Memo to Dallas Republican Rep. Pete Sessions: Think twice before making comparisons. Sessions, who famously compared his own party to the Taliban, is taking heat from liberal groups and Democrats for a comment reportedly made last week in a debate...
Late last night, the House narrowly passed its health care bill. Read about it here, here and here. The legislation would extend health coverage to 36 million Americans, according to the Congressional Budget Office. As you probably know, Texas leads...
This may not come as a surprise to people who know the red hue of Chet Edwards' House district, but the Waco Democrat just announced he'll vote against the House healthcare bill. Edwards won't be the only Democrat to vote...
The Senate Finance Committee gave initial approval today to health care legislation on nearly a party-line vote. Only Sen. Olympia Snowe, R-Maine, broke with the Republican ranks to vote for the bill that cleared the committee 14-9. After casting his...
Republican Reps. Joe Barton of Arlington, Sam Johnson of Plano, and Jeb Hensarling and Pete Sessions of Dallas will host a Congressional health care field hearing on Monday in Richardson. Panelists include: Eddie McBride, president of the Lubbock Chamber of...
Rep. Chet Edwards, a Democrat from Waco, announced details on three health care town hall meetings he'll be holding next week: August 26--Brazos County Bryan - Brazos Center, 3232 Briarcrest Dr. 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. Doors will open at...
After scoring a win, Texas Sen. John Cornyn's going back for more. For about two weeks, Cornyn has been critical of a White House program which encouraged citizens to forward along "fishy" e-mails about health care reform. Now that the...
Politico reported today that the White House has discontinued a "fishy" health care e-mail box. E-mails sent to flag@whitehouse.gov now bounce back as undeliverable. The White House had been encouraging citizens to forward along e-mails with misinformation about Democrats' plan...
Rep. Chet Edwards, a Democrat from Waco, announced today he'll hold a string of town hall meetings, a telephone town hall and gatherings with constituent groups about health care reform. As TDMN reported last week, the Republicans have criticized Edwards...
Health care town hall meetings are cropping up all over North Texas. A couple more to let you know about: Rep. Michael Burgess, R-Lewisville, will hold a Flower Mound Town Hall Meeting on August 18, from 7 p.m. to 8...
Health care reform has dominated Congress's August recess, but Democrat Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson plans on spending at least part of her time on another issue important to her Dallas constituents: the Dallas Main Post Office Processing and Distribution Center....
The hottest ticket in town? A health care discussion with Dallas Reps. Eddie Bernice Johnson, a Democrat, and Pete Sessions, a Republican. So many people have requested tickets to Monday's "Charting America's Health Care Future" event--nearly 900 as of yesterday--that...
In recent days, Sen. John Cornyn has been critical of a new program encouraging citizens to forward so-called "fishy" emails about health care to the White House so it can correct misinformation about proposed Democratic reforms. But now Cornyn is...
As Ryan Rusak reported yesterday, Sen. John Cornyn is awaiting an explanation from the Obama Administration about a program encouraging citizens to forward emails criticizing health care reform to the White House. Cornyn told reporters he's concerned that individuals' rights...
You'll probably get it just as you're sitting down to dinner: a telephone call extolling the virtues of President Obama's health care plan being derailed by Republicans like Dallas Rep. Pete Sessions. The automated and live calls beginning today are...
Sen. John Cornyn, accusing the White House of compiling an "enemies list" on health care, is asking President Barack Obama to cease a new program to have Americans send "fishy" information on health care to the White House. Cornyn, the...
President Barack Obama got a win today on health care, as the House decided to extend health insurance to 4 million uninsured children. (In Texas, that will be almost half a million children.) The bill, which Obama is expected to...
An Obama-Biden TV ad says John McCain's health care plan would be the "largest middle-class tax increase in history." A McCain-Palin/RNC radio ad says Barack Obama's plan "will rob 50 million employees of their health coverage." Both claims are false,...
CNN says John McCain got it wrong when he said Barack Obama would fine employers who don't provide health care. Some other fact checks of note today: CNN also looks at whether Obama sought a delay in U.S.-Iraq talks. That...
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