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- Yes, says a George Washington University study, yes the Stupak amendment will end abortion coverage in all insurance over time, which will include coverage of abortions that need to be performed so the mother can get treated for serious injury or illness.
- Sex-phobic anti-choicers removed contraception from the list of mandated benefits and, as Marcotte says, "watching all this nonsense go down, I'm forced to suggest that the major factor is that our government is still mainly run by a bunch of middle-aged men who've been shielded from having to deal honestly and empathetically with women's lives their whole lives, and therefore are prone to seeing women's concerns as disposable at best, and at worst, as frighteningly alien and needing to be controlled."
- Sen. Schumer complained, bloggers complained, and now a company that was going to build a wind farm in Texas using Chinese-made turbines is going to build a factory in the US that may create as many as 1,000 jobs.
- A GAO audit has revealed that OSHA statistics have been under-reporting workplace injuries for years by only relying on old, employer-reported data, which is routinely misrepresented. There's a chance that the new management will do something about this.
- Congressional action to audit the Federal Reserve is under threat from Rep. Mel Watt (D-NC), whose former chief of staff is lobbying for the American Bankers Association.
- Today, the Senate HELP Committee will be marking up the new food safety legislation and the National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition has provided a report on food safety and sustainable farming techniques (pdf) as a helpful guide.
- Since when did police get the idea that it was necessary to Taser 10 year old girls because they're kicking and screaming? It's a 10 year old, for love of gods. Ten.
- Global temperature rise could hit 6C overall
- The Colorado health insurance lobby really doesn't want to cover maternity care. It's too expensive, they say. Well, I'm sure that won't cost the rest of society anything if they get their way, will it? It's just a gaping hole in family budgets, sucking up a bunch of money at a time when surprising new costs materialize out of thin air. It only hurts kids by stressing their parents right the hell out when any older children may be feeling strange about a new baby, and the baby needs constant attention. It's just a big middle finger to everyone who takes on the work of raising the next generation of people. No BFD.
- Sens. Jim Webb and Jay Rockefeller have decided to be obstacles to climate legislation in the Senate, having sold their souls, respectively, to the nuclear and coal industry lobbies. I remember we used to make fun of Republicans over obstructing necessary bills like that for transparent greed.
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