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Elizabeth Warren’s brothers are a silent fixture of her campaign - The Boston Globe

posted onDecember 23, 2019
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NEWCASTLE, Okla. — It feels as far away as possible from the chaos and choreography of a presidential campaign: a little red house in a neighborhood surrounded by fields, where almost nothing breaks the straight line of the horizon. But the man who lives here, a decorated Air Force veteran who the neighbors don’t see very often, has a crucial role to play in Senator Elizabeth Warren’s presidential campaign.

Hospital opposition to state health care reforms foreshadows challenges for Congress | TheHill

posted onDecember 22, 2019
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State lawmakers seeking to rein in health care costs are facing formidable pushback from hospitals, foreshadowing the obstacles a Democratic president and Congress would also face if they try to follow through on bold promises for health reform. As Democratic presidential candidates argue about the merits of “Medicare for All” versus a public option, states are pursuing the latter and getting hammered by hospitals and insurance companies that would stand to lose money under those changes. The next battle will occur in Colorado, where the state’s Democratic governor and legislature are hoping t

Munro: WashPost Message to U.S. Graduates -- Drop Dead

posted onDecember 22, 2019
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The Washington Post has finally produced an article about Sen. Mike Lee’s S.386 green-card giveaway to India’s visa workers — but it excludes the voices of the many American graduates who are losing salaries and careers to the imported population of roughly 1.5 million foreign visa workers. The editors and the author, Abigail Hauslohner, quoted two of the Indian visa workers in the United States, an India-born advocate for the visa workers, two lobbyists for employers, three immigration lawyers, the Koch-funded CATO advocacy group, and the author of the giveaway bill, Sen.