Who else is tired of the health care debate? Sen. Mitch McConnell is right: the American public doesn’t like this and doesn’t support it. Shouldn’t that be enough?
“While final details of this bill are still unknown, here’s what we do know: It will be a thousand-page, trillion-dollar bill that raises premiums, raises taxes and slashes [...]

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When he’s not discontinuing education programs for poor, inner-city children in Washington, D.C., Sen. Durbin dismisses the idea that a ridiculously long bill is problematic and, in case you weren’t disturbed enough, he somehow likens creating health care reform to God creating the Ten Commandments.
Say what?
Bear in mind, by the way, [...]

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell summed up what all the Americans with whom I’ve spoken think about health care reform today on the Senate floor:
“The American people want health care reform — not with more government, but with less. They don’t want a new government-run system; they want us to repair the system we’ve got. [...]

“People don’t want anybody between them and their doctor.” -Sen. Tom Coburn

Sens. Coburn and Barrasso are the only two medical doctors in the Senate and–surprise!–they are both Republicans. They appeared on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” today to discuss health care reform and promote their twice-weekly Senate Doctors web show:

I’ve watched the show a few times and [...]

The Workforce Fairness Institute hosted a conference call today with Sen. John Thune, who addressed bloggers’ concerns about the Employee “Forced” Choice Act. I’ve posted the full audio below so that you can listen if you’d like.
If you read my post earlier this week, you know that I’m worried about the binding arbitration part of [...]

Democrats in the Senate want their health care reform enacted as soon as possible. If these four Republicans go the way of the Ds–and that’s not an impossible scenario–the intrusive government takeover of the health care industry may happen before the August recess. The only way we can take action and attempt to have an [...]

The National Republican Senatorial Committee issued this video about Mark Udall, the Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate in Colorado:

Udall’s Republican opponent Bob Schaffer is holding strong, but could use your help. Republicans have many more seats in the Senate to save this fall than the Democrats do, so the onus is on each of us [...]