Congresswoman Renee Ellmers (R – NC) wants to eliminate the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the federal agency that sets and enforces standards for safe water and air. She should justify her goal. We need congressional representatives who think carefully and speak wisely about such important matters. Her statement seems reckless, and if she can’t justify it then she does not belong in our Congress. Continue reading WHY WOULD RENEE ELLMERS ELIMINATE EPA?
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JUST SAY YES TO MEDICAID
The decision by North Carolina’s governing Republicans (every single one of them) to reject Medicaid expansion will cost the state’s residents $37 billion by 2022. That is roughly enough money to run the entire state government for 21 months. They looked at the money and just said “no”. They looked at uninsured people living in poverty and just said “no”. They looked at hospitals and doctors who care for uninsured people, and they just said “no”. And they just said “no” to unemployed workers who would have found jobs in the Medicaid expansion. Continue reading JUST SAY YES TO MEDICAID