Nancy Pelosi

Democratic leaders pushing health care reform this year like to argue that a vast majority of the proposals represent uncontroversial changes backed by most Capitol Hill lawmakers. And while that might be true, it hasn’t prevented some sharp disagreements between House and Senate Democrats over a handful of high-profile reform provisions.

Reverend Dr. Carlton W. Veazey, head of the national Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice, is drawing attention to the fact that social-conservative lawmakers have levied into the health reform bill Congress is looking to pass this week a $250 million extension of the failed “abstinence-only” sex ed program that pays schools to not teach [...]

At last week’s 4th congressional district candidate forum in Loveland, theoretical anti-tax anti-government consensus broke down briefly during discussion of Referendum C, Colorado’s 2005 voter-supported “TABOR timeout,” which has become a litmus-test topic for state Republican candidates this year.

In the eye of the health reform storm, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi has been backing away from the public health insurance option for weeks, despite a drive spearheaded on the Hill by Colorado lawmakers Rep. Jared Polis and Sen. Michael Bennet to include the option as the best way to truly extend coverage [...]

Just hours after Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., announced that he’d whip “aggressively” for the public option if the House includes it in its reconciliation bill, Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., killed the idea. The Washington Post quotes Pelosi saying today that the public option won’t be a part of the health reform legislation the lower chamber [...]

The news that Democrats in the House and Senate will likely marry their health reform bills in closed-door sessions — not in a formal conference committee — strays a long way from President Obama’s campaign-trail claim that the entire process would be televised for the world to see. And the discrepancy hasn’t been lost on [...]

This past weekend the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops instructed pastors at parishes across the country to distribute material urging Catholics to oppose the health reform bills making their way through Congress for allowing public funding of abortions. Priests were to insert the Bishops Conference pdf leaflets and letters into parish news bulletins, distribute them [...]

Randall Terry, the founder of fanatical anti-abortion group Operation Rescue, is sending around an email to supporters asking them to burn Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid in effigy as part of a national Halloween protest and video contest. The email and video rallying supporters is characterized by an [...]

Governor Ritter joined 21 other Governor’s today signing a letter that urges federal lawmakers to adopt national health reform legislation before the end of the year.
The letter is addressed to leaders in the House and Senate– Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Majority Leader Harry Reid, Minority Leader Mitch McConnell and Minority Leader John Boehner. It calls for [...]

DENVER — In a fiery speech that had her conservative Colorado audience cheering, U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann railed against the dangers of health care reform and other Democratic initiatives, warning the proposals “have the strength to destroy this country forever.”

“This cannot pass,” the Minnesota Republican told a crowd at a Denver gathering sponsored by the Independence Institute. “What we have to do today is make a covenant, to slit our wrists, be blood brothers on this thing. This will not pass. We will do whatever it takes to make sure this doesn’t pass.”