Posts Tagged ‘Bart Stupak’

Every vote counts!

August 4th, 2010 | 1 Comment

Think your vote doesn’t count?  Look at this: COUNTY  TOTAL BY COUNTY Jason Allen  Dan Benishek      01 ALCONA 2,052 559 545 54% 02 ALGER 1,859 527 469 54% 04 ALPENA 4,912 1,293 1,424 55% 05 ANTRIM 5,547 2,549 910 62% 06 ARENAC 2,089 498 450 45% 07 BARAGA 1,195 159 497 55% 09 [...]

Congress goes where no Congress has gone before

September 15th, 2009 | 2 Comments

It’s reached an all-time low. The House of Representatives, on the heels of an impassioned and lively debate, voted Tuesday to formally admonish Rep. Joe Wilson, R-S.C., for accusing the president of lying during a joint session of Congress a week ago. The vote was 240-179. Five lawmakers voted “present.” Here’s what they voted on: [...]

AFL-CIO’s tax policy

September 3rd, 2009 | No Comments

Here’s the story: The AFL-CIO labor union has a new tax in mind. Specifically, the union wants to apply a small tax — a tenth of 1 percent — on every stock transaction. The tax would especially target firms that use so-called high-frequency trading, which uses technology to oversee many transactions in the blink of [...]

Controlling health care costs through MEDPAC

June 8th, 2009 | No Comments

First of all, let’s see what MEDPAC is.  From their site: The Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC) is an independent Congressional agency established by the Balanced Budget Act of 1997 (P.L. 105-33) to advise the U.S. Congress on issues affecting the Medicare program. The Commission’s statutory mandate is quite broad: In addition to advising the [...]

Nancy Pelosi’s derivatives lie

October 29th, 2008 | 1 Comment

Nancy Pelosi famously denied Democrats had any responsibility for the financial crisis that we are dealing with right now.  She stills sticks with that fantasy.  However, I don’t think too many people believe her.  Today the Washingtonwatch blog listed the members of Congress who voted for the 2000 Consolidated Appropriations Act which allowed trading credit [...]