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Category: health policy
Clearly, I'm not the only one who thinks that the most obvious solution for health care reform is for the House to pass the Senate bill: The New York Times just published an editorial arguing the same point: The most...
Posted on: January 26, 2010 12:14 AM, by Nick Anthis • 32 Comments •
Category: health policy
The House should pass the Senate health care bill without delay. Contact your Representative today!
Posted on: January 25, 2010 10:53 PM, by Nick Anthis • 12 Comments •
Category: universal health care
Socialized medicine isn't even on the table right now... unfortunately.
Posted on: August 6, 2009 4:22 PM, by Nick Anthis • 15 Comments •
Category: science policy
It would only take about one seven-hundredth of one percent of the federal budget.
Posted on: April 1, 2009 10:28 AM, by Nick Anthis • 0 Comments •
Category: Africa
You can file this one under "should have been done about twenty years ago." From the Mail & Guardian: Lawmakers on Tuesday debated legislation to remove former South African president Nelson Mandela and the African National Congress (ANC) from an...
Posted on: May 7, 2008 8:57 AM, by Nick Anthis • 1 Comments •
Category: Congress
It's an important step forward, but the only true long-term solution is universal health care.
Posted on: April 29, 2008 10:45 AM, by Nick Anthis • 10 Comments •
Category: Barack Obama
On Monday, Obama was endorsed by Congressman Chet Edwards, whose district includes Texas A&M University, the George H.W. Bush Presidential Library, and George W. Bush's Crawford ranch
Posted on: February 22, 2008 5:09 AM, by Nick Anthis • 0 Comments •
Category: Barack Obama
Obama wins big in Maryland, Virginia, and DC, but now he has even bigger fish to fry.
Posted on: February 13, 2008 5:07 PM, by Nick Anthis • 0 Comments •
Category: health policy
but not with a veto-proof majority.
Posted on: September 26, 2007 7:58 AM, by Nick Anthis • 0 Comments •
Category: Republican Party
Tensions mount between Congressman Tom Cole and the Republican leadership.
Posted on: September 24, 2007 1:55 PM, by Nick Anthis • 3 Comments •
Category: health policy
Congress appears to be on track for another major standoff with President Bush. The Washington Post reports today that the House and Senate have reconciled their differing versions of the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP or CHIP) expansion and...
Posted on: September 22, 2007 12:23 PM, by Nick Anthis • 1 Comments •
Category: open access
Following the House, which passed its version in July.
Posted on: September 12, 2007 9:01 PM, by Nick Anthis • 0 Comments •
Category: health policy
This just in: the CHIP expansion has passed both houses of Congress.
Posted on: August 3, 2007 5:00 AM, by Nick Anthis • 1 Comments •
Category: health policy
despite Republican opposition to expanded health care access for kids.
Posted on: August 2, 2007 4:50 PM, by Nick Anthis • 0 Comments •
Category: open access
The next step is the Senate.
Posted on: July 20, 2007 1:58 PM, by Nick Anthis • 0 Comments •
Category: health policy
Let's get this bill rolling....
Posted on: July 18, 2007 4:16 PM, by Nick Anthis • 5 Comments •
Category: political interference
Members of the Bush Administration are forced to defend the Administration's policies of political interference in climate science.
Posted on: March 21, 2007 7:50 PM, by Nick Anthis • 5 Comments •
Category: political interference
The House passes the Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Act 331-94. Should we be surprised that all 94 nays come from the Republican side of the aisle?
Posted on: March 15, 2007 9:20 PM, by Nick Anthis • 8 Comments •
Category: political interference
This should be interesting....
Posted on: March 14, 2007 1:56 PM, by Nick Anthis • 2 Comments •
Category: stem cells
Yes, that's TOMORROW!!!
Posted on: January 10, 2007 1:16 PM, by Nick Anthis • 0 Comments •
Category: law
Under the new Democratic Congress, many are hoping to change these outdated and sometimes blatantly racist laws.
Posted on: January 10, 2007 9:47 AM, by Nick Anthis • 0 Comments •
Category: Democratic Party
The Democrats are already making big plans to investigate some of the Bush Administration's more outrageous instances of political interference in science.
Posted on: November 20, 2006 5:47 PM, by Nick Anthis • 0 Comments •
Category: Republican Party
Although painted as a moderate choice, Boehner's record on key science issues borders on appalling.
Posted on: November 17, 2006 4:22 PM, by Nick Anthis • 3 Comments •
Category: elections
As the sun sets on the conservative movement in America, 2006 marks a new beginning for the Democrats, and hopefully for American science.
Posted on: November 10, 2006 7:39 AM, by Nick Anthis • 0 Comments •
Category: elections
There is so much to say about the importance of today's election, but not a great deal that hasn't already been spelled out time and time again. Most importantly, if you haven't already voted, go vote today! Hopefully you'll have...
Posted on: November 7, 2006 6:39 AM, by Nick Anthis • 2 Comments •
Category: elections
If George Bush is driving our nation down a one-way road to hell, it's the Republican-controlled House and Senate that are enabling him to do this. On October 17th, Bush signed into law the Military Commissions Act of 2006, which...
Posted on: November 6, 2006 6:12 PM, by Nick Anthis • 0 Comments •
Category: Congress
There's a hot congressional race going on right now deep in the heart of Texas in District 17, which stretches from just north of Houston to just south of Fort Worth and includes my alma mater, Texas A&M University. The...
Posted on: November 2, 2006 7:39 AM, by Nick Anthis • 2 Comments •
Category: stem cells
Wealthy billionaires, including many Republicans, are picking up the tab for US embryonic stem cell research in the face of restrictive Bush Administration policies. Is this a permanent solution, and does this mean that the Republican Party is now an ally of science? Not likely.
Posted on: August 23, 2006 4:07 PM, by Nick Anthis • 1 Comments •
Category: stem cells
I'm on vacation right now, but I had to come out of hiding for this one. HR 810 passed in the senate today, 63-37. That was enough to meet the 60 vote mark for passage, but it won't be enough...
Posted on: July 18, 2006 8:12 PM, by Nick Anthis • 2 Comments •
Category: stem cells
It has been announced that the highly anticipated debate and vote in the Senate on HR 810, the Stem Cell Research Enhancement Act, will take place on July 17th and 18th (next Monday and Tuesday). This is great news, but...
Posted on: July 12, 2006 7:10 PM, by Nick Anthis • 0 Comments •
Category: stem cells
Bush hasn't used his veto yet, but he's promised to employ it on, of all issues, stem cell funding. Not surprisingly, this is indicative of the general Republican Party attitude toward the field.
Posted on: July 12, 2006 8:51 AM, by Nick Anthis • 12 Comments •
Category: stem cells
On the 29th of June, the Senate finally announced an upcoming vote on HR 810, a bill which would overturn President Bush's current prohibitions on federal funding of embryonic stem cell research. The progress of the bill still faces many hurdles, and a recent article in the journal Science did little to publicize them and in fact contained several problematic and even inaccurate statements.
Posted on: July 8, 2006 8:00 PM, by Nick Anthis • 1 Comments •
Category: global warming
Yesterday, the AP released a story describing the general approval within the scientific community of the science behind Al Gore's new documentary An Inconvenient Truth. Not to be outdone, global warming denialist James Inhofe (R - OK) released his own press release via the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works, and it's about as crazy as anything else he's had his hands on.
Posted on: June 28, 2006 6:42 PM, by Nick Anthis • 15 Comments •
Category: political interference
The Miller Amendment on scientific integrity came up for a vote in the House Science Committee today and was solidly voted down by the Republican majority. In fact, while all Democrats voted for it, all Republicans voted against it.
Posted on: June 14, 2006 8:59 PM, by Nick Anthis • 1 Comments • 1 TrackBacks
Category: open access
In May, Senators John Cornyn (R-TX) and Joseph Lieberman (D-CT) introduced the Federal Research Public Access Act of 2006 to the US Senate, which would require free public access to most government-funded research within six months of the research's publication. This post (from the archives) explores this piece of legislation and the issue of open access in depth.
Posted on: June 12, 2006 7:55 AM, by Nick Anthis • 4 Comments •
Category: political interference
In the ongoing struggle against political interference Michael Stebbins of Sex Drugs & DNA reports that Representative Brad Miller (D-NC) has introduced a scientific integrity amendment to HR 5450, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Act, which is currently under consideration in the house.
Posted on: June 11, 2006 1:06 PM, by Nick Anthis • 6 Comments • 1 TrackBacks
