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Action Alert: Critical House vote coming up on ObamaCare
Dear Friend,
We are now coming down to the wire in the debate over health care.
Currently, the House of Representatives is considering whether or not to approve the Senate passed version of ObamaCare. read more »
Dems Under Deadline to Pass Health Care Bill
THE WHITE HOUSE -- The Democrats have just a week to pass health care reform. That's the deadline President Obama has given to Congress.
Still, Republicans say they can't vote for the bill. They warn it will be far too expensive. read more »
Same-sex Couples in D.C. Set to Say "I Do"
Washington (CNN) -- Dozens of same-sex couples plan to marry in the District of Columbia on Tuesday, the first day that such unions will be legal in the nation's capital. read more »
President Obama's Faith Based Advisory Council Will Not Discuss Abortions
President Barack Obama's Advisory Council on Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships are scheduled to present policy recommendations to him on Tuesday. Issues to be addressed include poverty, climate change, and the need for interfaith cooperation. read more »
Obama Pitches Health Care Bill to Dems
President Barack Obama is moving full-speed ahead, traveling the country trying to convince Americans to buy health care reform. He is in Philadelphia Monday and St. Louis later this week.
The president wants to get a health care bill passed in the House by March 18.
However, the White House and congressional Democrats have all but given up on passing a bipartisan bill. read more »
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Obama Approval Index: -21 (matches lowest yet)
The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Wednesday shows that 22% of the nation's voters Strongly Approve of the way that Barack Obama is performing his role as President. Forty-three percent (43%) Strongly Disapprove giving Obama a Presidential Approval Index rating of -21. That matches the lowest Approval Index rating yet recorded for this President (see trends). Forty-two percent (42%) of Democrats Strongly Approve while 72% of Republicans Strongly Disapprove. Among those not affiliated with either major political party, 17% Strongly Approve and 45% Strongly Disapprove. Fifty-seven percent (57%) believe that passage of the proposed health care legislation will hurt the economy. Just 25% believe it will help....CommentsObama pushes on healthcare what he once opposed
Senator Chuck Grassley believes Congress should start from scratch on healthcare reform because the current legislation being pushed by the majority party fails to take on rising healthcare costs and premiums, but instead gives $400 billion in direct payments to insurance companies. Senator Grassley (R-Iowa) notes that even though healthcare costs are increasing at an unsustainable rate, especially for people buying insurance through an individual policy, the pending healthcare legislation that could be pushed through Congress in the next few weeks would make health insurance premiums go up even more than they already are. "That's not according to Chuck Grassley, that's according to the Congressional Budget Office," the senator clarifies. "On top of that, the healthcare bills passed by the House and Senate, and now the president's version of those bills, would give $400 billion in direct payments to the insurance industry.CommentsRoberts: State of Union scene 'troubling'
TUSCALOOSA, Ala. -- Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. said Tuesday that the scene at President Obama's first State of the Union address was "very troubling" and that the annual speech to Congress has "degenerated into a political pep rally." Responding to a University of Alabama law student's question about the Senate's method of confirming justices, Justice Roberts said senators improperly try to make political points by asking questions they know nominees can't answer because of judicial ethics rules. "I think the process is broken down," he said. During the January address, with six of the court's nine justices seated before him in their black robes, Mr. Obama chided the court for its campaign finance decision...CommentsSenate Republicans Won't Let Democrats Use Abortion to Pass Health Care Bill
Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- If Democrats in Congress think they can rely on an appeasement strategy on abortion to pass the health care bill through the Senate via reconciliation, Senate Republicans say they are misled. In the latest turn of events in the ongoing abortion-health care debate, Senate Republicans have upped the ante. The current status of the pro-abortion health care bill has Democrats attempting to pass it in the House and then using reconciliation to stop a filibuster and get a bill with changes -- designed to secure House votes for the Senate bill -- through both chambers. The reconciliation bill with the changes will not likely be able to fix the abortion funding problems in the Senate bill. But if Democrats try to include abortion language in the reconciliation package, Republicans will object -- even if the changes are pro-life -- because they want to force pro-life Democrats in the House to defeat the overall health care bill...CommentsObama to Make Closing Argument on Health Care
WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama has chosen a suburban St. Louis high school to make his closing argument for a health care overhaul, pushing a new anti-fraud plan as he cranks up the pressure on skittish Democratic lawmakers to act fast. Obama is to speak Wednesday at St. Charles High School, his second health care address in three days. His speech comes as congressional Democrats stand on the brink of delivering the president a success with passage of his sweeping overhaul legislation -- or a colossal failure if they can't get it done. Business groups that oppose the legislation are also stepping it up, with the U.S.CommentsSafe Schools Czar Ducks Questions on Past Statements about Homosexuality, Says Dept of Educ Won’t Dictate Curriculum
(CNSNews.com) - Kevin Jennings, the Obama administration's openly gay safe-schools czar who previously ran an organization focused on normalizing homosexuality in public schools, declined Monday to directly say whether the U.S. Department of Education should promote teaching school children that homosexual behavior is morally good. Instead, he pointed out that Congress has prohibited the department from interfering in the curricula of local schools. Jennings, the assistant deputy education secretary for the Office of Safe and Drug Free Schools, made a rare public appearance Monday, speaking to a gathering of school teachers at the National Press Club....CommentsChristian's speech deemed 'hateful propaganda'
A Christian student in the Los Angeles Community College District is carrying his free-speech case to the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. Jonathan Lopez had an assignment in a public speaking class and was required to give an informative speech on any topic. Alliance Defense Fund (ADF) attorney David Hacker tells OneNewsNow that Lopez chose to speak about his Christian beliefs. "And during that speech, when he mentioned that marriage is between a man and a woman according to his Christian beliefs, the professor called him this horrible name, refused to let him finish the assignment, and told other students in the class, 'If you're offended, you can leave,'" Hacker explains. When no students left, the professor dismissed the class. Hacker adds that Lopez is an "A" student -- "but the problem is he never got a grade on that informative speech, and in fact, the professor wrote on his evaluation form, 'Ask God what your grade is.'"....CommentsNew poll spells potential trouble for Democrats
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A new poll on Monday found signs of trouble ahead for President Barack Obama and his Democrats on national security issues such as the handling of terrorism suspects. The poll was conducted jointly by Democratic Corps, a Democratic organization, and Third Way, a progressive non-profit organization. It was done mainly to gauge voters' views on Democrats' handling of national security. The poll also found weaknesses for the Democrats on other issues ahead of November elections, in which they hope to defend their strong majorities in Congress. The poll found 60 percent of Americans believe the United States is on the wrong track. It also found that people rated Democrats at about the same level as Republicans, in what amounted to an erosion of the advantage Democrats have held...CommentsFirst gay marriages begin in D.C.
The first same-sex weddings in the District of Columbia will be performed Tuesday. The city is now the sixth jurisdiction in the county in which such marriages can be performed -- joining Connecticut, Iowa, Massachusetts, New Hampshire and Vermont. More than 300 same-sex couples have applied for a license since the application process began Wednesday. The 13-member D.C. Council voted in December in favor of the Marriage Equality Act....CommentsStupak Optimistic on Sidebar Bill Banning Abortion Funding, Pro-Lifers Skeptical
Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- Congressman Bart Stupak, the de facto leader of the coalition of pro-life Democrats who may vote no on the Senate health care bill because of its massive abortion funding, expressed optimism that a deal could be work out on a sidebar bill to ban funding that goes along with the main bill. However, pro-life advocates remain skeptical and worry such a bill would enable House passage of the Senate measure and Obama would simply sign the bill without accepting the abortion funding ban. Stupak has already talked about the possibilities of a sidebar bill and has held meetings with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and other top pro-abortion Democrats pushing the government-run health care measure...Comments
