Senator Mary Landrieu
After ten hours of floor speeches and debate, the United States Senate is set to vote at 8:00 PM EST to send it’s version of health care reform to the Senate floor for debate. For a while, it looked as if they may fall two [...]
One of the reasons Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi was able to scrape her version of health care reform by earlier this month was because of concessions she made to the moderates in her party, concerning abortion. Those concessions were due, in large part, to the [...]
OKWatchdog will be there to talk about health insurance reform. Insurance Commissioner Kim Holland, Wayne' [...]
When the House of Representatives passed their version of health care legislation earlier this month, I did some very extensive reading of the final version of their bill. (Final as in before they reconcile with the Senate.) At at time, I wrote an article detailing some of the things [...]
The health care bill narrowly passed by the House this weekend has raised the ire of liberal Democrats who view concessions on abortion funding included in the Stupak-Pitts amendment as an attack on women. Congresswoman Nita Lowey said the amendment “puts new restrictions on women’s access to abortion coverage in [...]
Perhaps the most symbolic fact about why it’s so difficult to pass rational health care reform in this country involves U.S. Rep. Dan Boren’s no vote on the U.S. House bill Saturday night.
The bill, which passed the House and now faces stiff [...]
I knew there was a reason I liked Joe Lieberman. With the House passing their version of health care reform late Saturday night, the battle over how to reform the system moves to the Senate and conservatives seem to have an ally in the Democrat turned [...]
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Throughout the day Saturday, one could never tell what was about to happen. First, there was news that President Obama would be traveling to Capital Hill to woo Democrats who were thinking about voting against the health care legislation Nancy Pelosi was trying to pass. Then came [...]
This morning, prior to the vote on health care reform, the GOP orchestrated, in the now world-renowned teabagger style, an ugly disruption of the Democratic Women’s Caucus statements for the record (which had already been shortened by agreement between the two parties. The Dem leadership persists in making these agreements [...]
The federal health care bill being pushed through Congress by U. S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and the Obama Administration would create $128 million per year in additional unfunded federal mandates for the state of Oklahoma as the state copes with budget shortfalls, an Oklahoma [...] 
The debate over health care has reached a fevered pitch in our nation’s capital. Over the last several months, millions of Americans have spoken out at town halls, have called and written in to the White House, and have even made personal visits to their [...] 
An estimated 3,000 anti-big government demonstrators showed up at the Capitol Wednesday afternoon for yet another Tea Party Rally.
The number in attendance, planners said, shows the anti-tax, anti-health care "reform" plan movement remains active.
Senator Randy Brogdon, Republican candidate for governor, gave a fiery speech in [...] So, shameless plug alert: You can help influence what we do [...]
For most of this year, it seems all I have written about has been the health care reform debate. Every time I turn around, there is something new to add to the discussion and even though I get tired of writing about the same old song and dance, it is [...]
There was a story out last month about Hyatt Hotels’ mistreatment of its housekeeping staff in three Boston hotels that I let pass due to the more engrossing health care reform debate. There was yet another editorial in todays paper, however, and so I thought it was time [...]
Two Republican State Senators are sounding the alarm bell today regarding both versions of national healthcare reform that would devastate at least one new health care facility in Oklahoma City and cost Oklahoma County and surrounding environs over 500 jobs.
State Senators Jim Reynolds and Harry [...] 
While Speaker Pelosi unveiled her final health care takeover bill in the House, I'm here on the road with Fox New's John Stossel holding town hall meetings to urge folks to keep up the fight against a government takeover [...]
