The US House of Representatives passed a flawed, unnecessary, unaffordable Health Care Bill a little while back. Now the Senate has found a way to take a bad thing and make it worse by stripping out the House amendment that eliminated federally-funded abortions from the plan.
Now, I know that abortion is a very sensitive [...]
It seems as if nearly every politician running for office at any level vows to ’shake up the status quo’, which in itself is an indictment of both political parties and their current, long-running inability to get anything done. But Barack Obama, inadvertent as it may have been, does seem to have managed the [...]
This weekend, the House of Representatives passed the much debated Health Care Bill. This historic and monumental legislation passed by a razor thin 220-215 vote. The passage of this bill brought to mind several points that I’d like to bring out here.
There are 257 Democrats in the House, meaning this bill passed without [...]
Ironic as it may seem, the U.S. House of Representatives actually maintains an Ethics Committee. The stated purpose of this committee is to have the Representatives police themselves to prevent or punish any unseemly behavior on the part of any members of Congress. In practice, the committee mostly has served as a vehicle [...]
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