Wednesday, May 10, 2006

Pryce Will Not Give Extra Time for Seniors

>Senior citizens have until May 15th to sign up for Bush's Medicare Prescription drug program. Those who are not enrolled by that date will face a penalty of higher premiums rates. According to the Hill, some Republicans, including Rep. Deborah Pryce (OH-15) don't want to extend the deadline for senior citizens:

..Rep. Deborah Pryce (R-Ohio) is “happy with the May 15 deadline and doesn’t want to change the 1 percent penalty,” said spokesman Rob Nichols....

Why doesn't Pryce care about helping senior citizens with this very complicated program?


>Republican Rep. Deborah Pryce is worried about losing her next election. Here are some excerpts from the Mercury News:

...In Columbus, Ohio, and the surrounding ring of suburbs, Republican Rep. Deborah Pryce conceded that population shifts in her district and the political standing of Republicans have converged to give her one of the toughest contests she has faced in her seven terms in Congress. Eyeing the possibilities, Democrats recruited county commissioner Mary Jo Kilroy to run against Pryce.

"Demographics definitely are changing and that is a challenge for me or any Republican," Pryce said in an interview earlier this year in Ohio. "The challenge is not to remain wed to the past. Politics is part of evolution and we as a party need to evolve."

Yes, demographics are changing and the people of the 15th are tired of the broken promises and the rhetoric. We are also tired of Pryce and her Republican congress members acting as a rubber stamps for this administration.

Here is some additional information from the GOP Auction House:

******HOW PRYCE RESPONDS TO HIGH ENERGY PRICES

  • Rep. Pryce voted against cracking down on the oil and gas industries price gouging.
  • Rep. Pryce voted for the GOP energy bill that gave billions to oil, gas and nuclear industries.
  • Big oil and gas industries have given Rep. Pryce $64,917. Any surprise

  • *REP. PRYCE PUTS BIG BUSINESS AHEAD OF AMERICAN WORKERS
  • Rep. Pryce voted to strip overtime protection from millions of workers.

  • *SUPPORTING OUR TROOPS
  • Rep. Pryce voted to continue awarding contracts to Halliburton even if the Pentagon's own audit processes found that more than $100 million of their contractor's costs in Iraq were unreasonable.
  • Rep. Pryce opposed expanding access to the military's TRICARE health insurance program to thousands of Reservist and National Guard members, even though 20 percent of all Reservists do not have health insurance, and 40 percent of Reservists aged 19 to 35 lack health coverage.
  • Rep. Pryce voted against granting a bonus to grant a $1,500 bonus to every American service member serving in Iraq and Afghanistan, including National Guard and Reserve forces.....