Rep. Bart Stupak (D-Menominee)
Stupak continues to pursue insurance company data
Nearly two weeks after asking insurance companies for information on executive pay and revenue, Rep. Bart Stupak (D-Mich.) and Rep. Henry Waxman (D-Calif.) have sent a second letter to insurance companies asking for information on their policies toward and treatment of small businesses.
In a statement accompanying the release of the letters, the two Democratic [...]
New details emerge on Stupak’s Christian school land gift
Newly obtained documents show that the religious school which U.S. Rep. Bart Stupak wants to give a piece of federal property to, already defaulted on the original agreement that required them to purchase land of equal value to swap with the Coast Guard for the Cheboygan property the Cornerstone Christian School was allowed to build their school on.
Major Christian publication looks at The Family
World Magazine, one of the leading Christian publications in America, has their own expose` on The Family (aka The Fellowship) and the now-infamous “C Street” house in Washington, D.C., where U.S. Rep. Bart Stupak of Michigan lives. The article cites Chris Halverson, son of the late chaplain of the U.S. Senate Richard Halverson, who was [...]
Experts: Stupak land transfer deal runs afoul of Constitution
U.S. Rep. Bart Stupak has introduced a bill that would transfer a piece of Coast Guard-owned property in Cheboygan to a Christian school free of charge, an action that legal experts say would run afoul of the separation of church and state required by the First Amendment’s religion clauses.
AP: Gitmo to Michigan prison transfer being seriously considered
The Associated Press reports that the Obama administration is seriously considering transferring all of the detainees at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba to a joint prison/courtroom complex in the United States and a Michigan prison in Standish is one of the two sites being strongly considered for the location.
In health care debate, Stupak gives mixed signals on abortion funding
As Congress debates health care reform proposals promised by President Obama during last year’s campaign, U.S. Rep. Bart Stupak, a Democrat from Menominee, is bucking his party’s majority opinion and demanding that any legislation involving federal funding for health care explicitly exempt funding abortion services.
Maddow on Stupak and the Family
Rachel Maddow picked up on the Messenger’s story about Rep. Bart Stupak’s denials of any affiliation with the Family despite living at the now-infamous C street house for several years. She had Jeff Sharlet, author of The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power and the person we cited in our article [...]
Michigan congressman lives at house with ties to The Fellowship
The Washington Post has an interesting report about a house in Washington, D.C., that was apparently the scene of dramatic meetings leading up to the admissions by U.S. Sen. John Ensign (R-Nev.) and Gov. Mark Sanford (R-S.C.) that they were having affairs. Michigan’s Bart Stupak, a Democrat from Menominee, is one of several legislators that [...]
Stupak suggests moving Gitmo inmates to U.P.
Like Sen. Carl Levin and former governor John Engler, Rep. Bart Stupak is now suggesting that the Obama administration move the detainees currently housed at Guantanamo Bay to a prison that was closed down in the Upper Peninsula. AP reports:

