The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act

November 19, 2009 - Majority Leader Harry Reid unveiled the Senate’s version of the health insurance reform legislation – the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act – this afternoon at a press conference at the U.S. Capitol. The bill achieves President Obama’s three principles of reform: more security and stability for people who have insurance; more quality, affordable options to those who don’t; and bringing down the high costs of care for American families, businesses and our government itself.
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New Radio Ads Target 32 GOP House Members

November 16, 2009 - The DNC launched a new radio campaign today targeting 32 Republicans who voted against health insurance reform, even though President Obama won their districts in the 2008 election. The ads call out their Representatives for siding with the status quo,...
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More Phony-Baloney

November 16, 2009 - This morning the Washington Post reported that the Chamber of Commerce is proposing to spend $50,000 to hire a “respected economist” to write a report that would back-up the thoroughly debunked insurance industry claim that health reform is harmful to the economy.
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Call ’Em Out: House GOP

November 13, 2009 - Last Saturday night, Republican representatives stood on the House floor and spouted callous and shameless lie after lie in a desperate, last-ditch effort to stop reform. Perhaps they thought that if enough of them lied enough times in a row, they could get away with it. They were wrong.
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In Historic Vote, House Passes Health Insurance Reform Legislation

November 9, 2009 - DNC Chairman Tim Kaine released the following statement after the House of Representatives voted to pass historic health insurance reform legislation late Saturday night.
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This is the GOP’s Health Plan? Seriously?

November 4, 2009 - Not surprisingly, it does almost nothing to rein in some of the insurance industry’s worst practices that make our system less stable, less secure and inaccessible in the first place.
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Time to Deliver...Delivered

October 21, 2009 - “Time to Deliver” events across the country yesterday generated more than 315,000 calls to Congress in a single day -- more than three times Organizing for America's original goal of 100,000.
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Senate Finance Committee Bill Wins Bi-Partisan Support

October 13, 2009 - This afternoon – after months of deliberation and the consideration of hundreds of amendments– the Senate Finance Committee passed its version of health insurance reform legislation.
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Big Week for Health Insurance Reform

October 9, 2009 - As we get closer and closer to a final version of health insurance reform legislation, momentum behind reform is picking up steam.
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DNC’s New TV Ad: Republican Scare Mongering

September 30, 2009 - We released a new TV ad this morning, calling out Republican leaders for once again using scare tactics to frighten seniors about health insurance reform
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Young Americans and Health Insurance Reform

September 23, 2009 - President Obama held a rally for health insurance reform at the University of Maryland in College Park, during which he talked about his plan for reform and specifically addressed how it will help young adults.
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The Character of Our Country

September 9, 2009 - President Obama shared the contents of a letter he received from Senator Ted Kennedy – penned weeks after he learned his cancer was terminal, and delivered to President Obama upon the Senator's passing.
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The President's Remarks to a Joint Session of Congress: "Stability and security for all Americans"

September 9, 2009 - Tonight, President Obama spoke to a special joint session of Congress and the American people to outline his plan for health insurance reform. The core of his plan: provide more security and stability for people who have insurance, provide quality, affordable care to those who don't, and rein in skyrocketing costs that are crushing American families, businesses and the government itself.
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The President's Plan for Health Reform

September 9, 2009 - The President's Plan for Health Reform.
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Not the First, Determined to Be the Last

September 9, 2009 - President Obama just finished a historic address to a Joint Session of Congress.
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FULL VIDEO: OFA National Health Care Forum with President Obama

August 21, 2009 - President Obama held a national Health Care Forum with Organizing for America supporters and volunteers. During the 90 minute program, the President talked about what’s happening in the health reform debate in D.C. and around the country, before laying out our strategy and message moving forward. Watch:
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President Obama at the OFA National Health Care Forum

August 20, 2009 - President Obama came to the DNC on Thursday afternoon for a national Health Care Forum with OFA supporters and volunteers.
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Strategy Meeting with President Obama

August 18, 2009 - DNC Chairman Tim Kaine announced via email today that President Obama is hosting a strategy meeting on health insurance reform this Thursday at 2:30pm.
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Why We Need Health Care Reform

August 17, 2009 - President Obama had an oped in the New York Times on Sunday.
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Health Insurance Reform in Big Sky Country

August 14, 2009 - President Obama spoke to a crowd about 1,300 in an airport hanger in Belgrade, MT on Friday afternoon.
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The Conversations You're Not Hearing

August 14, 2009 - We compiled local TV coverage from events around the country.
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Health Care Town Hall in Montana

August 14, 2009 - President Obama is in Montana today, holding his second health insurance reform town hall this week.
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Five Facts About Anti-Reform Mobs

August 5, 2009 - There's been a lot of media coverage about organized mobs intimidating lawmakers, disrupting town halls, and silencing real discussion about the need for real health insurance reform. The truth is, it's a sham. These "grassroots protests" are being organized and largely paid for by Washington special interests and insurance companies who are desperate to block reform.
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Recess: Time for Action

August 3, 2009 - Before the House went home for recess on Friday, the Energy and Commerce Committee - the third House committee with jurisdiction over health reform legislation - passed its version of a health insurance reform bill.
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One Million Strong and Growing

July 31, 2009 - In just three short months, more than 1 million people have joined our campaign for health insurance reform.
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What’s in Health Insurance Reform for You?

July 29, 2009 - This morning the White House unveiled eight consumer protections we all stand to gain from health insurance reform.
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Weight of the Nation

July 29, 2009 - Food for thought: According to a new study released by the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), we spend $147 billion every year treating obesity related medical conditions.
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President Obama Joins AARP for Tele-Town Health Reform Hall

July 28, 2009 - President Obama joined AARP members this afternoon at a Health Reform Tele-Town Hall
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Hundreds in Milwaukee Call for Health Insurance Reform

July 27, 2009 - Hundreds gathered in Milwaukee, WI yesterday to demonstrate their support for health insurance reform.
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Health Reform and Small Businesses

July 27, 2009 - Small businesses are a significant source of job growth in the United States.
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DNC Ad - The Cost of Doing Nothing

July 23, 2009 - As the Republican Party continues to declare that they will stop at nothing to “kill” health insurance reform and “break” the President over the issue, the Democratic National Committee released a new television ad today explaining the risks of the Republican strategy of doing nothing to fix America’s broken health care system.
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Not This Time. Not Now.

July 20, 2009 - During his remarks health care reform this afternoon at Children’s Hospital in Washington, DC President Obama singled out defenders of the status quo.
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Chairman Kaine Responds to Steele’s Commitment to Defending the Status Quo on Health Care

July 20, 2009 - Chairman Kaine issued the following statement after RNC Chairman Michael Steele’s remarks at the National Press Club this morning.
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More “NO” from the GOP, Republicans Are Playing Politics with Health Care Reform

July 20, 2009 - This morning in a speech at the National Press Club, RNC Chairman Michael Steele unveiled a new Republican campaign against health care reform.
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Small Businesses and Health Care Reform

July 16, 2009 - Their latest is an all-out assault to scare small business owners. These attacks are outrageous and entirely untrue
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Nurses Join President Obama’s Call for Reform, House Unveils Bill and Senate HELP Committee Passes Plan

July 15, 2009 - President Obama praised nurses for their work and urged the House and Senate to pass their versions of health care reform before August recess.
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Health Care and Sausage

July 7, 2009 - You know old adage – making law is like making sausage. The process is a little messier and more complicated than it looks.
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High Costs of Care

July 6, 2009 - He often talks about the high cost of health care in McAllen, TX, a Texas town on the Mexican border that has one of the most expensive health care markets in the country.
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HELP’s Plan Gets Thumbs Up

July 6, 2009 - President Obama is abroad this week in Russia, Italy and Africa, but the health care debate continues in Congress.
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Senate HELP Committee Releases Health Reform Bill

July 2, 2009 - Today the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) took an important step towards that goal when it released its latest version of health care reform legislation.
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Guest Post: Chairman Tim Kaine on Attending President Obama's Health Care Town Hall in Virginia

July 1, 2009 - Today I was honored to join President Obama at the health care town hall at Northern Virginia Community College in Annandale, VA. The room was packed with kids and parents, students and seniors.
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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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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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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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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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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 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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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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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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''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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Voters Deserve to Know: Would Giuliani, McCain, Romney and Thompson Stand with Bush and Veto Children's Health Care?

September 25, 2007 - The leading Republican presidential contenders have stood stubbornly behind President Bush on issue after issue and now they also appear to be standing behind his threat to veto health care for low-income children.
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50th Anniversary of the Integration of Little Rock Central High School

September 24, 2007 - Fifty years ago today, nine students started the integration of Little Rock Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas.
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Republicans Obstruct Children's Health Insurance

September 24, 2007 - It looks like the entirety of the Republican strategy -- in Congress and the White House -- is to prevent as much as possible from getting done for the American people. They've blocked votes on Iraq, voting rights, human rights, and troop rest. In fact, they're literally on a path for setting a record for the most obstructionist in history.
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Governor Rendell Calls on Bush to Stop Playing Partisan Politics As Usual with Health of Our Children

September 22, 2007 - During the Democratic radio address this week, Governor Ed Rendell of Pennsylvania called on President Bush to sign the bipartisan plan to reauthorize the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) and provide millions of children the health care they need and deserve.
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Democrats Make College More Affordable for AAPI Families

September 20, 2007 - The Democratic Congress yesterday sent landmark legislation to the President that reduces college costs for millions of young people. The Democratic National Committee and College Democrats of America praised Congressional Democrats and highlighted the bills benefits for Asian American and Pacific Islander families and students:
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CDA Praises Democrats for Making College More Affordable for Minority Students

September 19, 2007 - Washington, DC - Today the Democratic Congress sent landmark legislation to the President that reduces college costs for millions of young people. College Democrats of America issued the following statement praising Congressional Democrats and highlighting the bill's benefits for minority students.
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