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Oct 17, 2008 · Diseases such as paresis (syphilis, caused by a bacteria), pellagra (mental illness, diet-related) and polio (microbe) are no longer a scourge, he said. Better...
Rockefeller supported President Barack Obama's health reform legislation; he voted for the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act in December 2009, and he voted for the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010.
Jan 3, 2015 · And as he heads into retirement as the last member of the Rockefeller family dynasty in political office — and the only Democrat — the five-term U.S. senator leaves a blueprint for fighting to fix real-life problems for burdened families and to protect the nation’s coal miners.
Jan 11, 2013 · Rockefeller's efforts on health care earned him deep admiration from liberals. But they have been less enthralled with his efforts to protect West Virginia's coal industry from legislation...
Jan 3, 2015 · Coal companies and their conservative allies accused him of being out of touch for defending clean-air regulations and other policies they claimed imperiled tens of thousands of mining jobs.
Sep 29, 2009 · Over the last few weeks Jay Rockefeller has emerged as the Senate's most visible spokesman for a public insurance option. And, purely from a public relations standpoint, this is something of a...
Jan 11, 2013 · As his measure died, Rockefeller called the health insurance industry “rapacious.” “I’m proud of that work,” he told The Associated Press in an interview ahead of his formal announcement.
