It appears the Speaker of the House has decided she does not have enough votes, so Nancy Pelosi has decided to pull the Health Care bill from consideration: Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Thursday that she lacks the votes to move the Senate's bill through the House and to Obama's desk. Under a plan backed by [...]
After watching Scott Brown win in Massachusetts, Senator Webb feels that the Senator leaders should put a hold on any more votes on health care - until Senator-elect Brown is seated. Responding to the Republican victory in Massachusetts, Senator Jim Webb, Democrat of Virginia, is calling on Senate leaders to suspend any votes on the [...]
The Lobby Day rally was mentioned by the Washington Post again, this time in the Express Night Out newsletter. There's not much content, but the article was a fair description of the events (except for the low attendance number, but we're all accustomed to that). We tried to locate the article online for posting/linking, but were [...]
Former Sen. Harry F. Byrd Jr has an interesting take on Senator Mark Warner's vote on the health care bill: When a Virginia Democrat is elected to the Congress -- Senate or House -- he or she must decide whether to vote the party line or vote the Virginia tradition of financial responsibility Senator Byrd [...]
I came across an interesting memorandum that Congressman Eric Cantor put out yesterday. He seems to believe we can still kill the health control bill. Here is an excerpt: Millions of Americans have made clear their opposition to the Democrat take-over of our nation’s health care system. Together with my Whip Team, I have identified [...]
Virginia's attorney general joined the chorus with 12 other attorney generals across our nation to state that they believe the Ben Nelson bribe is unconstitutional. They are threatening to sue over this provision of the health care bill. "We believe this provision is constitutionally flawed," South Carolina Attorney General Henry McMaster and the 12 other [...]