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After seeing that one of my state representatives voted against the SCHIP expansion again, after the revisions that addressed each of his “concerns” I became angry. I wrote the following letter to him and will keep our readers up to date on his response, if there is one.
At this point it seems that it is [...]

Although the revised bill costs the same, 35million dollars over 5 years, Democratic leaders say that they have addressed the concerns brought up by the President who vetoed the original bill and the members of the House who voted no on overriding his veto.
Namely it will not allow coverage to families who make more than [...]

Something about this phrase really amused Rush Limbaugh. As you can read here on his radio show transcript. He was in stitches that Nancy Pelosi had implored the House to do the right thing and override the president’s veto “for the children.”
Now, we’ve all seen overused catch phrases in politics, rhetoric that means nothing, but [...]

Today is a sad day for our nation’s children. After weeks of lies and smears the “pro-life until birth” crowd has re-affirmed their stance on life by denying the expansion of health care to millions of children. I am truly disappointed that more Republicans could not have put the well being of their [...]

This evening I took my 5 and 6 year old to our state capital building to participate in a candlelight vigil urging Congress to override the president’s veto of SCHIP. My kids were excited to go and I wondered how much they really grasped of what was going on. I asked our 6 year [...]