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• Pic. Item - Taylor votes against health care bill, but says it had good points

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  Pic. Item - Taylor votes against health care bill, but says it had good points POPLARVILLE — In a town hall meeting here on Friday, Congressman Gene Taylor charged the insurance companies colluded after Katrina and that they should have their anti-trust exemption revoked by Congress. Taylor, who represents the fourth district, [...]

  Posted: November 15, 2009, 8:02pm EST
  

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• Video asks why didn't Gene Taylor vote to kill the health care bill

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  This video from iCaucus.org acknowledges Gene Taylor voted against the health care bill, but notes that less than 20 minutes earlier he had a chance to kill the bill on a procedural motion and voted in line with Nancy Pelosi. It also discusses how Taylor voted against TARP but voted [...]

  Posted: November 15, 2009, 1:54pm EST
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• Wicker blasts health care bill, deficits

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  Wicker blasts health care bill, deficits Sen. Roger Wicker, during a speech in Lucedale on Thursday, decried health care legislation, which he sees as a government takeover of one-sixth of the economy, and growing federal deficits. "I have to tell you, there are some issues that are going on in the United" [...]

  Posted: November 13, 2009, 2:17pm EST
  

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• POLITICO sources say Pelosi let Childers off the hook on health care

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  POLITICO sources say Pelosi let Childers off the hook on health care House Democratic sources deny that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi "released" any Democrats to vote no on the health care bill -- but some of the nays were clearly more acceptable to leadership than others. Most of the southern and western [...]

  Posted: November 10, 2009, 1:45pm EST
  

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• Rep. Cao (R-LA) from New Orleans was lone Republican vote for the House health care bill

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  One interesting footnote to ex-congressman Jefferson and his corruption:  In the last election, his presence on the ballot produced a Republican congressman, Ahn Cao,  in an extremely safe Democratic district.  Yesterday, Ahn Cao was the lone Republican vote for the House health care bill.   Here’s Cao’s explanation of his [...]

  Posted: November 08, 2009, 10:41am EST
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• Defectors Among the House Democrats

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  Defectors Among the House Democrats Representative Travis Childers of Mississippi said that he would oppose the House health care bill because it was simply too expensive at a time of economic crisis for the nation. “First and foremost, I cannot vote for legislation with this big of a price tag in today’s [...]

  Posted: November 06, 2009, 5:16pm EST
  

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• Taylor opposes health care bill’s lack of abortion funding prohibition

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  Taylor opposes health care bill’s lack of abortion funding prohibition U.S. Rep. Gene Taylor, D-Bay St. Louis, has deeply held beliefs against abortion. He also has deeply felt objections to the Democratic Party’s health care bill as too costly and too bureaucratic. Taylor is one of 40 pro-life House Democrats who are poised [...]

  Posted: November 05, 2009, 1:16pm EST
  

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• Tuesday Digest

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  The Commercial Appeal writes about the upcoming anticipated Childers-Nunnelee race: Nunnelee, GOP take aim at Childers. Majority in Mississippi posts Nunnelee takes a swing at Pelosi-Care. Human Events says if Childers joins the Democrats in supporting the House health care bill, he will be one of Pelosi’s [...]

  Posted: November 03, 2009, 9:27am EST
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• Blue-Dogs hard to find after health care bill hit

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  Blue-Dogs hard to find after health care bill hit For all the trouble it caused Democratic leaders over the health care reform bill, the House Democratic Blue Dog Coalition was surprisingly silent when House Speaker Nancy Pelosi finally dropped the 2,000-page, $1.05 trillion legislation. The 51 Blue Dog members sent a letter [...]

  Posted: November 01, 2009, 2:37pm EST
  

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• Here’s all 1990 pages of health care bill

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  Here's all 1990 pages of health care bill h/t Algerhiss [...]

  Posted: October 30, 2009, 12:43pm EDT
  

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• POLITICO - Health care bill will cost $2.2 million per word

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  POLITICO - Health care will cost $2.2 million per word It runs more pages than War and Peace, has nearly five times as many words as the Torah, and its tables of contents alone run far longer than this story. The House health care bill unveiled Thursday clocks in at 1,990 pages [...]

  Posted: October 30, 2009, 12:40pm EDT
  

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• Harper says Pelosi’s health care bill will be costly for families and Mississippi

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  Harper says Pelosi's health care bill will be costly for families and Mississippi WASHINGTON, DC – U.S. Representative Gregg Harper (R–Miss.) delivered the following remarks after the House Democratic leadership unveiled their latest plan for a government takeover of health care that will raise families’ insurance premiums and push hefty unfunded [...]

  Posted: October 29, 2009, 4:58pm EDT
  

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• Pelosi Unveils House Health Care Bill

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  Pelosi Unveils House Health Care Bill The House speaker, Nancy Pelosi of California, on Thursday unveiled a $894 billion health care package that would provide insurance to up to 36 million people by broadly expanding Medicaid, the state-federal insurance program for the poor, and by offering subsidies to moderate-income Americans to [...]

  Posted: October 29, 2009, 3:05pm EDT
  

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• Harper - Bipartisan health care bill must include GOP proposals

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  Harper - Bipartisan health care bill must include GOP proposals On Jan. 6, I cast my first vote in the U.S. House of Representatives in support of John Boehner of Ohio for Speaker of the House. This vote would ultimately become Nancy Pelosi's first victory of the year and a preview [...]

  Posted: October 19, 2009, 1:14pm EDT
  

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