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Gregg: Tax the Rich to Pay for Health Reform

By | 06.08.09 | 1:34 pm

Sen. Judd Gregg of New Hampshire, the senior Republican on the Senate Budget Committee, is well known on Capitol Hill for his harsh criticisms of anything tax-hike related, including the possibility that Democrats would allow expiration of the Bush-era tax cuts on the nation’s wealthiest people. Yet here’s Gregg today More…

Big Tobacco Takes Last Stand Against Child Health Insurance

By | 01.13.09 | 1:21 pm

The tobacco industry is fighting a lonely battle against health insurance for poor kids.

A coalition of tobacco industry groups ran a full-page ad in the influential Capitol Hill newspaper, Roll Call, on Monday warning President-elect Barack Obama that a proposed tobacco tax hike to cover the expansion of More…

McCain Will Cut Medicare and Medicaid to Fund Health Plan

By | 10.06.08 | 11:55 am

While the McCain campaign’s attacks on Sen. Barack Obama’s connection to former Weatherman William Ayers will likely dominate today’s news cycle, the Wall Street Journal is out with a story this morning with far larger implications for millions of Americans.

According to the newspaper: