Posts about Pelosi as of October 22, 2009

Antitrust move poses few risks to health insurers WASHINGTON ? Democratic lawmakers are seeking to stir up competition by stripping health insurers of their protection from certain federal antitrust laws, although experts shrug off the effort as largely symbolic. Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Thursday she plans to include a measure that would remove the health insurance sector’s [...]

It would seem that Newt Gingrich’s , the Republican National Committee’s , and the National Republican Congressional Committee’s   decision to throw their weight behind Dede Scozzafava , the liberal Republican candidate for New York’s 23rd Congressional District’s seat, over conservative Doug Hoffman is one that I would think they’d regret.  Not so.  In fact Newt Gingrich is doubling down saying that it is time for the practical choice : Through my experience as Speaker of the House and building a Republican majority in 1994, I have learned that if America wants a conservative majority in Washington, parts of that majority are going to disagree.

By Dr. Aslam Abdullah, TMO Editor-in-chief It is now well known that four Republican Congressman did not hide their feelings against Islam and Muslims when they expressed their deep concern about Muslim interns and staffers in Congress. They were obviously targeting CAIR, suggesting that anyone close to this mainstream Muslim organization is not worthy of trust. this is an irony that those who are elected to protect Americans are calling fellow Americans suspects based on their religion and race.

(CNN) – If Democrat Bill Owens manages to claim victory in next month’s special congressional election in upstate New York, he’ll have some unlikely benefactors to thank. In an echo of the Sen. Arlen Specter-Pat Toomey fight that prompted the Pennsylvania senator to abandon the GOP – many of the toughest attacks on the Republican nominee, state assemblywoman Dede Scozzafava, are coming from voters who identify themselves as conservatives.

ABC News Health reform a “slow moving freight train” Reuters … two bills to bring for a vote in the US House of Representatives and Senate before finalizing a single plan for President Barack Obama to sign into law. … Obama to Meet With Senate Leaders After Lunching With Pelosi Roll Call (subscription) AP Top News at 7:39 am EDT The Associated Press Raising the debt ceiling Washington Post FOXNews  - Madison Magazine  - Wall Street Journal

Last August, you went to public forums and town halls across the country to hold your members of Congress accountable for their votes. You made your firm opposition to a government takeover of health care crystal clear. And on September 12, hundreds of thousands of you descended upon Washington to say once again that you would not be ignored. Congress took notice. But now, Speaker Pelosi and other top Democrats in Congress think you’ve been lulled to sleep.

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In recent days there’s been a geyser of leaks from senior Senate Dem aides complaining that if only President Obama would show more leadership on the public option, it would be easier to round up enough support to include it in the final bill. Nancy Pelosi , however, strongly disagrees, her spokesperson tells me. I asked Pelosi spokesman Nadeam Elshami today for a reaction to the complaints from the Senate side that Obama hasn’t pushed hard enough in demanding a public option, whether in public or behind closed doors.

Pelosi chastises Cheney for saying Obama ‘afraid’. WASHINGTON (CNN) – House Speaker Nancy Pelosi pushed back Thursday at former Vice President Dick Cheney’s comment that President Barack Obama seems “afraid to make a decision” about his strategy in Afghanistan. Asked by a reporter about Cheney’s remark, made in a speech Wednesday, Pelosi sharply answered, “That’s really not a dignified question. … I mean Vice President Cheney’s. “The president has a very difficult decision to make.

This afternoon, MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough got into a spat on Twitter with Salon’s Glenn Greenwald. The blogger fired first, making a frustrated point about the former president and vice president. Scarborough made a sort of out-of-character attack. There aren’t a lot of polls that ask for public opinion of both Nancy Pelosi  and Dick Cheney, as the former vice president is a has-been who only makes news when launching dishonest attacks about foreign policy.

Buoyed by new CBO numbers showing a public option would reduce the deficit, Speaker Nancy Pelosi is going “all in” for a robust public health insurance competitor.

Obama and Congress are feeling growing political pressure to do more. Seven in 10 people in an online BBC-Harris Interactive poll last month said Obama should focus first on the economy and then on health reform. A Democratic polling firm found last month that by 53 percent to 42 percent, people care more about stoking the economy than controlling the federal deficit. Economists and other experts, meanwhile, are flooding the zone with suggestions. Clinton-era labor secretary Robert Reich has weighed in.

A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit filed by Charles F. Kerchner Jr. and others against Congress, alleging members of that institution failed in their constitutionally specified responsibility to evaluate Barack Obama and make sure of his eligibility to occupy the Oval Office. If the Courts keep failing the American people this is our only recourse Attorney Mario Apuzzo had filed the action in January on behalf of Kerchner, Lowell T. Patterson, Darrell James Lenormand and Donald H.

WASHINGTON (CNN) – House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Thursday that Congress is set to consider a measure increasing the amount of money the federal government can loan to small businesses. The House of Representatives will debate a bill next week increasing the ceiling on Small Business Administration loans from $2 million to $5 million. The bill, backed by President Barack Obama, also would increase the maximum size of SBA-backed microloans from $35,000 to $50,000.

Paul Pelosi, Husband of House Speaker, Takes His Shot at Football (Washington Post) LAS VEGAS — Through a fading desert evening late last week, the owner of the California Redwoods football team stepped into the lights of Sam Boyd Stadium for a celebratory coin toss that would be the first official act of the United Football League.

CNBC House Targets Insurers on Antitrust, Public Option Bloomberg Senator Kent Conrad, a North Dakota Democrat , today said Reid and White House officials are leaning toward including a public option, giving the states the … Clyburn says Dems short on health votes, contradicting Pelosi The Hill Lawmakers Weigh Measures to Spur Hiring, Short of a Second Stimulus Wall Street Journal House committee votes to end antitrust exemption for insurance companies

Steny Hoyer (and I am sure others will follow) has claimed that the ‘General Welfare’ allows Congress to force Americans to buy healthcare insurance. He is clearly wrong, as one of my favorite law professors, Professor Shea used to say, Congress cannot legislate for the General Welfare.  Here is why Hoyer is wrong.The United States Constitution is simply the document that unified the (at the time) 13 states and set out the rules by which those 13 states would: (1) regulate commerce between

WASHINGTON (CNN) – House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Thursday that Congress is set to consider a measure increasing the amount of money the federal government can loan to small businesses. The House of Representatives will debate a bill next week increasing the ceiling on Small Business Administration loans from $2 million to $5 million. The bill, backed by President Barack Obama, also would increase the maximum size of SBA-backed microloans from $35,000 to $50,000.

If the last few days are any indication, the partisan divide over Afghanistan doesn’t seem likely to shrink any time soon. Speaker Nancy Pelosi and John Boehner, the House minority leader, on Thursday offered sharply different opinions about President Obama’s pace in deciding how to proceed in – and whether to send more troops to — Afghanistan. The statements, offered at the two leaders’ weekly news conferences, come a day after former Vice President Dick Cheney challenged the assertion of Rahm Emanuel, the White House chief of staff, that the administration was asking questions the previous administration had not concerning Afghanistan.

    Just in from Team Guinta :   CAROL SHEA-PORTER BACKS DOWN ON $1 TRILLION STIMULUS 8 Months After Becoming Law, and spending 1 Trillion Dollars, Congresswoman Shea-Porter Admits, It Didn’t Work. Manchester, NH – Congresswoman Carol Shea-Porter this week back-tracked on her rallying support for the trillion dollar stimulus package telling WMUR TV in Manchester, NH “I know that it has created some jobs, but clearly not what we were anticipating.

on October 22nd, 2009 Speaker Nancy Pelosi says she’ll include a measure removing health insurers’ federal antitrust exemption in sweeping health care legislation pending in the House. Pelosi’s announcement Thursday came a day after Senate Democratic leaders said they’d take the… Sponsored Topics:Nancy Pelosi – Health care – Democratic – United States Senate – SpeakerSee the original post here: House health bill to address antitrust businessAdd to del.icio.usDigg ThisSubscribe to RSS

The partisan warfare over Afghanistan just got a whole lot hotter. A few moments ago, Nancy Pelosi took a scorching shot at Dick Cheney for claiming yesterday that Obama is “dithering” in Afghaninstan, blaming the current danger troops face squarely on the Bush administration and asserting that the former Vice President’s assault was “not dignified.” Pelosi make the remarks after her weekly presser today, as she strolled along in a Capitol hallway, setting in motion a clash over national security between two of the more polarizing figures on either side.

       Today, health insurance industry bigwigs are meeting in Washington, D.C., to plot out their strategy to defeat health care reform. We’ll be rallying to show them that we won’t accept anything less than affordable, high-quality coverage for everyone. Here’s what else is happening in the fight for health care: Health insurance companies, drug companies and their front groups have been breaking records in their fight to keep control over our health care, spending millions this summer on TV and lobbying in D.C.    Senators are looking to rein in the insurance industry by ending the industry’s exception from anti-trust laws.

Submitted by: Tony Caputo       To all American Parents and Grand Parents, look what Obama and The Democrats have done to the future our kids and grandkids, they have literally destroyed it.   Obama has put our kids $800 BILLION DOLLARS in debt and counting!   Why didn’t Obama stop all Welfare to ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS?   That would have saved BILLIONS OF DOLLARS.

If President Obama is waiting for the opportune moment to leap to the support of a public option, this is it.

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The last week, pundits have painted a picture that says passing health care reform with a robust public option is a fait accompli. After yesterday’s vote, those pundits, with their tails between their legs, are noticing that there might be a difficult, lengthy slog ahead for them : “For many of us, we’re OK with the public option,” said Rep. Steve Driehaus, a first-year Democrat from Ohio. “There are other things we’re more concerned with.” “I think they’re miscalculating,” Rep.

The fall-out from President-mandated pay cuts: “Chaos will be created at these firms as top people leave in droves. Will the administration then order people back to work?” Uh-oh. Obama suffers worst third-quarter drop in approval since 1953. B-b-b-but, didn’t anyone see that awesome speech he gave last night? A clearly nervous Reid paced the chamber’s well just prior to the vote and afterward looked to blame the defeat on GOP Senators, arguing it was a result of “activities and actions by the Republican-dominated Washington.” At Corzine’s rally? Inspiration from the rhetorician in chief: “Your voice can change the world.

Pixels and Policy nails it . Down… down… down… down… Bully for the people featured in the puff-piece in the NYT and the spotlight on the few “making bank” as T has said, but it’s just that: a puff piece. Down… down… down… down… The Lab is promoting the consumerism and shopping big time while the performing arts get the shaft. (Spurts like Burning Life don’t last, baby.) Down… down… down… down… Might as well make the opening page’s set of verb-pods all “SHOP” and “BUY” and “GET” and “SPEND” now…

Contradicting his boss, the Speaker of the House, U.S. Poverty Pimp … err Majority Whip Jim Clyburn says that Congressional Democrats do not yet have the votes to pass a government-run socialized medicine proposal here in the land of the free and home of the brave. Frankly, it’s amazing that we’re even having this discussion in a free market Republic … or what used to be a free market Republic. You know, back in the day.

Morning Conflucians!!! Late again!!!  I really, really, really need daylight savings time to go away. The Nation Politic: While the senate is struggling with the Health Care debate, the House is looking like a different situation altogether. This is from Roll Call. House Democratic leaders sounded bullish Wednesday after launching an all-hands-on-deck effort to win support for a “robust” public insurance option in their health care bill.

House Democratic leaders “sounded bullish” after launching “an all-hands-on-deck effort to win support for a ‘robust’ public insurance option in their health care bill,” Roll Call reports. Said Caucus Chairman John Larson (D-CT): “We think we have the votes now. We have the votes to pass a robust public option.” Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) “has asked her Members to line up behind the Medicare-based plan , rather than one that negotiates rates with providers, because it saves the most

Filed under I truly believe in single payer but the bastards won’t listen so the public option is better than nothing.  It’s a first step.  It’s world’s better than the insurance boondoggle crap the senate is trying to foist on us.  Keep up the fight Madam Speaker and I just may start to like you. Speaker Nancy Pelosi told Democrats Tuesday night that she wants to move forward with the more liberal version of a House health reform bill that would peg government-run coverage to Medicare – setting up a clash with moderates in her caucus who oppose the plan.

Guest Post By C.J. Smith C.J. Smith aka “Leonidas” is a frequent, right of center commenter on The Moderate Voice and has been invited as a Guest Voice. ********** Remember the Democratic Oversight that was promised, and Nancy Pelosi’s claim that Democrats would “drain the swamp”? Well seems like they are falling short of these pledges once again. Via The Hill : Rep. Edolphus Towns (D-N.Y.) locked Republicans out of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee room to keep them from meeting when Democrats aren’t present.

CLICK HERE to listen to Today’s Edition ofthe BARN’s Morning Ag Newswith NAFB Broadcaster Brian AllmerNational Ag News for October 22, 2009 Sponsored by the American Farm Bureau Federation“FDA to Develop Standard Labeling Practices” The U.S. Food and Drug Administration intends to crack down on food companies that are making assertions on the front of their products that suggest they are healthier than they really are. The crackdown includes plans to create a uniform labeling system by the end of next year.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, and the chairs of the three committees leading the health reform effort, Rep. Henry A. Waxman, Chair of the Committee on Energy and Commerce, Rep. Charles B. Rangel, Chair of the Committee on Ways and Means, and Rep. George Miller, Chair of the Committee on Education and Labor, reaffirmed their commitment today to permanent reform of the Medicare physician payment formula (the “sustainable growth rate” or SGR formula).

Top Stories from PEEK on AlterNet October 22nd, 2009 http://www.alternet.org/blogs/peek/ ___________________________________________________________ INSURANCE COMPANY TELLS RAPE VICTIM HER ASSAULT WOULD BE A PRE-EXISTING CONDITION By RH Reality Check, RH Reality Check After insurance agent Chris Turner was raped, she went under cover to find out if her treatment would make her next insurance policy an impossible dream.

Top Stories from PEEK on AlterNet October 22nd, 2009 http://www.alternet.org/blogs/peek/ ___________________________________________________________ INSURANCE COMPANY TELLS RAPE VICTIM HER ASSAULT WOULD BE A PRE-EXISTING CONDITION By RH Reality Check, RH Reality Check After insurance agent Chris Turner was raped, she went under cover to find out if her treatment would make her next insurance policy an impossible dream.

Speaker Nancy Pelosi released the following statement in support of the Ryan White HIV/AIDS Treatment Extension Act, which passed the House of Representatives today by a vote of 408 to 9. The Senate passed the bill earlier this week so the bill now goes to President Obama for his signature into law.

Bono’s Prophetic Rock ConcertJUST LAW AND RELIGION – Michael Kessler – Washington PostU2’s 360 tour came to the DC region Tuesday–complete with a 164-foot tall spaceship stage and glitzy light show. The tunes were smooth and sexy; the stage was spectacular–even carnivalesque. But what stole the show was Bono’s prophetic message about human dignity and rights.The show was like a rock opera rendition of the UN Declaration of Human Rights.

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With the 2010 midterm election season fast approaching, Democrats are using the health care reform debate to instill unity in their caucus – especially with freshmen lawmakers. Roll Call reports that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is using her leverage as a party leader to rally health reform support from House freshmen.

In the brief age of Obama, we have had “truthers,” “birthers,” tea party activists and town-hall dissenters. Comes now, the “Oath Keepers.” And who might they be? Writes Alan Maimon in the Las Vegas Review-Journal, Oath Keepers, depending on where one stands, are “either strident defenders of liberty or dangerous peddlers of paranoia.” Formed in March, they are ex-military and police who repledge themselves to defend the Constitution, even if it means disobeying orders. If the U.S.

Here’s what President Obama said to his supporters last night in regards to the health reform package making its way through Congress.  It is time for us to pass a bill.  Whether we get everything we want or not, there is no longer time to delay on this critical issue.  On the upside, Nancy Pelosi has made it clear that she intends to produce a House bill with the most robust public option on the table, and in the Senate, Harry Reid has begun to make statements that indicate the public option might be put into the bill during the Finance committee’s reconciliation.  This would then require 60 votes to strip out the public option, which is virtually impossible.

So Chris Dodd is only mostly bad Chris Dodd introduces bill to limit bank overdraft fees and change regulations heavily in consumers favor. Let’s face it, this sounds like a good cause-effect relationship. You can imagine nefarious bankers saying, “First, we create a huge economic crisis, then when people are most prone to stretch their bank book to overdraft, we’ll make millions off of fees.” You’re still a jerk for evading taxes and all that, but you have one redeeming point in the ledger.

Call Nancy Pelosi and ask her where they are. Story here.

By PoliPundit ~ October 21st, 2009 @ 7:04 pm Democrats are worried about Doug Hoffman:There’s an old adage in politics. If your opponent is attacking you, you must be doing something right. In the special House race taking place in northern New York State, that adage is likely giving some comfort to the Conservative Party candidate Doug Hoffman.…The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee issued its first hit on Hoffman today on the issue of taxes.“Doug Hoffman wants to extend the Bush tax breaks for the wealthy that are unfair to the middle class and will add more than $500 billion to the federal deficit,” said DCCC spokesman Shripal Shah.

Washington  – US President Barack Obama is expected to force a drastic cut in executive salaries at companies receiving government bail-outs, as a watchdog report on Wednesday slammed the administration’s handling of the rescue effort to date. The Treasury Department will demand cuts in compensation from the top 25 executives at seven financial firms that are most indebted to the government, The Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday, citing people familiar with the matter.Kenneth Feinberg, the

“While the rhetoric is all about trying to create jobs, Speaker Pelosi and her Members are trying desperately to ram through a health care bill that is paid for on the backs of small businesses and working families. It just does not make sense and is not consistent.” – House Republican Whip Eric Cantor House Republican Whip Eric Cantor (R-VA) remarked at the GOP Press Stakeout on October 21, 2009

Nancy Pelosi Then vs Nancy Pelosi Now – 21 oct – What a difference a president makes. Here’s what Queen Nancy had to say about the deficit just a couple years ago:

This is a partial list of the violence voiced by conservative Republicans over the past months.  The same conservatives that claim to be ‘pro-family’ and ‘pro-life’ are in fact quite the opposite.Rep. Gregg Harper (R-MS) said, “We hunt liberal, tree-hugging Democrats, although it’s a waste of good ammunition.”During a GOP event at a gun range, South Florida Republican Robert Lowry fired at a target with the initials of his opponent, Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, written on it. Rep.

Statement from House Democratic Leaders on the Medicare Physician Payment Formula WASHINGTON, Oct. 21 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, and the chairs of the three committees leading the health reform effort, Rep. Henry A. Waxman, Chair of the Committee on Energy and Commerce, Rep. Charles B. Rangel, Chair of the Committee on Ways and Means, and Rep.

Negotiators appeared to reach a draft agreement on Iran’s nuclear program on Wednesday that could see most of the country’s nuclear fuel sent abroad and vindicate Barack Obama’s engagement policy. But it awaits approval from senior officials in Tehran. Some Other Articles You May Enjoy Democratic aides: Pelosi supports automakers help Ex-aide: Edwards fathered mistress’… Coastal restoration advocates prepare push for President Barack Obama (New Orleans Times-Picayune) Cindy McCain

“…history is largely about how people with power stomp all over those who don’t have it…” Mary Meehan, Class of 1963, blows past the screechy stereotypes too often associated with Pro-Life advocates in the contemporary political climate.   An ardent anti-war activist — a real “lefty” back in the day!

Idealistically, this means that politicians will do the best possible job to further their constituents’ interests in Congress, in the hopes of riding a wave of approval during their next election. Cynically, this means that politicians will do the absolute minimum necessary for “The People,” while keeping their deep-pocket donors happy by doing what they’re told to do in Congress — and hoping that “The People” don’t notice.

Today on her radio program, Laura Ingraham interviewed guest Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) and asked her about the ideological direction of the Republican Party. The pair discussed recent statements made by retired GOP Senate Majority Leaders Bill Frist (TN) and Bob Dole (KS) in support of some type of comprehensive health reform. Dole has called for Republicans to become engaged in the process, stating “ we’ve got to do something ” to solve the current crisis.

Surely not! Propaganda?  No… not the Obama administration, surely they wouldn’t use federal resources to engage in political propaganda.  I mean that would be an illegal use of government funds, and certainly they wouldn’t do that. My Senator, Chuck Grassley , is calling them out according to an article in Roll Call last night : Senate Finance ranking member Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) is raising concerns that a Department of Health and Human Services Web site that urges visitors to send an e-mail to President Barack Obama praising his health care reform plan may violate rules against government-funded propaganda.

Yet somehow the NFL found him controversial. It’s no wonder the Secret Service is overwhelmed by death threats against the President. Just look at the hate that’s been coming out of conservatives over the past year, via Media Matters : – Rep. Gregg Harper (R-MS) said, “We hunt liberal, tree-hugging Democrats, although it’s a waste of good ammunition.” – During a GOP event at a gun range, South Florida Republican Robert Lowry fired at a target with the initials of his opponent, Rep.

Pelosi Applauds House Passage of Ryan White HIV/AIDS Treatment Extension Act Washington, D.C. – Speaker Nancy Pelosi released the following statement in support of the Ryan White HIV/AIDS Treatment Extension Act, which passed the House of Representatives today by a vote of 408 to 9. The Senate passed the bill earlier this week so the bill now goes to President Obama for his signature into law. “As everyone knows, San Francisco was hit early and hard by the devastation of AIDS.

Cohn writes and interesting piece, and here’s Cohn’s bottom line: “the divide [between those who fear Pelosi’s strategy and those who express glee] seems to be have as much to do with proximity to negotiations as it does to substantive feelings about the public plan. More often than not, the people celebrating are watching the debate from a distance.

It looks like another stimulus package. It sounds like a stimulus package. It spends like a stimulus package. Her economic advisers are even calling it another stimulus. But Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) insists her plans for a host of new spending is not a stimulus package. WRH permalink