Russell Pearce

Ariz. State Senator

Russell Pearce appears in the following:

Arizona Cuts Transplant Medicaid Funding

Wednesday, December 22, 2010

Russell Pearce, President-elect of the Arizona State Senate, tells us why the state legislature decided to cut Medicaid funding for several types of transplants and why he thinks that such cuts are necessary to close the state's budget gap. Michael Abecassis, director of Northwestern University's comprehensive transplant center and president of the American Society of Transplant Surgeons, takes the opposing view, arguing that the cuts are flawed and have no basis in medicine.

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Arizona Sen. Russell Pearce: 'We Don't Need Immigration Reform... We Need Immigration Enforcement'

Thursday, July 29, 2010

Arizona State Senator Russell Pearce was the primary sponsor of Arizona's immigration law, S.B. 1070. However, since a federal judge handed down a partial injunction yesterday in response to a legal challenge by the Obama administration, parts of that law are now blocked. Pearce tells The Takeaway that he is ready to take the fight all the way to the Supreme Court, if necessary. "Arizona's not going to take it," he says, "we're going to do something really novel, which is enforce the law."

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