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LiveBlog for Thursday, September 10, 2009
Thursday, September 10th, 2009
• Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-IL) calls in at 6:05am Pacific to talk about health care reform.
• Rep. Joe Courtney (D-CT) calls in at 6:30am Pacific to talk about health care reform.
• Gerald McEntee, President of the American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees Union, calls in at 7:05am Pacific to talk about President Obama’s speech last night.
• Rep. Lynn Woolsey (D-CA) calls in at 7:30am Pacific to talk about health care reform.
• Rep. Russ Carnahan (D-Missouri) calls in at 8:30am Pacific to talk about health care reform.
• President Obama last night made a passionate call for Congress to fix the nation’s ailing health care system in the same spirit that created Social Security and Medicare in difficult times. He offered his most detailed outline for legislation while challenging GOP opponents to build on issues of agreement rather than play politics to exploit differences.
• Rep. Joe Wilson (R-SC) shouted “You lie” during President Obama’s health care speech to Congress last night, and members of both parties condemned the heckling. Wilson called the White House to apologize and spoke with Rahm Emanuel, who accepted the apology on the president’s behalf. “We can disagree without being disagreeable,” Emanuel said to Wilson. “That was the point of the speech.”
Tags: AFSCME, Barack Obama, Gerald McEntee, Health Care Reform, Jan Schakowsky, Joe Courtney, Joe Wilson, Lynn Woolsey, Rahm Emanuel, Russ Carnahan
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LiveBlog for Thursday, June 11, 2009
Thursday, June 11th, 2009
• Rep. Lynn Woolsey (D-CA) calls in at 6:30am Pacific to talk about health care reform and the supplemental spending plans for Iraq and Afghanistan.
• Eric Boehlert of Media Matters for America calls in at 7:05am Pacific to talk about Bill O’Reilly and the rise of fanatical, supremacist hate groups and crimes.
• Rep. Pete Stark (D-CA) calls in at 7:05am Pacific to talk about health care reform and the stimulus package.
• Rep. Chris Van Hollen (D-CA) calls in at 8:05am Pacific to talk about health care reform and the accelerated stimulus package.
• A rifle-wielding white supremacist entered Washington, DC’s Holocaust museum yesterday afternoon, fatally shooting a security guard before being wounded himself by the return fire from other guards. Law enforcement officials identified the suspect as James Von Brunn, an 88-year-old neo-Nazi from Maryland.
• President Obama urged lawmakers yesterday to work through partisan differences that are threatening health care legislation just as it starts moving through Congress. He insisted they pass a bill this year that reins in costs and helps provide coverage to nearly 50 million uninsured people.
• The Obama administration issued new regulations yesterday that set pay limits on companies that receive TARP assistance, with the toughest restrictions aimed at seven recipients of “exceptional assistance.”
Tags: Barack Obama, Chris Van Hollen, Eric Boehlert, Health Care Reform, Holocaust Museum, James Von Brunn, Lynn Woolsey, Media Matters for America, Pete Stark, TARP
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