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Bart Stupak's Departure: The End of Pro-Life Democrats?
By David Gibson - Politics DailyRep. Bart Stupak's announcement Friday that he would not seek re-election this fall is a big story but no surprise, given the political whiplash he endured throughout the health care reform debate. The Michigan Democrat and ardent pro-life Catholic was pilloried for months by many in his own party. He was seen as an obstructionist who held health care reform hostage over his demands to bar taxpayer funding of abortion coverage and was pummeled for nearly killing the bill even when it seemed all his conditions had been met. Then when Stupak negotiated a last-minute deal for an executive ...
Bart Stupak Explains Retirement: 'It's Time For Me To Move On'
By Patricia Murphy - Politics DailyRep. Bart Stupak, a former policeman and a nine-term conservative Democrat from Michigan, announced Friday that he will retire from Congress at the end of the year rather than run for re-election, explaining that with the health care reform bill now passed, he has finished what he set out to do when he first ran for Congress in 1992. "After 18 years, together we have accomplished what you sent me to Washington to do," he said at a press conference in his northern Michigan district. Stupak added that he had considered retiring from Congress several times in the past, but, "I felt we still ...
Bart Stupak, Key Player in Health Reform Abortion Debate, Expected to Retire
By Tom Diemer - Politics DailyRep. Bart Stupak, an anti-abortion Democrat who was a pivotal player in the health care reform debate, is expected to announce Friday that he will not seek reelection to his Michigan seat in the U.S. House, the Washington Post reports. Stupak is apparently exhausted and burned out from the marathon health care debate, during which he battled to assure the new law would not open the way to taxpayer-funded abortions. He threatened to vote against the bill and ultimately won assurances from President Obama that the government would not pay for abortions. Stupak, in his ninth term, is a member ...
Members of Congress Receiving Death Threats; Congresswoman Blames Sarah Palin's 'Rhetoric'
By Patricia Murphy - Politics DailyHouse Majority Leader Steny Hoyer said Wednesday that at least 10 members of Congress have received threats since the health care reform bill passed Sunday night and that the FBI is investigating. "We've had very serious incidents that have occurred in the last 48 or 72 hours," Hoyer said. "The incidents of threats, whether in person or through telephones or through other communication devices, have given great concern to members for the safety of themselves and their families." Rep. Louise Slaughter (D-N.Y.) said Wednesday that she had reported two "alarming" incidents to the FBI since ...
Stupak Calls Bishops, Anti-Abortion Groups Hypocrites on HCR
By David Gibson - Politics DailyThe war among pro-lifers over health care reform is worsening, not easing, in the wake of the passage of the health care overhaul: Rep. Bart Stupak of Michigan, leader of a key Democratic bloc that held out for tougher language against abortion financing, has called the Catholic bishops and conservative anti-abortion lobbies "hypocrites" for not supporting the bill after Stupak won last-minute concessions from the White House. Stupak received a guarantee from President Obama and Speaker Nancy Pelosi that Obama would sign an executive order after the bill's passage that reiterates the bill's ...
Signing of Health Care Executive Order on Abortion to Be Closed to the Press
By Lynn Sweet - Politics DailyPresident Obama will sign an executive order Wednesday afternoon affirming that the new health care law he signed Tuesday bans any federal money going for abortions. The executive order was part of a deal with a crucial bloc of anti-abortion House Democrats, led by Rep. Bart Stupak (D-Mich.), clearing the way for many of them to vote yes on the controversial bill. Stupak and a dozen other anti-abortion House members, plus Sen. Bob Casey (D-Pa.), were invited to the White House to witness the signing, but the White House is not permitting any news photographers or reporters at the 2:30 p.m. ...
Who Is Rep. Randy Neugebauer?
By Russell Berman - AOL NewsWASHINGTON (March 22) -- The Texas congressman who shouted "baby killer" as Rep. Bart Stupak spoke on the House floor is a conservative Republican who has opposed the Obama administration's agenda at nearly every turn and signed on to a proposal that would require presidential candidates to present their birth certificates as proof of their eligibility for the Oval Office. Rep. Randy Neugebauer, 60, issued an apology today for Sunday's outburst, though he said his harsh invective was directed at the Democratic health care bill and not personally at Stupak, the anti-abortion Michigan Democrat ...
Democrats Find New Ground on Abortion
By Andrea Stone - AOL NewsWASHINGTON (March 22) -- The Democrat who helped House leaders secure the last few votes needed to pass landmark health care legislation might not have been treated so solicitously at the party's convention the year he was elected to Congress. In 1992, when Bart Stupak was running for his first term in Michigan's 1st Congressional District, Pennsylvania Gov. Robert Casey Sr. was denied a speaking slot at the Democratic National Convention in New York. Casey was the namesake for a pivotal U.S. Supreme Court case that upheld a state's right to restrict abortions. He accused the Clinton-Gore ...
'Baby-Killer' Shouter Says He Meant Health Care Deal, Not Bart Stupak
By Jill Lawrence - Politics DailyRep. Randy Neugebauer (R-Texas) has owned up to shouting "baby-killer" on the House floor Sunday night as Rep. Bart Stupak (D-Mich.) defended the deal he had worked out with Democratic leaders to make sure the new health care law doesn't funnel federal money to abortion. But it wasn't what it sounded like, Neugebauer said in a statement Monday. He says he actually yelled "It's a baby-killer" and he was referring not to Stupak but to the agreement Stupak reached to have President Obama sign an executive order reinforcing the federal ban. Nevertheless, Neugebauer offered a full apology to ...
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