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July 07, 2009 05:37 PM EDT --
In the first Senate hearing on clean energy legislation supported by President Barack Obama, Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) compared the Senate to the “ExxonMobil board room.” Whitehouse . . .
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June 22, 2009 08:55 PM EDT --
On CSPAN’s Washington Journal yesterday, former Republican congressman Tom Davis received a call from an elderly woman named Dorothy, who said that because she has diabetes, health insurance companies . . .
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July 27, 2009 07:31 PM EDT --
White House Secretary Robert Gibbs was asked again about "birthers" who doubt that President Obama was born in the U.S. and called the claims "fictional nonsense," but several Republican lawmakers . . .
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April 11, 2009 03:23 AM EDT --
Organizers of the radical anti-Obama “tea party” protests have been trying to claim that the events are rising up spontaneously. However, right wing lobbyist groups, think tanks and, especially, Fox . . .
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July 06, 2009 03:42 PM EDT --
On "Morning Joe," co-host Mika Brzezinski repeatedly stated that Alaska Governor Sarah Palin's views connected with "real Americans." Her statement brought a flurry of e-mails from upset viewers. . . .
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June 26, 2009 05:31 PM EDT --
During the floor debate this morning over the historic American Clean Energy and Security Act (ACES) , Rep. Paul Broun (R-GA) received a round of applause from GOP colleagues when he claimed that man-made . . .
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July 31, 2009 12:02 AM EDT --
MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow reported that health care executive Betsy McCaughey created the “Obama health care will kill old people” lie that has been repeated by opponents of health care . . .
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July 26, 2009 06:57 PM EDT --
Two years ago, the city of San Francisco launched the country’s first universal health care program, Healthy San Francisco. Today, almost 75% of previously uninsured residents are enrolled in . . .
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April 22, 2009 10:28 PM EDT --
A onetime senior adviser to former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice says that the Bush Administration collected and destroyed memos by top officials arguing that torture methods used on . . .
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April 15, 2009 02:19 PM EDT --
MSNBC's Rachel Maddow mocked the "tea parties" scheduled to take place across the nation on April 15 and tried her best to hold back laughter at the rather unfortunate name the conservative . . .
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May 26, 2009 12:25 AM EDT --
Last week, former Republican House Speaker Newt Gingrich called on Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) to resign her current position as Speaker. He said that she “disqualified herself” over her comments . . .
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June 16, 2009 06:39 PM EDT --
Today, President Obama spoke before the American Medical Association about the immediate need for far-reaching health care reform. He insisted that one of the options presented to Americans “needs . . .
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June 24, 2009 07:43 PM EDT --
Rep. Bill Posey’s (R-FL) bill aimed at casting doubt over the citizenship status of President Obama appears to be gaining momentum within the Republican Party. The bill would require candidates . . .
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August 16, 2009 05:48 PM EDT --
In an interview with ThinkProgress yesterday, Rep. Kendrick Meek (D-FL) said that members of Congress are protecting insurance companies and their profits.
“Because of the special interests . . .
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October 15, 2009 07:54 PM EDT --
On Sean Hannity’s Fox News show, former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney propagated a fearmongering claim that a public health insurance option would bring death to the country. The multi-millionaire . . .
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April 16, 2009 06:59 PM EDT --
Rachel Maddow reported on the different tea parties across America, some of the meanest signs ("Obama is Hitler shoveling people into ovens") and the actual numbers of what the GOP called . . .
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April 29, 2009 01:38 AM EDT --
Texas Governor Rick Perry’s request for the federal government to provide his state with 37,430 courses of anti-flu medication from the national stockpile has come under fire in light of his earlier . . .
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