The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act
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.Posted on Thursday, November 19, 2009 | Comments (0)
November 14, 2009: Weekly Presidential Address
In this week's address the President reflects on the events that took place at Fort Hood as well as Veterans Day. In his remarks the President states that this nation will never forget the service of those we lost at Fort Hood just as we will always honor the service of all those who wear the uniform of our country.Posted on Tuesday, November 17, 2009 | Comments (2)
Call ’Em Out: House GOP
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.Posted on Friday, November 13, 2009 | Comments (3)
November 7, 2009: Weekly Presidential Address
In this week's address the President speaks to the country about the tragedy that took place at Fort Hood last week.Posted on Monday, November 9, 2009 | Comments (0)
October 31, 2009: Weekly Presidential Address
In this week's address the President shares news that based on the GDP report the economy has grown for the first time in the past year and that we have come a long way. Additionally the President shares news that the Recovery Act has saved or created one million jobs to date.Posted on Wednesday, November 4, 2009
"No Room for Moderates in Today’s GOP"
When moderate Republican Dede Scozzafava dropped out of the special election in NY-23 on Saturday – then endorsed Democratic candidate Bill Owens on Sunday – she laid bare a serious problem for the Republican Party, regardless of who wins the special election tomorrow.Posted on Monday, November 2, 2009 | Comments (3)
President Obama Signs the Military and Overseas Voter Empowerment Act into Law
The DNC passed a resolution in favor of the Military and Overseas Voter Empowerment (MOVE) Act at its fall meeting this September. Today, President Obama signed it into law, as part of the National Defense Authorization Act.Posted on Wednesday, October 28, 2009 | Comments (2)
October 24, 2009: Weekly Presidential Address
In this week's address the President shares his commitment to helping small businesses. The President has called on Congress to increase the maximum size of small business loans, announced that more credit is being made available for small local and community banks that support small business and reform efforts with help small businesses with rising health care costs. Small business must be at the forefront of our economic recovery.Posted on Monday, October 26, 2009 | Comments (0)
Time to Deliver...Delivered
“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.Posted on Wednesday, October 21, 2009 | Comments (1)
Grab a Mop
To listen to some Republicans in Congress, you’d think they had nothing whatsoever to do with our current economic mess and they have no responsibility now to help the country clean it up. If you believed what folks like John Boehner and Mitch McConnell and Jon Kyl said, you’d think they’d been sounding warning bells all along about the dangerous and irresponsible policies of the previous administration.Posted on Saturday, October 17, 2009 | Comments (10)
League of Women Voters Endorses Health Reform, Launches “Stand Up to the Lies”
At the urging of its members, the non-partisan League of Women's Voters has endorsed Democratic efforts to enact health insurance reform.Posted on Thursday, October 15, 2009 | Comments (4)
Senate Finance Committee Bill Wins Bi-Partisan Support
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.Posted on Tuesday, October 13, 2009 | Comments (7)
Big Week for Health Insurance Reform
As we get closer and closer to a final version of health insurance reform legislation, momentum behind reform is picking up steam.Posted on Friday, October 9, 2009 | Comments (4)
Breaking: President Obama Wins Nobel Peace Prize
Early this morning, it was announced that President Obama had been selected as the winner of the Nobel Peace Prize. The President is receiving the award "for his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples."Posted on Friday, October 9, 2009 | Comments (14)
Remembering Fannie Lou Hamer
Today, the Democratic National Committee honors the life of civil rights activist Fannie Lou Hamer. Born ninety-two years ago today in the Mississippi Delta, Hamer, the daughter of sharecroppers, demanded that all people be given a voice in American politics....Posted on Tuesday, October 6, 2009
iQuit: Apple Quits the Chamber of Commerce Over Its Backwards Position on Climate Change
The list of companies leaving the Chamber of Commerce – over its vehement opposition to clean energy and climate legislation – is growing.Posted on Monday, October 5, 2009 | Comments (2)
Nike Makes It Official: Quits Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors
Today, Nike announced it was quitting the Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors to protest the Chamber’s opposition to climate legislation.Posted on Wednesday, September 30, 2009 | Comments (3)
DNC’s New TV Ad: Republican Scare Mongering
We released a new TV ad this morning, calling out Republican leaders for once again using scare tactics to frighten seniors about health insurance reformPosted on Wednesday, September 30, 2009 | Comments (0)
Young Americans and Health Insurance Reform
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.Posted on Wednesday, September 23, 2009 | Comments (5)
President Obama Addresses the United Nations General Assembly
This morning, in his first address to the UN General Assembly, President Obama talked about the climate threat again – calling the “preservation of our planet” one of the “four pillars that are fundamental to the future we want for our children.”Posted on Wednesday, September 23, 2009 | Comments (0)
Call 'Em Out
For months, special interests and their Republican allies have been smearing health insurance reform in an attempt to defeat it. We've had enough.Posted on Friday, September 18, 2009 | Comments (6)
The Czars of Short Term Memory Loss...
But it is an appropriate title for the Republicans who today will be carrying out the marching orders of Glenn Beck and other right wing propagandists to attack the use of policy "czars" by the Obama administration.Posted on Wednesday, September 16, 2009 | Comments (9)
The Bush Czars
Glenn Beck and Fox News are doing their darndest to manufacture controversy over the existence of czars in the Obama Administration. No one is buying it.Posted on Wednesday, September 16, 2009 | Comments (4)
September 12, 2009: Weekly Presidential Address
In his weekly address the President talks about the reality of Americans losing health insurance coverage. In referencing a Treasury Department report the President says that half of all Americans under 65 years old will lose their health coverage in the next ten years. After the President signs his plan into law Americans will never again have to go without health insurance. In the United States of America no one should worry they will go without health insurance.Posted on Tuesday, September 15, 2009 | Comments (6)
The President's Plan: Stability & Security for all Americans
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.Posted on Monday, September 14, 2009 | Comments (13)
Lest We Forget
One year ago tomorrow Lehman Brothers collapsed, sending Wall Street into a fevered panic and bringing our entire financial system to the brink of catastrophe.Posted on Monday, September 14, 2009 | Comments (2)
National Day of Service and Remembrance
Today is the eighth anniversary of the September 11th, 2001 terrorist attacksPosted on Friday, September 11, 2009 | Comments (3)
The Character of Our Country
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.Posted on Wednesday, September 9, 2009 | Comments (2)
The President's Remarks to a Joint Session of Congress: "Stability and security for all Americans"
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.Posted on Wednesday, September 9, 2009 | Comments (7)
Setting the Record Straight
President Obama directly took on the biggest misrepresentations and lies about reformPosted on Wednesday, September 9, 2009 | Comments (0)
