H.R. 1179 in the House and S. 1467 in the Senate are two copies of the same bill, the Respect for Rights of Conscience Act. If passed, this bill would let doctors, pharmacists and health insurers block patients from obtaining abortions or insurance coverage for abortions even in places and circumstances where abortions are legal. [...]

The Congressional Budget Office has conducted an analysis of Paul Ryan’s plan to move from Medicare to private, for-profit medical insurance, and concluded that Ryan’s plan would result in almost a 300 percent cost increase for senior citizens, who would go from paying just one quarter of their health care costs to paying almost three quarters of their health care costs.

In the 111th Congress, Dennis Kucinich promoted a profit-free single payer health care system through a bill he called Medicare for All. Today, he declared his intention to reintroduce the Medicare for All legislation.

With the health care repeal bill, introduced on the very first day of the 112th Congress, Republicans threaten to place the United States deeper in debt, with increased spending. Do House Republicans now believe that deficit spending is a good thing?

In a letter to his supporters dated July 2010, fundamentalist Christian leader Tim Wildmon leveled a series of charges at the feet of Democratic Party politicians, including the flamingly false accusation that President Barack Obama wanted the Supreme Court to somehow mandate vast redistribution of wealth. Tim Wildmon doesn’t have a good record when it [...]

Lobbyists arranged a party where Sander Levin was showered with money.

The Republican Party candidate for Ohio’s 15th District congressional seat (currently held by centrist Democrat Mary Jo Kilroy) is former banking lobbyist Steve Stivers. This Monday, Stivers sent out an accusatory e-mail. It reads: Dear Friend and Supporter – While I was going door to door and volunteering at the Hilltop Bean Dinner and London [...]

it would have been rather difficult for anyone living in Mississippi to attend Gregg Harper’s Mississippi Fish Fry. It was held at lobbyist offices in Washington D.C.

PAC hosts to this PhRMA luncheon are being asked to pay Geoff Davis $2,000 just for one plate of the PhRMA food.

Since switching his affiliation to the Republican party in December 2009, U.S. Representative Parker Griffith has introduced just one piece of legislation. H.R. 5005, sponsored by Rep. Griffith, is an exact word-for-word copy of H.R. 4972, sponsored earlier by Rep. Steve King. On second thought, that’s not exactly true. The action clause of H.R. 4972 [...]