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Who Is Rep. Randy Neugebauer?

WASHINGTON (March 22) -- The Texas congressman who shouted "baby killer" as Rep. Bart Stupak spoke on the House floor is a conservative Republican who has opposed the Obama administration's agenda at nearly every turn and signed on to a proposal that would require presidential candidates to present their birth certificates...

Democrats Find New Ground on Abortion

WASHINGTON (March 22) -- The Democrat who helped House leaders secure the last few votes needed to pass landmark health care legislation might not have been treated so solicitously at the party's convention the year he was elected to Congress. In 1992, when Bart Stupak was running for his first term in Michigan's 1st...

Health Reform Hinges on Votes From Abortion Foes

(March 9) -- The arcane rules that govern debate as Congress finishes health care reform soon will meet the simple rule of majority math. House Democratic leaders, resigned to the fact that no Republicans are likely to vote for a major overhaul of the nation's health insurance system, will be focused on getting to the...

Will Abortion Fight Kill Health Care Reform?

WASHINGTON (March 4) -- After a year of debate, it won't be the public option that derails health care reform. Nor will it be death panels. But it might be abortion. A fight over the most divisive issue in American politics could deal the final, fatal blow to Democratic hopes for reform, just as President Barack Obama...

RNC Will Drop Abortion Coverage

(Nov. 13) - Conservatives are fuming and liberals are pointing fingers over news that the Republican National Committee's insurance policy covers abortions. Politico broke the story late Thursday and within hours, the RNC was in damage-control mode. "I don't know why this policy existed in the past, but it will not...

BartStupak News From the Web

02/06/12 Calling Bart Stupak Source: The Corner on National Review Online He of the staunch pro-life persuasion, who nonetheless gave the Obama administration an out in 2010 with his willingness to provide the final votes in the House to push Obamacare over the top?
02/02/12 West Branch man avoids jail, ordered to $47,100 for... Source: Advance Newspapers - Ann Arbor MI While a West Branch man won't have to serve any incarceration for threatening former U.S. Rep. Bart Stupak, he does have to pay a substantial amount in fines and costs.
02/02/12 Sentence next for man guilty of threatening Stupak Source: CBS - 9&10 News - Cadillac MI BAY CITY, Mich. A man who faces up to a year in prison for making a threat against a Michigan congressman during the 2010 health care debate is asking a judge for leniency.
01/19/12 Red to blue? Democrats target one Michigan soon-to-be... Source: Stateline.org WASHINGTON Only one of Michigans soon-to-be 14 congressional districts has been specifically targeted at this point by Democrats in Washington the 1st, comprised largely of the Upper Peninsula and the northern lower peninsula.