Recent Posts Tagged With 'congress'

• President Obama\'s Weekly Address, December 19, 2009 (Video and Transcript)

  Posted on Saturday December 19th, 2009 at 09:04 in Barack Obama, congress, healthcare, radio address

  The President looks back to the bipartisan Patient's Bill of Rights, a bill that was defeated in Congress at the hands of special interests and their supporters, and notes that health insurance reform covers the same ground and much more in terms of ...

• President Obama WORDS matter, as SEIU is weighing in on this health care bill (Video)

  Posted on Thursday December 17th, 2009 at 11:28 in Barack Obama, congress, healthcare, White House, seiu

  h/t Daily KosFirst, many may not understand the frustration of MANDATES. In this current bill that the White House wants, in order for the 30M+ individuals to be covered is to force them to purchase insurance. That is the mandate. But again, words...

• Dollar Bill was given 13 years in prison

  Posted on Friday November 13th, 2009 at 21:20 in congress, louisiana, william jefferson, congressional black caucus (cbc)

  ..the minute the brother's money was found in a freezer, it was a done deal....Former Louisiana congressman William Jefferson was sentenced Friday to 13 years in prison following his conviction in a corruption case that featured a freezer full of sus...

• President Obama weighs in on the Stupak-Pitts amendment

  Posted on Monday November 9th, 2009 at 17:00 in Barack Obama, abortion, congress, healthcare

  'This is a Health Care Bill, Not an Abortion Bill'He is absolutely, right.President Obama said today that Congress needs to change abortion-related language in the health care bill passed by the House of Representatives this weekend that includes tou...

• President Obama on the milestone Health Care Legislation passed in the House of Represenatives (Video)

  Posted on Sunday November 8th, 2009 at 19:09 in Barack Obama, iraq, congress, healthcare, White House

  The President speaks to the press about House passage of health insurance reform and new progress towards autonomy in Iraq. November 8, 2009.Home Page...

• Health Care Reform passed out of the House, now at the steps of the Senate

  Posted on Saturday November 7th, 2009 at 22:31 in Democrat, Barack Obama, congress, healthcare, schoolhouse rock

  President Obama twittered, "This is history."Passed 220-215 in the Democrats favor.Now this bill is at the steps of the Senate. Harry Reid the ball is in your court and Democratic Senators make sure you put a lot of oil on the steel for yo...

• Rep. George Miller (D-CA) got the GOP together on their "health care plan" (Video)

  Posted on Saturday November 7th, 2009 at 21:28 in republican, California, congress, healthcare, gop, george miller

  I watched this live and laughed my ass off, YES I DID...while we wait to vote the bill out of the House of Representatives on C-SPAN....Home Page...

• President Obama\'s remarks about the health care insurance reform vote pending in the House of Representatives (Video)

  Posted on Saturday November 7th, 2009 at 13:11 in Democrat, Barack Obama, congress, healthcare, Nancy Pelosi, White House, steny hoyer, capitol hill, blue dog democrats, jim clyburn

  The Democrats remarks for the pending vote for health care insurance reform:Home Page...

• The real Republican health care plan is all about you dying, seriously

  Posted on Monday November 2nd, 2009 at 19:46 in republican, congress, healthcare, insurance compaines, public option

  For those who get sick, major sick and we all know friends and family members who have walked down that road, don't depend on ANYTHING from the Republican health care plan to help you, at all.Republicans are preparing to unveil their own health bill ...

• The public option needs to be for EVERYONE, btw, I hate Blue Cross Blue Shield.

  Posted on Thursday October 29th, 2009 at 18:13 in Barack Obama, congress, healthcare, public option

  icebergslim here to report how Blue Cross Blue Shield is jacking our rates up for 2010!!! Our family is very upset about this, extremely.It is open enrollment for millions around this time, and this means the increase for premiums and the decrease o...

• Calling a woman a "whore" is unacceptable, Mr. Grayson

  Posted on Tuesday October 27th, 2009 at 11:50 in Democrat, Florida, congress, rep alan grayson

  Yes, I am talking to you, Congressman Alan Grayson from Florida.When you first came over here to Daily Kos and I saw what you said on the House floor, MATTERED. I felt that finally, someone was speaking what needed to be said, but let's not get ahea...

• A republican senator warning President Obama to not get enemies

  Posted on Wednesday October 21st, 2009 at 16:50 in Tennessee, Barack Obama, congress, Senate, lamar alexander

  Are you laughing? Because, I am.Really. President Obama has gone out of his REACH to be accomodating to Republicans continuously and have gotten all the crap we saw from that party over the summer. He has bent over backwards to try to be inclusive...

• Democrats moving to strip insurance industry of their coveted anti-trust exemption

  Posted on Wednesday October 21st, 2009 at 12:15 in Democrat, Barack Obama, congress, healthcare, insurance compaines

  This is hard ball being played here.President Obama was so incensed by the insurance companies, 24th hour bogus report on any change in health care insurance reform will bring increased premiums, that the President warned this industry that removal o...

• Republicans in congress halting unemployment expansion

  Posted on Wednesday October 21st, 2009 at 10:45 in republican, congress, unemployment

  Is anyone surprised at this? I am not, sorry, I am not. After this summer of all the idiots, sorry many were that, what is the next trick bag.The stalling of legislation to expand unemployment insurance (UI) has little to do with the benefit itself...

• President Obama\'s memo to Wall Street during NY fundraiser (Video)

  Posted on Wednesday October 21st, 2009 at 09:25 in Barack Obama, New York City, congress, banks, pbs, frontline, alan greenspan, mortgage crisis, the warning, robert rubin, larry summers, brooksley born

  The financial industry joining the White House on financial reform? Folks, you think health care is a fight? The money is already flowing HEAVY through the halls of congress on NO CHANGE after the disastrous irresponsibility of Wall Street. In oth...

• The public WANTS a public option, why does congress not get it?

  Posted on Monday October 19th, 2009 at 20:39 in Democrat, arkansas, congress, healthcare, Senate, blanche lincoln, public option

  I can answer this question on MANY levels, but it first comes to the tune of money. The money is flowing through congress as never before, especially the senate. Even all these moderate, conservative democratic senators are from states that WANT th...