I need a few researchers for my campaign!

[AWD]

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.

[OKNancy]

1. Here is your kick n/t

[WilliamPitt]

2. GET IN TOUCH WITH KEF

and let me know if you need a speechwriter.

[AWD]

4. Will do

...both.

Thanks!

[WilliamPitt]

3. REGULA DATA

Regula's health care voting record:
http://ontheissues.org/OH/Ralph_Regula_Health_Care.htm

Floor Statement
The Honorable Ralph Regula, M.C.

Fiscal Year 2004 Labor, Health and Human Services, Education and Related Agencies Appropriations
July 9, 2003

http://wwwa.house.gov/regula/floorstmnt071003.htm

(lotsa stuff in there)

Regula on the issues:
http://ontheissues.org/OH/Ralph_Regula.htm

[blondeatlast]

5. I'll do what I can for you.

I'm pretty good at doing research.

I'll also try to keep this kicked.

Good luck!

On edit: health care is an issue dear to my heart--get the b*****d!

[shirlden]

6. A kick for the Ohioan

Go Bucks.............

:kick:

[shirlden]

7. Here is a link

that makes him look good on health care.

http://www.nachc.com/piforum/awards/regula.asp

[LWolf]

8. I'll bet I know who has the info you need.

I don't know how you'd get it from him, but Kucinich would be the source to mine.

:kick:

[Yentatelaventa]

9. Here are some issue answers

http://ontheissues.org/OH/Ralph_Regula_Health_Care.htm

Voted YES on allowing suing HMOs, but under federal rules & limited award.

Voted YES on Prescription Drug Coverage under Medicare.

Voted YES on establishing tax-exempt Medical Savings Accounts.

Tax credits for those without employee health insurance.

Tax deduction for long-term care insurance.

Support telemedicine for underserved areas.

$350 billion for prescriptions for poor seniors.

Medicare Prescription Drug Benefit

more...

[SoCalDem]

10. Don't know if this helps, but......

I got a letter for you, Ralph," a lawmaker says to Ralph
Regula, handing him a franked congressional envelope and
slapping him on the back. "We are getting a lot of these
these days," says Rep. Regula (R-Ohio), one of the 13
members of the "College of Cardinals" who chair the
subcommittees of the House Appropriations Committee. Inside
the envelope was the lawmaker's request for money to fund a
school, a hospital, job training or any one of hundreds of
other programs that Regula underwrites as chairman of the
Labor, Health and Human Services and Education (Labor-HHS)
Subcommittee. The Hill News story 

Sometimes it takes a crisis to expose our shortcomings and
prod us toward change. That was certainly my hope as we
entered deliberations on Ohio's biennial budget. The governor
had proposed a reasonable spending package and a controversial
restructuring of the tax code. Instead, the legislature is
considering a budget that actually spends more than the
governor's initial proposal and fails to address the
structural flaws in the code. In tight times, we must reduce
spending in government. To spend in excess of the governor's
proposal is simply irresponsible. But as the legislature
looked to cut, the majority lacked the political resolve to
demand efficiency and expose waste. As long as we fail to
address wasteful spending, then dollars for education,
libraries, Head Start, Passport, and critical health services
will be on the chopping block. Rep. Steve Driehaus opinion

 http://www.google.com/search?q=cache:o_IfRrBvIXEJ:www.kivacom.com/politics.html+regula+bush+rove+&hl=en&ie=UTF-8

[SoCalDem]

11. and...

http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/front/1692874

"From now on, the buck stops with Rep. Tom DeLay, R-Sugar Land, and fellow House leader J. Dennis Hastert of Illinois. House Majority Leader-elect DeLay and Speaker Hastert will consolidate power in January with new rules designed to enforce discipline among independent-minded GOP subcommittee chairmen who oversee government spending. Under those rules, seniority will no longer elevate longtime lawmakers to the coveted 13 subcommittee chairmanships of the powerful House Appropriations Committee.

Instead, loyalty to conservative ideals will win those posts -- which are so revered that those who hold them are called the cardinals of the House. The chairmen lord over subcommittees charged with writing the government's budget every year. Their control over spending attracts lobbyists, generous campaign donations and solicitous lawmakers in need of money for home district projects. Previously, the subcommittee chairmen of the Appropriations Committee rose automatically after years of service.

Members of the current group vary in ideological leanings and regional representation and include Rep. Henry Bonilla of Texas, a conservative who oversees the roughly $75 billion funding measure for agriculture and food safety programs. Two expected targets of the rules change are moderate Reps. Ralph Regula of Ohio and James Walsh of New York. Walsh writes the roughly $123 billion spending bill for veterans affairs and housing programs. Regula writes the most expensive spending measure for health, labor and education programs -- which, at about $432 billion, exceeds even the bill that covers the Pentagon." -- MORE--


Source: Houston Chronicle

[blondeatlast]

12. Here's a few links

American Cancer Society
http://www.capwiz.com/acs-national/index_frame.dbq?url=http://www.capwiz.com/acs-national/bio/sponsortrack/?id=475

http://www.no-smoking.org/june00/06-20-00-3.html

Mental Health
http://www.namiscc.org/newsletters/December01/StigmaBusters.htm

An essay (requires registration)
http://www.rollcall.com/pub/1_1/healthcare/2130-1.html

[UrbScotty]

13. A Kick for Good Healthcare!

:-)