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Governor’s Office Ducks Testimony About $17 Million Deal With Schwarzenegger Donor General Motors;

State Audit, Subpoenas Called For If Gov Won't Come Clean "Governor Schwarzenegger seems determined to hide the truth, but a $17 million…

Gov Ducks Hard Questions about GM

Governor Schwarzenegger continued his closed door policy today when he refused to allow aides to testify at a Senate investigative...

Mandatory health insurance? No sale

Los Angeles Times Forcing citizens to buy an expensive, unregulated private product is nothing less than taxation without representation. If California were…

Funding for lawmakers’ overseas travel questioned

Associated Press "Private companies and organizations have no business sending politicians on luxury vacations, and if they are not vacations but legitimate…

Schwarzenegger, Democratic leaders close to deal on health care reform

THE SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE (California) Health care companies and trade groups are also big spenders. Since 2003, the health care industry has…

Touring on whose dime?

The Desert Sun (Palm Springs, California) If the trips benefit the state's official interests, then the state should pay, said Doug Heller…

“Mandatory Purchase” Health Insurance Proposed by Governor Schwarzenegger and Senator Clinton Would Force 13 Million Californians to Buy Unaffordable Coverage

Bush, Schwarzenegger differ on global-warming approach

Copley News Service Some consumer watchdogs also criticized Linda Adams, the governor's top environmental adviser, and others for taking a spring trip…

Mandatory health care won’t curb costs

Marketplace Morning Report - NPR Radio (American Public Media) Presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton laid out her plan for health care yesterday, which…

Mandatory health care won’t curb costs

Marketplace Morning Report - NPR Radio (American Public Media) Presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton laid out her plan for health care yesterday, which…

Consumer Group Challenges Rep. Darrell Issa On “Hot Fuel” Ripoff of Motorists;

Congressman Stands By Scientifically Inaccurate FTC "Opinion Letter," Despite Withdrawal and Apology

Senator Hillary Clinton has new health care plan;

TODAY SHOW - NBC-TV News (7AM EST) AUER: Let me read you something: Jamie Court, who's the president for the Foundation for…

Hillary Clinton Announces Health Care Plan

CNN-TV AMERICAN MORNING (7AM EST) ROBERTS: There are some people who are critical still of this idea of mandating this individual mandate.…

How Hillary Won Over the Health-Care Industry

She was persona-non-grata in the early 1990s, when the then-first lady's dramatic health-care reform package went down. These days Hillary Clinton is…

Consumer Group: Hillary Clinton’s Mandatory Health Insurance Purchase Plan is An Act of War on the Middle Class Family That Can’t Afford $12K Policy;

Clinton Takes Over $1 Million From Insurers, Would Force All Americans to Buy Private Coverage

CONSUMER ADVOCATES WANT MOBILE FIRMS REGULATED

TECHNOLOGY DAILY "I can't think of another industry except the insurance industry back in the early 1980s that begs for regulation as…

Sen. Clinton’s health-care plan would require all to buy coverage

CBS MarketWatch.com Clinton's plan doesn't go far enough in reining in insurers' power, said Jamie Court, president of the Foundation for Taxpayer…

California Stem Cell Agency Swipes Key Australian Researcher as New President

WIRED Blog John M. Simpson, a sometime critic of CIRM and longtime observer of the agency, said in an interview that he…