Harkin: Public option backers eyeing second reconciliation bill
Public option supporters could offer a second reconciliation bill to establish the program, a top Democrat said Wednesday.Supporters of creating a government-run public option health insurance program are considering moving the proposal after healthcare reform is finished via another budget reconciliation bill that would require just a simple majority to ...
McCain: Don't expect GOP cooperation on legislation for the rest of this year
Democrats shouldn't expect much cooperation from Republicans the rest of this year, Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) warned Monday.McCain and another Republican senator decried the effect health reform legislation has had on the Senate, a day after the House passed the upper chamber's bill. GOP senators emerged Monday to caution that ...
House sends health care bill to Obama's desk
WASHINGTON - Summoned to success by President Barack Obama, the Democratic-controlled Congress approved historic legislation Sunday night extending health care to tens of millions of uninsured Americans and cracking down on insurance company abuses, a climactic chapter in the century-long quest for near universal coverage. Widely viewed as dead two ...
Christian law firm issues Adopt a Liberal card to encourage targets of prayer
Attention, Californians: Your governor has just been adopted. Next up: your bleeding-heart senator, Barbara Boxer, and not far behind Boxer, her Senate colleague Dianne Feinstein. Not by a new set of parents, mind you, but rather an army of conservative prayer warriors committed to restoring "poor leaders to right thinking." ...
GOP Girding for Battle Over Reconciliation
With President Barack Obama set to green-light the use of reconciliation to pass health care legislation, Senate Republicans are preparing to wage a unified floor and message war to block this 51-vote strategy — and lay the groundwork for what they hope will be big electoral gains in November.Senate Republicans ...
‘Time Is Up’ to Pass Obama’s Health-Care Plan, Pelosi Says
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said “time is up” for Congress to pass health-care legislation and that lawmakers in her chamber need to figure out the right policy, see what the Senate does, then decide how to vote. “We all agree that the present system is unsustainable,” the Democrat from California ...
Poll: Passing public option would lift Harry Reid’s re-election chances
Washington — One-third of voters in Nevada say they would be more likely to vote for Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid this fall if he wins passage of the public option in the health care bill, according to a poll released today.Reid continues to trail his potential Republican opponents by ...
Specter Signs The Public Option Letter
Sen. Arlen Specter (D-PA) announced via Twitter today that he has signed onto Sen. Michael Bennet's (D-CO) letter urging leadership to use reconciliation to pass a public option. Specter is the 19th senator to do so. The most prominent signatory is Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY), the third-ranking Democrat in the ...
Feinstein to sign on to public option letter
Angered by the Anthem Blue Cross's premium hikes in her home state, Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) is signing on to a letter asking Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid to put the public option in a reconciliation bill, according to an aide.Anthem Blue Cross recently announced rate hikes of up to ...
White House official: Feb. 25 health care meeting to be televised
Washington -- President Obama's bipartisan meeting on health care reform planned for February 25 will be broadcast live, a senior administration official said Monday.Coverage details were not complete, but the official said the White House expected "the whole thing to be live."The half-day meeting is an attempt by the Obama ...
Reid criticizes GOP over vote delays
WASHINGTON — Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid laid into Republicans this morning, saying the Senate is unable to fill key military and intelligence posts because GOP senators continue to delay votes.“Senate Republicans are simply so opposed to everything — absolutely everything — that they even oppose putting people in some ...
Unions, Liberal Groups Urge Dem Leaders To Think Big In Campaign Finance Fight
Dear Barack Obama, Nancy Pelosi, and Harry Reid: If you’re going to go to war with corporations over that Supreme Court decision, do it right. That’s the message in a letter that a powerful coalition of liberal groups and unions have fired off to Pelosi and Reid, urging them to ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Ben Bernanke's confirmation to a second term as Federal Reserve chairman suddenly appeared in jeopardy on Friday even after U.S. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said he would back him. Two Senate Democrats on Friday announced they would oppose Bernanke, citing concerns about the economy that promise ...
Health Care bill clears key Senate test
WASHINGTON – Landmark health care legislation backed by President Barack Obama passed its sternest Senate test in the pre-dawn hours early Monday, overcoming Republican delaying tactics on a 60-40 vote that all but assures its passage by Christmas."Let's make history," said Sen. Tom Harkin, D-Iowa, shortly before the bill's supporters ...
Insurance, health care firms give Lieberman big bucks
U.S. Sen. Joe Lieberman has taken in millions of dollars in campaign contributions from the insurance and health industry he's now accused of protecting from meaningful health care reform.A review of Lieberman's campaign finance reports by the nonpartisan Center for Responsive Politics shows health professionals and the insurance industry have ...
The Watchdog: Elizabeth Warren
There are many ways to become our Bostonian of the Year. You could be one of the nation’s preeminent bankruptcy scholars, and a tenured professor of law at Harvard University, and a talking head for Frontline specials and Michael Moore’s latest documentary, and a leading voice decrying the human cost ...
House health care overhaul faces Senate stone wall
WASHINGTON – The glow from a health care triumph faded quickly for President Barack Obama on Sunday as Democrats realized the bill they fought so hard to pass in the House has nowhere to go in the Senate. Speaking from the Rose Garden about 14 hours after the late Saturday ...
Weiner: Obama admin. 'half-pregnant' with health industries
Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-N.Y.) said on Tuesday that the Obama administration is "half-pregnant" with health insurers and pharmaceutical companies, which may jeopardize the success of reform. The congressman -- who is a leading liberal voice in the healthcare reform debate -- said that rumored deals the White House has struck with ...
'Capitalism' Opens Today at a Theater Near You! ...an invitation from Michael Moore
Friends, For two months, we've sat and watched the rabid right achieve the unimaginable: Derail universal health care and send the Democrats in Congress running for cover. Many have asked, "How did this happen? How could a small minority of angry people control the public agenda? Where is the majority's ...
Showmanship Moore's top commodity in 'Capitalism'
By Christy Lemire / AP LOS ANGELES — How do you make a movie about the country's current economic crisis and actually get people to see it? Two obstacles most obviously arise: illustrating such a potentially dry subject in a compelling way, and persuading audiences to pay money for information ...
Reid Says Senate to Delay Health Vote Until September
July 23 (Bloomberg) -- Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said the Senate will wait until September to vote on health-care legislation, missing President Barack Obama's deadline for a vote by the August recess. Reid told reporters that Republicans wanted more time to work on the measure. "It's better to have ...
The Minnesota Senate Race Is Over -- Coleman Has Conceded Defeat To Franken
By Eric Kleefield / TPM MuckrakerWho would have thought that something bizarre would happen when Al Franken ran for public office? In a press conference just now, former Sen. Norm Coleman (R-MN) has conceded defeat to the Democratic comedian Franken in the 2008 Senate race -- nearly eight months after ...
Minn. Court Ruling Gives Democrats A 60-Seat MajorityBy Perry Bacon Jr. / Washington PostThe Minnesota Supreme Court yesterday declared comedian-turned-politician Al Franken the winner of the state's U.S. Senate race, ending an eight-month-long election saga and giving Democrats a 60-seat majority that theoretically would allow them to block GOP filibusters. ...
By Peter Baker / New York Times Bill Clinton loves to shop. On a March day in an elegant crafts store in Lima, the Peruvian capital, he hunted for presents for his wife and the women on his staff back home. He had given a speech at a university earlier ...
Obama opposes detainee abuse photo release
By Caren Bohan WASHINGTON, May 13 (Reuters) - In a reversal, President Barack Obama objected on Wednesday to the release of dozens of photographs showing the abuse of terrorism suspects, fearing the pictures could trigger a backlash against U.S. troops. The Obama administration had said last month it would comply ...
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Dear Swedish Government: Hi there -- or as you all say, Hallå! You know, all of us here in the U.S. love your country. Your ...
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This letter contains (almost) no criticisms of how the Democrats have brought this day of reckoning upon themselves. That -- and where to go from ...
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