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August 29, 2009

Health-vote stakes high for Childers

Health-vote stakes high for Childers Mississippi’s other two delegates to the House, Rep. Travis Childers of District 1 and Rep. Gene Taylor of District 4, both Democrats, are different. The generic label applied to them is “blue dogs,” members of a coalition of moderate to conservative Democrats who will, on occasion, invite the displeasure of…
News  |  Magnolia Tribune  • 
August 29, 2009

The Trial Lawyers’ Earmark: Using Medicare to Finance the Lifestyles of the Rich and Infamous

The Trial Lawyers’ Earmark: Using Medicare to Finance the Lifestyles of the Rich and Infamous In one of the starkest examples of how plaintiffs’ lawyers want to use Congress to get rich at the expense of the American taxpayer, an amendment that would have generated abusive Medicare litigation on a massive scale–along with the usual…