamas, Israel, World News, The Goldstone Report, World News

Congress--and all Americans for that matter--should welcome each and every investigation of human rights violations, wherever and by whomever they may have been committed.

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See HuffPost's Front Pages From Election Day 2008

Posted 11.03.2009 | Media

Read More: Home Page, Election Day November 2009, House, Obama's Election, Off Year Elections, Election Day, Archives, Congress, Election Day 2009, Front Page, Senate, Hillary Clinton, Media News

Browse the front pages from last year's races by clicking on a front page from any given day, then slide the hour to see how the page changed througho...

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Read Goldstone's Report on Gaza

Rep. Keith Ellison | Posted 11.03.2009 | World

Read More: Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, South Africa, Congress, Israel Gaza Operation, Goldstone Report, United Nations, Richard Goldstone, World News

We stand for the values of democracy, truth and justice. There is no reason for Congress, Israel or any other party to fear an honest judge like Richard Goldstone -- his report should be studied, not dismissed.

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GOP Health Care Bill WON'T Prevent Insurance Companies From Denying Sick People

Wall Street Journal | JANET ADAMY | Posted 11.03.2009 | Politics

Republicans are preparing to unveil their own health bill in the next few days. Minority Leader John Boehner (R., Ohio) said Monday that the plan woul...

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Homeowners: "Hey Congress, Get Off Your A**"

Richard Zombeck | Posted 11.03.2009 | Business

Read More: Mortgages, John Tierney, Congress, Making Home Affordable, Barney Frank, Martha Coakley, Foreclosure, Loan Modifications, Mortgage, Banks, Business News

Our fearless leaders and elected officials don't really seem to have much to say when it comes to hundreds of foreclosures a week - and that's just in their own districts.

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Obama Year One: The Public Is A Trust, Not An Option

Dan Siegel | Posted 11.03.2009 | Politics

Read More: By the People, Congress, Public Option, Wall Street, Rahm Emanuel, Afghanistan, Hbo, One Year Later, President Obama, Obama Administration, Main Street, Timothy Geithner, Bank Bailout, Obama Health Care, Barack Obama, Politics News

One year since an historic election, where the Obama administration has fallen short in our hopes for a truly new direction, one finds the central conflict to be between public good and private gain.

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GOP Health Bill In The Works; Boehner Says Republican Bill Would Extend Insurance Coverage To "Millions"

Wall Street Journal | GREG HITT | Posted 11.02.2009 | Politics

Republicans are preparing an alternative health-care bill to Democratic legislation, House Republican Leader John Boehner said, marking a shift in str...

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Mark McGwire Needs to Tell the Truth

Graham Bensinger | Posted 11.04.2009 | Entertainment

He retired from the game just before the Steroid Era came to light. While he previously denied illegal performance enhancing drug use, those denials stopped when under penalty of perjury.

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Ed Schultz: Obama Would "Sell His Soul" For GOP Support On Health Care (VIDEO)

The Huffington Post | Posted 10.31.2009 | Politics

Read More: Robust Public Option, Ed Schultz, Congress, Tricker Public Option, Public Option, Health Care Reform, Harry Reid, Democrats, Health Care, Republicans, The Ed Show, Politics News

On Friday night on The Ed Show, Ed Schultz gave an impassioned speech calling out the president for making concessions on health care and abandoning t...

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