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National Review Online has some answers: Seniors: Even though they are being told otherwise, seniors will pay the biggest price for reform.  Half of the reason that Sen. Reid got a favorable cost estimate from CBO is because his bill cuts Medicare by $471 billion over the coming decade.  An earlier report from the program’s [...]

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Dude, seriously! With the Senate voting on cloture tomorrow morning at 1:00 a.m. (gee–it must be a really important vote!), one would think that Sen. Claire McCaskill (D.-Mo.) would be answering her phones in her Washington, D.C. office. Or having someone to answer her phones for her. Oh, but no! I’ve called several times this [...]

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UPDATE Sunday, 2:14 p.m. CT: Here is the Senate’s schedule for the remainder of Sunday. The Senate will vote on cloture tomorrow (Monday) morning at 1:00 a.m. ET, so your calls, e-mails, and faxes need to be sent today. Following the remarks of Senator Coburn, the Senate will adjourn until 1:00pm Sunday, December 20. Following [...]

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Hot Air reports that Sen. Ben Nelson (D.-Ne.) caved on the Senate’s version of health care reform for an extra year of federal Medicaid subsidies. From Sen. Reid’s (D.-Nev.) Manager’s Amendment: HT: Jill Stanek.

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The Washington Post and other outlets are reporting that Sen. Ben Nelson (D-Ne.), a staunch pro-life advocate, will now vote for the Senate’s version of health care reform. C-Span will offer video of the Senator’s announcement later. Sen. Harry Reid’s (D.-Nev.) Manager’s Amendment allows states to “opt out” of abortion coverage, which simply means that [...]

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The circus theatre unfolding drama of the Senate’s version of health care reform should not distract from our diligence to love our neighbor. Americans United for Life‘s legal team has provided some helpful information for understanding that there are serious, serious issues with the bill as currently amended. Here are a few. The bill: Allows [...]

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During my lunch hour, I drove to Delmar in St. Louis in order to register my concerns about the “Medicare form e-mail” I received from Sen. McCaskill’s office. Recall that this was in response to my e-mail to her asking her to support the Nelson/Hatch amendment to prohibit the federal funding of abortions in the [...]

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Prior to the Senate’s vote against the Nelson/Hatch amendment, which would have added current prohibitions against the federal funding of abortion to the Senate’s version of the health care reform bill, I e-mailed both of my US senators asking them to vote in favor of Nelson/Hatch. Today I received a lengthy e-mail reply from Sen. [...]

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Scroll down to December 9 to see the “Staff, lies, and videotape” post, and the video by the courageous folks at LiveAction.org. American Life League reports that Planned Parenthood is shocked, shocked to learn about the video that was taped at their Appleton, WI clinic and their response is classic Queen of Denial. You can [...]

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Voting 57-35, on Sunday the Senate approved their Conference Report to H.R. 3288, which ensures that federal dollars will be used for abortions in our Nation’s capitol. This was part of President Obama’s pledge to overturn the Dornan amendment, which had previously prohibited abortions in D.C. HT: Jill Stanek.

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