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Honk Against the Health Care Takeover
On March 16 at 12 noon drive to your nearest congressional district office with a sign or bumper sticker reading "Honk Against the Health Care Takeover" and drive around the office occasionally honking your horn to stop the health care takeover. Read More...
Final Health Care Showdown!
The House will soon be asked to vote on the Senate-passed H.R. 3590. This disastrous bill will raise taxes, force Americans to buy expensive insurance they may not want or need, and create over 100 new federal bureaucracies to micromanage decisions of doctors and patients. Take Action Now!
Stop the EPA Powergrab!
The Obama administration intends to bypass Congress and implement outrageous global warming regulation of the entire U.S. economy through the EPA. We need Congress to step in and stop the EPA power-grab, by sending a clear message to our elected officials: if you don't stop the EPA, we will hold you responsible for what they do. Take Action!
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AFP Patients First Health Care Rally
Patients First, a project of AFP, is joined by Charlotte Mayor Pat McCrory at a rally against Government Run Health Care in North Carolina.
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by Phil Kerpen
One of the more extreme proposals floated early in the national health care debate was the idea of taxing soda and other sugary beverages. That trial balloon was almost immediately shot down by the American public, but the Obama administration is attempting to achieve, by subterfuge, soda taxes and a lot of other ways to micromanage our lives in the name of public health—whether or not ObamaCare passes. The mechanism is buried in last year’s $862-billion-and-counting stimulus bill, and works by diverting hundreds of millions of dollars that should be promoting economic growth to instead pay lobbyists to push for higher taxes and nanny-state controls over our lives.
Read the rest at BigGovernment.com.
Listen to a related 2-minute KerpenCast.
READ MOREWhile it would appear that the health care bill is constantly changing, it's actually not. The big upcoming House vote will be on the Senate bill (H.R. 3590), exactly as it passed the Senate on Christmas Eve. It still includes dozens of corrupt special-interest deals like the Cornhusker Kickback, the Louisiana Purchase, Chris Dodd's $100M University of Connecticut Hospital earmark, etc. There are a lot of promises being made right now that the bill will be fixed or improved in various ways after it passes, possibly via reconciliation.
READ MOREPresident Obama finally made it official yesterday: he wants Congress to ignore Senate rules - and the American people - and use a parliamentary trick called "reconciliation" to pass his health care takeover legislation. Fortunately, there's a catch: before the Senate can use reconciliation to force through Obama's tweaks, the House would have to pass the Senate health care bill. And we must stop them.
READ MOREStatement of AFP VP for Policy Phil Kerpen on the potential recess appointment of Craig Becker:
READ MOREThe suggestion from Obama's Labor Secretary Hilda Solis that former SEIU General Counsel Craig Becker will be recess-appointed to the National Labor Relations Board is the latest evidence of the Obama administration's astonishing disregard for Congress, the American people, and the legislative process.
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