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THE PUBLIC OPTION PROVIDES REAL COVERAGE
Jan 8, 2010
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The Public Option is just that, an option. If you currently have health insurance and like it, you can keep it. However, if you do not have any coverage (47 million people in America do not), or are unhappy with your healthcare provider, you will have another choice. The idea is to simply expand ...
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LET'S TAKE CARE OF OURSELVES, FOR A CHANGE
Jan 8, 2010
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During our successful campaign for Congress, many people told me that we simply can no longer afford the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. America can no longer afford to spend billions, and countless young lives, guaranteeing the wellbeing of the Sunnis, Shiites, and Kurds, when millions of people her...
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WE MUST AUDIT THE FED
Dec 3, 2009
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(Published in the Washington Post, 12/3/09)
Until two years ago, the Federal Reserve increased the money supply by buying federal bonds in the open market, from the lowest bidder. Now the Federal Reserve increases the money supply by private deals, in which it pays cash for assets of dubious val...
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HEALTHCARE PEACE OF MIND
Nov 18, 2009
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(Published in the Orlando Sentinel, 11/18/09)
This past week, the U.S. House of Representatives acted to end a national tragedy.
According to a recent Harvard study published by the American Journal of Public Health, 44,789 Americans die each year because they have no health coverage. For un...
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THE TIME FOR TALK IS OVER
Nov 16, 2009
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The House of Representatives just acted to end a national tragedy.
44,789 people die every year due to lack of health coverage. 122 die every day. In the time it takes you to read this paper, several more will die. Those are numbers from a recent Harvard study. If you take two people who are...
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THE HEALTH INSURANCE BILL -- HERE ARE THE FACTS
Aug 30, 2009
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(Published in the Daily Commercial, 8/30/09)
As you may have heard, there is an awful lot of misinformation about the current legislation to reform health insurance. I’m your Congressman, and I think that you deserve the facts. Here they are, directly from the latest version that the House Energy...
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MY WORD - WE ALL DESERVE A PAID BREAK
Jun 3, 2009
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(Published in the Orlando Sentinel, 6/3/09)
Tourism. It’s Florida’s largest business. Over 75 million visitors a year. $57 billion for our state economy. Jobs, jobs, jobs. Wouldn’t it be great for our economy if more people went on vacation?
The Orlando Sentinel doesn’t see it that way. Last ...
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MY WORD - THE REAL DEAL ABOUT PAY FOR PERFORMANCE
Apr 19, 2009
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(Published in the Orlando Sentinel, 4/19/09)
There are 53 new members of Congress this year. A week ago, I became the first one of us to pass a bill through the U.S. House of Representatives. It wasn’t a bill to rename a post office, or establish a commission. It was a bill to crack down on the ...
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STOP STEALING OUR MONEY
Apr 1, 2009
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(Published in the Huffington Post, April 1, 2009)
I was elected last November because the people wanted change. And nowhere is change more desperately needed than on Wall Street, which is apparently the only place in the world where you can steal from the taxpayers and then bill them for services...
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AIG: THE REAL STORY
Mar 19, 2009
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Do you want to know why AIG went broke, threatening to bring down the whole US economy? It’s easy to find out: just wade through the 500+ pages in the Form 10-K that AIG filed two weeks ago. It’s all in there. I read it.
Derivatives certainly contributed to the problem. That’s why the “stress...
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