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• The truth about health-care reform: the public option (2)

  
  The Reaction — Authority: 576
  By Michael J.W. Stickings Heres a third Q&A from the Senate Democratic Policy Committees Citizens Forum . I posted one on affordability on Monday and one on the public option on Tuesday. Curtis Macchioni (Livermore, CA): Why cant we have a public option? Senator Sherrod Brown (D-OH): ...
  2 days ago

• Is Washington Completely Out Of Touch With Main Street?

  
  Boom2Bust.com — Authority: 542
  I’ve got an idea the following Huffington Post piece might very well describe how a number of Americans feel right now about our elected officials in Washington. From Post contributor Don McNay last night: Can you hear me calling you? -Mike and The Mechanics Mark Twain said that when he died he wanted to be ...
  4 days ago

• Senators Begin Questioning ACTA Secrecy

  
  Computer & Internet - computer-internet.marc8.com — Authority: 167
  Despite some sweet talk from Hollywood about how important ACTA and its secret negotiations are to America (and, once again, no, the secrecy is not at all "normal," as some industry lawyers would have you believe), it looks like some Senators are finally beginning to question how ACTA is being handled. read more
  5 days ago

• Now this is more like it

  
  Daily Kos — Authority: 801
  Sherrod Brown, Chuck Schumer, and Michael Bennet all took a strong stand for the public option and health care reform yesterday, expressing confidence that health care reform -- with the opt-out public option intact -- will pass the Senate: Transcript: SHERROD BROWN: There are two weeks, three weeks, ...
  5 days ago

• Brown Predicts Success of Public Option

  
  The Washington Independent — Authority: 747
  In the wake of Saturday’s Senate vote to take up the chamber’s health reform legislation, the focus of the debate has shifted back to the public option , over which no fewer than four Democratic caucus members — Sens. Mary Landrieu (D-La.), Blanche Lincoln (D-Ark.), Ben Nelson (D-Neb.) and Joe Lieberman ...
  5 days ago

• John King to Dems: Is ObamaCare Important Enough to Buy Votes?

  
  NewsBusters.org - Exposing Liberal Media Bias — Authority: 837
  In the wake of Saturdays Senate vote to move forward with debate on controversial healthcare reform legislation, CNNs John King may have posed one of the best questions asked on any of Sundays political talk shows: To get Senator [Mary] Landrieus vote, just to proceed, just to go across the starting line, language ...
  6 days ago

• Should We Laugh? Cry? Both?

  
  The New Republic - the treatment Feed — Authority: 139
  The ritual is becoming familiar. Health care reform passes a major political hurdle. And progressives don’t know whether to laugh or cry. Last time, the occasion was a vote in the House of Representatives. Health care reform passed by the slimmest of margins, but not before conservative Democrats had extracted a ...
  6 days ago

• Senate Votes to Open Debate on Healthcare Legislation

  
  CafeSentido.com — Authority: 501
  For the first time in decades, the United States Senate has voted to open floor debate on comprehensive healthcare insurance reform legislation . All 58 Democratic members of the Senate, plus the two independents that caucus with them, voted to approve debate. 39 of the 40 Republicans voted against opening debate, ...
  1 week ago

• Sen Burris statement re: Senate admonishment

  
  Citizens Against Pro-Obama Media Bias — Authority: 150
  November 20, 2009Senator Burris statement re: Senate Ethics Committee findings and Public Letter of Admnotion:I am pleased that after numerous investigations, this matter has finally come to a close. I thank the members of the Senate Ethics Committee for their fair and thorough review of this matter, and now look ...
  1 week ago

• Sen Burris receives Letter of Public Admonition from Ethics Committee

  
  Citizens Against Pro-Obama Media Bias — Authority: 150
  November 20, 2009The Senate Ethics Committee has finally made a judgment in the investigation of Senator Burris’ possible perjury in relation to barry’s senate seat. They cleared him of any wrongdoing but issued a public letter of qualified admonition.It ranks in the middle of sanctions after a private letter of ...
  1 week ago

• Senator Vitter doesn’t know if Loving was correctly decided.

  
  BeltwayBlips - Top Political News, Videos, and Blogs — Authority: 570
  Vitter graduated Tulane Law School in 1988. Loving v. Virginia, decided in 1967, was a unanimous Supreme Court decision that declared state anti-miscegenation (interracial marriage) laws unconstitutional. It is one of the bedrock civil rights cases, right up there with Brown. It is simply not ... pandagon.net - we ...
  1 week ago

• Bill Aimed At Curbing Rising Childhood Hunger

  
  On The Hill — Authority: 425
  Sen. Sherrod Brown is citing a recent government report which found a dramatic spike in the number of Americans, including children, going hungry as a reason to approve his Hunger Free Schools Act. The Ohio Democrat says his bill would help enroll more students who qualify for nutrition assistance in the school lunch ...
  1 week ago

• Even Progressive Senators Don’t Grasp Importance of Climate Change

  
  Weatherdem's Weblog — Authority: 126
  I read a blog post about progressive Senate Democrats pushing Sen. Reid for a public option.  I wholeheartedly support such a push for a number of reasons.  Because I’m like most Americans, I encourage the push because I want true health care reform legislation to pass.  Not the watered down health insurance ...
  1 week ago

• Progressive Senators Push Reid on the Public Option

  
  Daily Kos — Authority: 801
  With the CBO score on the Senate bill expected at any moment, last night progressive Senators met with Harry Reid to remind him that the vast majority of the caucus supports the public option, has compromised enough, and dont want to see it watered down any further. Sherrod Brown, who requested the meeting, told ...
  1 week ago

• Brown: Not Even 50 Votes for Abortion Amendment

  
  The Washington Independent Blog — Authority: 155
  With abortion now topic-of-the-moment amid the health reform debate, Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) weighed in last night with a prediction certain to please women’s rights groups: Republicans, the Ohio Democrat said, won’t be able to rally even 50 votes — let alone the 60 they’ll need — to pass an amendment ...
  1 week ago

• Senate Liberal Dems Press Reid Not to Cave on Public Option

  
  Firedoglake — Authority: 758
  (photo courtesy of CAPAF) There’s more about Monday Night’s  big meeting between Harry Reid and Senate progressives tonight, as details leak out. Jeffrey Young has a story up at The Hill . He confirms that the public option was the key topic of discussion – and that the progressives requested it: ...
  1 week ago

• Pull the plug on the climate change bill

  
  Featured States News — Authority: 159
  Original Author:  desmoinesdem Few problems require federal action more urgently than global warming. I admire the members of Congress who have been trying to address this issue. House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Henry Waxman tried to get the best deal he could. ...
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• Sens Udall and Bennet seek to have it both ways on Cap and Trade

  
  Colorado Independent — Authority: 653
  Colorado U.S. Sens Mark Udall and Michael Bennet with 12 other Senate Democrats signed onto a letter (pdf) urging Senate leaders weighing climate legislation to consider granting valuable credits to utilities that rely most heavily on coal. Udall and Bennet joined other perceived pro-climate legislation lawmakers ...
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• What to Do When Caught Spamming the Congressional Record? Raise Drug Prices!

  
  Firedoglake — Authority: 758
  This takes some serious stones : Even as drug makers promise to support Washington’s health care overhaul by shaving $8 billion a year off the nation’s drug costs after the legislation takes effect, the industry has been raising its prices at the fastest rate in years. [] This year’s increases mean the ...
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• Protecting Coal, but at What Cost?

  
  The Washington Independent Blog — Authority: 155
  The push is on to dilute the climate change bills moving through Congress, and it’s not coming only from conservatives. Mother Jones’ Kate Sheppard reports today that 14 Senate Democrats are urging their leadership to amend the proposal to grant more free polluting permits to the coal-burning utilities that emit ...
  1 week ago

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