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Three Democrats on the Senate Finance Committee--Max Baucus, Kent Conrad, and Blanche Lincoln--voted against both public option amendments yesterday. Here is the contact information for all three, along with the bribes, excuse me, campaign contributions each has taken from the insurance industry they voted to protect:Max Baucus ($1,196,463)202-224-2651E-mailKent Conrad ($838,787)202-224-2043E-mailBlanche Lincoln ($504,383)202-224-2843E-mailWhile we're at it, and since it does those of us in Texas absolutely no good to contact our Senators on this matter, let's...

We're not even a year into this administration and I'm already beginning to feel burned out.  It seems like the far left and the far right are screaming at (and past) each other so loud that any rational discussion is stillborn.Obama's health care proposals don't bend the cost curve in the right direction because they put the cart before the horse in mandating coverage before addressing cost.  (Funny how increasing demand without a concurrent change...

Unless you've been living under a rock, you know about the shocking death of Todd Henry a couple of days ago. Then again, those of us in the classroom are not as shocked as people in the general population. Sometimes though, salient questions come from those that have no business raising them. In this case, it was brought by the defense attorney for the 16 year old who stabbed Henry.He said his client is mentally...

Given the uncertainty surrounding the direction of the human space exploration program these days, a group of young professionals here at JSC assembled with the guidance and support of the Bay Area Houston Economic Partnership and local aerospace executives to begin an advocacy campaign and get the word out on why we think human spaceflight is important. The Young Professionals branch of the Citizens for Space Exploration now has a website that I must highly...

  During the mark-up session today of the health care reform bill before the Senate Finance Committee, Sen. Jim Bunning (R-KY) proposed an amendment which would delay a vote for 72 hours. Undoubtedly just another Republican stall tactic, but done under the guise of allowing time for the contents of the bill to be posted on the Finance Committee's website. The amendment was defeated, but before the vote Sen. Pat Roberts (R-KS) had a...

Republicans: You spent my generation's tax dollars, and left destruction behind. We are now paying, using the next generation's future tax dollars, for your mess, and mistakes. Stop telling us we're socialists. We're problem solvers. The problems we're solving? Created by you. We'd love to stop spending the next generation's tax dollars - but we can't pay the debts left by you and fix your mess and run a nation and fight two wars...

As if any further proof were necessary that Republicans have no real interest in health care reform, take a look at some of the frivolous amendments proposed to the Baucus Bill in the Senate Finance Committee: * Kyl 371---Prohibit the federal government's takeover of health care.* Ensign 409---Transparency in czars.* Hatch 511---Prohibits authorized or appropriated federal funds under the Mark from  being distributed to or used by ACORN.* Ensign 543---Strike the word "fee" everywhere it...

As many of you know, I am a cradle Catholic and a volunteer with my parish. Those two facts alone make many of the people there believe that I am actually a conservative. It's actually kind of humorous, a few of us there are underground liberals. There has been talk of developing a signal where one of us draws half a donkey and the other one finishes it. It's a lonely world we live in,...

I've been listening to all the rhetoric, debate, diatribes, whatever you want to call it on the healthcare issue. I've listened to President Obama on the talk shows today, and I've listened to the counter-arguments espoused by the opposition afterwards. We're hearing all sorts of opinions by a small handful of people who will be setting policy and making pronouncements that will affect all of us for a lifetime. I would like to offer a...

Bill Moyers does it again, exposing another member of the Republican Party's 'Throwing Stones From Inside the Glass House' brigade, Dick Armey, for the fraud and hypocrite that he is. On the latest edition of his Journal, Mr. Moyers started with a re-cap of last weekend's protest in Washington, D.C. and then launched into Armey:"For most of his adult life their leader has benefited from just the kind of government, tax-supported health care he's fighting...