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Why Are Women Ditching Democrats?
By not in system - AOL News(Oct. 28) -- The Democratic coalition is crumbling, with women, Catholics and the working class no longer favoring the party, according to a New York Times/CBS News poll. If more women vote for Republicans than Democrats Nov. 2, it will be for the first time since exit polls began measuring the gender split in 1982. The poll shows just how upset Americans are with the government: 57 percent of registered voters say they'd back a candidate with little experience, and 25 percent said they'd vote for someone whose positions "seem extreme." But just what they want politicians to do about it ...
Family Feud on Tour in Districts of Pro-Life Democrats Who Voted for Health Care Reform
By Melinda Henneberger - Politics DailyMEADVILLE, Pa. – You'd never know from the back-and-forth between the protesters and counter-protesters gathered in this small tool-and-die town's Bicentennial Park earlier this week that they agree on the issue they came out to shout about. In front of a "voter education" campaign bus bearing huge, mug-shot style photos of a half-dozen pro-life House Democrats who voted for health care reform, a succession of speakers on a 23-city tour organized by the Susan B. Anthony List claim that the local congresswoman, first-termer Kathy Dahlkemper, "caved" on the abortion issue by voting for ...
Abortion Rights Advocates "Outraged" at Obama White House Over Health Coverage
By Lynn Sweet - Politics DailyA leading abortion rights group called on its members Sunday to pressure the White House to reverse course and make sure abortion coverage is included when new insurance coverage becomes available under the health care law President Obama signed last March. "To our dismay, the Obama administration just announced it will exclude abortion coverage in the temporary health-insurance pools that will transition us into the new health-care system," wrote Nancy Keenan, who is the president of NARAL Pro-Choice America. "I am outraged that such a decision would come from a pro-choice president that ...
Barton Calls BP Escrow Fund 'Shakedown'; Hayward 'Devastated' by Spill
By Patricia Murphy - Politics DailyBP chief executive Tony Hayward told members of the House Energy and Commerce Committee on Thursday that he is "devastated" by the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico and that his company is committed to stopping the spill, cleaning up the devastated shoreline and compensating the people affected by it. "I give you my word," he said, "we will make this right." But in sometimes withering questioning by members of the congressional subcommittee investigating the causes of the April 20 explosion on BP's Deepwater Horizon rig, Hayward refused to answer specific inquiries about the accident. Instead, ...
Big Oil in Washington Bull's-Eye as CEOs Take Hot Seat in Gulf Inquiry
By Patricia Murphy - Politics DailyEvery drama needs a villain. And with images of toxic crude oil spilling into the Gulf of Mexico at a rate of more than a million gallons a day, Democrats in Washington have seized on Tony Hayward, the chief executive of BP, and the chiefs of the five largest oil companies in the world as the villains most responsible for the ongoing disaster in the Gulf. Beginning Tuesday, President Barack Obama and members of Congress will make a full frontal assault on Hayward and Big Oil, hauling the executives before congressional panels, into the Oval Office, and before the court of public opinion using ...
Lawmakers' Letter Previews the Grilling BP CEO Is Set for on Capitol Hill
By Andrea Stone - Politics DailyA letter released by a House committee makes clear BP CEO Tony Hayward will have a lot of explaining to do when he testifies to Congress for the first time Thursday. In a 14-page letter to Hayward, Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Henry Waxman, and Rep. Bart Stupak, head of the oversight panel, outlined the results of his staff's investigation into the April 20 blowout that resulted in the Gulf oil spill. The stinging letter gave a preview of the grilling that awaits Hayward: "The Committee's investigation is raising serious questions about the decisions made byBP in the days and hours ...
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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 ...
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