Midknight Review -- new and revised: Open Congress - A Weekly Review of curent bills passing through Congress

For each of these issue areas, the bills listed here are the ones that have gotten the most attention from members of Congress and from the public. Many of them are actively moving through the legislative process towards becoming law. Some have already been voted on by Congress, and some are not moving in Congress, but have gained a lot of interest from the public and the media. Generally, these are the bills that people focus on when considering Congress' recent actions on these issues.

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Firearms control 468 views (for the week)

No bills at this time. The Congressional Research Service -- the official non-partisan think tank for Congress -- has not tagged any bills in the current 111th session of Congress with this issue area.

Health care coverage and access 461 view

This is the Senate's major health care bill, passed on December 24, 2009 by a party-line vote of 60-39. The bill would expand health care coverage to 31 million currently uninsured Americans through a combination of cost controls, subsidies and mandates. It is estimated to cost $848 billion over a 10 year period, but would be fully offset by new taxes and revenues and would actually reduce the deficit by $131 billion over the same period.

Midknight Review adds this correction: the bill's financial "positives" as described above are based upon a collection of information given to the Congressional Budget Office for review and computation. The problem is this: that information did not include a $300,000 billion "doctor's fix" amendment that will become law, an allocation that reimburses the medical community for some of the "under" payments to Medicare providers. Nor does it include a billion dollar annual cost for the provision of a 15 member medical panel set up via the February Stimulus bill (the panel is already appointed and the money already allocated) -- a panel that does not include any doctors, set in place to supervise the financial issues of the health care reform bill. Finally, the CBO report assumes $500 billion in cuts to Medicare. Three years ago, under Bush, the Congress failed to approve ANY cuts as it debated $82 billion in cuts requested by G.W.Bush. At the time, he was characterized as an uncompassionate and incompetent leader for even suggesting these cuts. Now, we are left with the hypocrisy of the Left and the impossible task of making more than 6 times the cuts Bush had wanted. Without these cuts, nothing said in the above Open Congress review will be fact.

Unemployment insurance 345 views

The Stated Nonsense from the Left now includes these Progressive goals:

July 2, 2008, Obama had this to say: "We cannot continue to rely only on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives that we've set. We've got to have a civilian national security force that's just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded."

MICHELLE OBAMA: "Barack knows that we are going to have to make sacrifices; we are going to have to change our conversation; we're going to have to change our traditions, our history; we're going to have to move into a different place as a nation."

“ . . . . . . they have become a generation of activists possessed with that most American of ideas – that people who love their country can change it.” -- Obama the Radical

On September 30, Van Jones told MSNBC "I think everybody should hold onto your seats. October is going to be the turning point when it comes to the progressive fight back."

Midknight Review -- new and revised

Open Congress - A Weekly Review of curent bills passing through Congress

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