Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) and Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D-W.Va.) say they intend this week to introduce legislation that would extend by six months the extra financial help states are receiving to help cover the costs of their Medicaid programs. The legislation would extend by six months the increase in the Federal Medical Assistance Percentage (FMAP) that states currently receive from the 2009 economic stimulus bill. The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act provided fiscal relief to state and...
Monthly Archives: February 2010
Tired Of Republicans’ ‘Shameless, Cynical’ Games On Terrorism, Democrats Fire Back
Drawing a sharp distinction between the role they played as the opposition following the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks and that of the Republicans today, Democrats are punching back against what they see as political gamesmanship on the part of the GOP. In an angry floor speech Tuesday, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) sharply criticized Republican efforts to delay confirmation of key national security nominees for the Obama administration. Over in the House, a member of the House Appropriations...
New Online ‘Fact Sheet’ Uses Haiti Quake Crisis To Slam Immigration, Protected Status
As Americans seek to help, and connect with, the massive humanitarian crisis in Haiti, a new fact sheet has been posted online promising to provide seemingly helpful “information about the Haitian community in the United States.” The reality is the document was released by a Washington policy organization using the intense interest in the aftermath of the Jan. 12 earthquake to advance a specific political agenda. Americans are responding in an overwhelming fashion to the devastation in and around...
‘We have met the enemy and he is us’
The union-haters must still be in hog heaven over an AFL-CIO-sponsored poll that showed most Massachusetts union households supported Republican Scott Brown over union-endorsed Democrat Martha Coakley in the special election to succeed the late Sen. Ted Kennedy. The margin was 49 to 46 percent. The numbers remind me again of Pogo’s apt observation: “We have met the enemy and he is us.” The Massachusetts AFL-CIO unanimously endorsed Coakley. She was clearly the pro-union candidate, according to Robert Haynes,...
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