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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Number of Uninsured Rose Last Year

August 28, 2007 - The number of uninsured children rose significantly last year.
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Dean: Bush Republicans Putting the Health and Safety of America's Children in Jeopardy

August 21, 2007 - According to news reports today, the Bush Administration has instituted a new policy making it harder for states to enroll children in the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP), which currently provides health care coverage to over six million children nationwide.
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Hollow Speeches Won't Erase Non-Candidate Thompson's Record of Ignoring Veterans

August 21, 2007 - Undeclared GOP Presidential candidate Fred Thompson was in Kansas City, Missouri today to address the 108th National Convention of the Veterans of Foreign Wars of the U.S. But like his unofficial campaign Thompson's record on veterans' issues raises a lot of questions.
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Bush Administration Cuts Kids From Health Insurance Program

August 21, 2007 - The Bush administration is making it more difficult for states to provide health coverage to low-income children by mandating tough new rules that determine eligibility--even though many states are trying to increase the number of children covered.
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Bush Officials Spreading Misinformation About Children's Health Insurance

August 8, 2007 - Department of Health and Human Services directors are sending copycat letters to newspapers across the country, spreading misinformation about the children's health insurance program, SCHIP, currently up for re-authorization.
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Time To Brush Up On Policy? Giuliani Mixes Up Medicare and Medicaid

August 6, 2007 - Giuliani confuses Medicare and Medicaid.
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Dean: Democrats Working To Make Sure Children Have the Health Care They Deserve

August 2, 2007 - Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean issued the following statement after the House of Representatives passed legislation that gives millions of low-income children health care:
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Editorial Roundup: "Bush goes ideological at the expense of children"

July 31, 2007 - President Bush is threatening to veto a critical children's health care program set to be renewed this week by Congress, and the American people are outraged. The following are excerpts from recent editorials from across the country:
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Not Ready for Examination? Giuliani’s Health Care Plan Leaves Big Questions

July 31, 2007 - Rudy Giuliani "scoffed" after New Hampshire voters asked him tough questions about his health insurance "plan"--which looks identical to the Bush plan.
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College Democrats Blast Bush Threat to Veto Student Loan Bill

July 11, 2007 - The College Democrats of America today applauded House Democrats for standing up to President Bush’s irresponsible veto threat and passing the College Cost Reduction Act of 2007. After promising last year to make college more accessible and affordable, Democrats kept that promise by passing the Reduction Act, which would increase the size of Pell grants for poor students, cut interest rates for student loans, cap monthly loan payments at 15 percent of a student’s discretionary income, and slash subsidies for the scandal-plagued student loan industry by $19 billion. [New York Times, 7/11/07]
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Dean: Republicans Should Listen to the Needs of the American People and Support the Employee Free Choice Act

June 19, 2007 - Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean issued the following statement expressing support for the Employee Free Choice Act. Union members, labor leaders and Congressional Democrats came together this afternoon to show support for the legislation...
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House Democrats Work to Increase Student Aid

June 15, 2007 - Recently, House Democrats under the leadership of Rep. George Miller introduced legislation that would increase federal college financial aid by $20 billion over the next five years. Passing through the Education and Labor Committee by an overwhelming majority of 30-16, the College Cost Reduction Act of 2007 (HR 2669) would be the largest single increase in student aid since the G.I. Bill was signed into law in 1944.
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Lowering Prescription Drug Costs

May 4, 2007 - Chalk up one more victory for America, as the Senate voted 63-28 to allow lower-priced prescription drugs to be imported from Canada. While the president's advisors are recommending a veto, the bill still stands a shot at passage.
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First 100 Days A Success

April 16, 2007 - With the Senate recently completing their 100th work day, it's worth taking a look at all they have already done to improve the lives of Americans. Unlike the do-nothing Republican Congress they replaced, Democrats have already pursued a positive agenda and gotten things done on ethics reform, minimum wage, energy independence, eduction, health care, homeland security, veterans, and Iraq.
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Defending the Rights of Workers

April 13, 2007 - Today there's a editorial in the Sacramento Bee that provides the important context in which the Employee Free Choice Act is offered. The system is currently broken, with an outdated system that desperately needs reform:
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AARP Running Medicare Negotiating Ads

March 29, 2007 - AARP, the nonpartisan membership organization for people over fifty, will begin running radio advertisements in 10 states urging the Senate to pass legislation to allow the federal government to negotiate for lower drug prices.
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Aiming To Expand Early College Awareness Programs

March 28, 2007 - Democrats are giving college students more reason to continue revitalizing their local chapters across the nation. Diverse, which focuses on issues related to higher education, has the story:
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Disclosing 401(k) Fees

March 6, 2007 - Workers deserve to retire with the dignity and comfort that they have earned, but as the Associated Press reports, incomplete information about hidden fees can drain thousands of dollars from 401(k) plans.
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Access to Health Insurance

March 2, 2007 - Recently, Speaker Pelosi released a statement calling for President Bush to support efforts to provide states with the funding for the State Children's Health Insurance Program.
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DNC Commends Democratic Leadership for Passage of Employee Free Choice Act

March 2, 2007 - Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean issued the following statement praising the passage of the Employee Free Choice Act:
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A Victory For Working Families

March 1, 2007 - Last week, the Employee Free Choice Act passed in the House of Representatives 241 to 185. EFCA restores American workers' right to freely choose whether or not to form a union. Specifically, the bill says that once a majority of workers sign a card authorizing a union, it is then formed. President Bush has already threatened a veto of this vital legislation, which first must go to the Senate.
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Employee Free Choice Act Clears House Committee

February 15, 2007 - Just last week the Employee Free Choice Act was introduced in the House of Representatives, and already it has cleared one significant hurdle: the House Education and Labor Committee. From the AFL-CIO blog: The House Education and Labor Committee beat...
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Bush's Medicare and Medicaid Cuts

February 13, 2007 - Rising health care costs are the root cause for the financial obstacles we need to address when taking a look at Medicare and Medicaid. Instead of addressing the issue, however, President Bush has simply proposed $101 billion in cuts to the popular programs over five years.
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Employee Free Choice Act Introduced in House

February 7, 2007 - Union members and supporters have something to smile about this week - the Employee Free Choice Act has been introduced in the House. The bill, aimed at shoring up the ability of workers to organize, is long overdue.
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Must Read: The President's Risky Health Plan

January 26, 2007 - Today, a New York Times editorial points out that President Bush's new plan to tax working families' health insurance will do little to actually help the 47 million Americans without health insurance or help reduce skyrocketing medical costs. Bush's policies could even increase the number of uninsured if it goes badly which is "not the answer Americans are waiting for and not what they deserve." Democrats remain committed to finding solutions to the challenges facing our health care system, not creating new ones
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Bush Pushes Health Care Tax Increase In The Show Me State

January 26, 2007 - Today, President Bush pitched his recycled health care scheme at an event in Lee's Summit, Missouri. The proposal, which would increase taxes on middle class Americans, has been soundly discredited by experts and various publications across the country.
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GOP Blocks Minimum Wage Increase

January 24, 2007 - It's not enough that America realizes it's way past time we increase the minimum wage. It's not enough that families across the nation struggle to make ends meet. It's not enough that the House voted for a no-strings-attached minimum wage bill. Senate Republicans still blocked an increase in the minimum wage.
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Smooth Talking Mitt Embraces Bush Health Care Tax

January 24, 2007 - Smooth talking Mitt Romney tonight rushed to embrace President Bush's latest health care scheme, even though it represents a new health care tax for middle class families and will do little to provide health care for more Americans or address the problem of rising health care costs. In a written statement, Romney said he "welcomes" the President's plan, that "states are the best laboratories" for finding health care solutions, and that his state found a way to expand health care "without a tax increase."
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College Democrats Praise Passage of Student Loan Bill and 100 Hours Agenda

January 19, 2007 - College Democrats of America President Lauren Wolfe issued the following statement congratulating the Democratic Congress for their legislative accomplishments in the first 100 hours:
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Making College Affordable - Now and in the Future

January 16, 2007 - As part of their first 100 Hours Agenda, Democrats in the House are expected to vote today on the "College Student Relief Act of 2007" - which will cut interest rates in half on loans for middle class borrowers, saving the average student thousands over the life of his or her loans.
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America's Working Families Helped With Minimum Wage Increase

January 11, 2007 - Today, the Democratic Congress passed a bipartisan measure to increase the minimum wage from $5.15 to $7.25 an hour. With 89 percent of Americans backing this measure to help our country's working families, President Bush and Republicans in Congress now have the opportunity to help millions of hard-working Americans and their families by supporting this legislation.
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It's About Time!

January 10, 2007 - Tackling a top priority, the House pushed an increase in the federal minimum wage toward passage Wednesday, finally giving hard-working Americans the raise they deserve. "For 10 years the lowest-paid Americans have been frozen out. They have been working at a federal poverty wage, not a federal minimum wage," said Democratic Rep. George Miller (CA), who authored the legislation.
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McConnell To Oppose Negotiating For Lower Prices

December 15, 2006 - Republican Senator Mitch McConnell, the incoming Senate minority leader, recently vowed to oppose a common-sense Democratic proposal to allow Medicare to negotiate with drug companies for lower prices.
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Eliminating the Medicare [Part-D]onut Hole & Other Fixes

November 14, 2006 - Soon-to-be Speaker Pelosi has outlined her vision for the first 100 hours of a Democratic Congress. Included is a fix to the disastrous Medicare bill passed by the Republicans which prevents the federal government from negotiating lower drug prices for seniors.
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Democrats Urge GOP Congress To Act On Pension Bill

February 22, 2006 - With America's pensions under attack, Congress is considering bi-partisan pension reform. The legislation was bottled up last year when Washington Republicans tried to couple common-sense pension reform with President Bush's scheme to privatize Social Security.
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