Ron Wyden

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• The Truth About Bernie Sanders

  
  Net News Publisher — Authority: 153
  I happened to be listening to Washington Journal this morning on the C-SPAN radio feed that I get through my XM Satellite receiver; so I got to hear John Barrasso, Republican Senator from Wyoming, fulminating over how bad things had become in the Senate health care debate. His example of how corrupt the ...
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• Another Choice for Wyden (and Bayh)?

  
  The New Republic - the treatment Feed — Authority: 138
  If negotiations over health care reform get to conference between the House and Senate--no jinxing here--controversial issues like abortion and funding are going to get the most attention. And, precisely because the issues evoke such strong feelings, coming to agreement on them will be relatively difficult. But there ...
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• Expose Him To Reality, Now!

  
  Corrente — Authority: 619
  Bill Moyers hosted an interesting conversation the other day among Robert Kuttner, Matt Taibbi, and himself about health care reform, the performance of the Administration to this point, and the relations of progressives with the President. The conversation focused in part on how Taibbi and Kuttner would vote on the ...
  4 days ago

• Getting To 60 On Health Reform, Reid Got Ben Nelson But Held Onto Bernie Sanders, Too

  
  On The Hill — Authority: 497
  In reaching the magic number of 60 Democrats to support his healthcare reform legislation, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid picked up crucial support from conservative holdout Sen. Ben Nelson of Nebraska. But on his left, Reid also apparently held onto independent Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont, as well. As Reid has ...
  5 days ago

• 60 Votes Reached For Health Care Reform

  
  Democrashield.com — Authority: 134
  Nebraska Senator Ben Nelson–the final hold-out–finally gets on board with health care reform, giving Democrats the 60 votes they need to pass the bill through the Senate.Here’s more on the Senate’s final health care compromise:Jubilant Democrats locked in Nebraska Sen. Ben Nelson as the 60th and decisive vote ...
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• For Chrissake, If You Really Care About America, Tell Harry Reid “No”

  
  Corrente — Authority: 619
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• Ron Wyden Reveals Senate Intelligence Committee Knew of DHS Spying on Law-Abiding Citizens

  
  Irregular Times: News Unfit for Print — Authority: 515
  This week, the Electronic Frontier Foundation has obtained a series of government documents that demonstrate efforts by the Department of Homeland Security Office of Intelligence and Analysis over the past three years to draw up “terrorist watch list” reports on American political and religious groups based on ...
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• DHS and State Spying Nominees Hesitate to Allow Senate Oversight

  
  Irregular Times: News Unfit for Print — Authority: 515
  Federal News Radio seems to be the only journalistic enterprise in the nation to have picked up on this exchange, in which the nominees for the Department of Homeland Security Office of Intelligence and Analysis (Caryn A. Wagner) and the Assistant Secretary of State for Intelligence and Research (Philip Goldberg) ...
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• Senate moderates who are the linchpin to passing a health care reform bill

  
  The Contemporary Conservative — Authority: 147
  
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• An Update on the Senate Health Reform Debate

  
  Swampland — Authority: 719
  The Senate health reform bill is in a procedural holding pattern right now. Even though the body will be in session over the weekend, Majority Leader Harry Reid has put off votes on the bill while he waits for the Congressional Budget Office to evaluate a new Democratic proposal that could strip the public option [...]
  1 week ago

• Susan Collins and Ron Wyden Team on Healthcare Amendments

  
  Today With President Barack Obama — Authority: 449
  Yesterday Orrin Hatch said the republicans havent done anything on healthcare because the democrats have barred republicans from working on healthcare, some sort of invisible force field or something. But republican Olympia Snowe has managed to be a key player and so has Susan Collins. Visit msnbc.com for breaking ...
  2 weeks ago

• "Sens. Wyden, Collins offer joint health amendments" (video)

  
  HOWIEINSEATTLE — Authority: 487
  MSNBC-Morning Meeting, video (06:48): Sens. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., and Susan Collins, R-Maine, join msnbcs Dylan Ratigan to unveil their bipartisan package of amendments to the health care reform bill. Howie P.S.: "More affordable choices" sounds great, but what are the details?
  2 weeks ago

• Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR) on the War on Drugs

  
  NORML Daily Audio Stash — Authority: 487
  Thank you for contacting me to express your views on the War on Drugs. I appreciate hearing from you on this important issue. I believe we cannot ignore the serious effects that drugs have on healthy families and communities, and I believe there should be serious consequences in place to discourage people from using ...
  3 weeks ago

• Burris in Iraq, still an embarrassment

  
  Marathon Pundit — Authority: 581
  Sen. Roland Burris (D-Blagojevich) traveled to Iraq, where he refused to answer questions about the admonishment he received from the Senate Ethics Committee. Chicago Breaking News has more: When a reporter told Burris some were questioning the expense of his Iraq trip, Burris said they were entitled to their ...
  4 weeks ago

• Senator Ron Wyden: Public Option Now Meaningless

  
  Unsilent Generation — Authority: 466
  I have recently argued that the public option is now so weak and diluted that it really doesn’t amount to much. Trudy Lieberman of the Columbia Journalism Review , among the few writers to find her way through the blizzard of misleading press accounts on the subject, has done an interview with Oregon’s Senator ...
  4 weeks ago

• In Case You Missed It: The Senate Health Bill **Requires** Congress To Give Up Its Health Benefit and Join The Healthcare Exchange The Bill Creates

  
  Newsvine - Killfile's Column - Articles and Seeds — Authority: 143
  There are a couple of aspects of this historic vote that deserve notice here:
  4 weeks ago

• Senate Health Care Vote

  
  Swampland — Authority: 719
  There are a couple of aspects of this historic vote that deserve notice here:1. My favorite provision requires that all members of Congress give up their federally-funded health care benefits and join the health care exchanges that will be set up by this bill. This is brilliant politics, addressing the tide of ...
  4 weeks ago

• Reid Has the Votes, At Least Tonight

  
  The New Republic - the treatment Feed — Authority: 138
  Tonight, at around 8 p.m., the Senate will vote on a "motion to proceed" with the debate over health care reform. To be clear, this isnt actually a vote on whether to pass health care reform--or even a vote on whether to hold such a vote. Its a vote on whether to begin talking about whether to have a vote on whether ...
  4 weeks ago

• Reid, Wyden, Baucus Reach Agreement on Version of Free Choice Amendment

  
  Firedoglake — Authority: 714
  Senators Max Baucus, Ron Wyden and Harry Reid (Wikimedia) A day before voting on the motion to proceed in the Senate, Ron Wyden has reached agreement with the leadership to get an amendment into the bill which would allow as many as 1 million additional individuals who get health care from their employers to ...
  4 weeks ago

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