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why does the health care legislation have exemption from coverage for Congress or why not piggy-back everyday Americans to the health care coverage provided the Congress???
Asked by: John Baltzegar from Richmond, VA. Received 10 Votes.
Listen to: U.S. Rep. Al Green (D-TX)
Well I don’t understand why they can’t. And I would hope that they could. That’s what I’m hoping health care reform is all about. Giving everybody equal access to the best medical attention that this country can provide. I hope that’s where they’re headed.
Answered on Oct 14th, 2009 More
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Since the shoe-bomber threat, the government has required airline passengers to leave their water bottles behind at security checks, prompting a spike in discarded plastic. What role should the government have towards requiring all airports to place recycling bins at security checkpoints so that this massive source of plastic can be recycled?
Asked by: Antonio G. from Richmond, VA. Received 13 Votes.
Listen to: U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL)
I think the decision about recycling which I think all local governments should be encouraging is a local one. And I would certainly encourage airports to provide recycling receptacles so that when plastic bottles with liquid in them have to be discarded because they can’t go through the magnetometers that they be placed in recycling receptacles. But that’s a locally controlled issue.
Answered on Sep 24th, 2009 More
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Please insist on the inclusion of gender identity in upcoming Employment Non Discrimination Act. ALL Americans deserve the right to earn a living. Gender Dysphoria is a birth condition, not a lifestyle choice. Please vote to end discrimination against gender variant Americans.
Asked by: Robyn Webb, CTS from Richmond, VA. Received 44 Votes.
Listen to: U.S. Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart (R-FL)
What specifically would that entail? What rights would that give? What’s the purpose of it? Everything that we do here potentially has very grave consequences. Usually you do something and it has good consequences and bad consequences. So- so I’d have to see the language, but on it’s face I’d be concerned and would have to review that language very, very carefully. EWJ: What would be an example of giving too many rights? Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart: Well, you know, what does that include?
Answered on Sep 24th, 2009 More
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When will politicians respect the privacy of voters and agree to abide by the Federal Do Not Call Registry and stop calling voters, particularly with robo calls?
Asked by: Shaun Dakin from Falls Church, VA. Received 20 Votes.
Listen to: U.S. Sen. Mark Warner (D-VA)
“I have strongly… I think we need to look… I was the one who went to actually put forward the notion of how we limit the abuse of robo calls, particularly on the car mortgages working with Sen. Schumer. I think we ought to look at including politicians as well.”
Answered on Aug 14th, 2009 More
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It seems that a simple fix to one of the key causes of the current financial meltdown would be to create regulation or statute that requires mortgage originators to service the loans they originate through the life of the loan. Will you enact such legislation now?
Asked by: Michael Lauderdale from Chesterfield, VA. Received 36 Votes.
Listen to: U.S. Rep. Barney Frank (D-MA)
We clearly need to change things. We need to have much more responsibility on the services. Whether or not the originator has to service it throughout—I don’t think that’s necessary to achieve the goal. It is important that whoever the servicer is have full rights to restructure the mortgage. So I think it’s acceptable to say it can be sold, as long as the originator—the originator should not be able to sell the entire responsibility for the loss—the originator should have to retain some of the risk.
Answered on Jul 16th, 2009 More
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What steps will you take this year to empower people at the end of their lives and allow them a choice in the time and manner of their death? Please consider that my moral values are not yours and providing a law that allows a choice, does not force people to make that choice.
Asked by: Betty Kelly from Alexandria, VA. Received 19 Votes.
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Currently everybody has a choice how to die. We should be aware as a society that an inordinate amount of society's resources goes into keeping people alive in the last six months of life. Now that is not necessarily a bad thing, but it is a choice. Most other countries don’t keep them alive if they have no quality of life, if they are simply on life support systems. Frankly, if we are going to reduce the cost of health care, so that we can provide it for everyone these may be some of the things we have to consider as a society.
Answered on Jun 23rd, 2009 More
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Will you support adding Political Robocalls to the Federal Do Not Call Registry?
Asked by: Shaun Dakin from Falls Church, VA. Received 19 Votes.
Listen to: U.S. Rep. Hank Johnson (D-GA)
I’m going to have to give that some thought. I know that those calls can be quite bothersome to people. And I think that it’s good for people to be able to opt out if they don’t want to receive those calls. Other people depend on those calls to remind them that there is a vote tomorrow or whatever so two sides to the coin.
Answered on Mar 16th, 2009 More
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After watching people die during my nursing career, I want the right to choose how I will die. Why can't you make assisted suicide legal? Giving people a choice, does not force a person to go against their own religious beliefs, so please take that into consideration when you make a choice for me.
Asked by: Betty Kelly from Alexandria, VA. Received 9 Votes.
Listen to: U.S. Rep. Bobby Scott (D-VA)
Well it depends what you define as assisted suicide. I mean you can’t answer a question like that without defining assisted suicide and you can’t answer that in a 5 second. How do you define it? Well you can’t answer a question like that you got the criminal code and everything else so I mean it is just an unfair question to stick a mic in front of someone’s face and give a dissertation on assisted suicide.
Answered on Feb 4th, 2009 More
