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Rove claims Obama used to be a lawyer for ACORN

September 17, 2009

Obama used to be a lawyer for ACORN.

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Health care advocacy group blasts insurers for CEO pay packages

By Louis Jacobson

September 16, 2009

Health insurance companies pay CEOs $24 million a year

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Medicare’s history as public option

By Angie Drobnic Holan

September 16, 2009

"Medicare began as a public option and now holds 97 percent of the market share."

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Boehner claims his chamber has never passed a resolution of disapproval to punish a member

By Catharine Richert

September 16, 2009

The House of Representatives has never passed a resolution of disapproval to condemn a member's behavior.

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Dean says U.S. is only democracy without universal health care

By Louis Jacobson

September 15, 2009

"Every other democracy in the world has a health care system that covers everybody, and we don't."

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Sowell claims stimulus was rushed through Congress in two days

By Ian Jannetta

September 15, 2009

The Obama administration "was successful in rushing a massive spending bill through Congress in just two days — after which it sat on the president's…

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Rocker in viral video mocks U.S. for 37th-best health care in world

By Louis Jacobson

September 14, 2009

The U.S. ranks 37th in the world for health care.

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Bloggers claim photo shows millions at “tea party” protest

By Catharine Richert

September 14, 2009

Photo of "tea party" protests shows crowd sprawling from Capitol to Washington Monument

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Boustany and other Republicans say health care plan would create 53 new government bureaucracies

September 11, 2009

The Democratic health care bill in the House would "create 53 new government bureaucracies."

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Boehner says abortion access was always a key goal for Obama health plan

By Louis Jacobson

September 11, 2009

As a candidate, President Obama "declared that everyone deserves access to reproductive health care that includes abortion, and vowed that this 'right' would be at…

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‘$64,000 question’ e-mail says Congress is exempt from health reform. They’re not.

By Angie Drobnic Holan

September 11, 2009

A new bill "was written into the new health care reform initiative ensuring that Congress will be 100 percent exempt."

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House Republicans back up heckler, saying health bill wouldn’t check who’s illegal

By Louis Jacobson

September 10, 2009

"Nothing in any of the Democrat bills would require individuals to verify their citizenship or identity prior to receiving taxpayer-subsidized benefits."

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