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February 25, 2010
Today, House and Senate leaders of both parties are meeting with President Obama at the Blair House to discuss moving forward with comprehensive health reform. Speaker Pelosi's opening remarks:
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Blog Post
February 25, 2010
Today, House and Senate leaders of both parties will be meeting with the President at the Blair House to discuss moving forward with comprehensive health reform. Without reform, the cost of health care for the average family of four is projected to rise $1,800 every year for years to come--and insurance companies will make more health care decisions. America's middle class deserves better and we're closer than ever to making reform a reality.
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February 24, 2010
By a vote of 406-19, the House passed the Health Insurance Industry Fair Competition Act (HR 4626), introduced by Reps. Tom Perriello (D-VA) and Betsy Markey (D-CO). This bill is designed to restore competition and transparency to the health insurance market -- by repealing the blanket antitrust exemption afforded to health insurance companies by the McCarran-Ferguson Act of 1945.
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February 24, 2010
Yesterday, Speaker Pelosi, House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, Chairwoman Louise Slaughter, Congressman Peter DeFazio, and Wendell Potter, senior fellow on health care at the Center for Media and Democracy and a former insurance industry executive, held a news conference to discuss the Health Insurance Industry Fair Competition Act on the floor today to end the unfair antitrust protection for the health insurance industry:
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February 23, 2010
Today, the Energy & Commerce Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations is holding a hearing on the "response by Toyota and NHTSA to Incidents of Sudden Unintended Acceleration" to examine the response to persistent consumer complaints of sudden, unintended acceleration in vehicles manufactured by the Toyota Motor Corporation.
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February 23, 2010
One year ago, President Obama signed the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act into law to bring America's economy back from the brink by giving most Americans the fastest and one of the largest tax cuts in history, creating and saving jobs, and laying the building blocks for long-term prosperity.
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February 23, 2010
New reports detailing shocking increases in insurance premiums across the country continue to roll in. Just today, we learned that premiums for individual health insurance plans in Connecticut increased on average more than 20% for 2010. These increases are simply unsustainable. The time for health reform is now.
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February 22, 2010
In 2008, credit card issuers imposed $19 billion in penalty fees on families with credit cards---exploiting loopholes in the law to make profits at the expense of responsible credit cardholders with minimal oversight. Last May, the House passed, and the President signed, the Credit Cardholders' Bill of Rights (or Credit CARD Act) applying common-sense regulations that ban unfair rate increases and forbid abusive fees and penalties.
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February 22, 2010
This morning, President Obama released his health insurance reform proposal in advance of Thursday's bipartisan meeting on health reform:
The President's proposal on health reform web page»
Speaker Pelosi on the proposal:
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February 19, 2010
President Obama's announcement is an encouraging step in the effort to stabilize our nation's housing markets, help unemployed homeowners, and bring relief to many families hardest hit by the recession.
Recognizing that each city and state faces a unique set of challenges, the President's $1.5 billion initiative focuses on local solutions to local problems and rewards the most innovative and effective approaches to help more at-risk families in America stay in their homes.