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November 19, 2008
November 19, 2008The following statement from Lisa Rickard, president of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce's Institute for Legal Reform (ILR), is a response to Towers Perrin's annual study (pdf: http://tinyurl.com/5eugxa ) on the cost of America's tort system, which shows an increase of 2.1% in 2007 to $252 billion. Full release
Post-election polling of people who voted in this last election shows broad support across the country for strengthening background checks and passing other common sense gun laws.
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Consumer Watchdog said the health insurance industry's support today of national health care reform on the condition that it includes a requirement that every American buy insurance coverage - the so called "individual mandate" - is self-serving. The proposal amounts only to a customer delivery system for the fragmented, wasteful private insurance market. It will not solve America's health care problems and will only encourage the industry to charge higher premiums and demand more taxpayer subsidies while providing less health care. Full release
Health plans today proposed guaranteed coverage for people with pre-existing medical conditions in conjunction with an enforceable individual coverage mandate. Under the new proposal, health plans participating in the individual health insurance market would be required to offer coverage to all applicants as part of a universal participation plan in which all individuals were required to maintain health insurance. Full release
Obama's Top Choice For Attorney General Is Former Justice Department Official Eric Holder. Eric Holder Is Obama's "Top Choice For Attorney General." "President-elect Barack Obama's top choice for attorney general is Eric Holder, a former No. 2 Justice Department official in the Clinton administration..." (Matt Apuzzo and Lara Jakes Jordan, "Holder Is Obama's Top Choice For Attorney General," The Associated Press, 11/18/08) Full release
Pointing to the combined impact of the health care and economic crises on the lives of working families nationwide, SEIU International President Andy Stern called on President-Elect Barack Obama and key leaders in Washington today to work together to address the nation's ailing health care system in the short-term. "Working people in this country are living in fear. Fear of losing their jobs and their health care. Fear of being just one illness away from financial ruin," said Stern in his testimony today before the Senate Committee on Finance led by Senators Max Baucus (D-MT) and Chuck Grassley (R-IA). "If we're going to revive our economy -- if we're going to restore a sense of economic security to ordinary American families -- we have to fix health care." Full release
Former presidential candidate Gary Bauer expressed "disappointment" on Wednesday "that fire was aimed at fellow Republicans" in Governor Huckabee's pro-election book. The chairman of the Campaign for Working Families made the following statement: "As a former candidate myself for the GOP Presidential nomination in 2000, I understand the disappointment Governor Huckabee must feel about his failure to win the GOP Presidential nomination in 2008. It is unfortunate, however, at a time when the GOP needs to close ranks and seek unity, that Governor Huckabee in his new book has aimed his fire at his fellow Republicans." Full release
eHarmony, Inc. and the New Jersey Attorney General's Division on Civil Rights (DCR) have settled allegations that the company violated New Jersey's Law Against Discrimination (LAD) by failing to offer a same-sex matching service. As a result of the settlement agreement, eHarmony, Inc. will start a new service for same-sex matching called Compatible Partners by March 31, 2009. The settlement makes clear that eHarmony, Inc. has not been found in violation of the law. Full release
Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced today the new Majority Leadership team for the 111th Congress, elected today by members of the Democratic Caucus. Speaker of the House: Nancy Pelosi of California, Majority Leader: Steny Hoyer of Maryland, Majority Whip: James E. Clyburn of South Carolina, Democratic Caucus Chairman: John B. Larson of Connecticut, Democratic Caucus Vice Chairman: Xavier Becerra of California, Assistant to the Speaker and Chair of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee: Chris Van Hollen of Maryland. Leadership will take office on the first day of the new Congress, January 6, 2009. Full release