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Coburn Introduces Amendments Not Found in His Own Health Care Bill

by Jodi Jacobson, Editor in Chief, RH Reality Check

March 24, 2010 - 5:00pm (Print)

In keeping with their failed efforts to upend health reform, Senate Republicans are using several tactics to delay passage of the reconciliation bill now being debated. First it was a work stoppage (are Senators unionized?), and now it is a string of irrelevant, and sometimes dangerous, amendments.

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Nelson Gets Around The Vote, And Sexism Still Thrives In America

by Amanda Marcotte, RH Reality Check

December 27, 2009 - 11:40pm (Print)

Barbara Berg talks about why sexism is still a major problem. Also, the health care debate turns to back room deals over abortion and prayers asking God to smite enemies.

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Palin's Witch-Hunting Pastor, Politics and Public Health

by Scott Swenson, RH Reality Check

September 26, 2008 - 7:00am (Print)

Dismiss talk of witch-hunters as fringe wing-nuttery at your own risk -- public health advocates know better after dealing with witch-doctors and AIDS. The challenge is distinguishing the good witches from the bad.

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Fix PEPFAR Now to Prevent HIV Infections, Save Lives

by Scott Swenson, RH Reality Check

July 10, 2008 - 10:38am (Print)

The Senate is moving closer to a vote on PEPFAR, but there is still time to fix the bill allowing the work horse of prevention to pull the cart of treatment, lightening the load by reducing the number of people infected. Congress has burdened the horse with ideology, and put the cart in front.

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Coburn, Complicit Dems Threaten Women, Girls, PEPFAR

by Scott Swenson, RH Reality Check

June 26, 2008 - 8:35am (Print)

There appears to be movement in the Senate on PEPFAR. But because negotiators started from a position of weakness, the movement is mostly backwards. Scrap it until the new Congress, and learn from the mistakes.

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Roundup: Archbishop Tutu Calls for PEPFAR's Passage

by Brady Swenson, RH Reality Check

June 19, 2008 - 11:11am (Print)

Desmond Tutu asks US Senate to "Make God's world a better place" and pass PEPFAR, AIDS vaccine quest stalled, Michigan Gov. Granholm vetoes late-term abortion ban.

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