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• Grassley Goes After Proposed Medicare Payroll Tax Increase

  
  The Washington Independent Blog — Authority: 157
  It was inevitable that conservatives would attack the Senate health care reform legislation over the proposed o.5 percent hike in Medicare’s payroll tax for the country’s highest earners. Now they’re drilling down into the specifics. Sen. Charles Grassley (Iowa), senior Republican on the Senate Finance ...
  2 days ago

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

  
  HYSTERICAL RAISINS — Authority: 469
  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 ...
  4 days ago

• Senator Blanche Lincoln committed to the Health Care Bill

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 726
  Washington DC, Nov 22 (THAINDIAN NEWS) Senator Blanche Lincoln knows that she is again going to play a crucial role in the Health Care Bill. She played a very critical and crucial role in the senate debate on Saturday, as she became the 60th person to commit to moving the health care bill to [...]
  4 days ago

• PELOSI: Buy a $15,000 Policy or Go to Jail

  
  One Man's Thoughts — Authority: 133
  Today, Ranking Member of the House Ways and Means Committee Dave Camp (R-MI) released a letter from the non-partisan Joint Committee on Taxation (JCT) confirming that the failure to comply with the individual mandate to buy health insurance contained in the Pelosi health care bill (H.R. 3962, as amended) could land ...
  6 days ago

• A CREED FOR MEDICINE IN THE USA WHO WILL BE OUR FUTUREDOCTORS? AMA OR OMA

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 174
  The Senate Finance Committee recently approved a 10-year, $829 billion reform package which has served as the starting point for negotiations on a final bill – the first health reform bill considered in Congress in decades. But as leaders in Washington move forward with healthcare reform, we would like to remind them ...
  6 days ago

• Virginia News Stand: November 19, 2009

  
  FamilyFoundationBlog.com — Authority: 138
  Annotations & Elucidations Breaking News: Next Budget Shortfall $3.5 Billion! Breaking news this evening: Senate Finance Committee analysts told that committee’s members this afternoon that the next two-year budget will be $3.5 billion short, not to mention the current budget lacking another $209 ...
  1 week ago

• Virginia News Stand: November 19, 2009

  
  FamilyFoundationBlog.com — Authority: 138
  Annotations & Elucidations Breaking News: Next Budget Shortfall $3.5 Billion! Breaking news this evening: Senate Finance Committee analysts told that committee’s members this afternoon that the next two-year budget will be $3.5 billion short, not to mention the current budget lacking another $209 ...
  1 week ago

• TAXES: Panel: Treasury Nominee Made Tax Errors

  
  PA Pundits - International — Authority: 491
  By Peter Cohn UPDATED WITH TREASURY REACTION – Another Obama administration nominee is in hot water over tax issues. Senate Finance Committee leaders today announced that Lael Brainard, President Obama’s nominee for Treasury undersecretary for international affairs, made several late payments and ...
  1 week ago

• A Taxing Time for Treasury Nominee

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 908
  The Senate Finance Committee continues its wellknown digging into nominees backgrounds.
  1 week ago

• A Taxing Time for Treasury Nominee

  
  The Caucus — Authority: 791
  The Senate Finance Committee continues its wellknown digging into nominees backgrounds.
  1 week ago

• 3 pain points to watch as health reform moves to Senate

  
  Work Fanatic — Authority: 134
  The latest healthcare reform bill just passed the House. But making it through the Senate will be even harder as a few rough edges still need some smoothing. Three things both the House and Senate do agree on: Requiring most people to carry health insurance or pay a penalty Providing “affordability ...
  1 week ago

• 3 pain points to watch as health reform moves to Senate

  
  HRMorning.com — Authority: 140
  The latest healthcare reform bill just passed the House. But making it through the Senate will be even harder as a few rough edges still need some smoothing. Three things both the House and Senate do agree on: Requiring most people to carry health insurance or pay a penalty Providing “affordability ...
  1 week ago

• A Sweetheart Deal for Big Business

  
  The Washington Independent Blog — Authority: 157
  As we mentioned here last week, the recently passed jobless benefits extension, though packaged as a boost for Main Street, provided many times more funding to the nation’s businesses, including the largest corporations. Specifically, the law allows companies to recover already-paid taxes by applying ...
  1 week ago

• Is a Federal Mandate Constitutional?

  
  Northloop Neighborhoods - Community News & Directory — Authority: 168
  Journalist Ezra Klein has come out in favor of the proposition that a federal health insurance mandate is constitutional, but the question remains a thorny legal problem. If a reform bill is passed with an individual mandate, will it pass constitutional muster? The answer isn’t quite as clear as Klein would have ...
  1 week ago

• The Rationing Commission

  
  John Goodman's Health Policy Blog — Authority: 529
  As envisioned by the Senate Finance Committee, the commission would have to meet certain budget targets each year: Starting in 2015, Medicare could not grow more rapidly on a per capita basis than by a measure of inflation. After 2019, it could only grow at the same rate as GDP, plus one percentage point. Until ...
  1 week ago

• John Kerry Calls Out Climate Change Denier B.S.

  
  Life within me — Authority: 139
  A hack of an “environmental scholar” working for an organization that consistently seeks to undermine efforts to fight global warming got schooled on climate change policy by Senator John Kerry during a Senate Finance Committee hearing on November 10th. Kerry rebuked Green’s comments for a solid five minutes, ...
  2 weeks ago

• Grassley Flips on Health Insurance Mandate

  
  The Washington Independent — Authority: 760
  Here’s Sen. Charles Grasssley (R-Iowa) in June, telling Fox News that requiring people to buy health insurance is a good idea, analogous to states requiring drivers to purchase car insurance: There isn’t anything wrong with it, except some people look at it as an infringement upon individual freedom. But when ...
  2 weeks ago

• More Trade News

  
  Cato @ Liberty — Authority: 746
  My colleague Dan Griswold pointed out yesterday some unfortunate editing in the Washington Post. Here are a couple of other trade-related items in the news recently: Sen. Max Baucus (D, MT and Chairman of the Senate Finance Committee) has seemingly thrown his weight behind the idea of “border measures” ...
  2 weeks ago

• ObamaCare’s ‘Sweetheart Deal’ for PhRMA

  
  Cato @ Liberty — Authority: 746
  The New Republic ’s Jonathan Cohn reports that back in March, IMS Health projected slightly negative revenue growth for the pharmaceutical industry but recently changed that projection to 3.5-percent annual growth from 2008 through 2013. “What changed?” Cohn asks. “A major factor, according to IMS, was the ...
  2 weeks ago

• David Leonhardt tries to do Obamas job for him, part II

  
  xpostfactoid — Authority: 494
  David Leonhardt continues to do yeomans work explaining the stakes and outlining the means of health care cost control. Today he compares cost control measures in the House bill, which he finds wanting, with those in the Senate Finance Committee bill, which are stronger. His main theme: that the true test of the ...
  2 weeks ago

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