Thanks Jane! Who is chair of this committee?

George Miller

Gracias! He is a good person.

I am crying out of sadness and immense admiration for them

Thanks to Hilda and Grigor.

the Miller hearing on the House health care proposal can be followed here:

http://edwork.edgeboss.net/wme…..070124.asx

Currently going through opening statements by Committee members. We’ve had about 30 so far, alternating between Dems and Repubs.

the shuttle is about 5 minutes from launch, if you wanna watch — on CNN.

Mr. Souder laments why we’re doing this when unemployment is so high in his state.

Uh, because if this had been adopted 5 years ago, those unemployed people would at least have health coverage, and some of their businesses would not have layed them off.

There there’s the little matter of not having the bill’s major measures go into effect for 2-3 years. Apparently everything happens all at once, notwithstanding the laws of physics.