“Choose Life” license plates are back. Pre-abortion sonograms are an official state emergency. The 2011 Texas legislative session presents great opportunities for anti-abortion advocates and faith-based crisis pregnancy resource centers, to which the state directs millions of dollars per year.
President Barack Obama delivered a rousing State of the Union speech tonight in front of wolves laying down with lambs. Colorado Senator Mark Udall, who called for the bipartisan seating arrangement, sat with Senator Jim DeMint, R-South Carolina. Most of Colorado’s delegation sat together, regardless of party, and the same More…
Gallup has a webpage that tracks global unemployment numbers. Felix Salmon looks at the data and provides another argument for why the claim that unemployment benefits keeps people from taking jobs is false.
Texas Gov. Rick Perry and Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst aren’t the only state leaders in the U.S. to have private donors and corporate interests pick up the tab for their inauguration ceremony.
The Dallas Morning News‘ Wayne Slater reports that “Oil executives, beer distributors, lobbyists and big-dollar campaign donors
Freshman Republican U.S. Rep Renee Ellmers (N.C.) will chair the Subcommittee on Healthcare and Technology, which is part of the House Committee on Small Business. The position is instrumental in leading the implementation of federal health care reform, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.
As a candidate running against incumbent Rep. Bob Etheridge during last year’s campaign, Ellmers told the Clayton Daily Star she opposed the provision in the federal health care reform law that barred insurance companies from refusing patients with pre-existing conditions. In addition, she questioned whether all insurance customers should have to help pay for maternity care.
Rep. Sam Graves (R-Mo.), chairman of the Small Business committee, appointed Ellmers to the position. “As a nurse and small business owner, Renee Ellmers will be a great resource as the Committee examines ways we can improve the health care law without creating new problems for American entrepreneurs,” said Graves.
The duties of the Healthcare and Technology subcommittee are:
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