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Markey YouTube explains and celebrates health reform vote

By | 03.26.10 | 1:29 pm

She may be getting threatening phone calls because of her vote in favor of health reform Sunday, but U.S. Rep Betsy Markey is standing by her vote without a hint of backpedaling. She released a YouTube today that doesn’t…

Metzger at The Nation: ‘Health mandate will be a tax on non-purchase of insurance’

By | 03.26.10 | 10:39 am

The Nation dedicated this week’s episode of its “The Breakdown” to the attorneys general lawsuit filed this week against health reform legislation and joined by Colorado A.G. John Suthers. Breakdown host Christopher Hayes talked with Columbia law professor…

Colo. Supreme Court Justice Dubofsky questions legitmacy of Suthers’ health reform lawsuit

By | 03.25.10 | 4:10 pm

Former Colorado Supreme Court Justice Jean Dubofsky, a founding member and current chair of the Board of Directors of the Bell Policy Center, issued a statement today critical of the reasoning guiding the lawsuit filed by Republican attorneys general…

Markey target of threatening calls in wake of health care vote

By | 03.24.10 | 5:51 pm

MSNBC is reporting that Fourth District U.S. Rep. Betsy Markey is among at least ten U.S. lawmakers who have been the victims of vandalism and the target of threatening phone calls in the wake of their votes in support of…

The pivotal quiet Kucinich decision: ‘Claims of government takeover a joke’

By | 03.24.10 | 11:59 am

Dennis Kucinich, Democratic Congressman from Ohio and champion of the public option, didn’t make his decision to vote for the health care bill in a meeting on Air Force One. As he told Esquire’s Mark Warren, he made it…

Axelrod dismisses political and legal challenges to health care legislation

By | 03.23.10 | 11:23 am

In an interview with the News Hour’s Judy Woodroof, White House Senior Adviser David Axelrod welcomed the ongoing political fight over health care legislation signed into law Tuesday morning. We’ll run on the benefits it brings, he said, and…

Obama signs health reform bill into law

By | 03.23.10 | 10:56 am

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As expected, President Barack Obama Tuesday morning signed into law the Senate’s package of health care reforms, a number of which will go into effect this year.

“Today, after almost a century of trying, today,…

NYT: Legal precedent on side of health care legislation

By | 03.23.10 | 10:32 am

Colorado Attorney General John Suthers joined a lawsuit yesterday targeting Federal health reform legislation on constitutional grounds. The argument against the legislation that passed Sunday is compelling: the government can’t force citizens to pay for a product they may…

Through tears, Tea Party activists vow to keep fighting health care reform

By | 03.22.10 | 10:04 pm

WASHINGTON– The Tea Party activists huddled on the south lawn of the Capitol got the news of health care reform’s passage in the cruelest way. As their enthusiasm had flagged, a small group of pro-health care reform activists had nestled into space right next to the Capitol wall. Outnumbered ten to one, none of them looking a day under thirty, they learned via Twitter when the House crossed the 216 vote mark to pass the Senate version of health care reform.

Colorado’s Suthers to join A.G.s challenging health reform bill

By | 03.22.10 | 4:27 pm

Colorado’s Attorney General John Suthers is joining roughly a dozen other attorneys general across the country who plan to challenge the constitutionality of the health reform bill passed Sunday night in Washington. Suthers, a Republican running for re-election, said…