Recent Legislation

June 27, 2009: Weekly Presidential Address

June 29, 2009 - In this week's address the President speaks about the legislation recently passed in the House, the American Clean Energy and Securities Act. This historic legislation will create a clean energy transformation in our economy by creating new businesses and new industries. The President stresses that is a jobs bill that will create thousands of jobs across the energy in the field of clean energy.
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Climate Change, Clean Energy and Energy Efficiency

June 29, 2009 - Friday night the House passed the American Clean Energy and Security Act 219 to 212. Only 8 Republicans voted in favor of the bill.
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President Obama remarks on the passage of the American Clean Energy and Security Act

June 29, 2009 - Friday evening the House passed the American Clean Energy and Security Act which will reduce our dependency on foreign oil. The bill will create new jobs in the United States in the clean energy sector and increase our capacity to create electricity. Following that vote the President remarked on the importance of the bill's passage. Here is an excerpt from his comments;
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Close Vote on ACES Predicted in the House

June 26, 2009 - The Energy Bill is up today in the House, and the vote is extremely close.
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American Clean Energy and Security Act Goes to Full House Vote Tomorrow

June 25, 2009 - As we’ve been talking about all week, the House is expected to vote tomorrow on the American Clean Energy and Security Act.
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Kaine Strongly Urges House to Pass Historic Bill and Help Jumpstart Our Clean Energy Economy, Create Jobs

June 25, 2009 - Today I call on the House of Representatives to pass the American Clean Energy and Security Act, landmark legislation supported by President Obama that will transform the way we use and produce energy in America . The passage of this bill represents the next step towards an energy plan that will help fuel a lasting economic recovery, break our dependence on foreign oil, reduce greenhouse gas emissions, and create a framework of clean energy incentives to create millions of good, green new jobs.
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Our Clean Energy Economy

June 25, 2009 - With a full House vote expected this week on the American Clean Energy and Security Act (or Waxman-Markey), all eyes turn to the nation’s energy policy.
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Iran, Energy Legislation and Health Care Reform at President Obama’s Press Conference

June 24, 2009 - Today the President held a press conference where he addressed the situation in Iran, energy legislation currently pending in the House and the urgent need for health care reform.
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Clean Energy, Green Jobs and Climate

June 23, 2009 - The Obama Administration is dispatching cabinet secretaries and senior officials around the country this week to highlight the need for comprehensive energy legislation that makes us more energy independent, reduces climate change-causing greenhouse gas emissions and creates millions of green jobs.
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June 20, 2009: Weekly Presidential Address

June 22, 2009 - In this weeks address the President talks about Financial Reform and how his administration is addressing the current crisis. He stresses our markets should work fairly and freely for both consumers and business. The President introduces a new proposal to help fix our financial crisis, the Consumer Financial Protection Agency. The agency's responsibility is to look out for the interests of everyday Americans in our financial industry.
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Momentum Builds Behind President Obama’s Call for Health Care Reform This Year

June 22, 2009 - In case you missed it, a few new polls out this week demonstrate widespread support for comprehensive reform:
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President Obama Announces Historic Agreement with Big Pharma

June 22, 2009 - Today President Obama announced an agreement between his administration and several of the nation’s largest pharmaceutical companies that would offer $80 billion in prescription drug discounts for Medicare recipients.
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Financial Regulatory Reform

June 17, 2009 - President Obama just announced his Administration’s plans to reform our financial regulatory system.
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Faces of Health Care Reform: Russell Axelson

June 16, 2009 - Like millions of Americans, Russ lost his health insurance when he was laid off from his job. Russ turned to his church to help pay for his medications while he was out of work.
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Three Health Care Stories from Wisconsin

June 11, 2009 - Organizing for America, a project of the DNC, has collected hundreds of thousands of personal health care stories during the last few weeks. Here are three from Wisconsin.
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President Obama Holds Health Care Town Hall in Green Bay, Wisconsin

June 11, 2009 - President Obama held a health care town hall in Green Bay, WI this afternoon where he continued to talk about the need for health care reform that controls costs, protects choice, and makes quality, affordable health care available to every American.
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Rep. Steve Kagen (WI), OFA's Wisconsin State Director and Muskego, WI Resident Talk About Health Care

June 10, 2009 - Rep. Steve Kagen, M.D. (WI) joined Organizing for America’s Wisconsin State Director Dan Grandone and Kristine Reger, a Muskego, WI resident on a conference call this morning to talk about the health care debate in Congress and the grassroots effort currently underway to make it happen this year.
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Take Action: Join the Fight for Health Care Reform

June 10, 2009 - Organizing for America just launched a new Health Care Action Center where people can share their health care stories and take action in their communities to build support for real reform.
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Video: OFA Health Care Organizing Kickoff

June 9, 2009 - This past weekend, grassroots supporters gathered at thousands of meetings across the country to kickoff a summer long campaign for health care reform. For Organizing for America, it was the largest post-campaign effort yet, but the timing and the issue couldn't be more urgent.
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President Obama Reiterates Support for Public Health Insurance Option and Insurance Exchange

June 4, 2009 - In a letter to Democratic Senators Kennedy and Baucus today, President Obama underscored the importance of a health care plan that lowers costs, preserves choice and expands access – and reasserted the need to pass reform before the end of the year.
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Thousands Join Conference Call with President Obama to Talk Health Care Reform

May 28, 2009 - Mitch Stewart, OFA’s Executive Director, led the call, which included remarks by David Plouffe, President Obama’s Campaign Manager and President Obama himself, who called in from Air Force One.
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President Signs Weapons Systems Acquisition Reform Act

May 22, 2009 - President Obama signed the Weapons Systems Acquisition Reform Act this morning at a bill signing in the Rose Garden.
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Credit Card Bill Passes House

May 20, 2009 - Minutes ago, the House passed the final version of the Credit Card Holders Bill of Rights by a wide margin, 361 to 64.
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Senate Passes Consumers' Credit Card "Bill of Rights"

May 19, 2009 - The Senate voted overwhelmingly in favor of a consumers' credit card "bill of rights" today. The measure, designed to curb fees, limit contract changes, and increase transparency in credit card agreements, passed by a vote of 90-5.
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New National Standard for Emissions and Efficiency

May 19, 2009 - President Obama was joined to today by the executives of 10 auto companies, Governor Schwarzenegger (R-CA), Governor Granholm (D-MI) and environmental leaders to announce a new national standard for America’ s fleet of cars and light truck
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President Obama Delivers Remarks on New Auto Emission and Efficiency Standards

May 19, 2009 - President Obama was joined today by the heads of ten auto makers, leaders of the United Auto Workers, members of Congress and Governors to announce new emission and efficiency standards.
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President Obama's Three Principles of Healthcare Reform

May 13, 2009 - President Obama spoke recently about his White House meeting with many of the players in healthcare reform. He talked about three principles that are critical in any reform effort; reducing costs, guaranteeing choice and ensuring affordable care for all.
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House Democrats Promise to Take Up Healthcare Reform by July 31st

May 13, 2009 - After meeting with President Obama this morning, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced her intention to begin debate on healthcare reform before Congress adjourns for the August recess.
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President Obama’s Plans to Increase Unemployed Workers Access to education, training and financial aid

May 8, 2009 - President Obama announced today new plans that will make sure people who have lost their jobs are eligible to receive federal financial aid (so they can stay enrolled in school, despite losing their incomes) or go back to school without losing their unemployment benefits.
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WSJ: Budget Vote a "Significant Victory"

April 3, 2009 - Excerpts from the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times and Politico on the significance of the House and Senate passing their budget votes.
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"An important step forward"

April 3, 2009 - Early this morning the Senate followed the House of Representatives in successfully passing their own version of the fiscal year 2010 budget resolution.
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House passes the President's budget

April 2, 2009 - The House of Representatives has just passed the President's budget by a final vote of 233-196.
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House Passes the President's Economic Stimulus Package

February 13, 2009 - President Barack Obama's economic stimulus package cleared the House as Republicans continued their ''Just Say No'' campaign.
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President Obama's Remarks on Infrastructure

February 11, 2009 - President Barack Obama visited Springfield, Virginia and spoke at a construction site that closed down because funds ran out before the job was finished. With the President's signature on the economic recovery legislation, sites like these can get going again with hundreds of jobs.
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President Obama in Fort Myers, Florida

February 10, 2009 - President Obama is speaking in Fort Myers, Florida about the economic stimulus and getting our economy back on track.
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President Obama Visits DOE, Talks Energy Independence

February 5, 2009 - President Barack Obama visited staff at the Department of Energy and spoke about energy independence and his plan to stimulate the economy.
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President Obama Signs SCHIP

February 4, 2009 - President Barack Obama signed the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) legislation that will cover four million more children of low income families and include the children of legal immigrants. Read his remarks.
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President Obama Announces New Rules on Executive Pay

February 4, 2009 - President Barack Obama and Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner announced new rules on executive compensation for companies receiving ''exceptional assistance'' from the federal government.
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House Sends SCHIP to the President

February 4, 2009 - SCHIP, the State Children's Health Insurance Program, is headed for President Obama's desk for signing.
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Weekly Presidential Address

January 24, 2009 - In his first weekly address since being sworn in as the 44th president of the United States, President Barack Obama discusses how the American Recovery and Reinvestment Plan will jump-start the economy.
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Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act Heads to President Obama's Desk

January 23, 2009 - In a 61-36 vote, the Senate voted in favor of fair pay in the workplace on the heels of the House vote earlier this month. The legislation now heads to President Barack Obama's desk for signature.
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December: 500k Jobs Lost, Unemployment Reaches 7.2%

January 9, 2009 - In figures released in the December jobs report by the Labor Department, more than a half million jobs were lost and unemployment spiked to 7.2 percent.
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Obama Speaks at George Mason University in D.C. on the Economy

January 8, 2009 - Airing live on television is President-elect Barack Obama's speech on the economy from George Mason University in Washington, D.C.
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Stunning Admission by McCain Camp on Healthcare Plan

October 28, 2008 - John McCain's healthcare plan will ''blow up'' the employer-based system and healthcare experts are not so hot on that idea.
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How Much Would You Save?

October 24, 2008 - It is no surprise that John McCain continues to lie and distort Senator Barack Obama's record on taxes, and his plans for middle-class tax relief -- the Washington Post reported this morning that Senator Barack Obama's middle-class tax cuts are resonating with voters.
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Senator Obama on the Latest McCain Attacks

October 22, 2008 - Senator Barack Obama spoke to reporters today and addressed the latest nonsense from the McCain campaign on taxes.
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Mitch McConnell Creating Jobs ... Overseas

October 22, 2008 - Our friends at the DSCC launched this new television advertisement in Kentucky on Mitch McConnell's efforts at creating jobs ... overseas.
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Freddie Mac Paid GOP Firm to Kill Regulatory Bill

October 20, 2008 - In the New York Post, Freddie Mac paid a Republican consulting firm, DCI, whose chief executive was Doug Goodyear, the lobbyist that was tapped to run the Republican National Convention but later resigned when his connections to the brutal regime in Myanmar were unearthed.
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Johanns Supports Banning Activities He Engaged in Two Years Ago

October 17, 2008 - Johanns has just conceded that his actions on behalf of the Bush White House were unethical and should have been illegal. Still, he did nothing at all to stop this operation when he was in a position to do so, instead playing willing accomplice to Karl Rove's corrupt political agenda.
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Can You Hear Me Now?

October 16, 2008 - John McCain received free-of-charge portable cell towers from Verizon and AT&T, two companies that, as the ranking minority member on the Commerce committee, McCain oversees in the Senate.
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Obama-Biden Tax Calculator

October 15, 2008 - Find out how much you will save under Obama-Biden tax plan.
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National Debt Clock Runs Out of Digits

October 9, 2008 - George Bush has nearly doubled the national debt of all previous 42 U.S. presidents combined in just 7 1/2 years, and now, the debt clock has run out of digits.
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Rewriting History on Keating

October 6, 2008 - John McCain's campaign is trying to rewrite the events of the Savings & Loan scandal nearly twenty years later. In his 2002 autobiography, McCain called the scandal 'the worst mistake of my life,' but now McCain's campaign is claiming he did nothing wrong. Additionally, McCain's team is changing their story on what McCain knew.
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Keating Economics

October 6, 2008 - Watch the video and find out more by visiting www.KeatingEconomics.com.
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''Count the Lies'' Total Tops 100 After 22 New Debate Fact Checks

October 3, 2008 - The Democratic National Committee today updated the Count the Lies counter to reflect the 22 new fact checks published during and after last night's Vice Presidential candidates' debate. According to independent, non-partisan fact check organizations Sarah Palin repeated "old canards" on energy, repeated "several false claims" on taxes, got the facts wrong on troops levels in Iraq, made health care claims that are "inaccurate on several levels" and distorted her own record in Alaska.
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Editorial Rips John McCain's Plan for Healthcare

October 2, 2008 - Concord Monitor (NH) editorial ripped John McCain's 'plans' to 'blow up' the current healthcare system that would leave far fewer Americans with insurance.
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John McCain -- Bull in a China Shop

September 26, 2008 - John McCain has proven to be a bull in a china shop--or, more accurately, a bull that 1) misleadingly says the china shop is in disarray before he enters; 2) vows not to leave until he cleans up; 3) enters and shatters everything in sight; 4) blames everyone else for the damage and 5) leaves, claiming a job well done.
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McCain Adviser Paid $35k/Month to Lobby Against Regulation of Freddie, Fannie

September 22, 2008 - In the New York Times, McCain campaign manager Rick Davis was paid $35,000 a month to lobby against regulation for Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae.
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Virginians Hit McCain on New Call to Let Health Insurance Industry Run Amok

September 21, 2008 - In light of this week's Wall Street upheaval, today Judy Feder, Democratic nominee for US Representative from Virginia's 10th Congressional District, Barbara Favola, Vice Chair of the Arlington County Board and a member of Virginia's State Health Board, and concerned Virginians held a press conference outside of John McCain's campaign headquarters in Arlington, VA to challenge McCain's new magazine article calling for the deregulation of the health insurance companies 'just as we have done over the last decade in banking.'
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In His Own Words: John McCain on Health Care

September 20, 2008 - In his own words, John McCain writes that his approach to health care would mirror what has happened in the banking industry over the last decade.
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Paulson: Plan Could Cost $1 Trillion

September 19, 2008 - The failed economic policies of George W. Bush and John McCain could cost taxpayers as much as $1 trillion.
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Vice Presidential Nomination Speech: Quincy Lucas

August 27, 2008 - Quincy Lucas' sister was one of 58 women who lost their lives to domestic violence in Maryland in 2003. In 1994, Joe Biden wrote the Violence Against Women Act
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Rep. Steny Hoyer

August 26, 2008 - House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (MD) talks about the Bush administration's disastrous legislative agenda that John McCain promises to continue.
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Sen. Barbara Mikulski

August 26, 2008 - Maryland Senator Barbara Mikulski talks about the strong force for women the Democratic women of the Senate, and introduces their Checklist for Change.
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Speaker Nancy Pelosi

August 25, 2008 - Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi speaks about the accomplishments of the Democratic majority in the House of Representatives for this past Congress.
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Right Now: Oil Companies on the Record

April 1, 2008 - I previewed this yesterday -- today the House Select Committee for Energy Independence and Global Warming "will bring top-level executives from the five largest oil companies to discuss the current state of oil and gas prices, oil company profits, and the need for clean, renewable fuels to ease demand for oil and cut global warming pollution."
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John McCain Skips Stimulus Package Vote

February 7, 2008 - Yesterday Republicans blocked the economic stimulus package in the Senate, which would have extended unemployment benefits and sends helped out wounded and disabled veterans. It also would have helped 21.5 million senior citizens get stimulus checks.
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Bush Cuts Critical Water Funding

February 4, 2008 - President Bush unveiled a $3.1 trillion budget for 2009 that includes significant cuts into water funding projects. Senator Tim Johnson (D-South Dakota) issued a statement on these critical cuts to water projects in his state: The President's request is 37%...
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Congress to Vote Again on Children's Health

January 23, 2008 - Back in December, Bush vetoed an expanded children's health care program -- despite an overwhelming majority in the House and the Senate favoring the bill.
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Speaker Nancy Pelosi to Deliver Democratic Radio Address

December 15, 2007 - Speaker Nancy Pelosi will deliver the Democratic Radio Address tomorrow. In her address she will discuss historic energy legislation that will set the nation on a path to energy independence and reduce the cost of home heating oil and the price at the pump.
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House Passes Legislation Extending Army Field Manual

December 13, 2007 - The bill, which would extend to intelligence agencies the anti-torture prohibitions in the Army Field Manual, just passed 222-199. Speaker Pelosi's blog has the specifics.
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Global Warming Bill Moves Forward

December 6, 2007 - "Democrats turned back repeated efforts by Republican senators to soften the economic impact of a global warming bill before advancing it out of a Senate committee on Wednesday."
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One Ugly Mother?

November 16, 2007 - As Atrios might say, behold the World's Greatest Deliberative Body:
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Bush Vetoes Health and Education Bill

November 13, 2007 - Earlier I wrote about how your family owes $16,500.00 for the war in Iraq through 2008. Amazing, then, that President Bush decided that he wants to veto a health and education bill because he claims to be concerned about spending.
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Dean: Bush Republicans Have Made A Mess

November 13, 2007 - Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean issued the following statement after President Bush spoke about the budget today:
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Bush Talks About Veterans Funding in Texas While Threatening to Veto It in DC

November 8, 2007 - Heading into the Veterans Day holiday weekend, President Bush is in Texas today to visit an Army medical center in San Antonio.
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Voters Again Reject Republican Fear Tactics on Immigration

November 8, 2007 - The American people once again rejected the Republican Party's divisive fear mongering on immigration yesterday at the polls, just as they did a year ago.
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Caging Law Introduced

November 6, 2007 - As many of you know, GOP "caging lists" were discovered shortly before the 2004 campaign. These lists are generally used to suppress the vote by "challenging" the right of individuals to vote.
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McCain's Halloween Health Care Push All Trick and No Treat

November 1, 2007 - John McCain takes a bag full of tricks but no treats to the Kaiser Family Foundation's Presidential Candidate Forums today as he presents a health care reform plan that would bring the Bush Administration's failed health care policies back from the dead.
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Debunking Dana Perino

October 29, 2007 - White House press secretary Dana Perino says that lives will be saved if the planet gets hotter. But research shows that's just silly.
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Bush Republicans Have the Wrong Priorities

October 22, 2007 - Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean issued the following statement in response to President Bush sending Congress a request for an additional $46 billion in war spending, for a total of $196 billion, while he vetoed a bill to give health care coverage to 10 million of America's low income children:
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Dr. Jennifer Howse, President of the March of Dimes Foundation, to Deliver Democratic Radio Address

October 20, 2007 - The President of the March of Dimes Foundation, Dr. Jennifer Howse, delivers the Democratic Radio Address. In her address, Dr. Howse discusses the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP) bill and explain the importance of the legislation to millions of children across America.
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Dean: Bush Republicans Are Leaving Millions of Children Behind

October 18, 2007 - Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean issued a statement after Republican members of the House of Representatives voted to uphold President Bush's veto of the State Children's Health Insurance Program, denying health care to ten million children.
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On Children's Healthcare, The American People Support Democrats

October 17, 2007 - New polling from NPR and the Kaiser Family Foundation indicate that by large margins--and even among Republicans--the American people support the Democratic expansion of SCHIP to cover uninsured children.
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Dean: Bush Republicans Have the Wrong Priorities

October 17, 2007 - Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean responded to President Bush's press conference today, noting that the Republican Congress was so negligent in passing spending bills that the Cincinnati Post wrote that last year Republicans "set a record for sloth and irresponsibility on the spending bills."
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Dean: Bush's Veto of Health Care for America's Children Is Heartless

October 17, 2007 - As President Bush tries to justify his veto of the bipartisan State Children's Health Insurance Program today in Arkansas, Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean issued the following statement:
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Republican Leader McConnell's Office Behind Concerted Attack On 12 Year Old SCHIP Recipient

October 16, 2007 - The Journal Courier in Kentucky reports today that Senator Mitch McConnell's staff has admitted that they tried to fan the flame of the smear campaign against the Frost family last week.
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John McCain's Bush-Like Health Care Plan: More of the Same

October 11, 2007 - Despite widespread dissatisfaction with the Bush presidency, John McCain insists on offering more of the same failed Bush policies that have been a disaster for the American people.
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Republicans Attack 12-Year-Old For Saying Health Care is Important

October 11, 2007 - Radical right-wing Republicans sink to a new low, attacking a 12-year-old boy for saying that children's health care is important.
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Giuliani-Backed Veto Denies New Hampshire Kids Health Care

October 3, 2007 - While President Bush is vetoing the bipartisan plan that would provide 10 million children health care, Rudy Giuliani will be defending Bush's move as he campaigns in the Granite State this morning. Even though it would cost more than 8,700 kids in New Hampshire needed health care coverage, Giuliani has stubbornly backed Bush's veto threat for months.
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Dean: Bush's Veto of Health Care for America's Children is Appalling

October 3, 2007 - Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean issued a statement after President Bush vetoed a bipartisan plan supported overwhelmingly by the American people and 43 governors to extend and expand the State Children's Health Insurance Program to cover 10 million low-income kids.
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Governor Dean: Bush Veto is "Appalling"

October 3, 2007 - Governor Dean's statement on Bush's veto of health insurance for low-income children.
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Bush Vetoes Children's Health Care Bill

October 3, 2007 - Bush vetoed legislation that would fund and expand the Children's Health Insurance Program.
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Romney Chooses President Bush Over Uninsured Children

October 2, 2007 - Mitt Romney is back in Boston today, one day after revealing more of his health care hypocrisy on the campaign trail. Asked by a reporter in Missouri if he would veto the Democratic plan to provide health insurance to 3.8 million uninsured children by expanding the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP), as President Bush has vowed to do, Romney said "Yeah. Yeah, I sure would."
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Fred Thompson Stands With President Bush, Not Iowa's Kids

October 2, 2007 - As Fred Thompson campaigns in Iowa today, Iowa voters will want to know why he is standing stubbornly behind President Bush's threat to veto health care coverage for 10 million low income children, including 32,000 of Iowa's kids.
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Howard Dean Applauds Senate Passage of Hate Crimes Bill

October 1, 2007 - Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean today applauded the passage of the federal Hate Crimes bill in the U.S. Senate. The bill would provide equal protections for every American by extending the definition of hate crimes under federal law...
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12-Year-Old Asks Bush To Sign Children's Health Bill

September 29, 2007 - Graeme Frost delivers this week's Democratic Radio Address. He asks Bush to sign into law the renewal of CHIP that Congress passed this week.
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Governor Dean Blasts Bush For Threatening to Veto Health Coverage For Kids

September 28, 2007 - Governor Dean blasted President Bush today for threatening to veto legislation that would provide health care coverage for millions of low-income children.
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Senate Democrats Expand Health Coverage For Kids

September 27, 2007 - By a vote of 69-39, the Senate has passed legislation expanding health coverage to more children through the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP), a highly successful program that makes sure poor children can receive medical care when they are sick. But Bush has threatened to veto the legislation.
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Children's Health Care Passes House

September 26, 2007 - The bill, which covers an estimated 10 million children, prevents shortfalls in funding that denies coverage and guarantees dental health and mental health. Will Bush veto coverage of millions of children?
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