My friend Jay Stevens wrote a while ago that his problem with the excise tax was that it penalized spending on healthcare and that we should be happy to encourage people [...]
My friend Jay Stevens wrote a while ago that his problem with the excise tax was that it penalized spending on healthcare and that we should be happy to encourage people [...]
According to the article, the Montana Chamber and the state chapter of the National [...]
Dodd said outdated rules leave regulators unable to keep pace with the industry.
"Our financial regulatory system, created piece by piece over decades with little thought given to how it" [...]
The act will give a lift to Montana's small businesses and working families by providing stable, quality health care. It will strengthen Medicare and control runaway costs while meeting the particular needs of the [...]
In the cities, ACT UP raised awareness of our anger and sadness, Gay Men's advocacy groups' [...]
PPP's newest national survey finds that a 52% majority of GOP voters nationally think that ACORN stole the Presidential election for Barack Obama last year, with only 27% granting [...]
Some of its provisions:
- A public option with a state opt-out clause
- Increase payroll tax on Medicare for high-income people
- A tax on high-cost, "Cadillac" health care plans
- Does not prohibit insurers from covering abortions, like the House bill's Stupak amendment
- [...]
With his prospect of winning the 23rd Congressional District race now almost zero, Conservative Party candidate Douglas L. Hoffman suggested Wednesday in a letter that "ACORN, the unions and the Democratic Party" "tampered" with results to deny him victory.
You've got to read the letter to believe' [...]
All the right wants to talk about is a bow President Obama made in Japan, while the rest of the media world wants to talk about Sarah Palin and her new book, and Levi Johnston and his Playgirl [...]
Lcross, which stands for Lunar CRater Observation and Sensing Satellite, crashed into the moon Oct. 9. Northrop Grumman Corp. built the $79 million craft, comprised of a rocket and a followup probe, which plunged into a crater near the moon's' [...]
For some folks, this is [...]
But listen to what [...]
It was reported today that Annie Bukacek of the Montana Policy Institute's anti-health care "conferences" and demonstrations and the abortion ban ballot initiative backed by Warburton, McGee, [...]
Senior [...]
The Human Rights Campaign breaks the news:
The Human Rights Campaign can now confirm the House Education and Labor Committee will vote on Wednesday, November 18, 2009, at 10:00 a.m. [...]
There's plenty of discussion among LGBT circles right now [...]
And a bonus post on dogs and children greeting soldiers returning from deployment....
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CIA kidnappings may have involved
Rep. Denny Rehberg, who joined all but one of his fellow Republicans in voting "no" Saturday on the major health-reform bill that passed the U.S. House, said the measure is an ill-advised "trillion-dollar government takeover of health" [...]
First, Democrats struck a deal over healthcare to win the support of Catholic bishops by allowing an amendment to reach the House floor that would disallow any insurance passed in the health insurance exchange to [...]
Thomas Perez, the US Justice Department's assistant attorney general for civil rights, told members of a Senate hearing on the Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA) on Thursday that the fully-inclusive legislation is "top" [...]
Montana Rep. Dennis Rehberg met with Republican recruiters about a 2012 Senate run against Democrat Jon Tester on Thursday.
Rehberg, who was seen exiting the National Republican Senatorial Committee's Capitol Hill headquarters Thursday morning, is the state's lone representative in the House.
There's mutual interest between [...]
[John] notes that the health care reform bill emerging now in the U.S House terminates the Children's Health Insurance Program in four years.
The $894 billion, 1,990-page health reform bill unveiled by House Democrats last Thursday would repeal CHIP at the end of 2013, shifting millions [...]
Ah, so who's the sole Democrat that voted against the legislation?
Max Baucus.
Not [...]
Marler, Strohmaier, and Jaffe cruised to victories.
Sadly, Dick Haines retained his seat on the council. It's not about the politics -- I think [...]
More than 70 years ago Aldo Leopold, one of the founders of modern ecological principles had the following to say about Wilderness:
"Wilderness is a resource" [...]
Don't look now. But, next year the state and national electoral bandwagon rolls though town again. Another election.
Man. I'm just getting over the last one. The feeling is one of fatigue or' [...]
But after a whistle-stop tour from out-of-state activists failed to bring out local support, Wendy Warburton, R-Havre, and the rag-tag group of misfits who refuse to see [...]
As the Montana Supreme Court decides whether or not physician aid in dying is a right under the Montana State Constitution, the University of Montana is educating citizens about the right to [...]
At first blush, the answer is 'yes,' of course. You then recite the litany of reasons. Rehberg evil. Me [...]
But the bigger problem here isn't that Rehberg is simply using the right-wing' [...]
Dear Republican senators Charles E. Grassley, Orrin Hatch, Richard Shelby and your 52 other colleagues in the Senate and House of Representatives who steadfastly and on principal oppose a public option, despite being on Medicare:
Must be nice.
Not only do you have access to what has to [...]
Today President Obama announced the signing of the Ryan White Treatment Extension Act of 2009, freeing up [...]
Is the dissatisfaction because Congressional Democrats are less responsive to their base?
In a second post, [...]
Read it.
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