As expected GOP Sen. George V. Voinovich is blasting the Senate's Democrat-authored health care bill.
The Ohio Republican won't be in the chamber Saturday if a procedural vote known as cloture is taken. Sixty-votes are needed to prevent a filibuster - Republicans are nearly unanimously opposed to the bill' [...]
Both of Ohio's U.S. senators are sticking to their anticipated positions on the Senate's $849 billion health care bill unveiled last night - Democratic Sen. Sherrod Brown is a yes and GOP Sen. George V. Voinovich is a no.
That means that neither is an impact vote when it [...]
A new study by the George Washington University School of Public Health and Health Services adds some expert imprimatur to what many progressives have been saying all along: The Stupak amendment to the House health care bill--which will prevent millions of women from buying health insurance [...]
Lawmakers who voted against the House health care bill have received more campaign cash over the years from health insurance companies' political action committees and other industry sources than supporters of the legislation, which narrowly passed 220-215, a study finds.
The nonpartisan Center for Responsive Politics, a campaign finance' [...]
Like all but one House Republican, Rep. Pat Tiberi of Genoa Township voted against the Democrat-authored health care bill approved 220-215. But now Tiberi is being targeted, by the group Organizing for America, as one of 32 House GOP members whose districts were won last year by Barack Obama.
[...]Saying that nobodys ever said it would be easy, Sen. Sherrod Brown predicted that a final health care bill will be on President Obamas desk by Jan. 10 at the latest but possibly yet this year.
With abortion coverage restrictions part of the House bill and some Senate centrists [...]
Barack Hussein Obama said yesterday that Congress needs to change abortion-related language in the health care bill passed by the House of Representatives this weekend. Yes, Mr. Obama wants you, the taxpayer, to join him in paying for infanticide.
“I laid out a very simple principle, which is this is a [...]
Rep. Zack Space, D-Dover, defended his vote Saturday for the House version of the health care bill, saying from his perspective, its the right thing to do.
In a conference call with reporters today, Space said the federal subsidies in the bill will make it easier for as many [...]
Those of you who are not fans of the bill that the House passed and that is now in the hands of the Senate, might want to read, Latta: health care bill is ’smoke and mirrors’ by Toledo Free Press’s Kristen Rapin. The picture gives you the impact of [...]
Health Care for America Now (HCAN) - the nation's largest health care campaign - launched a new television ad today to publicly thank Representative Mary Jo Kilroy (OH-15) for her historic 'yes' vote on the House of Representatives' health care bill - the Affordable Health Care' [...]
How tough a vote was the Democrat-authored health care bill for Ohio Democrats?
Only two of 10 Democrats in the Ohio congressional delegation voted against the bill late Saturday night. But the reasons Ohio members came out for and against the bill point to the delicate political dance House [...]
Every once in a while this typing exercise has application in the wider world, as it did last night as the U.S. House voted 220-215 to approve the long-delayed health care bill.
We should be [...]
Since 1943 when Rep. John Dingell, Sr. first introduced a national Health Care bill, powerful interests have held our nation back.Rep. John Boccieri of Alliance, one of a group of moderate Democrats who party leaders were lobbying to vote for the health care reform bill, said tonight ahead of an expected final House tally that he is a "no" vote, citing the cost of the $1.2 trillion measure.
Boccieri [...]
…. in one secretive statist health care bill (click here or on pic to open full-size pic in a separate window, and brace yourself):
The area in the yellow box in the top center was the chart as it existed several months and hundreds of [...]
