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Carrying the united Republican banner is Pete Olson, a Navy veteran, native of Houston and former chief of staff to former Texas Senator Phil Gramm and current Texas Senator John Cornyn. Republican heavyweights including President George W. Bush, Gov. Mitt Romney and popular conservative Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal have stood shoulder to shoulder with Olson at campaign appearances and fundraisers as he rails against Lampson as a closet liberal out of step with the district's conservative voters. Meanwhile, the Democrats have poured money into Lampson re-election efforts-the latest numbers from the Federal Election Commission showed him with...
...time than I thought to get some of them to come up and join me and say, "I want to work on this because I have a relative or a friend." But eventually, four or five Senators came up to me and said, "We got to work on this, Pete, because it's real." It took many a month until that first bill got to the floor. Then we just rolled it through the Senate. That was the first bill in 1996. And that's when it died in the House the first time...
When Congress approved the $700 billion rescue plan, it also passed one of the most significant mental-health bills in U.S. history - the Paul Wellstone and Pete Domenici Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act of 2008. It requires group insurance plans to cover mental illnesses the same way as physical ones (no more higher co-pays, deductibles and limits on hospital stays). For more than a decade, Senator Peter Domenici pioneered the fight for such legislation. Last year, the 76-year-old Republican announced he suffers from a degenerative brain disease and would not seek another term...
...your constituents, have changed since you first introduced this issue in 1996? Now when I'm finished with a speech and I'm mingling around - even if the meeting were oil and gas operators in Dallas, Texas - almost always somebody will come up and say, "Hey, keep with it, Pete, I've got a nephew..." Or, "My uncle Billy had this..." In other words, it is more prevalent than you think. Out of almost any crowd somebody will tell you a story about their family. Those kinds of things are always coming up. Even President Bush spoke to me personally...
Mental-health advocates, led by Senator Pete Domenici, scored a major victory with a provision in the Wall Street bailout bill that requires insurers to provide the same coverage for mental illnesses as for physical ones. Domenici, whose daughter suffers from schizophrenia, had pushed for more than a decade to bar insurers from limiting coverage of mental illnesses. The new rule could affect policies for 113 million people. But not all riders in the $700 billion package will have such widespread appeal...