A key Senate panel passed the final health care bill, paving the way for legislation to appear before the entire Senate. The Senate Finance Committee bill gained the support of one Republican, Senator Olympia Snowe (R-Maine). Her vote helps move health care reform further along in the legislative process than ever before.
It’s clear, the proposed health care reform bill from the Senate Finance Committee that legislators will vote on Tuesday doesn’t include a public option, nor any other plan that would effectively insure working Americans. With such a bill, some 25 million people will miss out on getting coverage while the insurance companies enjoy most of $850 billion dollars of taxpayers’ money that went it to fund it.
The United Nations high commissioner for human rights, Navi Pillay, has issued a strong and eloquent call on the world to end caste discrimination like it did apartheid and slavery. The organizations Human Rights Watch, the National Campaign On Dalit Human Rights, and the International Dalit Solidarity Network have all endorsed Pillay’s and the UN’s [...]
Now that President Barack Obama has received the honor of getting a Nobel Prize, some are calling on him to make China a partner for peace. But, with China’s tainted human rights record this may be a bit premature.
In yet another insightful segment, PBS’s Bill Moyers shows who is coming in and out of the “revolving door” — the lobbyists that come to Washington to lobby, and the lobbyists that go to Washington to work for no one else, but their former employers. Take a look at what Moyers is about to show you: Max Baucus’ real advisers.
