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January 14, 2009
"As Barack Obama prepares to take office, lawmakers on Capitol Hill are busy debating matters from health care to stimulus plans and financial bailouts. But an initiative that would provide health insurance for millions of children may have been overshadowed -- an initiative that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi expects will pass."
Articles
January 14, 2009
"With enthusiastic support from President-elect Barack Obama, the House on Wednesday passed a bill to expand the Children's Health Insurance Program. President Bush twice had vetoed similar legislation."
Articles
January 14, 2009
"With enthusiastic support from President-elect Barack Obama, the House on Wednesday passed a bill to expand the Children's Health Insurance Program. President Bush twice had vetoed similar legislation."
Articles
January 14, 2009
"As Barack Obama prepares to take office, lawmakers on Capitol Hill are busy debating matters from health care to stimulus plans and financial bailouts. But an initiative that would provide health insurance for millions of children may have been overshadowed -- an initiative that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi expects will pass."
Blog Post
January 14, 2009
This morning, the Congressional Oversight Panel is holding hearing on regulatory reform of the financial sector in preparation for a congressionally mandated report they will issue on current regulations and how the existing regulatory structure contributed to the ongoing financial and mortgage crises to determine what, if any, reforms are needed.
From the Congressional Oversight Panel:
The Panel will hear testimony from experts representing a wide variety of backgrounds, areas of expertise, and political affiliations.The following witnesses are scheduled to testify at the hearing:
Joseph E. Stiglitz, Ph.D., Nobel Laureate and University Professor at Columbia Business SchoolRobert Schiller, Economist at Yale University
Press Release
January 13, 2009
“Good afternoon. We are about to go into a bicameral House and Senate Democratic leadership meeting to make further progress on the economic recovery package. All afternoon, House Democratic leaders and relevant chairmen were meeting to go over the particulars of the package as we saw it."
Press Release
January 13, 2009
“Today, the House took the first step to achieve one of the top health care priorities for the new Congress: providing health care to 11 million children from working families. This legislation preserves the health coverage of 7 million children and extends it to 4 million uninsured children who are currently eligible for, but not enrolled in, SCHIP and Medicaid."
Blog Post
January 13, 2009
Today, House Democratic leaders introduced the Children's Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act of 2009, legislation to expand the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) to cover 11 million children. The program currently provides health insurance for more than 7 million children, but this legislation will protect coverage for those children and expand it to include an additional 4 million children who would otherwise be uninsured. Similar bipartisan legislation was vetoed twice by President Bush in 2007.
Speaker Pelosi:
Blog Post
January 13, 2009
This morning, the Justice Department Inspector General and Office of Professional Responsibility released a report entitled, "An Investigation of Allegations of Politicized Hiring and Other Improper Personnel Actions in the Civil Rights Division."
The report finds:
Press Release
January 12, 2009
“Good afternoon. We welcome Mexican President Felipe Calderon Hinojosa to the House of Representatives. We are very pleased that he has made time in his visits with President Bush and President-elect Obama to visit Democrats and Republicans in the House and in the Senate."