As the debate over health care reform dominates the nation’s politics, former Congressman Victor H. Fazio explores the policy debate and the lessons it holds for the functioning of Congress. How has Congress changed through the years? How does it work today? And how are those changes reflected in the health care discussion?
Fazio represented a district in the Sacramento area for 20 years, from 1979 to 1999. He served as Chairman of the House Democratic caucus, the third-ranking position in the Democratic leadership, and as Chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, the political arm of the House Democrats. He is also a former member of the California Legislature and a former journalist who co-founded the California Journal. Fazio is now a Senior Advisor at the law firm of Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld.The Matsui Lecture is delivered each year by a distinguished former Member of Congress who spends a week in residency on the Berkeley campus. The Lectureship honors the legacy of Robert T. Matsui, a Cal graduate who served in Congress for more than a quarter century, building a reputation for bipartisanship and substantive policy achievement. That legacy is also honored by the University’s Robert T. Matsui Center for Politics and Public Service, which seeks to engage Cal undergraduates in public service through the presence of distinguished visitors to campus, public programs exploring important issues, and internship programs offering experiential learning. The Matsui Center is a component of the UC-Berkeley Institute of Governmental Studies, the state’s oldest public policy research center.
Sponsored by the Matsui Center
http://politics.berkeley.edu/
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EDUCATE YOURSELF! Then ask yourself what you are prepared to do back OUR COUNTRY away from the progressive push of AMERICA towards TOTAL GOVERNMENT CONTROL.
America: Freedom To Fascism
No, the title does NOT mean we’re in FREEDOM and heading towards FASCISM. Do you think you are free? Free like the founders of America? Or are you like the Soviet people, who didn’t know what freedom was like until they watched American TV programs and saw how we lived? Watch this video and you will never be the same again.
Nobarack08 Weblog (all about Obama’s U.S. frauds)
http://nobarack08.wordpress.com/
from DREAMS OF MY FATHER: “I ceased to advertise my mothers race at the age of 12 or 13, when I began to suspect that by doing so I was ingratiating myself to whites. … I found a solace in nursing a pervasive sense of grievance and animosity against my mothers race. … I will stand with the Muslims should the political winds shift in an ugly direction.”
The Obama File (all about “The Man Who Never Was”)
http://theobamafile.com/
“Obama has had the finest possible education. Nobody knows how it was financed or what his grades were. His academic records are all sealed and he has an army of lawyers making sure they remained sealed.”
“Barack Obama was born of Marxists; mentored by a communist writer and activist during his formative years; spent his college days hanging around radical activists; worked as a radical community organizer … A ‘community organizer’ is an agitator — a rabble-rouser.”
AP declares Obama Kenyan-Born (And 2008 AP Story Repeats the Claim)
http://thepostnemail.wordpress.com/2009/10/14/ap-declares-obama-kenyan-born/
“What most people know is that the Associated Press (AP) is one of the largest, internationally recognized, syndicated news services. … in a syndicated report, published Sunday, June 27, 2004, by the Kenyan Standard Times, … ‘Kenyan-born US Senate hopeful, Barrack Obama, appeared set to take over the Illinois Senate seat after his main rival, Jack Ryan, dropped out of the race on Friday night amid a furor over lurid sex club allegations.’”
The mixed-race Kenyan called Barack Hussein Obama, A.K.A. Barry Obama, A.K.A. Barry Soetoro (that’s right, illegal alien).
http://www.obamacrimes.com/
The OBAMACRIMES website (and the lawsuits to force the production of Obama/Soetoro’s withheld birth certificate) “was created after research indicated that Barack Obama is not a ‘natural born’ citizen or a Citizen of the United States as required by the United States Constitution to be eligible for the Office of President.” -attorney Philip J. Berg (registered Democrat)
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Gallup Poll: Obama Job Approval 50% – 43%
http://gallup.com
Just like the NCAA March Madness, there’s upsets and victories.
The Democratic Party pass the controversial $940 Billion health care reform package on 219 – 212 vote. All the Republicans and some of the most conservative Democrats voted against it. Minority Leaders John Boehner and Mitch McConnell vows to repeal the decision.
President Obama will sign this into to law.
I congratulate President Barack Obama, Vice President Joesph Biden and the Democratic Congress for passing the health care reform. It was a difficult job. Emotions were high.
If the Democratic Party would have failed in passing health care reform, it’s curtains for them. Now that they pass the bill, the Democrats can sustain some of the potential losses they are facing in the 2010 U.S. Midterm elections.
The problems will now fall on President Barack Obama. There’s no more blaming former President George W. Bush, no more saying that Republicans are holding us back. No more talk about how things were in former President Ronald Reagan or former President Bill Clinton. It’s all now the current president.
I will now focus on now making sure that the Obama Administration will hold its promises of ending the wars, bring jobs to all Americans and mending fences with political opponents.
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http://gopleader.gov Appearing on Fox News’ America’s Newsroom with Bill Hemmer and Megyn Kelly, House Republican Leader John Boehner (R-OH) discussed a effort underway by Republicans and rank-and-file Democrats in Congress to force Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) to post all major bills online for at least 72 hours before a House vote to ensure that the American people and their elected representatives can review them. The effort is being led by Reps. Greg Walden (R-OR), Brian Baird (D-WA), and John Culberson (R-TX). More than 160 Members of Congress have already signed onto a Walden-authored petition that would force Speaker Pelosi to allow a vote on a House rules change requiring a 72-hour review period. He also touched on the Democrats proposed government takeover of health care and media reports suggesting that Speaker Pelosi plans to bring up a House bill that is more liberal, more costly, with more government involvement than ever before.
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Political experts say 2010 could be a difficult year for President Barack Obama and his Democratic allies in Congress. Most analysts predict Republicans will make gains in this year’s midterm congressional elections. They say the president’s popularity and health care reform will be major issues in the campaign. VOA National correspondent Jim Malone recently traveled to the western state of Nevada, which went for Mr. Obama in 2008, to get an early sense of what voters think about the president and the upcoming elections.
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Washington, D.C., United States (AHN) – Several congressional lawmakers have been threatened since voting for the health care reform bill on Sunday. Law enforcement has been called in to investigate some threats against lawmakers, including death threats.
Democrats in the United States House of Representatives have been the target of anger from some after they voted to pass the controversial health insurance reform bill.
More than 10 lawmakers have received threats since the vote on Sunday, House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer said Wednesday.
http://www.allheadlinenews.com/articles/7018203418
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Need to explain? 60 votes? Ring the bell?
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Jessica Deen, KATV reporter asked Sen. Lincoln.Recent polls show that the majority of Arkansas voters think the health care bill was bad for the country. You voted for it. Do you still think that vote was good for Arkansas?”
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U.S. Senator Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.), chairman of the Senate Republican Conference, delivered opening remarks on behalf of Republican members of Congress attending the White House health care summit. He outlined Republican steps to fix health care and challenged Democrats to take reconciliation off the table.
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Alex is live for the first two hours of the broadcast. He will talk about the unconstitutional effort by Congress and Obama to force through health care using “deem and pass” without a vote by the Senate.
Obama, Congress, and Treason Against the Constitution
Kurt Nimmo
http://www.infowars.com/
March 19, 2010
On Thursday, Robert Gibbs, Obamas press secretary, responded to a question about the so-called Slaughter Rule (named after Rep. Slaughter, who sits on the rules committee) that will be used by Democrats to force through Obamas totalitarian care bill, probably over the weekend.
Gibbs answer was deliberately opaque. By not addressing the question, he essentially said deem and pass will be used in the future to enact unpopular legislation, including a bill that will legalize millions of illegal immigrants.
It is now official — the Constitution is dead. It may as well be used to wrap fish.
Article 1, Section 7 of the Constitution requires that both houses of Congress hold recorded yea-or-nay votes on a bill before it can be presented to the president for his signature and before it can become law.
Obama approves of sabotaging the Constitution. He said he does not spend a lot of time worrying about what the procedural rules are, in other words violating the spirit and law of the Constitution is not a biggie for him. What I can tell you is that the vote thats taken in the House will be a vote for health care reform. And if people vote yes, whatever form that takes, that is going to be a vote for health care reform, he told Bret Baier of Fox News.
These constitutional rules set forth in Article I are not mere exercises in formalism, former federal appeals court judge Michael McConnell told the Wall Street Journal earlier in the week. They ensure the democratic accountability of our representatives.
http://www.infowars.com/obama-congress-and-treason-against-the-constitution/
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