Looking for a little research.....

[AWD]

Reposted from GD....

I have a press conference that I want to call for Wednesday, and I need a few people to do a bit of research for me!

I need to find out votes and comments on the House floor made by Ralph Regula in regards to health care for all Americans.

A rather large and important announcement will be made on Wednesday regarding health care for all Americans, and I want to be there to support the report (I've seen it, but I'm sworn to secrecy until after the report is released).

So I'm going to set up a PC and announce support of the report, and I need proof of Regula's resistance to universal health care.

So go get 'em....no comment is too unimportant, and no vote should be overlooked. Gimme what you've got, and keep this kicked until we get plenty of dirt to pour on Regula.

For those unaware with why I need this, I am running for the US House Of Representatives in Ohio's 16th district against Ralph Regula in 2004.

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1. Here's some stuff for 2003

Mr. OBEY (regarding Regula's bill). <snip>

Now move to the health care front. For 5 years we have almost doubled funding at NIH, the institute which provides for most of the medical research in this country, but this bill puts the brake on that 5-year progress. The result? Grants for new programs and competitive renewal of existing or of expiring grants will go up by only two-tenths of 1 percent for a grand total of 21 grants, the smallest increase in 15 years.

I invite Members of this House, tell the 1.3 million people who are going to get cancer this year, tell the 1 million people who are going to find out they have diabetes, tell the 60,000 people who are going to get Parkinson's, tell them that it is more important to give an $88,000 tax cut to somebody who makes $1 million a year than it is to continue our efforts to attack those diseases at full throttle.

We hear this nonsense about how NIH needs some breathing time in order to absorb the money that we have already given them. Baloney. Less than 35 percent of all of the grants that are approved as being quality science are ever funded. Tell me there is not a need.

Or if you want to move on, the nursing, the new nursing act that passed last year, every politician in this House wrote to every nurse in their district and said, ``we love you, we are all for this program.'' Where is the money to make it reality? No new money in this bill for that program.

Then if you take a look at community service block grant, money that we provide that is used to help families that are poor and near poor, cut by 150 million bucks.

(page H6499)

He voted FOR the Repuke medicare bill H.R. 1
http://clerkweb.house.gov/cgi-bin/vote.exe?year=2003&rollnumber=332

I'll post more tomorrow...my mom is yelling at me to shut down the computer.

[AWD]

3. I am not permitted

I am not permitted to cite the article/report that will be released...but you are on target with what I need.

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2. Heres something from '95

From: Derek Link ([email protected])
Subject: REPUBLICAN CONGRESS VOTES TO ELIMINATE DEDICATED AIDS RESEARCH MONEY: URGENT ACTION NEEDED!!!!!
View: Complete Thread (8 articles)
Original Format
Newsgroups: sci.med.aids
Date: 1995/07/13


A House of Representatives Subcommittee voted this week to eliminate all
federally-funded AIDS research! Under this Republican plan, money
currently allocated by the federal government for AIDS research could be
used for any purpose. There would no requirement that AIDS research money
be spent on AIDS! This puts the entire AIDS research program in great
jeopardy. AIDS research money would become just more pork spending for
bureaucrats to divide up in any way they please for whatever purpose they
like. But its not too late to reverse this disasater! If you live in the
following areas, please call your representative IMMEDIATELY. A vote that
could reverse this decision will occur on July 20th.

Call your representatives if you live in one of these crucial states:

LA, PA, IN, FL, OH, CA, KY, NM, VA, TX, AZ, NV, IA, AL, NY, NC, OK, MI, AR,
GA, NJ, MS, WA, OR, WI.

The crucial representatives are listed below. It is best if you live in
their district, but even if you just live in the area or even just the
state, please call as soon as possible (no later than July 20th). Call the
main House of Representatives Switchboard at

202-225-3121.

Ask that the switchboard connect you to the representative that is relevant
to you. After this list of representatives is a brief fact sheet
explaining what you should say. Please pass this information to others
(friends, family, etc) who live in these areas. The representatives are:

Bob Livingston (R-LA)
John Myers (R-IN)
C.W. Bill Young (R-FL)
Ralph Regula (R-OH)

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4. kick

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5. This is kind of a side issue...

but Regula was a co-sponsor of the medical malpractice bill H.R. 5.

http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d108:HR00005:@@@P|/bss/d108query.html

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6. VOTES (108th Congress)

Regula voted AGAINST the Rangel Sub. Amdt. to H.R. 1, the Medicare bill. (). This amendment sought to provide prescription drug coverage for all Medicare beneficiaries, enhance Medicare+Choice plans, include payments for oncology providers and related cancer drug therapy programs; improve rural health delivery; and implement various provisions dealing with Medicare Parts A and B, Medicaid, regulatory reduction and the reimportation of prescription drugs.

Regula voted AGAINST the Thompson Motion to Recommitt H.R. 1, the Medicare bill (Vote No. 331). This amendment sought to establish the Prescription Drug and Medicare Improvement Act.

Regula voted FOR H.R. 1, the Medicare bill (Vote No. 332), which guts Medicare.

Regula voted AGAINST the Davis (TN) motion to instruct conferees on H.R. 1, the Medicare bill (Vote No. 359). This motion sought to to (1) reject the provisions of subtitle C of title II of the House bill and; (2) that the House recede to the Senate on the provisions to guarantee access to prescription drug coverage under section1860D-13(e) of the Social Security Act, as added by section 101(a) of the Senate amendment.

Regula voted FOR H.R. 660, the Small Business Healthcare bill, (Vote No. 296), which cuts health benefits for 4.5 million workers who currently have coverage and will make coverage more expensive for four out of five small businesses.

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7. Some bills you might want to check out

107th Congress
/bss/d107query.html|H.R. 2563-Managed Care (R)
/bss/d107query.html|H.R. 2887-Patent Exclusivity
106th Congress
/bss/d106query.html|H.R. 2990-Managed Care
/bss/d106query.html|H.R. 2723-Managed Care
/bss/d106query.html|H.R. 4680-Prescription Drugs
/bss/d106query.html|H.R. 2614-Medicare Reimbursements
/bss/d106query.html|H.R. 4585-Medical Privacy
/bss/d106query.html|H.R. 1304-Doctors' Unions
105th Congress
/bss/d105query.html|H.R. 3605-Managed Care (D)
/bss/d105query.html|H.R. 4350-Managed Care (R)
/bss/d105query.html|H.R. 1415-Managed Care (Norwood)

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8. kick

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