Anyone can have a change of heart and mind. Just after the health care reform bill passed last week, I realized the critics were right: Why should we provide insurance for 30 million uninsured …
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Randi Kreiss
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4/3/10
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As the health-reform merry-go-round wound down last week, I was struck by an Associated Press photo of a reform protester at an Iowa City rally last Wednesday.
He was a middle-aged man wearing a …
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Scott Brinton
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4/3/10
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March 21, 2010, will go down in history as the day Congress voted to expand the social contract the U.S. government has with America. Late Sunday night, 219 Democratic Congressmen and women went against 178 Republicans and 34 Democrats in a historic vote on health care reform.
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Al D'Amato
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3/26/10
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I'm hoping — no, make that praying — that the newest senator from Massachusetts, Republican Scott Brown, will now do what he said he would during last week’s special election — that he will, in fact, be an independent voice for the people of Massachusetts.
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Scott Brinton
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1/29/10
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I imagined the liberal lion, Senator Ted Kennedy, rolling over in his grave at the thought that his old Senate seat could actually go to a Republican.
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Al D'Amato
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1/21/10
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I've covered government at all levels for nearly 17 years, and never during that time have I heard “socialist” and “communist” pop up more in our national political conversation than I have in the past 12 months.
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Scott Brinton
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1/14/10
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All I want for Christmas is my two front teeth ...” Well, I suppose that wouldn’t be on my Christmas wish, but I know my young son would appreciate some more teeth.
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Al D'Amato
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12/24/09
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In 1992, at the end of my second term in the Senate, I was approached by several courageous women from Long Island. They sat me down in my Senate conference room and brought to my attention that Long Island was producing higher-than-average rates of breast cancer.
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Al D'Amato
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12/17/09
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There’s no better time than the holiday season to pause and reflect on how fortunate we are, especially when times are tough.
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Al D'Amato
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12/3/09
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Throughout the long, at times agonizing health reform debate, conservatives and insurance-industry lobbyists have argued that we don’t need a public insurance plan to compete with private insurers.
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Scott Brinton
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11/26/09
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