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To: Don Hurst who wrote (160930)	7/23/2009 1:05:47 PM
From: jlallen	Respond to of 173976

Incredible...

To: Don Hurst who wrote (160930)	7/23/2009 1:07:21 PM
From: longnshort	1 Recommendation Respond to of 173976

• Page 241: Doctors: no matter what speciality you have, you'll all be paid the same (thanks, AMA!)

To: Don Hurst who wrote (160930)	7/23/2009 1:08:19 PM
From: longnshort	Respond to of 173976

• Page 59: The federal government will have direct, real-time access to all individual bank accounts for electronic funds transfer.

To: Don Hurst who wrote (160930)	7/23/2009 3:48:27 PM
From: longnshort	2 Recommendations Respond to of 173976

Lawmaker: 40 Democrats Oppose Health Care Bill Without Abortion Ban by Steven Ertelt LifeNews.com Editor July 22, 2009 lifenews.com Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- The leading pro-life Democrat in the House of Representatives says a total of 40 Democratic lawmakers would vote to oppose a health care bill on the House floor unless it explicitly included language banning taxpayer-funded abortion and insurance mandates on abortion. Rep. Bart Stupak, a Michigan congressman, has been one of the leaders in making the government-run health bill the House is considering abortion free. This afternoon, Stupak said he is "optimistic" that the House Energy and Commerce Committee will adopt pro-life amendments to the health care bill that would make it abortion free. The panel could vote as soon as Thursday on the amendments. Should the committee reject the amendments, Stupak tells CBS News that he thinks three dozen Democrats will walk and repeatedly vote against the bill or rules for debate on it. "I think if they do not have [the pro-life amendments] in there and President Obama says we are going to have a bill with nothing in there on abortion, I think it is going to backfire," he said. "I think we bring down the rule and it will be explicitly discussed in the health care plan one way or another." Stupak said he is confident he will have "a minimum of thirty nine" Democrats who will join him in opposing the bill. "If there is not direct language and we are denied our amendment we will focus our attention on the rule," Stupak warned. Stupak said the pro-life and moderate Democrats would "demand" an up or down on the abortion funding limits before allowing the health care bill to move forward. Before a bill can be debated on the House floor, the House Rules Committee adopts the rules for debate and Stupak's warning could mean votes against the rule both in committee and on the floor before the debate on the bill could get underway. That would block the legislation and could defeat the entire bill. Stupak also responded to CBS about the comments President Obama made Tuesday night in an interview with Katie Couric about abortion and health care. Obama said he did not want to "wade into" the issue of whether the health care bill would allow abortion funding and insurance mandates, and appeared to say he didn't favor allowing that. Stupak said the abortion funding debate has to happen on the House floor eventually. "You can't talk about health care and reproductive rights [without abortion]," Stupak said. "You cannot not talk about it. It is central to all of the things we have been doing." "The president was elected to make tough decisions, just as I was elected to make tough decisions," Stupak said. "These are tough decisions, you don't run from them." Stupak's number of 40 Democrats likely includes the 20, including him, who signed a letter to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi in June saying they will not support any health care restructuring bill that does not explicitly prevent abortion funding and coverage. Pelosi received another letter yesterday from four more Democrats who didn't make the same absolutist statement but urged that abortion limits be included.

To: Don Hurst who wrote (160930)	7/23/2009 3:51:50 PM
From: longnshort	2 Recommendations Respond to of 173976

White House qualifies Obama remark about arrest breitbart.com [KLP NOTE: One would think that Obama would read or know the whole story before trotting another of his remarks that someone has to clean up after him.....Another example of Obama's race baiting….Neighbors called the police because it looked like something was wrong, and Obama WITHOUT knowing the full set of facts, automatically decides the police were treating a black man in a "biased manner"…. Gates evidently came out of the house screaming at the police The guy that wrote this comment to the article says it all… >>>>>>>>>"It's too late Obama, you dropped the race card and were antimated about the response. Your hatred of whites clearly showed and the hatred spewed by theReverend Johnson over the past 20 yrs. came out loud and clear. Now you want to say you misspoke and you get your pool boy Gibbs to do your dirty work. You lied repeatedily about healt care and you insinuated that pediatricians and surgeons somehow get together to make money off of children's tonsiles as though it is a ponzi scheme. You then turn your attention to the profits made by insurance companies, your a phoney a fraud and a liar. Fix tort law(oh ues your a lawyer like the rest of Congress) on medical malppractice and doctor's would not have to give some many tests. 90% have medical insurance and the rest need to pay for it if they want it. We were all better off with Bush" <<<<<<<<<<<<<] CLEVELAND (AP) - The White House tried Thursday to calm a hubbub over President Barack Obama's comments about a white police officer's arrest of a black scholar near Boston, saying Obama was not calling the officer "stupid." Spokesman Robert Gibbs told reporters that Obama felt that when it was clear that Harvard scholar Louis Gates Jr. was not a burglary suspect last week, "at that point, cooler heads on all sides should have prevailed." At a Wednesday news conference, Obama had said that the Cambridge, Mass., police "acted stupidly" by citing Gates on a resisting arrest charge, which was quickly dropped. He had not faulted the actions of Gates, who he said is a friend. "Let me be clear, he was not calling the officer stupid," Gibbs told reporters as Obama landed in Cleveland for two health care events Thursday. He said Obama felt that "at a certain point the situation got far out of hand" at Gates' home last week. A neighbor had reported a possible burglary when Gates and a friend were seen trying to force open his front door, which was jammed. By the time police arrived, Gates was inside and showed proof of his residency. But he did not obey the officer's order to step outside, and after words were exchanged, he was arrested. Obama answered a question about the Gates incident at his Wednesday news conference, although he noted he did not know all the details. Gibbs said the president did not regret his Wednesday remarks, but wanted to clarify that he was not calling the arresting officer stupid. Gibbs said Obama has not spoken with Gates since the incident.