Pennsylvania: Jason Altmire

Does "stupak" mean:
"A medical condition (subset of sepsis) resulting from unsafe - unnecessarily so - back alley abortions as a result of the "Stupak Amendment" to the 2009 Health Care Reform Bill."Or is it:
adj: imposing religious beliefs of one group on another, especially through legislation or financial pressure.How about:
To do something ridiculous, silly, moronic, stupid, asinine, idiotic, etc.You can vote up your favorite definition here.

Personally, I'm torn between the first two defintions, but for this post, I want to remind everyone that here in Western PA we have three very stupak Democrats:

Mike Doyle, Jason Altmire and John Murtha all voted for the Stupak Amendment.
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From The Trib's "Whispers" column:

Turzai, R-Bradford Woods, the House minority whip, reportedly is considering challenging U.S. Rep. Jason Altmire, D-McCandless, for the 4th Congressional District seat next year.

The National Republican Congressional Committee has had discussions with Turzai about running against Altmire, the Washington, D.C., newspaper Roll Call reported.

Turzai, spotted at the NRCC annual dinner last month, thus far has declined to discuss the report.

So who's Mike Turzai?

He won State Senate Orie's House seat easily in 2001:
Republican Mike Turzai was the comfortable winner over Thomas Dancison in yesterday's special election to fill a vacant North Hills seat in the state House.

Pennsylvania Avenue reports Thursday that Pennsylvania's Democratic congressional delegation didn't receive any promotions to a high-profile committee.

Fifteen positions were open for seats on the Ways & Means, Energy and Commerce, and Appropriations committees. Three reps., Patrick Murphy, Chris Carney and Jason Altmire, were pursuing the seats, but each was passed over.

MONACA -- Melissa Hart was likely the only ex-congresswoman sitting in the audience of Tuesday night's debate between Elder Vogel Jr. and Jason Petrella.