Media Matters Action Network, SEIU, and Progressive Media worked together to further expose how the insurance industry has teamed up with the U.S. Chamber of Commerce in an attempt block health care reform.

During an exchange on the Senate floor this morning, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) and Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-TN) restated their opposition to using budget reconciliation to finish health care reform. But, ignoring the GOP's history with the procedure, the senators deceptively focused on the controversy over judicial filibusters in 2005

On March 10, 2010, ten Republican congressional leaders released a joint statement announcing their intention to ban earmarks because they have "become a symbol of a broken Washington." Yet despite their new found disdain for the earmarking process, those same ten Republican leaders have requested over $240 million in earmarks since 2008.