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Bush Likely To Veto COPS Program Funding To Fight Meth And Gangs

Bush is likely to cast another irresponsible veto within the next few days as Congress approved $110 million to renew funding for the highly successful COPS program(Community Oriented Policing Services Program) which hires more community level police officers and has...

Posted on October 22, 2007 9:00 AM

Reid Vows No Compromise on CHIP

That's the way I read it anyway. Although he didn't use those exact words Reid did state that the bipartisan group of S-CHIP supporters are committed to "not abandon any of the uninsured children we would have covered with the...

Posted on October 18, 2007 7:02 PM

Max Baucus on the CHIP Veto Override

Senate Finance Committee Chariman Max Baucus delivered this weeks Democratic Radio Address. The text of the radio address appears below: Good morning, this is Sen. Max Baucus from Montana. For those of us who are parents, one of life's greatest...

Posted on October 14, 2007 6:00 AM

The Right Wing Attack on the Frost Family

Rush Limbaugh's recent attack on anti-war veterans' as "phony soldiers" wasn't enough... now the hate-filled media arm of the right wing is operating in "Full-Tilt-Lie and Smear-Boogie" mode in an effort to spread more GOP lies about the State's Children...

Posted on October 10, 2007 11:00 AM

Fighting the Bush S-Chip Veto - TV Ad

Americans for Change are rolling out this ad with a $1 million dollar campaign on cable networks. There are definite signs that Bush's support from Republicans in Congress is eroding overall, and this issue promises to accelerate that trend. Bush...

Posted on October 9, 2007 12:09 AM

Democratic Radio Response to Bush's Veto of Children's Health Insurance

This morning Steny Hoyer delivered the following Democratic response to President Bush's defense of his veto last Wednesday of the bipartisan S-CHIP legislation. Good morning. This is Congressman Steny Hoyer of Maryland, the House Majority Leader. Over the past several...

Posted on October 6, 2007 12:50 PM

Overturn Bush's S-CHIP Veto

Republican Senator Chuck Grassley from Nebraska speaks on Bush's veto of the S-Chip legislation. NPR: [B]ackers of the measure, who are working to override the veto, say the president doesn't understand how the bill would actually work.[...] "I believe in...

Posted on October 4, 2007 1:00 PM

Bush Vetoes SCHIP

President Bush today vetoed a bipartisan bill that would have dramatically expanded children's health insurance, saying Congress should send him a version that will cost less and zero in on low-income families. It was only the fourth veto of Bush's...

Posted on October 3, 2007 4:00 PM

Our Future isn't in Iraq -- It's Here

This week's Democratic radio address is a response to President Bush's threatened veto of the bi-partisan, widely supported S-CHIP Children's Health Care legislation recently passed by both the House and Senate. ...

Posted on October 2, 2007 4:00 AM

Bush Plans Flood of Vetoes

Real Clear Politics commentary: Addressing a Republican fund-raising dinner at the Washington Convention Center last Wednesday night, President Bush declared: "If the Democrats want to test us, that's why they give the president the veto. I'm looking forward to vetoing...

Posted on June 18, 2007 8:00 PM

Gauntlet Thrown as Congress Passes Stem Cell Bill

Update: I picked this up from an additional report (emphasis mine): The bill would permit funding for research on embryonic stem cells regardless of the date of their creation, as long as they were donated from in-vitro fertilization clinics, they...

Posted on June 7, 2007 5:10 PM

Recognizing the Chaos We Already Have

This Op-Ed piece published on the Brandenton Herald's web site, titled Chaos? It's here, takes President Bush to task over his veto earlier this week of the Iraq funding bill. President Bush justified his veto of Congress' war spending...

Posted on May 3, 2007 9:42 AM

"Emergency" Rally Tomorrow Against the Veto

Moveon.org and others have called for an emergency rally tomorrow against Bush's veto of H.R. 1591, the Iraq funding bill passed by Congress. From what I've read so far, they are hoping for a very noisy showing against the veto....

Posted on May 1, 2007 5:33 PM

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