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MAS Freedom Executive Director, Mahdi Bray Speaks Out on Obama Health Care Initiative at Capitol Hill Vigil

At Vigils, Support Shown for Health-Care Bill
By Yamiche Alcindor And Emma Brown
"We need to make sure Congress knows that an overwhelming majority of voters are counting on them to pass health care reform," stated Bray.

WASHINGTON, D.C. (Washington Post) Sept. 2, 2009 – Amid ongoing debate over health-care reform, thousands gathered Wednesday night at events held across the nation, including at least four in the Washington area, to urge Congress and the Obama Administration to approve a bill soon.
"These vigils are to remind decision makers that the debate around health-care is not about politics but about people who are being crushed under the current health-care system," said Nita Chaudhary, the national campaigns and organizing director of MoveOn.org, the group that helped organize the "We Can't Afford to Wait" vigils. (more here)

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Obama's health care summit: Just for show? (AP)

President Barack Obama delivers remarks at the Democratic National Committee Winter Meeting in Washington, Saturday, Feb. 6, 2010. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)AP - Could this turn into something more than political theater? President Barack Obama's televised dialogue with Republican lawmakers on health care, promised for later this month, has the makings of an entertaining exchange. But the differences between the basic Democratic and GOP ideas are stark — and the two sides have increasingly hardened their positions in this election year.


AP Interview: NY's Paterson lashes back at rumors (AP)

FILE - In this Jan. 12, 2010 file photo, Gov. David A. Paterson delivers his State of the State speech in Buffalo, N.Y. Paterson has met privately with key Democratic leaders about his re-election plans as questions swirl around the state capitol about a variety of unproven accusations involving the Democratic governor's personal conduct. (AP Photo/David Duprey, File)AP - New York Gov. David Paterson is lashing back at what he calls an assault on his character that includes accusations about womanizing and drug use.


Rep. John Murtha, Iraq war critic, dies at 77 (AP)

FILE - In this May 29, 2009 file photo, Rep. John Murtha, D-Pa., center, answers a reporter's question about Kuchera Defense Systems Inc., after attending a breakfast at the 'Showcase for Commerce' trade show in Johnstown, Pa. Murtha, an influential critic of the Iraq War whose congressional career was shadowed by questions about his ethics, died Monday, Feb. 8, 2010. He was 77. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar, File)AP - Rep. John Murtha, the tall, gruff-mannered former Marine who became the de facto voice of veterans on Capitol Hill and later an outspoken and influential critic of the Iraq War, died Monday. He was 77. The Pennsylvania Democrat had been suffering from complications from gallbladder surgery. He died at Virginia Hospital Center in Arlington, Va., with his family at his bedside, the hospital said.


Ukraine awaits Tymoshenko concession or legal fight (Reuters)

Members of a local election commission walk in front of the church as they bring a ballot box to a voter's house during the presidential election in the village of Kozova, about 140 km (87 miles) south from the city of Lviv, February 7, 2010. REUTERS/Vitaliy HrabarReuters - Ukraine waited for Yulia Tymoshenko Tuesday to contest a weekend presidential election or concede defeat and allow the winner, Viktor Yanukovich, to start piecing together a governing coalition in parliament.


Pa. Special Election Likely in May (CQPolitics.com)

CQPolitics.com - State election officials are looking at holding a special election to fill the vacancy created by the death of Democratic Rep. John P. Murtha on May 18, the previously scheduled statewide primary date.

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