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Weekend Watchdog

Air America's Sam Seder is off this Sunday, so we won't have our usual on-air Weekend Watchdog segment. But that shouldn't stop us from keeping the pressure on the Sunday TV shows to ask the tough questions. Add your own questions in the comment thread. Contact...

Solid Majority Backs SCHIP Expansion

The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation released a new SCHIP poll today, finding that 63% of voters (including 53% of self-described "conservatives") support "expanding SCHIP to cover an additional 4 million uninsured children at an additional cost of $35 billion over five...

States Standing Up For Kids: Part II

Stateline reports that the National Association of State Medicaid Directors will be calling on the Bush administration to "back off its proposal" blocking states from extending health coverage to more uninsured kids. And "If the administration refuses," (or more...

States Standing Up For Kids

Part of the conservative misinformation campaign on the State Children's Health Insurance Program is to stoke division between the states, and play on resentment towards New York. As Sen. Saxby Chambliss says, "I don’t think Georgia taxpayers ought to be subsidizing a...

McConnell Swings and Misses

Yesterday, Campaign for America's Future joined Americans United for Change and Americans Against Escalation in Iraq to release a new report on Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., and his record of obstruction. McConnell's staff responded not by proudly...

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