by Bill Scher | Sep 19, 2007 | Blog
This week, one million petition signatures supporting the expansion of the State Children's Health Insurance Program -- thousands of which were collected by Campaign for America's Future -- were delivered to Congress by MoveOn.org and SEIU. While this massive...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Sep 19, 2007 | Blog
Once again, a minority of Senate Republicans led by Kentucky Sen. Mitch McConnell blocked the ability of a bipartisan majority to move a piece a legislation, this time a bill that would allow the District’s representative in the House to have a full vote on the House...
by Bill Scher | Sep 17, 2007 | Blog
The State Children's Health Insurance Program battle — soon to heat up once Bush vetoes a bipartisan compromise and attention turns to the politically tenuous House Republicans — is about two things. One, of course, is the children themselves: 6 million...
by Bill Scher | Sep 17, 2007 | Blog
Today's New York Times reports that a House-Senate agreement is near on a final State Children's Health Insurance Program bill. (Congressional leaders apparently were able to circumvent the obstructionist attempt to prevent a formal House-Senate conference from...
by Bill Scher | Sep 17, 2007 | Blog
For the second week in a row, the Sunday shows go 0-for-3 for the Watchdog. Neither ABC's This Week or Fox News Sunday asked Defense Secretary Robert Gates to explain his support for the president's Iraq strategy, when nothing has changed since he said in December...
