Bloomington – The U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling this morning upholding The Affordable Care Act ensures that important gains will be preserved. Democratic congressional candidate Dr. David Gill believes we can do better and he will work to fix flaws with the Affordable Care Act in the next Congress.
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House debates $20.5 billion cuts to food stamps
Tuesday afternoon marked the beginning of the general floor debate for the 2013 House farm bill, which includes $20.5 billion in cuts to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), more commonly known as the food stamps program.
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Former Obama Campaign Staffers Protest Keystone XL Pipeline Read more: Former Obama Campaign Staffers Protest Keystone XL Pipeline
Elijah Zarlin, who worked as a senior email writer at Obama campaign headquarters in 2008, was back in Chicago yesterday—in the First Precinct jail, following a peaceful sit-in in protest of the Keystone XL pipeline.
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Medical Debt: A Curable Affliction Health Reform Won’t Fix
Millions of Americans are deep in medical debt. Unfortunately, the Affordable Care Act (ACA) will throw a lifeline to very few. According to the Congressional Budget Office, even after health reform is fully implemented in 2014, 30 million to 36 million people will remain uninsured.
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Message to Congress: Immigrants Pay More Than Their 'Fair Share' of Medicare
Immigrants don’t just pick our fruit, deliver our take-out food and design our computers — they pay for our medical care.
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Alan Grayson On Trans-Pacific Partnership: Obama Secrecy Hides 'Assault On Democratic Government'
WASHINGTON -- Progressive Democrats in Congress are ramping up pressure on the Obama administration to release the text of Trans-Pacific Partnership, a secretive free trade agreement with 10 other nations, amid intensifying controversy over the administration's transparency record and its treatment of classified information.
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Activists Protest Possible Cuts To Food Stamps
Activists held a series of demonstrations across the country today to call on influential Democratic members of Congress to prevent cuts to the food stamp program. One of the demonstrations was in Springfield, Massachusetts.
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Barbara Lee: AUMF Was Wrong in 2001, and It's Wrong Now
A renewed debate of the 2001 Authorization for Use of Military Force is long overdue. I was the only member of Congress to vote against the authorization when it came to the House floor in 2001 after the horrific events of September 11th, and I have been pushing for its repeal ever since.
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The War on Terror Has Not Made Us Safer
Two days after the horrific attacks of September 11, 2001, I was sitting in front of my institute's office around the corner from the White House. We had just been evacuated again.
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Congress Checks and Balances on Afghanistan—Will It Do So With Syria?
The US House of Representatives took an important step last week toward the restoration of the separation of powers that was established so that Congress would check and balance presidential war-making.
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Dems Press Neal on SNAP Cuts
Next week, the U.S. House will take up the federal farm bill, which includes potentially devastating cuts to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP (the program once known as food stamps).
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House Overwhelmingly Votes to Speed Afghan Withdrawal
By a 305-121 margin, the House of Representatives voted to accelerate US troop withdrawals from Afghanistan by the end of 2013, to strike previous language supporting a post-2014 US military presence, and insisting that any such presence be authorized by Congress by June 2014.
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Congresswoman Barbara Lee Hails Passage of Amendments Supporting Ending War in Afghanistan, Modernizing Discriminatory HIV Laws
Washington, D.C.— Today, Congresswoman Barbara Lee released the following statement on the passage of two amendments to the National Defense Authorization Act on the floor of the House:
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Wednesday, 07 November 2012 10:50
Gill won't concede 13th District race
Written by Tom Kacich | The News Gazette
CHAMPAIGN — A defiant Democratic congressional candidate David Gill told supporters early Wednesday morning that he won't concede to Republican Rodney Davis in Illinois' 13th District race, and that he still thinks he'll win the race.
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Tuesday, 16 October 2012 08:02
Gill reports increase in fundraising
Written by Tom Kacich | The News=Gazette
CHAMPAIGN -- David Gill, the Democratic candidate in the 13th Congressional District race, said Sunday he raised more than $430,000 in campaign contributions in July, August and September, a sum he said was about twice the previous three months.
Official campaign disclosure reports will be filed with the Federal Election Commission later today.
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PDA spent the weekend in Decatur and Bloomington/Normal Illinois this past weekend promoting the benefits of universal health care and supporting the candidacy of Dr David Gill (13th CD Illinois).
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Saturday, 30 June 2012 20:57
Dr. David Gill Reacts to Supreme Court Upholding Health Care Law
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Friday, 06 April 2012 13:30
How's David Gill And The Ladies?
Written by Howie Klein | Howie Klein's Blog
This isn't the first time David has run against Johnson. But it's the first time they're running in an evenly matched district.
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Tuesday, 27 March 2012 14:45
Former Illinois Congressman Phil Hare Endorses David Gill
Written by Andrea MillerHare said Illinois families need more progressive voices in Congress. “I trust David to be a passionate voice for middle- class people,” Hare commented. “I know David will protect the rights of workers. And who better than an ER doctor like David Gill to block the Republicans’ attempts to end Medicare as we know it?”
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Monday, 26 March 2012 05:54
Bernard Schoenburg: Will Gill’s liberalism play in new 13th?
Written by Bernard Schoenburg | SJ-R
The November race in the new 13th Congressional District, which includes much of Springfield, is shaping up to be far different than some Democrats — like U.S. Sen. DICK DURBIN, D-Ill. — had hoped.
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Sunday, 30 October 2011 00:00
Gill is consensus Democratic candidate against Tim Johnson - most endangered Republican incumbent in the country
Written by Andrea MillerWith Jay Hoffman, James Gray & Greene County State’s Attorney Matt Goetten dropping out of the Democratic Primary in the 13th District (which the Cook Political Report ranks as a D+1 district), David Gill is the consensus Democrat running against Tim Johnson, who pollster PPP (the nation’s most accurate pollster) has just found to be - by far - the most endangered Republican incumbent in the country right now.
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Thursday, 12 January 2012 00:00
Macon County Democrats Unanimously Endorse David Gill
Written by Gill for Congress
Bloomington- Macon County Democratic Committeemen, including Macon County labor leaders, unanimously endorsed David Gill’s candidacy for Congress in Illinois’ 13th District last night. The vote was 50-0, with a weighted voted of the committeemen of greater than 3000-0.
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Wednesday, 13 July 2011 00:00
Gill enters Democratic race to challenge Republican Johnson in new congressional district
Written by Chris Lusvardi | Herald Review
The first Democrat has announced plans to challenge U.S. Rep. Tim Johnson in his new district, and the two candidates are quite familiar with each other.
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