Recent Legislation

Stunning Admission by McCain Camp on Healthcare Plan

October 28, 2008 - John McCain's healthcare plan will ''blow up'' the employer-based system and healthcare experts are not so hot on that idea.
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How Much Would You Save?

October 24, 2008 - It is no surprise that John McCain continues to lie and distort Senator Barack Obama's record on taxes, and his plans for middle-class tax relief -- the Washington Post reported this morning that Senator Barack Obama's middle-class tax cuts are resonating with voters.
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Senator Obama on the Latest McCain Attacks

October 22, 2008 - Senator Barack Obama spoke to reporters today and addressed the latest nonsense from the McCain campaign on taxes.
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Mitch McConnell Creating Jobs ... Overseas

October 22, 2008 - Our friends at the DSCC launched this new television advertisement in Kentucky on Mitch McConnell's efforts at creating jobs ... overseas.
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Freddie Mac Paid GOP Firm to Kill Regulatory Bill

October 20, 2008 - In the New York Post, Freddie Mac paid a Republican consulting firm, DCI, whose chief executive was Doug Goodyear, the lobbyist that was tapped to run the Republican National Convention but later resigned when his connections to the brutal regime in Myanmar were unearthed.
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Johanns Supports Banning Activities He Engaged in Two Years Ago

October 17, 2008 - Johanns has just conceded that his actions on behalf of the Bush White House were unethical and should have been illegal. Still, he did nothing at all to stop this operation when he was in a position to do so, instead playing willing accomplice to Karl Rove's corrupt political agenda.
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Can You Hear Me Now?

October 16, 2008 - John McCain received free-of-charge portable cell towers from Verizon and AT&T, two companies that, as the ranking minority member on the Commerce committee, McCain oversees in the Senate.
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Obama-Biden Tax Calculator

October 15, 2008 - Find out how much you will save under Obama-Biden tax plan.
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National Debt Clock Runs Out of Digits

October 9, 2008 - George Bush has nearly doubled the national debt of all previous 42 U.S. presidents combined in just 7 1/2 years, and now, the debt clock has run out of digits.
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Rewriting History on Keating

October 6, 2008 - John McCain's campaign is trying to rewrite the events of the Savings & Loan scandal nearly twenty years later. In his 2002 autobiography, McCain called the scandal 'the worst mistake of my life,' but now McCain's campaign is claiming he did nothing wrong. Additionally, McCain's team is changing their story on what McCain knew.
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Keating Economics

October 6, 2008 - Watch the video and find out more by visiting www.KeatingEconomics.com.
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''Count the Lies'' Total Tops 100 After 22 New Debate Fact Checks

October 3, 2008 - The Democratic National Committee today updated the Count the Lies counter to reflect the 22 new fact checks published during and after last night's Vice Presidential candidates' debate. According to independent, non-partisan fact check organizations Sarah Palin repeated "old canards" on energy, repeated "several false claims" on taxes, got the facts wrong on troops levels in Iraq, made health care claims that are "inaccurate on several levels" and distorted her own record in Alaska.
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Editorial Rips John McCain's Plan for Healthcare

October 2, 2008 - Concord Monitor (NH) editorial ripped John McCain's 'plans' to 'blow up' the current healthcare system that would leave far fewer Americans with insurance.
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John McCain -- Bull in a China Shop

September 26, 2008 - John McCain has proven to be a bull in a china shop--or, more accurately, a bull that 1) misleadingly says the china shop is in disarray before he enters; 2) vows not to leave until he cleans up; 3) enters and shatters everything in sight; 4) blames everyone else for the damage and 5) leaves, claiming a job well done.
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McCain Adviser Paid $35k/Month to Lobby Against Regulation of Freddie, Fannie

September 22, 2008 - In the New York Times, McCain campaign manager Rick Davis was paid $35,000 a month to lobby against regulation for Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae.
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Virginians Hit McCain on New Call to Let Health Insurance Industry Run Amok

September 21, 2008 - In light of this week's Wall Street upheaval, today Judy Feder, Democratic nominee for US Representative from Virginia's 10th Congressional District, Barbara Favola, Vice Chair of the Arlington County Board and a member of Virginia's State Health Board, and concerned Virginians held a press conference outside of John McCain's campaign headquarters in Arlington, VA to challenge McCain's new magazine article calling for the deregulation of the health insurance companies 'just as we have done over the last decade in banking.'
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In His Own Words: John McCain on Health Care

September 20, 2008 - In his own words, John McCain writes that his approach to health care would mirror what has happened in the banking industry over the last decade.
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Paulson: Plan Could Cost $1 Trillion

September 19, 2008 - The failed economic policies of George W. Bush and John McCain could cost taxpayers as much as $1 trillion.
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Rep. Steny Hoyer

August 26, 2008 - House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (MD) talks about the Bush administration's disastrous legislative agenda that John McCain promises to continue.
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Sen. Barbara Mikulski

August 26, 2008 - Maryland Senator Barbara Mikulski talks about the strong force for women the Democratic women of the Senate, and introduces their Checklist for Change.
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Speaker Nancy Pelosi

August 25, 2008 - Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi speaks about the accomplishments of the Democratic majority in the House of Representatives for this past Congress.
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Right Now: Oil Companies on the Record

April 1, 2008 - I previewed this yesterday -- today the House Select Committee for Energy Independence and Global Warming "will bring top-level executives from the five largest oil companies to discuss the current state of oil and gas prices, oil company profits, and the need for clean, renewable fuels to ease demand for oil and cut global warming pollution."
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John McCain Skips Stimulus Package Vote

February 7, 2008 - Yesterday Republicans blocked the economic stimulus package in the Senate, which would have extended unemployment benefits and sends helped out wounded and disabled veterans. It also would have helped 21.5 million senior citizens get stimulus checks.
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Bush Cuts Critical Water Funding

February 4, 2008 - President Bush unveiled a $3.1 trillion budget for 2009 that includes significant cuts into water funding projects. Senator Tim Johnson (D-South Dakota) issued a statement on these critical cuts to water projects in his state: The President's request is 37%...
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Congress to Vote Again on Children's Health

January 23, 2008 - Back in December, Bush vetoed an expanded children's health care program -- despite an overwhelming majority in the House and the Senate favoring the bill.
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Speaker Nancy Pelosi to Deliver Democratic Radio Address

December 15, 2007 - Speaker Nancy Pelosi will deliver the Democratic Radio Address tomorrow. In her address she will discuss historic energy legislation that will set the nation on a path to energy independence and reduce the cost of home heating oil and the price at the pump.
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House Passes Legislation Extending Army Field Manual

December 13, 2007 - The bill, which would extend to intelligence agencies the anti-torture prohibitions in the Army Field Manual, just passed 222-199. Speaker Pelosi's blog has the specifics.
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Global Warming Bill Moves Forward

December 6, 2007 - "Democrats turned back repeated efforts by Republican senators to soften the economic impact of a global warming bill before advancing it out of a Senate committee on Wednesday."
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One Ugly Mother?

November 16, 2007 - As Atrios might say, behold the World's Greatest Deliberative Body:
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Bush Vetoes Health and Education Bill

November 13, 2007 - Earlier I wrote about how your family owes $16,500.00 for the war in Iraq through 2008. Amazing, then, that President Bush decided that he wants to veto a health and education bill because he claims to be concerned about spending.
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Dean: Bush Republicans Have Made A Mess

November 13, 2007 - Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean issued the following statement after President Bush spoke about the budget today:
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Bush Talks About Veterans Funding in Texas While Threatening to Veto It in DC

November 8, 2007 - Heading into the Veterans Day holiday weekend, President Bush is in Texas today to visit an Army medical center in San Antonio.
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Voters Again Reject Republican Fear Tactics on Immigration

November 8, 2007 - The American people once again rejected the Republican Party's divisive fear mongering on immigration yesterday at the polls, just as they did a year ago.
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Caging Law Introduced

November 6, 2007 - As many of you know, GOP "caging lists" were discovered shortly before the 2004 campaign. These lists are generally used to suppress the vote by "challenging" the right of individuals to vote.
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McCain's Halloween Health Care Push All Trick and No Treat

November 1, 2007 - John McCain takes a bag full of tricks but no treats to the Kaiser Family Foundation's Presidential Candidate Forums today as he presents a health care reform plan that would bring the Bush Administration's failed health care policies back from the dead.
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Debunking Dana Perino

October 29, 2007 - White House press secretary Dana Perino says that lives will be saved if the planet gets hotter. But research shows that's just silly.
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Bush Republicans Have the Wrong Priorities

October 22, 2007 - Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean issued the following statement in response to President Bush sending Congress a request for an additional $46 billion in war spending, for a total of $196 billion, while he vetoed a bill to give health care coverage to 10 million of America's low income children:
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Dr. Jennifer Howse, President of the March of Dimes Foundation, to Deliver Democratic Radio Address

October 20, 2007 - The President of the March of Dimes Foundation, Dr. Jennifer Howse, delivers the Democratic Radio Address. In her address, Dr. Howse discusses the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP) bill and explain the importance of the legislation to millions of children across America.
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Dean: Bush Republicans Are Leaving Millions of Children Behind

October 18, 2007 - Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean issued a statement after Republican members of the House of Representatives voted to uphold President Bush's veto of the State Children's Health Insurance Program, denying health care to ten million children.
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On Children's Healthcare, The American People Support Democrats

October 17, 2007 - New polling from NPR and the Kaiser Family Foundation indicate that by large margins--and even among Republicans--the American people support the Democratic expansion of SCHIP to cover uninsured children.
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Dean: Bush Republicans Have the Wrong Priorities

October 17, 2007 - Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean responded to President Bush's press conference today, noting that the Republican Congress was so negligent in passing spending bills that the Cincinnati Post wrote that last year Republicans "set a record for sloth and irresponsibility on the spending bills."
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Dean: Bush's Veto of Health Care for America's Children Is Heartless

October 17, 2007 - As President Bush tries to justify his veto of the bipartisan State Children's Health Insurance Program today in Arkansas, Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean issued the following statement:
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Republican Leader McConnell's Office Behind Concerted Attack On 12 Year Old SCHIP Recipient

October 16, 2007 - The Journal Courier in Kentucky reports today that Senator Mitch McConnell's staff has admitted that they tried to fan the flame of the smear campaign against the Frost family last week.
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John McCain's Bush-Like Health Care Plan: More of the Same

October 11, 2007 - Despite widespread dissatisfaction with the Bush presidency, John McCain insists on offering more of the same failed Bush policies that have been a disaster for the American people.
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Republicans Attack 12-Year-Old For Saying Health Care is Important

October 11, 2007 - Radical right-wing Republicans sink to a new low, attacking a 12-year-old boy for saying that children's health care is important.
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Giuliani-Backed Veto Denies New Hampshire Kids Health Care

October 3, 2007 - While President Bush is vetoing the bipartisan plan that would provide 10 million children health care, Rudy Giuliani will be defending Bush's move as he campaigns in the Granite State this morning. Even though it would cost more than 8,700 kids in New Hampshire needed health care coverage, Giuliani has stubbornly backed Bush's veto threat for months.
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Dean: Bush's Veto of Health Care for America's Children is Appalling

October 3, 2007 - Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean issued a statement after President Bush vetoed a bipartisan plan supported overwhelmingly by the American people and 43 governors to extend and expand the State Children's Health Insurance Program to cover 10 million low-income kids.
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Governor Dean: Bush Veto is "Appalling"

October 3, 2007 - Governor Dean's statement on Bush's veto of health insurance for low-income children.
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Bush Vetoes Children's Health Care Bill

October 3, 2007 - Bush vetoed legislation that would fund and expand the Children's Health Insurance Program.
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Romney Chooses President Bush Over Uninsured Children

October 2, 2007 - Mitt Romney is back in Boston today, one day after revealing more of his health care hypocrisy on the campaign trail. Asked by a reporter in Missouri if he would veto the Democratic plan to provide health insurance to 3.8 million uninsured children by expanding the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP), as President Bush has vowed to do, Romney said "Yeah. Yeah, I sure would."
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Fred Thompson Stands With President Bush, Not Iowa's Kids

October 2, 2007 - As Fred Thompson campaigns in Iowa today, Iowa voters will want to know why he is standing stubbornly behind President Bush's threat to veto health care coverage for 10 million low income children, including 32,000 of Iowa's kids.
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Howard Dean Applauds Senate Passage of Hate Crimes Bill

October 1, 2007 - Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean today applauded the passage of the federal Hate Crimes bill in the U.S. Senate. The bill would provide equal protections for every American by extending the definition of hate crimes under federal law...
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12-Year-Old Asks Bush To Sign Children's Health Bill

September 29, 2007 - Graeme Frost delivers this week's Democratic Radio Address. He asks Bush to sign into law the renewal of CHIP that Congress passed this week.
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Governor Dean Blasts Bush For Threatening to Veto Health Coverage For Kids

September 28, 2007 - Governor Dean blasted President Bush today for threatening to veto legislation that would provide health care coverage for millions of low-income children.
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Senate Democrats Expand Health Coverage For Kids

September 27, 2007 - By a vote of 69-39, the Senate has passed legislation expanding health coverage to more children through the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP), a highly successful program that makes sure poor children can receive medical care when they are sick. But Bush has threatened to veto the legislation.
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Children's Health Care Passes House

September 26, 2007 - The bill, which covers an estimated 10 million children, prevents shortfalls in funding that denies coverage and guarantees dental health and mental health. Will Bush veto coverage of millions of children?
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Did General Petraeus Report the Right Numbers?

September 25, 2007 - Two weeks ago, General David Petraeus testified before Congress that sectarian violence in Iraq is decreasing. But the Washington Post has published new evidence challenging the way that the U.S. military is analyzing and tallying each civilian death in Iraq.
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Voters Deserve to Know: Would Giuliani, McCain, Romney and Thompson Stand with Bush and Veto Children's Health Care?

September 25, 2007 - The leading Republican presidential contenders have stood stubbornly behind President Bush on issue after issue and now they also appear to be standing behind his threat to veto health care for low-income children.
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50th Anniversary of the Integration of Little Rock Central High School

September 24, 2007 - Fifty years ago today, nine students started the integration of Little Rock Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas.
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Republicans Obstruct Children's Health Insurance

September 24, 2007 - It looks like the entirety of the Republican strategy -- in Congress and the White House -- is to prevent as much as possible from getting done for the American people. They've blocked votes on Iraq, voting rights, human rights, and troop rest. In fact, they're literally on a path for setting a record for the most obstructionist in history.
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Governor Rendell Calls on Bush to Stop Playing Partisan Politics As Usual with Health of Our Children

September 22, 2007 - During the Democratic radio address this week, Governor Ed Rendell of Pennsylvania called on President Bush to sign the bipartisan plan to reauthorize the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) and provide millions of children the health care they need and deserve.
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Democrats Make College More Affordable for AAPI Families

September 20, 2007 - The Democratic Congress yesterday sent landmark legislation to the President that reduces college costs for millions of young people. The Democratic National Committee and College Democrats of America praised Congressional Democrats and highlighted the bills benefits for Asian American and Pacific Islander families and students:
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Dean: Republicans Choose President Bush Over Our Troops

September 20, 2007 - Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean issued the following statement after President Bush spoke today on many issues, including the war in Iraq
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CDA Praises Democrats for Making College More Affordable for Minority Students

September 19, 2007 - Washington, DC - Today the Democratic Congress sent landmark legislation to the President that reduces college costs for millions of young people. College Democrats of America issued the following statement praising Congressional Democrats and highlighting the bill's benefits for minority students.
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Bush Wants To Expand Spying Powers

September 19, 2007 - Bush wants to expand spying powers, even though his intelligence officers have misled Congress about its effectiveness.
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More On Troop Readiness

September 19, 2007 - After Stephanie wrote below about the pro-troop Webb amendment, which would guarantee longer rest periods for troops between deployments, news came that there's going to be an apparent toothless McCain-Warner proposal that's simply a "sense of the Senate" type resolution.
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Senate Vote on Habeas Corpus

September 19, 2007 - A crucial vote will take place today at 10:30 am ET, when the Senate will hold a cloture vote on legislation that would restore habeas corpus--a safeguard against illegal imprisonment that is essential to civil liberties. Democrats in the Senate need 60 votes to overcome the Republican filibuster of this important legislation.
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Dean: Democrats Are Keeping Their Promise To Clean Up Government

September 14, 2007 - Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean issued the following statement after President Bush signed sweeping lobbying and ethics reform legislation into law:
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Arctic Ice the Size of Florida Melts in One Week

September 11, 2007 - Scientists are alarmed that over 69,000 square miles of Arctic sea ice, roughly the size of Florida, melted away in just six days last week.
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Number of Uninsured Rose Last Year

August 28, 2007 - The number of uninsured children rose significantly last year.
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Dean: Bush Republicans Putting the Health and Safety of America's Children in Jeopardy

August 21, 2007 - According to news reports today, the Bush Administration has instituted a new policy making it harder for states to enroll children in the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP), which currently provides health care coverage to over six million children nationwide.
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Democrats Demand an End to Empty Rhetoric When President Bush Addresses VFW Convention

August 21, 2007 - As President Bush prepares to address the 108th annual convention of the Veterans of Foreign Wars in Kansas City tomorrow, Democrats today called on the President to offer more than the same empty rhetoric and broken promises on the issues that matter to America's veterans and military families.
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Hollow Speeches Won't Erase Non-Candidate Thompson's Record of Ignoring Veterans

August 21, 2007 - Undeclared GOP Presidential candidate Fred Thompson was in Kansas City, Missouri today to address the 108th National Convention of the Veterans of Foreign Wars of the U.S. But like his unofficial campaign Thompson's record on veterans' issues raises a lot of questions.
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Bush Administration Cuts Kids From Health Insurance Program

August 21, 2007 - The Bush administration is making it more difficult for states to provide health coverage to low-income children by mandating tough new rules that determine eligibility--even though many states are trying to increase the number of children covered.
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Bush Officials Spreading Misinformation About Children's Health Insurance

August 8, 2007 - Department of Health and Human Services directors are sending copycat letters to newspapers across the country, spreading misinformation about the children's health insurance program, SCHIP, currently up for re-authorization.
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New Ethics Rules Have Lobbyists Scrambling

August 7, 2007 - After the Democratic House and Senate passed tough new ethics rules last week, K Street lobbyists are scrambling to clean up their act.
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Time To Brush Up On Policy? Giuliani Mixes Up Medicare and Medicaid

August 6, 2007 - Giuliani confuses Medicare and Medicaid.
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Dean: Democrats Working To Make Sure Children Have the Health Care They Deserve

August 2, 2007 - Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean issued the following statement after the House of Representatives passed legislation that gives millions of low-income children health care:
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Dean: Democrats Show Why Americans Trust Them to Keep the Country Safe

August 2, 2007 - Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean issued the following statement after Speaker Pelosi and Majority Leader Reid signed a bill that implements the recommendations of the 9-11 Commission and makes our country safer and more secure:
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Dean: Democrats Bring Honest Leadership Back to Washington

July 31, 2007 - Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean issued the following statement after the House of Representatives passed sweeping lobbying and ethics reform:
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Can't make this up

July 31, 2007 - This just got sent my way:
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Editorial Roundup: "Bush goes ideological at the expense of children"

July 31, 2007 - President Bush is threatening to veto a critical children's health care program set to be renewed this week by Congress, and the American people are outraged. The following are excerpts from recent editorials from across the country:
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Not Ready for Examination? Giuliani’s Health Care Plan Leaves Big Questions

July 31, 2007 - Rudy Giuliani "scoffed" after New Hampshire voters asked him tough questions about his health insurance "plan"--which looks identical to the Bush plan.
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Congress Reaches Consensus on 9/11 Commission Recomendations

July 26, 2007 - The Democratic-led Congress just reached consensus on legislation that would "require a greater share of Homeland Security grants to be based on risk, instead of a political formula, and seeks to tighten security of cargo carried on ships and passenger planes."
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Dean: America's Working Families Get A Long-Overdue Pay Raise Today

July 24, 2007 - Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean issued the following statement commending Democrats for enacting the first minimum wage increase in a decade:
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College Democrats Blast Bush Threat to Veto Student Loan Bill

July 11, 2007 - The College Democrats of America today applauded House Democrats for standing up to President Bush’s irresponsible veto threat and passing the College Cost Reduction Act of 2007. After promising last year to make college more accessible and affordable, Democrats kept that promise by passing the Reduction Act, which would increase the size of Pell grants for poor students, cut interest rates for student loans, cap monthly loan payments at 15 percent of a student’s discretionary income, and slash subsidies for the scandal-plagued student loan industry by $19 billion. [New York Times, 7/11/07]
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Democrats Push for Troop Readiness

July 9, 2007 - This afternoon, with the 2-week debate beginning for the defense authorization bill, Democrats will push to bring the war in Iraq to an end. It begins with the Jim Webb Troop-Readiness Amendment, which is being introduced today in the Senate.
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MUST READ: After Immigration Bill’s Fall, Republicans May Pay in Latino Votes

July 2, 2007 - After Senate Republicans and their right-wing allies defeated bipartisan comprehensive immigration reform last week, The New York Times reported yesterday that the GOP will pay a price in 2008 and lose support from Hispanic voters. As the report notes, “…Hispanics may have been deeply alienated by the heated rhetoric that wound around the axle of the debate, most of it stemming from a few Republican opponents and the loud echo chamber of talk radio.” The Times also reports that the defeat of immigration reform at the hands of the GOP sends a message to the growing Latino population that they are not welcome in the Republican Party, a message with huge implications for 2008 and beyond. As former Reagan Administration senior official Linda Chavez notes, the GOP’s defeat of comprehensive immigration reform “...is disastrous for the Republican Party” in terms of attracting or keeping Hispanic voters.
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Dean: President Bush and Republicans Failed the American People With Their Lack of Leadership on Immigration Reform

June 28, 2007 - Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean issued the following statement after Republicans blocked comprehensive immigration legislation in the Senate:
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Must Read: Immigration Politics Tears GOP Apart

June 27, 2007 - After a critical vote yesterday on immigration reform in the Senate and looking toward another, the Wall Street Journal detailed how the issue is tearing the GOP apart in an editorial this morning. The editorial highlighted how the "continuing rancor among Republicans" is "the classic case in which pandering to the base will harm the GOP overall."
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Dean Applauds Immigration Vote in Senate

June 27, 2007 - Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean issued the following statement after the Senate voted to move forward on the comprehensive immigration reform bill. In the statement Dean reaffirmed the Democratic Party's support for comprehensive reform that restores order to the border, protects workers and their wages, stops dividing families, and allows hard working immigrants who pay taxes and obey the law the opportunity to apply for legalization and eventually earn the responsibilities of citizenship:
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Dean: Republicans Vote Against Hard-Working Americans

June 27, 2007 - Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean issued the following statement after Senate Republicans blocked further consideration of the Employee Free Choice Act.
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U.S. Rep. Chet Edwards To Give Weekly National Democratic Radio Address on Record Budget Increases for America's Veterans

June 23, 2007 - U.S. Representative Chet Edwards (TX-17), Chair of the Military Construction and Veterans Affairs Appropriations Subcommittee, will deliver the Democratic Radio Address Saturday June 23rd
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Victory! Senate Dems Pass Energy Bill

June 22, 2007 - In a victory for the American people, the Senate passed important legislation increasing fuel efficiency, creating laws against price gouging, and boosting the use of renewable fuels.
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GOP Blocks Renewable Energy Incentives

June 21, 2007 - Once again Senate Republicans have put the special interests before the people they are supposed to represent, blocking a measure to provide tax breaks for renewable energy.
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Fair Elections Hearing

June 20, 2007 - This morning, starting at 10am, the Senate is holding a hearing about the "Fair Elections Now Act," which is sponsored by Senator Durbin.
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Dean: Republicans Should Listen to the Needs of the American People and Support the Employee Free Choice Act

June 19, 2007 - Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean issued the following statement expressing support for the Employee Free Choice Act. Union members, labor leaders and Congressional Democrats came together this afternoon to show support for the legislation...
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House Democrats Work to Increase Student Aid

June 15, 2007 - Recently, House Democrats under the leadership of Rep. George Miller introduced legislation that would increase federal college financial aid by $20 billion over the next five years. Passing through the Education and Labor Committee by an overwhelming majority of 30-16, the College Cost Reduction Act of 2007 (HR 2669) would be the largest single increase in student aid since the G.I. Bill was signed into law in 1944.
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Another GOP Filibuster

June 15, 2007 - Is the Republican Party falling in love with being in the minority? How else do you explain why they would filibuster an energy bill that would reduce our dependence on foreign oil by focusing on energy conservation and renewable fuels.
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Response by DNC Chairman Howard Dean on Massachusetts Marriage Vote

June 14, 2007 - Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean today issued the following statement on the overwhelming vote in the Massachusetts legislature to defeat a discriminatory, anti-marriage constitutional amendment:
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