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• GOP accuses Conlin of flip-flopping on lobbyist donations

  
  Iowa Independent — Authority: 627
  The National Republican Senatorial Committee is calling foul on Democrat Roxanne Conlin, saying she is trying to have it both ways on the issue of taking donations from lobbyists and political action committees. Conlin has repeatedly said she will not accept donations from lobbyists or PACs, and Tuesday called on ...
  5 days ago

• U.S. Senate confirms Rose, Klinefeldt for U.S. Attorney posts

  
  Iowa Independent — Authority: 627
  Although the big news out of the U.S. Senate over the weekend was that Democrats garnered enough votes to bring health care reform legislation to the floor for debate, something else that happened might have a more immediate impact on Iowa. Nick Klinefeldt & Stephanie Rose Saturday, the full Senate voted on ...
  6 days ago

• Rethugs, I hope this gives you some cloture…I mean, closure

  
  HYSTERICAL RAISINS — Authority: 468
  From POLITICS DAILY : With no votes to spare, Democratic senators moved health care reform past its first major hurdle Saturday night, with a party-line, 60-to-39 vote to begin consideration of the 2,000-plus page bill that Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid unveiled this week. …snip… The bill that senators ...
  1 week ago

• Harkin votes to push ObamaCare, ducks constituents

  
  Coralville Courier — Authority: 514
  Despite voter objection, Senate votes 60-39 to push government takeover of health care In a late Saturday night vote, Harry Reids 2,074 healthcare reform bill secured the 60 votes needed in the US Senate allowing debate to begin when Senators return on November 30. Three Democrat senators whose support for the ...
  1 week ago

• Senate confirms Iowa U.S. attorney nominees

  
  Des Moines Register Staff Blogs Iowa Politics Insider — Authority: 144
  The U.S. Senate tonight confirmed the nominations of Iowa’s two U.S. attorney nominees, Stephanie Rose for Iowa’s northern district in Cedar Rapids, and Nick Klinefeldt for Iowa’s southern district in Des Moines. Below is the statement of Iowa Sen. Tom Harkin, who recommended their nominations. HARKIN ...
  1 week ago

• Sen. Tom Harkin talks up health reform; buckets are passed

  
  Des Moines Register Staff Blogs Iowa Politics Insider — Authority: 144
  U.S. Sen. Tom Harkin addressed the Hy-Vee Hall crowd via video, saying he expected Gov. Chet Culver to win re-election and praising congressional Democrats’ work on health-care reform. He remained in Washington for a key procedural vote to move a health-care reform bill forward in the Senate. After he spoke, Iowa ...
  1 week ago

• Senate Votes to Open Health Care Debate

  
  BeltwayBlips - Top Political News, Videos, and Blogs — Authority: 570
  Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA) (L) watches as Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) (R) embraces Senator Christopher Dodd (D-CT) (C) while speaking about the late Senator Edward Kennedy (D-MA) after a vote on healthcare reform. JammieWearingFool found this 14 hours ago on nytimes.com Find more top political news, ...
  1 week ago

• Grassley opposes measure to proceed on Senate health care bill

  
  Des Moines Register Staff Blogs Iowa Politics Insider — Authority: 144
  Iowa Sen. Chuck Grassley opposed the procedural measure in the Senate to allow a health care proposal to advance, although the position mattered little in light of majority Democrats’ unified stance. Grassley, a senior Republican and ranking member of the finance committee, said he opposed the Senate bill that ...
  1 week ago

• Chai Feldblum Only Accidentally Supports Polygamy

  
  Queerty — Authority: 727
  Whether its cute young gentleman claiming to be from HRC begging for our credit card number outside a grocery store or a gal standing outside Starbucks hoping well sign her petition to legalize marijuana, theres a reason we dont sign our names to documents thrust in front of our faces: Because we never know what, ...
  1 week ago

• Nelson targeted as Senate health vote nears

  
  Politically Speaking — Authority: 130
  An important vote on health care reform comes off tomorrow, when the U.S. Senate will undertake a procedural vote on the recently introduced Patient Protection and Affordability Act. It is not a vote to pass the bill out of the Senate, but to move full consideration of the bill in the chamber. There are 58 Democrats, ...
  1 week ago

• RNC targets Lincoln and Nelson in last-minute push to stop health reform

  
  Iowa Independent — Authority: 627
  Instead of asking conservatives to call home-state senators with pleas for votes against health care reform, the Republican National Committee is asking its membership to contact the offices of two Democratic senators deemed “critically important” to squashing any up-or-down vote on the reform bill. U.S. Sens. ...
  1 week ago

• Harkin skips the JJ

  
  Iowa Independent — Authority: 627
  The Register’s Kathie Obradovich reports that U.S. Sen. Tom Harkin will not make it to the Iowa Democratic Party’s Jefferson-Jackson dinner in person tomorrow night because he’ll be busy trying to pass health care reform in Washington, D.C. In his absence, the party will play a video greeting from him during ...
  1 week ago

• Whats unfair to residents of coal-dependent states?

  
  Featured States News — Authority: 159
  Original Author:  desmoinesdem Politicians in both parties have complained that proposed federal climate change bills are "unfair" to Midwestern states, which rely largely on coal to generate electricity. Utility companies and corporate groups have tried to reinvent themselves as ...
  1 week ago

• Will Quackery Be Legislated By The Senate? Better Call Your Senator

  
  Better Health — Authority: 556
  For those of you following the surprising healthcare reform bill mandate of Christian Science prayer as a medical treatment to be payed for by your taxes… I have good news. That was stricken from the merged legislation. The bad news is that there is currently even more worrisome language in the S.3950 bill. ...
  1 week ago

• Harkin hopes GOP will make health reform a campaign issue

  
  Iowa Independent — Authority: 627
  Not only is U.S. Sen. Tom Harkin confident that the Senate Democratic Caucus will be able to block filibuster attempts on a health care reform bill, but he is looking forward to the jockeying that will come from both political parties once the bill is signed. U.S. Sen. Tom Harkin (D-Iowa) on Capitol Hill (Lauren ...
  1 week ago

• VIDEO: Harkin: No Dem wants to be the one to stop health care reform

  
  Iowa Independent — Authority: 627
  Now that Democratic leaders in the Senate have unveiled their health care reform plan , Democrats have “rounded third [base] and we’re heading to home,” U.S. Sen. Tom Harkin, D-Cumming, said Wednesday night. During an interview with MSNBC host Rachel Maddow, Harkin said no one in the Democratic caucus wants to ...
  1 week ago

• Harkin: Public option may be weakened further

  
  Daily Kos — Authority: 801
  Usually, when Tom Harkin talks about the public option he pledges that the Senate will pass a strong one for President Obama to sign into law. In a Tuesday interview with MSNBCs Ed Schultz, however, he left open the possibility that Harry Reids "opt-out" public option will be weakened even further because "theres ...
  1 week ago

• Grassley praises Harkin’s recommendation of Stephanie Rose

  
  Iowa Independent — Authority: 627
  Critics of the massive immigration raid in Postville and the subsequent judicial fast-tracking of detained immigrants on criminal charges have been widely expressing their concerns about Stephanie Rose , the U.S. Attorney nominee for the Northern District of Iowa who took part in the legal proceedings. While U.S. ...
  1 week ago

• ACTION ALERT:The Vitter-Bennett Census Amendment—Count Citizens, Stop Swamping America!

  
  brianlee — Authority: 136
  Call Harry Reid at (202) 224-3542 and tell him to put this post from http://www.fairus.org/ up for a vote and tell him that if he doesnt put it up for a vote, you will contribute to his opponent Jerry Tarkanian here .Also read more reasonings about this topic here and if you are in one of the states that ...
  1 week ago

• Harkin promises long nights of health care debate

  
  Iowa Independent — Authority: 627
  U.S. Sen. Tom Harkin (Lauren Victoria Burke/WDCPIX.COM) Not only will the Senate be working weekends through December on health care reform legislation, but it could also spend the upcoming weekend in session , Sen. Tom Harkin told D.C.-based newspaper The Hill. Harkin, who chairs the Health, Education, Labor and ...
  1 week ago

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