Chris Van Hollen

Linda Douglass of the White House Office of Health Reform answers a question from outside the recent town hall in New Hampshire on why Congress voted to exempt themselves from reform. This is a myth: there is no exemption and there has not been any such vote. To the contrary, reform gives all Americans access to an insurance exchange much like the one Congress has enjoyed, and just like Congress, Americans will be free to make their own choices.

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Highlights from President Obama’s remarks before Congress on health reform [September 9, 2009]

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Wisconsin Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen acting as Attorney General or Rove’s soldier to steal vote in Wisconsin?
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September 21, 2008

Wisconsin Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen
Text source: http://www.madison.com/tct/opinion/305148

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The nastiness of August reached from the town halls into the Capitol as President Barack Obama spoke about his health care plan. South Carolina Republican Rep. Joe Wilson shouted “You lie!” after Obama talked about illegal immigrants. (Sept. 9)

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U.S. Congressman Chris Van Hollen, the Chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee and a member of the Americans Abroad Caucus, urges Americans living abroad to vote.

“Please, log on to www.votefromabroad.org today, and be sure to tell your fellow Americans living abroad how easy it is now to vote absentee!”

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Maryland Rep. Chris Van Hollen, also the chair of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, said attending barbecues and chicken dinners is a joy and an obligation, but he said many candidates don’t end up eating because they’re talking.

After some such affairs, he admits to bingeing on junk food late at night when he gets home.

http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/bal-to.candidates13may13,0,2397224.story

Congressman, it shows!

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HTV 1.29.09

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WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama struck a balance between grim economic reality and a more hopeful outlook on Tuesday to try to reassure worried Americans their country will emerge from crisis “stronger than before.”

Riding high in opinion polls, Obama was careful to include a sober assessment of the economic emergency in his first speech to Congress, seeking to temper expectations that his administration’s rescue efforts would yield quick fixes.

But the politician whose memoir was called “The Audacity of Hope” and who won the White House in last November’s election amid chants of “yes, we can” was also back in stride, telling recession-weary Americans to expect better days ahead.

“While our economy may be weakened and our confidence shaken, though we are living through difficult and uncertain times, tonight I want every American to know this: We will rebuild, we will recover,” Obama said in the televised speech.

“And the United States of America will emerge stronger than before,” he told a chamber packed with lawmakers, cabinet members and invited guests.

The Democratic president also leveled a barrage of indirect criticism at his Republican predecessor George W. Bush for the country’s economic plight and bloated debt, warning that the “day of reckoning” had arrived.

Five weeks after taking office, Obama pressed the case for his economic plans while laying out a broad agenda, including a much-anticipated push for a healthcare overhaul and energy independence, to help build momentum for his young presidency.

The primetime State of the Union-style address to a joint session of the Senate and House of Representatives came against a backdrop of growing anxiety across the country in the face of the worst financial meltdown in decades.

While his public support is strong, Wall Street remains skeptical of his economic remedies.

Jittery investors sent U.S. stocks to a 12-year low on Monday, but the markets rallied on Tuesday on Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke’s assurances that the country’s troubled banks should be able to weather the downturn without being nationalized.

Trying to show he would make good on his promise of fiscal responsibility, Obama said he had identified $2 trillion in budget cuts over the next decade.

Obama, who rolls out his first budget proposal on Thursday, has vowed to halve the annual deficit by the end of his term.

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Congress is deadlocked on the best way to get a bat out of their committee chamber.

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