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CONGRESS II

Sen. Ben Nelson’s hardly the only lawmaker extracting sweetheart deals out of the health care reform bill. While the Nebraska Democrat got a particularly juicy concession in exchange for a “yes” vote on the 10-year, $871 billion package — permanent and full federal aid for his state’s expanded Medicaid population — support from a slew [...]

Congress

Our country was founded on the concept of “Citizen Legislators”, those elected by the people. Granted, it took a while for us to give that right to all our people. Now is the time for us to either return to our founding fathers’ concept, or, to formally recognize the current practice of “Professional Politicians”. I [...]