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Health Care Reform: Reconciliation Bill Released
House reconciliation bill: http://rules.house.gov/ Congressional Budget Analysis: http://www.cbo.gov/doc.cfm?index=11355 Action Alert | Additional Resources
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Health Care Reform Update
** Action Alert: Pray and Act for Health Care Reform ** On Thursday, the House released the text of a budget reconciliation bill to complete their work on health care reform. This followed a report...
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House passes health care reform
The House passed two health care reform bills late Sunday night, sending the Senate bill (HR 3590) to president Obama’s desk and sending a reconciliation bill (HR 4872) to the Senate. On Saturday,...
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The Luckiest Nut in the World
Check out this short film about free trade. The film follows an animated American peanut, who sings about the difficulties of nuts from developing countries. The film helps people to see how the...
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Senate Health Bill Signed Into Law
* Action Alert: Pray and Act for Health Care Reform * Yesterday, President Obama signed the Senate health care bill, HR 3590, into law (watch on C-Span). At the same time, the Senate began its debate...
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Health Care Reform: Final Votes Could Come Today
Early this morning, the Senate parliamentarian upheld two Republican “points of order” on provisions of the bill relating to student loans. Because this will change the bill, it will now need to go...
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Congress Passes Final Health Reform Bill
“Change is never easy, but it’s always possible” The final votes in the long, arduous health care debate came on Thursday. The Senate passed the bill of “fixes” to their health care reform package in...
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Support the TRADE Act
The Trade Reform, Accountability, Development and Employment (TRADE) Act provides a framework for re-evaluating and re-shaping U.S. trade policy so that it serves the common good by providing stable...
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The “Killing Fields” of Juarez
On April 1, 2010 NPR aired an interview with Charles Bowden, a journalist, who has written a book (Murder City: Ciudad Juarez and the Global Economy’s New Killing Fields) about the violence in Cuidad...
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UK passes landmark law on vulture funds
Last week a landmark bill to protect the world’s poorest countries from profiteering by vulture funds became law in the UK. The Debt Relief (Developing Countries) Bill is the world’s first law to...
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