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Govtrack.us- The Stupak 12 - Donny Shaw Monday, March 8, 2010Rep. Bart Stupak [D, MI-1] is threatening to keep the House from passing the Senate health care bill (H.R. 3590) and potentially sink the whole health care reform process unless its language regarding abortion is amended to match the language he added to the House health care bill. The Senate bill already blocks federal funding from going towards abortion se […]
- Should Congress Go Paperless? - Donny Shaw Monday, March 8, 2010Rep. Chris Lee [R, NY-26] and the 39 bipartisan co-sponsors of his recently introduced “STOP the OverPrinting Act” think so. Currently, when a bill is introduced into Congress, the Government Printing Office (GPO) automatically prints five copies of the entire text for the office of each co-sponsor. That means that for H.R. 3962, the House’s health care bill […]
- Bills on the Floor this Week - Donny Shaw Monday, March 8, 2010All the talk on Congress this week will be fixed on health care and the Democratic leaders’ efforts to whip up the votes for passing the Senate bill in the House. We’ll be covering that here as well, as it’s a part of the process that will ultimately affect the legislation. But there’s a lot more than health care reform happening in Congress. Here are the fu […]
- DOJ counsel gets second chance at nomination - Bill Egnor Saturday, March 6, 2010Today the Senate Judiciary Committee voted on the nomination of Professor Dawn Johnson to head the Department of Justices Office of Legal Counsel (OLC). This is the second time the committee has voted on this nominee, as she was the subject of several anonymous holds over the last year. When the Senate broke for the Christmas recess without voting for her th […]
- Lieberman Introduces DADT Repeal Bill - Eric Naing Friday, March 5, 2010Sen. Joe Lieberman [D, CT] on Wednesday introduced legislation (S.3065) that would halt the discharges of gay and lesbian service members and allow for the eventual repeal of the “don’t ask, don’t tell policy” banning gays from serving openly in the military. Lieberman’s Military Readiness Enhancement Act currently has the support of a handful of senators in […]
- The Stupak 12 - Donny Shaw Monday, March 8, 2010
