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Wyoming Democratic Party Many of the provisions in the Senate health reform bill would help to attract and retain physicians and medical professionals in rural areas...

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A provision in the U.S. Senate health care overhaul would increase Medicare payments to doctors and hospitals in Wyoming, but it hasn't swayed either of the state's senators to support the bill.
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Senators Enzi & Barrasso Join GOP In Opposing Health Insurance Reform Ignore the needs of Wyoming’s people Washington, DC – Delivering on the GOP’s pledge to try to kill health reform to break the President, last night Senators Enzi and Barrasso voted against health insurance reform. In ...
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Wyoming Democratic Party Great article discussing Wyoming's potential for wind energy and the politics that surround it...

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Wyoming is one of the best places in the world to generate power from wind. But the wind rush is running into opposition from greens, and the fossil fuel industry.
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Wyoming Democratic Party One step closer to achieving crucial health reform...

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Senate Democrats won a milestone victory early Monday in the health-care debate, approving a procedural motion to move the reform legislation to final passage later this week, and without a single vote to spare.
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The following perspective by Brianna Jones was printed in the Casper Star Tribune, 12/20/2009, http://bit.ly/5jF80y Our nation’s health care debate has gone from civil, to raucous, to downright ridiculous, but the truth is that there are millions of people across the nation -- more than 72,000 i...
Barb
Barb
Good job Brianna!
December 21, 2009 at 10:49am
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Wyoming Democratic Party
Thank you Barb!
December 21, 2009 at 4:06pm
Paul
Paul
Thank you Bri for your efforts
December 21, 2009 at 11:38pm
Forrest McCarthy

Forrest McCarthy Sen. John Barrasso, along with six other Republican senators, put President Barack Obama on notice that the U.S. Senate is unlikely to support any agreement reached at the Copenhagen climate summit that doesn't require action in China and other developing countries.

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Giant trucks wait in line to be loaded with coal in one of the massive mines of Wyoming's Powder River Basin. Wyoming elected officials are concerned about the impact of proposed carbon limits on the state's coal industry. (Dustin Bleizeffer/Star-Tribune file photo)
Bryon Lee

Bryon Lee Good afternoon!!! If anyone is interested in hearing about what Organizing For America is doing in the state or how you can be involved with an upcoming January 2010 Listening Tour please let me know (leeb@dnc.org)!!! Good stuff happening!!!!

December 16, 2009 at 2:08pm · Report
Leslie
Leslie
We are really looking forward to seeing you in Teton County and look forward to getting acquainted. I was very happy when I heard you had met with our Democratic staff in Casper and it sounds like you guys really hit it off.
December 17, 2009 at 8:03am
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Thanks for getting involved Bryon! We are looking forward to all the Wyoming OFA activities and excited for the Listening Tour!
December 17, 2009 at 9:49am
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www.nytimes.com
The need for health coverage prevents many workers from finding new jobs or starting new companies, which suppresses economic growth.
Andrew Simons
Andrew Simons
Along with medical bankruptcy and economic decline. Healthcare reform and the public option, in some form, were critical to moving us out of a cycle of debt and class warfare.
December 16, 2009 at 1:42pm
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There’s a long-standing adage in state government that if you ask for millions of dollars in your budget, the Joint Appropriations Committee rubber stamps it quickly and without much debate. But, if you ask for a few thousand, they can discuss it forever. That was indeed the case when the State Tre...
Forrest McCarthy

Forrest McCarthy Wyoming Needs another Tom Stroock

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Wyoming Democratic Party Not a single member of the GOP voted for the financial reform package. Not one Republican in the House thinks that consumers deserve additional protections or that the practices of Wall Street should be curbed.

December 11, 2009 at 12:53pm
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Wyoming Democratic Party US House Passes sweeping financial regulatory reform package to rein in abuses that caused our current crisis. http://bit.ly/7kxpC6

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More than a year after the near-collapse of Wall Street plunged the economy into crisis, the House on Friday approved the most sweeping overhaul of the nation's financial regulatory system since the Great Depression.
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Wyoming Democratic Party 11.8% of Wyoming residents have not seen a doctor in the last twelve months because of cost. www.statehealthfacts.org

December 11, 2009 at 12:35pm
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Wyoming Democratic Party Compelling argument that the current health proposals, which offer many different proposals, will allow for us to test pilot programs and then implement those systems that are the most effective and efficient in delivering quality care. He does this my discussing the development of farming techniques in America.

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DEPT. OF MEDICINE about the health-care reform bill. Compares health-care reform to the reform of the U.S. agriculture system at the start of the twentieth century…
Barb
Barb
I've heard people say "the infrastructure is in there'. We have to have a way to conduct pilots efficiently and the authority to put best practices to work. Right now every state is on its own, no one is responsible for comparing apples to apples and using the power of government to establish well conceived regulations.
December 10, 2009 at 9:50am
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Wyoming Democratic Party First Lady Nancy Freudenthal is nominated to federal court judgeship: http://bit.ly/78WtfJ

December 7, 2009 at 8:41am