Fact Check
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Congressional Action Bolstered American Auto Industry: Saved Billions of Dollars, More than a Million American Jobs
According to a report released yesterday by the Center for Automotive Research, government action supporting the auto industry prevented a $26.8 billion loss to the American taxpayer and saved nearly 1.5 million American jobs.
11/18/2010
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The Real GOP Agenda: A Scorecard on Hypocrisy
Congressional Republicans are planning to unveil the “new” GOP agenda tomorrow, “A Pledge to America.” Early press reports indicate Republicans will promote more of the same failed policies
09/22/2010
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Clear Facts on the CLEAR Act
Myths and Facts about the CLEAR Act from the House Committee on Natural Resources.
07/30/2010
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GOP Rhetoric on Energy Doesn’t Match Their ‘None of the Above’ Record
Despite Republicans’ claims to support renewable energy and reducing American dependence on foreign oil, their votes support returning to the Bush Administration’s “drill-only” energy policy that led to record profits for Big Oil, even greater U.S. dependence on oil from the Middle East, and record energy costs for America’s working families.
05/07/2010
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Republican Contract with the Special Interests
Democrats are working on behalf of middle-class families, while Congressional Republicans are standing in the way of economic progress and in support of the special interests – Wall Street banks, insurance companies, and Big Oil.
04/16/2010
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Health Insurance Reform Mythbuster - Reform Could Mean Jail Time or Harassment from IRS for Americans Who Don’t Buy Insurance
Following the President signing historic comprehensive health insurance reform legislation today, opponents of reform continue to spread myths about the bill, including claims that Americans who don’t buy health insurance could face jail time or harassment from the IRS.
03/23/2010
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Health Insurance Reform Mythbuster: Five Myths Congressional Republicans Are Peddling About Health Insurance Reform
As Congress moves forward with comprehensive health insurance reform legislation, critics continue to spread misinformation about how reform will impact American workers, their families and small businesses.
03/20/2010
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Health Insurance Reform Mythbuster - ‘Democrats’ Health Insurance Reform Is Socialism and a Government Takeover’
Opponents of health insurance reform continue to spread myths, including peddling the bogus notion that the health reform bill is “socialism” and a “government takeover of health care.” The fact is the reform legislation builds on our existing private health insurance system—with its key components drawn from both Republican and Democratic reform ideas—and provides the largest health care tax cut in American history.
03/19/2010
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Health Insurance Reform Mythbuster - 'Reform Will Undermine Health Care for America’s Seniors, Slashing Medicare'
Health insurance reform opponents continue to spread myths, including the notion that Republicans are fighting to protect seniors from Medicare changes.
03/10/2010
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Health Insurance Reform Mythbuster - The Shared Responsibility Requirement
Health insurance reform opponents are claiming that the shared responsibility requirement in the legislation that those who can afford health insurance have it – and that those who can afford insurance but for some reason refuse to purchase it (thereby passing their health care costs onto taxpayers) pay a modest fee – is unfair and burdensome.
01/15/2010
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Health Insurance Reform Mythbuster - Health Reform and the "Marriage Penalty"
The latest twist of reality put forward by opponents of reform claims that a “marriage penalty” has been inserted into the health reform bill. House Republicans first seized on the myth in a partisan press release—and now The Wall Street Journal has reported it.
01/12/2010
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Pulitzer Prize-winning PolitiFact Awards ‘Death Panels’ the ‘Lie of the Year’
As we close out a year beating back the misinformation and outright lies spread about health insurance reform, one literally takes the prize. The Pulitzer prize-winning website PolitiFact determined that of "all the falsehoods and distortions in the political discourse this year, one stood out from the rest" and named Sarah Palin’s status update on her Facebook page on August 7th the "Lie of the Year."
12/22/2009
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The House Has Passed More Than 90 Key Measures -- With More Than 70% Passing With Significant Bipartisan Support
Following is an overview of more than 90 key bills that the Democratic-led House has passed in the first session of the 111th Congress. The House has passed more than 90 key measures this year – with more than 70 percent passing with significant bipartisan support.
12/16/2009
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Health Insurance Reform Mythbuster: Insurance Companies Using Front Group to Falsely Claim Seniors’ Benefits Will Be Cut
Health insurance reform opponents continue to spread myths and use scare tactics in an attempt to frighten America’s seniors about the impact the Affordable Health Care for America Act will supposedly have on Medicare.
12/08/2009
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Health Insurance Reform Mythbuster: Outrageous Claim About Microchip Implants
Health insurance reform opponents continue to spread myths about the Affordable Health Care for America Act including the truly outrageous claim that individuals who enroll in the public health insurance option will be forced to have a data-receiving microchip implanted in their bodies. Seriously?
12/07/2009
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Health Insurance Reform Mythbuster - ‘Health Reform And Insurance Premiums’
Opponents of health insurance reform continue to spread myths about the recently-passed Affordable Health Care for America Act. For example, they are claiming that health reform would increase premiums for most of America’s families. But the facts continue to knock these myths down—including a brand-new report from the independent Congressional Budget Office.
12/01/2009
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Health Insurance Reform Mythbuster: Health Insurance Reform and Medicare Physician Payment Reform
This afternoon, the House passed H.R. 3961, the Medicare Physician Payment Reform Act. Opponents of reform have been spreading myths about H.R. 3961 – including that it will harm seniors and that it is fundamentally fiscally irresponsible.
11/19/2009
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Health Insurance Reform Mythbuster: ‘House Health Reform Bill Does Not Control Costs'
Some commentators are repeating misinformation about the provisions of the recently-passed Affordable Health Care for America Act, For example, on Meet the Press on November 8, commentator David Brooks said, “[The House health insurance reform bill] does not change the problem with our health care system, which is the fee-for-service system, which has been driving up costs for decade after decade.”An NPR story yesterday reported as if fact: “The absence of clear measures to rein in costs is being seized on by opponents of the legislation.”
11/18/2009
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Health Insurance Reform Mythbuster: Catching the U.S. Chamber of Commerce in Myth Making Process
Health insurance reform opponents continue to spread myths about the recently-passed Affordable Health Care for America Act, including saying that reform will hurt American businesses.
11/16/2009
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Health Insurance Reform Mythbuster: The Republican Radio Address
Even after their myths have been debunked, opponents of health insurance reform continue to spread false claims. Today, in the Republican radio address, Illinois Congressman Mark Kirk repeated the same tired attacks on the Affordable Health Care for America Act (H.R. 3962). Once again, the facts continue to knock these myths down.
11/14/2009
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Health Insurance Reform Daily Mythbuster: Ruth Marcus Column on 'Flood of Misstatements'
Following the passage of historic health insurance reform legislation last Saturday, opponents of health insurance reform continue to spread the same myths this week that they used during floor debate of the legislation. The Mythbusters got a post-vote boost from The Washington Post’s Ruth Marcus in a column shooting down what she called “ … the flood of sheer factual misstatements about the health-care bill.”
11/13/2009
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Health Insurance Reform Daily Mythbuster: 'Health Reform Reneges On the Promise to Provide Choices to Veterans and Service Members'
Health insurance reform opponents continue to spread myths about the recently-passed Affordable Health Care for America Act, including saying that reform will undermine the health care that veterans and military families have now.
11/10/2009
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Health Insurance Reform Daily Mythbuster: 'Reform Could Mean Jail Time for Americans Who Don't Buy Insurance'
As debate heats up on the House floor on historic health insurance reform, House Republicans are pulling out all the stops to scare the American public about the Affordable Health Care for America Act, including speeches today saying that Americans who don’t buy health insurance could face jail time. Below are the facts.
11/07/2009
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Health Insurance Reform Daily Mythbuster: Republican Study Committee Claims
House Republicans have churned out their latest myths and scare tactics about health insurance reform. In fact, they took time to produce a list of distortions about the Affordable Health Care for America Act before they even released their own ideas—a substitute bill that USA Today calls “a missed opportunity.” Here’s a myth-by-myth response to the Republican Study Committee.
11/06/2009
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Health Insurance Reform Daily Mythbuster: The Latest Distortion-Filled Email Chain
Health insurance reform opponents continue to spread myths - now about the recently introduced Affordable Health Care for America Act. Below is a line-by-line debunking of the latest distortion-filled email chain making the rounds on the Internet.
11/05/2009
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House Republican Health Care Bill: Putting Families At Risk
The ideas that House Republican have put forward as a bill substitute will let insurance companies continue to deny you coverage if you are sick; will do little to make insurance more affordable; and will put insurers ahead of consumers by undermining existing consumer protections. The plan would result in millions of Americans losing the coverage and security they currently have, while giving insurance companies more power to discriminate against patients while accumulating record profits.
11/04/2009
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Health Insurance Reform Daily Mythbuster: Health Insurance Reform and Veterans
Health insurance reform opponents continue to spread myths - now about the recently introduced Affordable Health Care for America Act, including saying that health insurance reform will undermine the health care that veterans and military families have now. But the facts continue to knock these myths down.
11/03/2009
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Health Insurance Reform Daily Mythbuster: 'Public Health Insurance Option Will Lead to Higher Premiums'
Opponents of reform continue to spread myths – now spreading myths about the recently introduced Affordable Health Care for America Act, including saying that the public health insurance option will provide little benefit to American consumers – leading to higher premiums, not lower premiums. But the facts continue to knock these myths down.
11/02/2009
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Health Insurance Reform: This Week In Mythbusting
Health insurance reform opponents continue to spread myths about America’s Affordable Health Choices Act. This week, the mythbusters caught two top Congressional Republicans and a major newspaper trying to mislead America with claims that the House bill would lead to a government takeover of the health care system, was bad for small businesses and that, despite all the polls showing the opposite, the American people really don’t like the public option.
10/23/2009
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Health Insurance Reform Daily Mythbuster: Wall Street Journal Editorial Peddles False Talking Points
Health insurance reform opponents continue to spread myths about America's Affordable Health Choices Act including on what the public health insurance option is and how it works as a component of comprehensive reform.
10/22/2009
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Health Insurance Reform Daily Mythbuster: Congressman Cantor’s Misleading Claims
Health insurance reform opponents continue to spread myths about America’s Affordable Health Choices Act including what the public health insurance option is and how it works.
10/21/2009
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Health Insurance Reform Daily Mythbuster: Top Five Medicare Advantage Myths
Health insurance reform opponents continue to spread myths about America’s Affordable Health Choices Act, including saying that health reform will eliminate Medicare Advantage (MA) plans. America's Affordable Health Choices Act continues MA plans, but eliminates wasteful taxpayers’ overpayments that increase private insurance company profits, not patient care.
10/20/2009
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Health Insurance Reform Daily Mythbuster: ‘Health Insurance Reform Will Hurt Small Businesses and Lead To Government Takeover’
Health insurance reform opponents continue to spread myths about America’s Affordable Health Choices Act. Today, House Republican Leader John Boehner –a repeat offender on the myth front—threw out these three unrelated and inaccurate claims.
10/19/2009
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Health Insurance Reform Daily Mythbuster: Health Insurance Reform and the Public Option
Health insurance reform opponents continue to spread myths about America's Affordable Health Choices Act including what the public insurance option is and how it works. But more than 1,000 state legislators - representing all 50 states - have signed letters of support for including a public health insurance option in health reform legislation.
10/15/2009
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Health Insurance Reform Daily Mythbuster: ‘Health Insurance Reform Will Lead to Medicare Benefit Cuts for Seniors’
Health insurance reform opponents continue to spread myths about America’s Affordable Health Choices Act. This week, America’s Health Insurance Plans [AHIP] – the health industry’s trade group – launched a million dollar TV ad buy in at least six states claiming health insurance reform would hurt the one in five of America’s seniors who are on Medicare Advantage plans. But the ad is wrong.
10/14/2009
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Health Insurance Reform Daily Mythbuster: 'AHIP Study Shows that Reform Could Mean Higher Premiums Than Under Current Law'
Health insurance reform opponents continue to spread myths about components of America’s Affordable Health Choices Act. On Sunday, in a last-ditch effort to kill the health insurance reform moving through Congress, America’s Health Insurance Plans (AHIP) (the lobby for the health insurance industry) released a report that claims that the Senate Finance Committee bill would mean higher health care premiums for America’s families than current law. Independent analysts quickly labeled the report both incomplete and deeply flawed.
10/13/2009
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Health Insurance Reform Daily Mythbuster: 'Health Insurance Reform Will Lead to a Government Takeover’
Health insurance reform opponents continue to spread myths about America’s Affordable Health Choices Act, including that reform will lead to a “government takeover” of the health care system. In fact, the House bill builds on the current private, employer-sponsored health care system we currently have and will expand enrollment in private insurance plans by an estimated 16 million Americans.
10/08/2009
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Health Insurance Reform Daily Mythbuster: No Need for Comprehensive Reform – Simply Allow Selling of Insurance Across State Lines
Health insurance reform opponents continue to spread myths about America’s Affordable Health Choices Act, including saying that allowing insurers to sell health plans across state lines would be a suitable alternative to comprehensive health reform.
10/07/2009
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Health Insurance Reform Daily Mythbuster: 'The Medical Community Does Not Support Health Insurance Reform’
Health insurance reform opponents continue to spread myths about America’s Affordable Health Choices Act, including that the medical community does not support health insurance reform. In fact, the vast majority of doctors, nurses and others in the health care industry recognize the urgent need for reform and support the House’s prescription for change.
10/06/2009
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Health Insurance Reform Daily Mythbuster: 'Health Insurance Reform Will Eliminate Medicare Advantage Plans'
Health insurance reform opponents continue to spread myths about America’s Affordable Health Choices Act, including saying that health reform will eliminate Medicare Advantage (MA) plans. America's Affordable Health Choices Act continues MA plans, but eliminates wasteful taxpayers’ overpayments that increase private insurance company profits, not patient care.
10/05/2009
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Health Insurance Reform Daily Mythbuster: ‘Republican Leadership Has a Plan to Reform Health Care’
Health insurance reform opponents continue to spread myths about the health insurance reform debate and America’s Affordable Health Choices Act, including the notion that President Obama and Congressional Democrats are refusing to consider a Republican health care plan. But despite this near constant complaint, the Republican Leadership has failed to offer a comprehensive health care bill – of any kind – for consideration.
10/02/2009
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Health Insurance Reform Daily Mythbuster: ‘Democrats’ Health Reform Bill Will Harm Seniors’
Health insurance reform opponents continue to spread myths about America’s Affordable Health Choices Act, including the outrageous myth that the House bill will harm America’s seniors, cutting their Medicare benefits. America’s Affordable Health Choices Act will actually improve Medicare for seniors – targeting waste, fraud, and inefficiency – and reinvesting many of the savings achieved into better benefits.
10/01/2009
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Health Insurance Reform Daily Mythbuster: ‘The American People Don’t Want a Public Option’
Health insurance reform opponents continue to spread myths about America’s Affordable Health Choices Act, including what the public health insurance option is, who could participate, and how it would work. But polls continue to show that Americans support a public health insurance option, despite the distortions.
09/30/2009
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Health Insurance Reform Daily Mythbuster: 'Requiring Health Insurance is a Tax on Americans'
Health insurance reform opponents continue to spread myths about components of America’s Affordable Health Choices Act, including the notion that mandating people to get health insurance coverage is like imposing a new tax on them.
09/29/2009
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Health Insurance Reform Daily Mythbuster: ‘Government Takeover’ of Health Care
Health insurance reform opponents continue to spread myths about America’s Affordable Health Choices Act, including the myth that health insurance reform lead to a “government takeover” of the health care system and rationed care for patients.
09/28/2009
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Health Insurance Reform Daily Mythbuster: Republicans and Medicare
Health insurance reform opponents continue to spread myths about America’s Affordable Health Choices Act, including the notion that Republicans are fighting against health insurance reform to protect seniors from Medicare changes. In fact, the House bill improves care and benefits under Medicare and extends Medicare’s solvency.
09/24/2009
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Health Insurance Reform Daily Mythbuster: ‘Health Insurance Reform Will Cost Small Businesses Too Much’
Health insurance reform opponents continue to spread myths about America’s Affordable Health Choices Act, including the myth that reform will cost small businesses too much. However, research shows that small businesses will benefit significantly from health insurance reform in a number of ways including lower health care costs and saved jobs.
09/23/2009
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Health Insurance Reform Daily Mythbuster: So-Called Gag Order on Insurance Companies
Health insurance reform opponents – including House Republican Leader John Boehner – continue to spread myths about America’s Affordable Health Choices Act, including the ridiculous myth that the Obama Administration has issued a gag order on insurance companies telling seniors how health insurance reform will affect them. That is not true.
09/22/2009
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Health Insurance Reform Daily Mythbuster: ‘Requiring Health Insurance is a New Tax on Families’
Health insurance reform opponents continue to spread myths about components of America’s Affordable Health Choices Act, including the notion that mandating people to get health insurance coverage is like imposing a new tax on them.
09/21/2009
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Health Insurance Reform Daily Mythbuster: Young Adults and the Cost of Health Insurance Reform
Reform opponents continue to spread myths about components of America’s Affordable Health Choices Act, in an attempt to bring down reform.
09/17/2009
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Health Insurance Reform Daily Mythbuster: 'Constitutionality of Health Insurance Reform'
Reform opponents continue to spread myths about components of America’s Affordable Health Choices Act, including the nonsensical claim that the federal government has no constitutionally valid role in reforming our health care system—apparently ignoring the validity of Medicare and other popular federal health reforms.
09/16/2009
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Health Insurance Reform Daily Mythbuster: ‘Rationing of Care and People with Disabilities’
Health insurance reform opponents continue to spread myths about components of America’s Affordable Health Choices Act, including the outrageous scare tactic that reform will lead to rationed care and will harm people with disabilities. In fact, the House bill protects people with disabilities from discrimination and unfair business practices that have resulted in loss of coverage and denial of care.
09/15/2009
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Health Insurance Reform Daily Mythbuster: 'Doctors Oppose Public Health Insurance Option'
Health insurance reform opponents continue to spread myths about components of America’s Affordable Health Choices Act, including the myth that doctors oppose current health insurance reform proposals. In fact, the prestigious New England Journal of Medicine today released a survey conducted by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation highlighting the overwhelming support among physicians from across the country for a public health insurance option as part of comprehensive health insurance reform.
09/14/2009
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Health Insurance Reform Daily Mythbuster: 'Free Coverage for Illegal Immigrants?'
Health insurance reform opponents continue to spread myths about components of America’s Affordable Health Choices Act, including the thoroughly debunked myth that the House bill will provide taxpayer-financed health coverage for illegal immigrants. The facts disprove their politically divisive distortions and, in some cases, simple misunderstandings of what’s in the bill.
09/11/2009
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Health Insurance Reform Daily Mythbuster: A $3,800 Tax on People Who Don’t Purchase Insurance?
Health insurance reform opponents continue to spread myths about components of America’s Affordable Health Choices Act.
All insured Americans currently pay for health care for the 46 million people who have no insurance. In fact, the average insured American family of four pays almost $1,100 a year to cover the costs of those who go without insurance—either by necessity or by choice.
09/10/2009
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Health Insurance Reform Daily Mythbuster: The ‘Cost’ of the Public Health Insurance Option
Opponents of health insurance reform and some members of the news media continue to repeat a myth that the public health insurance option will cost $1 trillion. In fact, the public option in America’s Affordable Health Choices Act will cost U.S. taxpayers ZERO over the next 10 years… and beyond.
09/09/2009
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Health Insurance Reform Daily Mythbuster: The Cost of Reform
Health insurance reform opponents continue to spread myths about America’s Affordable Health Choices Act. Republicans, in particular, are showing a recent convert’s zeal for reducing the deficit by claiming we cannot afford health insurance reform now because of the size of the federal deficit. But the facts demonstrate that not only are Republicans the wrong ones to trust on fiscal discipline, health insurance reform is the single biggest way to improve both the long-term fiscal health of our nation and the competitiveness of American businesses in a global economy.
09/08/2009
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Health Insurance Reform Daily Mythbuster: Impact on Seniors
Health insurance reform opponents continue to spread myths about components of America’s Affordable Health Choices Act. Their efforts to scare seniors have spared no myth, no method and no misrepresentation. It has gotten so bad, the Chicago Tribune’s The Swamp blog wrote, “In political circles, there is a term for the tactic” Republicans are using to frighten seniors about the effects of health insurance reform: "Medi-scare.''
09/03/2009
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Health Insurance Reform Daily Mythbuster: Invasions of Privacy?
Health insurance reform opponents continue to spread myths about components of America’s Affordable Health Choices Act. This time they are claiming the bill is a risk to the privacy of Americans’ personal health and financial information. The facts disprove their distortions.
09/02/2009
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Health Insurance Reform Daily Mythbuster: Boon for Liberal Special Interests?
Health insurance reform opponents continue to spread myths about components of America’s Affordable Health Choices Act. This time, on August 31, House Republican Leader Boehner issued a “GOP Leader Alert” claiming that the House Democrats’ reform bill is “loaded up with special-interest giveaways” – designed to be “a boon to unions, trial lawyers, and even ACORN.”
09/01/2009
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Health Insurance Reform Daily Mythbuster: Prescription Drugs for Seniors
Health insurance reform opponents continue to spread myths about components of America’s Affordable Health Choices Act. They are trying to scare seniors again, this time about the cost of prescription drugs. But the facts—and independent auditors—disprove this myth.
08/31/2009
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Health Insurance Reform - DAILY MYTHBUSTER: Insurance Company Claims
Health Insurance Reform - DAILY MYTHBUSTER
08/28/2009
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Health Insurance Reform - DAILY MYTHBUSTER: This Week in Mythbusting
Health Insurance Reform - This Week in Mythbusting from August 28, 2009
08/28/2009
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Health Insurance Reform - DAILY MYTHBUSTER: Paying for Abortions?
Health Insurance Reform - DAILY MYTHBUSTER from August 27, 2009
08/27/2009
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Health Insurance Reform - DAILY MYTHBUSTER: Shortage of Doctors and Nurses?
Health Insurance Reform - DAILY MYTHBUSTER from August 26, 2009
08/26/2009
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Health Insurance Reform - DAILY MYTHBUSTER: Impact on Deficit
Health Insurance Reform - DAILY MYTHBUSTER from August 25, 2009
08/25/2009
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Health Insurance Reform - DAILY MYTHBUSTER: Impact on Seniors
Health Insurance Reform - DAILY MYTHBUSTER from August 24, 2009
08/24/2009
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Health Insurance Reform Dirty Dozen: Persistent Myths and the Facts that Bust Them
Health Insurance Reform: Persistent Myths and the Facts that Bust Them from August 21, 2009
08/21/2009
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Health Insurance Reform - DAILY MYTHBUSTER: Impact on Doctors
Health Insurance Reform - DAILY MYTHBUSTER from August 20, 2009
08/20/2009
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Health Insurance Reform - DAILY MYTHBUSTER: Rationing of Care
Health Insurance Reform - DAILY MYTHBUSTER from August 19, 2009
08/19/2009
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Hidden Health Care Tax
Hidden Health Care Tax
08/19/2009
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Health Insurance Reform - DAILY MYTHBUSTER: Impact on Small Business
Health Insurance Reform - DAILY MYTHBUSTER from August 18, 2009
08/18/2009
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Health Insurance Reform DAILY MYTHBUSTER: Members of Media Repeat Myth About Public Health Insurance Option
Health Insurance Reform DAILY MYTHBUSTER from August 17, 2009
08/17/2009
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Health Insurance Reform - This Week in Mythbusting with Bonus ‘Public Option’ Mythbuster
Health Insurance Reform - This Week in Mythbusting: August 14, 2009
08/14/2009
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Health Insurance Reform - DAILY MYTHBUSTER: House Republican Leader John Boehner Column in USA TODAY
Health Insurance Reform - DAILY MYTHBUSTER from August, 13 2009
08/13/2009
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Health Insurance Reform SPECIAL MYTHBUSTER: Senator Grassley Statement
Health Insurance Reform SPECIAL MYTHBUSTER from August 13, 2009
08/13/2009
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Health Insurance Reform - DAILY MYTHBUSTER: Impact on Members of Congress
Health Insurance Reform - DAILY MYTHBUSTER from August 12, 2009
08/12/2009
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Health Insurance Reform - SPECIAL MYTHBUSTER: Chamber of Commerce’s Desperate Television Advertisement
Health Insurance Reform - SPECIAL MYTHBUSTER from August 12, 2009
08/12/2009
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Health Insurance Reform - DAILY MYTHBUSTER: Child Care and Development
Health Insurance Reform - DAILY MYTHBUSTER from August 11, 2009
08/11/2009
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Health Insurance Reform - DAILY MYTHBUSTER: ‘Death Panel’ and ‘Selective Standards’
Health Insurance Reform - DAILY MYTHBUSTER from August 10, 2009
08/10/2009
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Health Insurance Reform - DAILY MYTHBUSTER: This Week in Mythbusting
Health Insurance Reform - DAILY MYTHBUSTER from August 7, 2009
08/07/2009
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Health Insurance Reform - DAILY MYTHBUSTER: GOP "Fact" Sheet
Health Insurance Reform - DAILY MYTHBUSTER from August 6, 2009
08/06/2009
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Health Insurance Reform - DAILY MYTHBUSTER: Impact on the Deficit
Health Insurance Reform - DAILY MYTHBUSTER from August 5, 2009
08/05/2009
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Health Insurance Reform - DAILY MYTHBUSTER: Insurance Industry Attack on Public Option and How Members of Congress’ Health Care Is Treated the Same as All Americans
Health Insurance Reform - DAILY MYTHBUSTER from August 4, 2009
08/04/2009
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Health Insurance Reform - DAILY MYTHBUSTER: Impact on Seniors
Health Insurance Reform - DAILY MYTHBUSTER from August 3, 2009
08/03/2009
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Health Insurance Reform - DAILY MYTHBUSTER: Inaccurate Comments of Republican Leaders
Health Insurance Reform - Daily Mythbuster from July 31, 2009
07/31/2009
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Health Insurance Reform - DAILY MYTHBUSTER: Inaccurate Comments of House Republican Leader John Boehner
Health Insurance Reform - DAILY MYTHBUSTER from July 30, 2009
07/30/2009
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Health Insurance Reform - DAILY MYTHBUSTER: Impact on Seniors
Health Insurance Reform - DAILY MYTHBUSTER from July 29, 2009
07/29/2009
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Health Insurance Reform - DAILY MYTHBUSTER: Impact on Small Business
Health Insurance Reform - DAILY MYTHBUSTER: Impact on Small Business from July 28, 2009
07/28/2009
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Budget Fact Check: A Budget to Put America Back on Track
The Budget Conference Report mirrors President Obama’s budget blueprint, which lays the foundation for lasting prosperity and economic growth.
04/28/2009
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Budget Fact Check: Long-Term Economic Plan for America's Future
President Obama and House Democrats are offering a budget which lays the foundation for lasting prosperity and economic growth for America’s workers and families.
04/01/2009
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Budget Fact Check: Putting America Back on Track
The House budget mirrors President Obama’s budget blueprint, which lays the foundation for lasting prosperity and economic growth.
03/31/2009
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Budget Fact Check: Keeping Our Promises
03/30/2009
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Budget Fact Check: No Comparison
03/27/2009
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Budget Fact Check: Restoring Fiscal Responsibility
03/26/2009
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Budget Fact Check: A Responsible Way Forward
Partisan attacks claim that President Obama's budget is irresponsible. In fact, both the President’s budget and the House budget, which is being marked up today, share the same priorities to move America’s middle-class families and the nation’s economy forward. The budget grows our economy, creates jobs, cuts the deficit, invests in our priorities and reduces non-defense discretionary spending.
03/25/2009
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Budget Fact Check: Responsible Spending to Grow America's Economy
Partisan attacks claim that President Obama's budget spends too much. In fact, the President’s budget cuts non-defense discretionary spending over 10 years – to its lowest level as a percent of the economy in nearly half a century.
03/24/2009
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Budget Fact Check: Creating Jobs & Reinvesting in America's Economy
Partisan attacks claim that President Obama's budget does not create jobs. In fact, President Obama’s budget invests in initiatives that will grow the economy by creating jobs, putting money in the pockets of Americans, and improving opportunities for future generations.
03/20/2009
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Budget Fact Check: Responsible Spending to Grow America's Economy
Partisan attacks claim that President Obama's budget spends too much. In fact, the President’s budget cuts non-defense discretionary spending over 10 years – to its lowest level as a percent of the economy in nearly half a century.
03/19/2009
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Budget Fact Check: Tax Cuts
Partisan attacks claim that President Obama's budget will raise taxes on America's families. In fact, the President's budget cuts taxes for 95 percent of America's workers and their families.
03/17/2009
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Budget Fact Check: Small Business
Partisan attacks claim that President Obama’s budget will raise taxes on small businesses…
In fact, the President’s budget eliminates the capital gains tax for individuals on the sale of certain small business stocks and makes the Research and Experimentation Tax Credit permanent. These proposals will spur investment and innovation to help small businesses – the job-creating engines of our economy –succeed.
03/16/2009
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Setting the Record Straight: House Republican Plan Meant 2.2 Million Fewer Jobs, More of Bush’s Failed Approach
This week, House Republicans are FOR the President’s tax cuts and investments in their hometown economies—one week after they were unanimously AGAINST them. Republican members are hearing from constituents who want the benefits of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act signed into law by President Obama this week.
02/20/2009
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Recovery Act: Next Steps
A summary of the five primary ways that federal agencies will be allocating the funding provided in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, once it is signed into law. Current estimates are that three-fourths of the spending and tax cuts will occur within 18 months of enactment.
02/13/2009
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American Recovery & Reinvestment Act Vs. House Republican Alternative
The urgency is clear. The choice is clear. The House will vote this week on a plan to create and save 3.5 million American jobs, jumpstart our economy, and transform it for success in the 21st century.
02/12/2009
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Republicans Split on Recovery Plan - Those in Washington Oppose, Many on Front Lines Support
Despite the worsening economic crisis, the Republican leadership in Congress has chosen to ignore the needs of America’s families, workers and small businesses and oppose economic recovery legislation designed to save or create 3 to 4 million jobs and help speed relief and reinvestment.
02/10/2009
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Setting the Record Straight on Republican Economic Recovery Myths
Myth: Republicans claim their bill creates 6.2 million jobs. Facts: The House Republican bill creates only 1.3 million jobs, while the House-passed bill/Obama plan creates 3.7 million jobs. But don't take our word for it.
02/10/2009
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'No' from GOP Isn't An Option for Americans
There is no time to delay. The American people need action on the economy now. Despite the worsening economic crisis, Republican leaders in Congress keep saying ‘No’ to legislation designed to help speed relief to America’s families, workers and small businesses.
02/09/2009
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Critics Continue to Push Misleading Information About Economic Recovery Plan
Rather than offer new, workable ideas to find a bipartisan solution, Republican critics continue to spread misleading information about the Economic Recovery plan offering instead only the same failed policies that led to this recession. Despite these partisan attacks, a new Gallup poll shows support for the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act has remained steady.
02/06/2009
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Economic Recovery Plan Must Not Be Weakened With Failed Bush-Era Theories
Last week, the House passed the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, working from priorities shared with President Barack Obama. This week, the Senate is set to finish action on this measure so that a final economic recovery package can go to the President next week for his signature.
02/05/2009
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New Poll: 75 Percent of Americans Support Economic Recovery Legislation
In a new Gallup poll released today, 75 percent of those surveyed support economic recovery legislation. But in the face of this escalating crisis, Americans understand there is no quick fix to our economic troubles. A strong majority – 64 percent – say President Obama’s Recovery and Reinvestment Act will make the economy better though major results will take longer than one year.
02/03/2009
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The GOP Energy Plan: 'None of the Above'
Americans know it is time for an oil change -- the Comprehensive American Energy Security and Consumer Protection Act passed by the House yesterday will lower costs for consumers, invest in clean, renewable energy resources, expand our domestic energy supply, and promote greater energy efficiency and conservation.
09/17/2008
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Eight Years of Bush-McCain Economic Policy - Minimal Regulation & Lax Oversight of Wall Street
Sen. John McCain has a history of looking the other way when financial institutions play fast and loose with rules designed to protect investors and taxpayers. Under the leadership of President Bush, Senator McCain and the Republican Congress, Wall Street gamed the system and American families and businesses paid the price.
09/15/2008
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New Investigative Reports Show Government's Ethical and Management Failures in Dealing with Big Oil - Costing American Taxpayers Billions
This week the Government Accountability Office (GAO) and the Interior Department’s Inspector General completed a series of investigative reports highlighting the significant ethical, legal and management failures at the agency charged with managing our nation’s public resources and underscoring the high cost to American taxpayers of the government’s mismanagement in doing business with Big Oil.
09/12/2008
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Bush Administration Is Foot-Dragging in Implementing 9/11 Commission Recommendations Law
One of the key achievements of the New Direction Congress has been the enactment of a sweeping bill to enact the recommendations of the 9/11 Commission. Today, the Chairmen of the Committees on Homeland Security and Foreign Affairs issued a report entitled “Wasted Lessons of 9/11: How The Bush Administration Ignored the Law and Squandered Its Opportunities to Make Our Country Safer."
09/09/2008
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Setting the Record Straight on Republican False Claims on Energy
Republicans falsely claim that drilling in protected areas will provide immediate relief to America’s consumers. The Republican plan to drill on protected lands will result in only a 2 cents savings more than 10 years from now.
08/06/2008
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Setting the Record Straight on Bush: The Facts About the Bush/GOP 'Drill Only' Policy
07/30/2008
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The GOP Energy Plan: 'None of the Above'
The New Direction Congress led by Democrats has offered real solutions to bring down energy costs, promote renewable fuels and energy efficiency, and promote oil production right here in America.
07/29/2008
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Setting the Record Straight: How Republican Leadership Has Voted On Key Energy Legislation
07/25/2008
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The GOP Energy Plan: 'All Too Familiar'
Eight months after the Democratic-led New Direction Congress led the enactment of a landmark new energy policy for our country, House Republicans are now releasing an energy plan that largely rehashes failed ideas on domestic drilling or proposes ideas that they have repeatedly blocked in the past.
07/23/2008
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Setting the Record Straight: How Republicans Visiting Arctic National Wildlife Refuge This Weekend Voted On Key Energy Legislation
07/19/2008
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Iraq's Leaders Call for a Timetable for Responsible Redeployment of U.S. Troops
President Bush and Senator John McCain Rebuff Iraq's Government, Forget What They've Said in the Past.
07/10/2008
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New Direction Congress Telling Big Oil: 'Use It or Lose It'
Democrats will not give away more federal land to Big Oil while they sit idle on 68 million acres of leased lands.
06/26/2008
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Big Oil Sitting on 68 Million Acres of Land - Refusing to Develop and Drill
Why would President Bush, John McCain and the Republicans give them even more?
06/25/2008
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Rhetoric vs. Reality: White House Spinning Its Wheels on President’s ‘Drill & Veto’ Energy Policies
Comments on Friday from White House Spokesman Tony Fratto about the President’s offshore drilling proposal further underscored the policy is nothing but political rhetoric. The Bush ‘drill and veto’ plan was literally written by the oil industry and crafted to serve Big Oil rather than the interests of American families and businesses.
06/21/2008
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President Bush Continues Call For Failed Energy Policies of the Past
The President's proposal today is another page from the Administration's energy policy that was literally written by the oil industry: give away more public resources to the very same oil companies that are raking in record profits and sitting on 68 million acres of federal lands they've already leased.
06/18/2008
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Big Oil Spends Millions on Advertising Campaign to Rehab Image, Leaving 68 Million Acres of Leased Federal Land Undeveloped
President Bush, Sen. John McCain and their Republican allies continue to push failed “drill and veto” energy policies of the past even as Big Oil chooses to spend money on rehabbing its image instead of taking steps to help the American consumer. According to an article in today’s Wall Street Journal, Big Oil is spending millions on advertising to deflect consumer anger over high gas prices, rather than investing in clean renewable energy or developing and drilling in the 68 million federal acres onshore and offshore they already lease.
06/17/2008
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Republican Leadership Is Wrong to Stand in the Way of Extending Unemployment Benefits
Last week, Congress took action to strengthen our economy and give assistance to millions of jobless American workers by passing the Emergency Extended Unemployment Compensation Act to extend unemployment benefits to those who have exhausted their regular benefits. This bill will provide crucial assistance to an estimated 3.8 million Americans – at a time when unemployment saw the highest monthly spike in 22 years – and provide needed stimulus to our struggling economy.
06/16/2008
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Vice President Cheney Admits Claim China is Drilling off the Coast of Florida is False
Last night, Vice President Dick Cheney’s office admitted that his assertion before the U.S. Chamber of Commerce that China is drilling “60 miles of the coast of Florida” was wrong and that, in fact, there is no Chinese deepwater drilling in that area.
06/13/2008
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Drilling Down on Republican Rhetoric on Gas Prices
The Republican answer to our gas crisis is only “drill more.” They say Congress needs to act to open up more land to the oil companies. But that’s really a solution in search of a problem.
06/12/2008
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Republicans Have Lost Touch Over Six Years
On two critical votes this week, more than 70 percent of House Republicans sided with President Bush – and against unemployment benefits for 3.8 million Americans struggling to find work.
06/12/2008
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Republicans Use Scare Tactics to Promote Failed "Drill & Veto" Energy Policies of the Past
The GOP's Claims that China is drilling for oil off Florida's coast have proven false.
06/12/2008
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New Direction Congress - Responsible Energy Policies for America's Families & Businesses
As summer and peak driving season approach, hardworking Americans are struggling to keep up with skyrocketing gas prices – now averaging $3.99 per gallon across the country. The New Direction Congress is committed to bringing real relief to those feeling the pinch from high gas and diesel prices and ensuring the needs of families and businesses are put before the interests of Big Oil companies.
06/09/2008
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Where is the Republican leadership on record gas prices?
The New Direction Congress has passed several pieces of legislation to promote American energy independence, prevent the manipulation of oil prices, punish those who cheat consumers, and promote the development and use of renewable fuels. See how the Republican leadership voted on these crucial pieces of legislation.
05/21/2008
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Past War Supplemental Bills Have Included Domestic Priorities
President Bush and his Republican allies are misleading the American people about the supplemental bill to fund the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan that will be voted on by the House today.
05/15/2008
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An Effective Tool to Lower Energy Prices for America's Families
Democrats & Republicans Agree on Temporary Suspension of Oil Purchases for the Strategic Petroleum Reserve
05/12/2008
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Efforts by Republicans to Rebrand Conference will not Change the Facts
GOP Continues to Stand with President Bush on Key Issues
05/12/2008
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Experts Agree: Comprehensive Housing Crisis Legislation Is Needed for American Economic Recovery
Recent remarks from leading economists make it clear that the FHA Housing Stabilization and Homeownership Retention Act that the House will consider today as part of a comprehensive housing package has all of the right elements to address our housing crisis and help avert a deeper decline in the overall economy.
05/07/2008
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Putting Big Oil Before the Needs of the American People
The price of oil surged to a new high this afternoon – reaching more than $120 per barrel – just days after the big five oil companies reported a staggering $36.9 billion in profits for the first three months of 2008.
05/05/2008
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Republican Double Standard on Gas Prices
U.S. Military Paying $3.23 a Gallon in Iraq – Iraqis pay $1.36;
Where’s the GOP Outrage?
05/02/2008
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Setting the Record Straight on the President’s Energy Policies
In a press conference yesterday, President Bush reiterated his unyielding support for more of the same failed Republican energy policies that have brought record high gas prices to consumers and businesses and record profits to Big Oil.
04/30/2008
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Correcting the Record on FISA
Fact Checking the Statement by Department of Justice & Office of Director of National Intelligence
02/25/2008
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The Truth About the Debate Over the FISA Law
The Bush Administration is Misleading the American People About Our National Security in Effort to Strong-Arm Congress for Telecom Immunity.
02/19/2008
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Editorials & National Security Experts on FISA
The refusal by President Bush and House Republicans to support an extension of last summer’s Protect America Act for 21 days so that a House/Senate conference on a FISA modernization bill could be completed does not mean that surveillance activities will cease.
02/14/2008
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The War in Iraq - Nearly Five Years Later
Despite Strain on U.S. Forces President Bush Pledges to Spend Billions More, Stay Decades Longer
02/06/2008
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The State of the Economy - Squeezing Hard-Working American Families
House Passes Bipartisan Plan to Send ‘Recovery Rebates’ to Millions of Americans
01/30/2008
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Bush Economic Policies Failing America's Families
Working Americans Struggling to Make Ends Meet – Families Need a New Direction
01/07/2008
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Major Legislative Priorities of the New Direction Congress Signed Into Law
Democrats in Congress have made progress this year despite reckless opposition from the President and Republicans in Congress.
12/14/2007
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Iraq Update: Longer Tours of Duty Taking Toll on our Troops
U.S. Army’s 15 Month-Long Combat Tours to Continue Through 2008
12/05/2007
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Iraq Update: More than 1.6 Million American Troops have been Deployed to Iraq & Afghanistan since September 2001 - Where is the Political Reconciliation?
In January, the President announced the so-called troop “surge” to give Iraq’s government the “breathing space” to achieve political reconciliation. Eleven months later, Iraqi politicians have failed by every measure to make the necessary political progress.
12/04/2007
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Fact Check: The President's Remarks Today
Democrats want to work with the President, yet he continues to engage in the same tired rhetoric that does not serve the best interests of the American people.
12/03/2007
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Reality Check: Where is the Political Reconciliation in Iraq? Our Troops Sacrifice While Bush Administration Refuses to Place Real Pressure on Iraqi Government
In January, the President announced the so-called troop “surge” to give Iraq’s government the “breathing space” to achieve political reconciliation. Eleven months later, Iraqi politicians have failed by every measure to make the necessary political progress.
11/30/2007
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Reality Check: Democratic Congress Stands with our Soldiers
President Bush and Republicans Blocking $50 Billion Passed By House to Fund Our Troops and Bring Them Home
11/29/2007
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Reality Check: President Bush’s Iraq War & the U.S. Military Readiness Crisis
Today at the Pentagon, President Bush spoke of the need to modernize our military but failed to mention it is his misplaced priorities and failed policies in Iraq have led to a military readiness crisis that the United States has not experienced since the end of the Vietnam War more than thirty years ago.
11/29/2007
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The Economy in Eyes of Real America
Is the Bush Administration Doing Anything to Address the Real Struggle Hardworking American Families Face to Make Ends Meet?
11/29/2007
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Fact Sheet: Looking Back at the President's 'surge'
Iraqi Government Still Failing to Take Responsibility for Their Country, American People Still Want U.S. Troops Home
11/28/2007
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The Facts about the President's Veto of Labor-HHS Bill: Supports Spending $10 Billion Each Month on War Without End in Iraq, But Vetoes America ’s Priorities – Calls Them “Excessive”
On Tuesday, President Bush vetoed the Labor-Health-Education Appropriations bill – a bipartisan and fiscally responsible bill that addresses the needs and priorities of the American people – calling these investments in domestic initiatives dedicated to helping families “excessive.”
11/15/2007