In place of health care for Americans, there will be more profits for private insurance companies.

In place of peace there will be more war. Obama’s credibility is shot. And so is Congress’s, if it ever had any. The rest of the world doesn't count?
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Despite this, she got a degree from the University of Miami in 1987 in biology.

Jill is married to Kevin Morrill.

Kevin got a degree in 1980 from Cal State in rehabilitative counseling.


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]]> Across the United States, thousands of people, including U.S. citizens, immigrants and asylum seekers, languish needlessly in detention facilities every day without even the right to a hearing to determine whether their detention is necessary. While detai
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]]> Yes, it's long.During House debate over the health care reform bill, Republican after Republican stepped up to denounce the legislation's intolerable 1,990-page length (text). Before it passed the House by a narrow margin of 220-215, the bill actually go
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]]> MASSIVE CUTS TO MEDICARE BENEFITS FOR SENIORS. Despite grave warnings from CBO, FactCheck.org, and the independent Lewin Group that cuts to Medicare of the magnitude included in Speaker Pelosi's bill would have a negative impact on seniors' benefits and
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]]> Very interesting video! Looks as if Rep.Dingell is having a rough time.
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]]> Bill contains public health-ins plan. Passed by 220-215 wi steep concessions to BlueDogs irking prog lawmakers & activists. More on what's in it & likely battles to arise in committee, here & in "5 Key Fights We Face Against the Insur Ind" in comments.
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]]> He promised change, but has delivered none. His health care bill is held hostage by the private insurance companies seeking greater profits. The most likely outcome will be cuts in Medicare and Medicaid in order to help fund wars that enrich the military
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]]> First take the 'Obama Messianic Syndrome' (OMS) test-challenge, and then complete the main-source article link in an attempt to evaluate your actual level of Obama loyalty at present. There are some who still worship this subservient politician Obama-God!
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]]> “This health care bill continues the redistribution of wealth to Wall Street at the expense of America's manufacturing and service economies which suffer from costs other countries do not have to bear, especially the cost of health care."
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]]> The Establishment: "They turned the economy over to thieves from Wall Street and created a military machine that turns youth into murderers and assassins whose job it is to conquer the world for the fat cats of global capital". The end of America?
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]]> President Bush signed the Patriot Act into law in 2001, and this alarming and unconstitutional legislation has severely undermined American freedom.

It is time to rein in the out-of-control government powers embedded in the Patriot Act. ACT NOW!
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]]> Tell Goldman Sachs Your at-risk employees should go wait in the same line with the taxpayers who bailed you out. Bankers at Goldman Sachs enjoy a stockpile of 200 doses of the vaccine. The same amount allotted to Lenox Hill Hospital in New York.
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]]> A solider suspected of fatally shooting 12 and wounding 31 at Fort Hood in Texas on Thursday is not dead as previously reported by the military. Hasan was scheduled to be deployed to Iraq "and appeared to be upset about that," Do you blame him for that?
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]]> In 2006 and 2007, Goldman Sachs Group peddled more than $40 billion in securities backed by at least 200,000 risky home mortgages, but never told the buyers it was secretly betting that a sharp drop in U.S. housing prices would occur (To their advantage!)
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]]> Every day since President Bush signed the Patriot Act into law in 2001, this alarming and unconstitutional legislation has severely undermined American freedom. The Patriot Act has been in effect for too long. Don’t let another day go by without sending
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]]> FORT HOOD, Texas (Nov. 6) -- A civilian police officer who shot the Fort Hood gunman four times during his bloody rampage stopped the attacker cold, a U.S. Army official said Friday.
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]]> Fulfilling a pledge to forge a strong and lasting partnership with tribal nations, the leader of the free world took a day out of his schedule to address a plethora of concerns affecting Native American people and their communities
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]]> President Obama on Thursday told what he called the largest gathering of Native American tribal leaders that "you will not be forgotten by this White House," pledging to work with them to address their community's chronic problems with health care
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]]> The AARP and the American Medical Assn. announce their endorsements. Meanwhile, employer groups are mounting opposition.
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]]> Anti-choice members of the Senate are blocking one of President Obama’s high-profile nominees, simply because he has issued pro-choice rulings.

Judge David Hamilton has the bipartisan support of his homestate senators, and the New York Times has called
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1) Private insurers are businesses. As sych, they must grow. Their inclusion in any national program almost guarantees endless cuts in service, and endless hikes in costs to the public.

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]]> A visit to one, or both, of these cities as well as a speech to the world from Hiroshima would be a bold statement of hope in the months preceeding the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty Review Conference (May 2010).
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]]> Effective date for provisions would move to Dec. 1 from next February and August.
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]]> We are on the brink of an historic moment - getting all American access to affordable, reliable health coverage!
Make history by urging your House member to vote YES on health reform. A vote could come as early as FRIDAY - send an email right
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]]> In recognition of mankind's inherent propensity for tragically foolish decisions, Congress allocated nearly $500 billion Monday for the construction of a new national monument honoring human folly.
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]]> AARP backs sweeping plan; floor vote could take place as early as Saturday
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]]> War turns the moral order upside down and abolishes all discussions of human rights. War banishes the just and the decent to the margins of society. And the weapons of war do not separate the innocent and the damned.
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]]> Right on the heels of the historic passage of federal hate crimes legislation, things are really heating up around the Employment Non-Discrimination Act.
The Senate is holding hearings on ENDA this week, but our contacts on Capitol Hill have
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]]> Election results in Virginia, New Jersey, New York and Maine serve as a reminder that the Religious Right remains an influential force in political life, according to Americans United for Separation of Church and State.
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]]> "How can we ever expect there to be peace in the Middle East if we tacitly approve of violations of international law and international human rights, if we look the other way, or if we close our eyes to the heartbreak of people on both sides . . ."
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]]> When Speaker Pelosi announced her "floor version" of the healthcare bill on Thursday, she made a critical mistake: she removed the "State Single Payer" amendment proposed by Rep. Dennis Kucinich.
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]]> According to the National Employment Law Project, unemployment benefits are running out for an average of 7,000 workers every day. By the end of December, 1.3 million workers will have exhausted their jobless benefits. The Senate is expected to vote thi
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]]> Republicans rolled to victory in Virginia and New Jersey governor's races on Tuesday in a sharp blow to Democrats that showed the limits of President Barack Obama's political clout.

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]]> Partisan electioneering by tax-exempt churches is a significant national problem so the Internal Revenue Service must have clear and effective policies in place to respond, Americans United for Separation of Church and State has told the federal tax agenc
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]]> Republicans boycotted a Senate committee hearing Tuesday on a major bill to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases that contribute to climate change.
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]]> Democrats and American Indian leaders are pushing the Senate to move on the nomination of Mary L. Smith to head the Justice Department’s Tax Division, despite lingering questions about her qualifications
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]]> YANGON (Reuters) - A delegation of senior U.S. officials, pursuing a new dialogue, met with Myanmar's military rulers on Tuesday in the highest-level talks with the reclusive junta in 14 years.
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]]> BATON ROUGE, La.- A Louisiana justice of the peace who refused to marry a couple because the bride was white and groom was black resigned Tuesday.

Good Riddance...
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What a break
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]]> Republicans seeking a comeback from recent losses may pick up the governor's seats in Virginia and New Jersey on Tuesday in campaigns that tested the limits of President Barack Obama's influence
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]]> The president recently signed into law legislation that gives the Defense Department the authority to suppress evidence of its own misconduct.
The amendment in the Homeland Security appropriations bill, which allows the DOD to exempt certain
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]]> Please sign this petition and urge your elected officials to pressure the medical profession in the United States to take a serious stand against the use of torture.
Some American physicians without ethics were guilty of collaboration with t
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]]> An al-Qaeda sleeper agent has been jailed in the US for plotting to provide material support for terrorism.
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]]> Hillarys sharp words on Thursday when she told a bunch of Pakistani journalists that she found it "hard to believe that nobody in your government knows where they [al Qaeda] are and couldn't get them if they really wanted to”. War no more?
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I urge you to support State Single Payer as part of the health reform bill.

In the House, the "Kucinich Amendment" passed the Education & Labor Committee on July 17 on a bi-partisan 27-19 vote.

Speaker Pelosi made an enormous mistake by
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]]> President Obama just nominated Islam Siddiqui, a top official from CropLife -- the pesticide industry's powerful trade group -- as America's chief agricultural negotiator for international trade.
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