House Speaker John Boehner has spent more than a month without doing any legislative work to create jobs. Now, he’s telling middle class workers who might lose their job upon passage of the House Republican budget, “So be it!” That GOP budget
Throughout the campaign, we listened to one Republican after another rant about less Government and getting Government out of our lives … and that if elected to Congress, that’s exactly what they’d do. Even more specifically, they didn’t think Government should have
Last year, a long needed bill finally passed the U.S. Congress despite severely distorted lies and misinformation, perpetrated on the public, regarding the details about what was and was not included in that bill. That bill was the Healthcare Reform (HCR) Bill.
Today, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, Labor Secretary Hilda L. Solis, and Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner sent a letter to Members of Congress to provide an update on implementation of the Affordable Care Act and discuss how the law will
We need to energize our base to get out and vote in November and vote against Republicans running for the US House and US Senate. Analysis indicates we stand to lose yet another 1.1 million jobs if they get the opportunity to
If you haven’t dropped by FactCheck.org lately, you should. They’ve now had time to fact-check the GOP’s Pledge to America announced by the GOP on September 23rd. Their analysis revealed that the GOP is using some very dubious information (I’ll not call
The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation has created an implementation timeline of the health care law, including an interactive tool designed to explain how and when the provisions of the health reform law will be implemented over the next several years. The
It appears the Republican Party and Americans for Prosperity are up to their voter suppression tactics again as we lead into the November election. It’s already been spotted in Wisconsin. As voters in a swing state, we need to be on the
For those of you who have been following the Health Care debate, you should recognize the bill number in this latest fraudulent email blast beginning to hit everyone’s inbox. It’s HR3590. First it was death panels, now it’s a threat of the
On April 15, 2010, the President issued a Presidential memorandum to HHS calling for the initiation of rulemaking that would ensure that hospitals that participate in Medicare or Medicaid respect the rights of patients to designate visitors, regardless of whether the visitors
