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• Harkin, by phone, in on White House health care talks today

  
  Des Moines Register Staff Blogs Iowa Politics Insider — Authority: 138
  Iowa Sen. Tom Harkin was part of a White House meeting today, participating by phone with President Obama and his fellow committee chairmen “to discuss the urgency for finalizing the health reform bill,” according to the Iowa Democrat’s staff. Obama held a similar meeting with House leadership Wednesday, ...
  15 hours ago

• Podcast: TSA, Yemen, Filibuster, Ben Nelson, Guests: Jason Cecil, Jimmie Bise PART ONE

  
  United Liberty - Free Market - Individual Liberty - Limited Government — Authority: 528
  Jason and  Brett jump into 2010 with a podcast, joined by two guests, Jason Cecil, current Southeast Director for Young Democrats of America and immediate past president of Young Democrats of Georgia , and Jimmie Bise, political and pop culture commentator at The Sundries Shack blog and The Delivery podcast ...
  4 days ago

• Jaccuse

  
  Corrente — Authority: 641
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  4 days ago

• New Years Eve open thread; remembering the year and the decade

  
  Featured States News — Authority: 156
  Original Author:  desmoinesdem Happy new year, Bleeding Heartland readers! Ten years ago today I was making pancakes when the future Mr. desmoinesdem told me Boris Yeltsin had resigned. I was living overseas and didnt know Id be moving back to Iowa someday. I wasnt reading any ...
  1 week ago

• Top 5 Siouxland political events of 2009

  
  Politically Speaking — Authority: 126
  Two years ago we were hours away from New Year’s Day Sioux City campaign visits by Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton mere days before the Iowa caucuses, so comparatively the political buzz is much lower as we end another calendar year. Last year here I compile d the Top 8 political events of ‘08 , and this being an ...
  1 week ago

• Legislator scorecards dont tell the whole story

  
  Featured States News — Authority: 156
  Original Author:  desmoinesdem One of my pet peeves is when interest groups release rank legislators according to how they have voted on a few key bills. These scorecards can be helpful as a general guideline, but some lawmakers game the system by voting the "right" way on a ...
  1 week ago

• Dear Sen. Harkin, These are Terrible Materials for Building a Starter Home

  
  Firedoglake — Authority: 753
  The Senates "starter home" (photo: Alaskan Dude) Sen. Tom Harkin continues to refer to the Senate health reform bill as a “starter home” in a new entry on the Huffington Post . Instead of that “partial loaf” analogy, I like to think of this bill as like a starter home. It is not the mansion of our ...
  1 week ago

• The Top Five Straight Allies in Congress for 2009

  
  Queers United — Authority: 133
  Who are the leading advocates for LGBT rights inside the Beltway? Well, common sense would lead you to the three openly gay and lesbian politicians currently serving in the U.S. Congress –- Rep. Tammy Baldwin, Rep. Barney Frank, and Rep. Jared Polis. Great or legendary figures, but what happens when you get beyond ...
  1 week ago

• Harkin vows to take on filibusters

  
  Iowa Independent — Authority: 676
  In an interview with the Washington Post, U.S. Sen. Tom Harkin , D-Iowa, said he planned to introduce legislation in 2010 designed to reform the filibuster process in the Senate. While speaking to reporters about health care reform legislation earlier this month, Harkin said it wasn’t right that a small group of ...
  1 week ago

• In Defense of Harry Reid (Guest Voice)

  
  The Moderate Voice — Authority: 663
  WASHINGTON — Punditry in the nation’s capital has its own rhythms, and one common practice involves almost everyone beating up on the same politician at the same time. Such assaults are rarely about ideology, though I have found that liberals or Democrats are often the object of these sustained attacks, ...
  1 week ago

• Harkin Considering Filibuster Reform (UPDATED)

  
  Democrashield.com — Authority: 133
  Dovetailing with what I posted yesterday, Bleeding Heartland reports that Iowa Senator Tom Harkin (D) is considering proposing filibuster reform.Apparently Harkin proposed just such a bill back in 1995, when Democrats were in the minority.Here are the details:To keep the spirit of slowing down legislation, though, ...
  1 week ago

• An early look at next years campaign messages on health care

  
  Featured States News — Authority: 156
  Original Author:  desmoinesdem Assuming the House and the Senate pass whatever health insurance bill comes out of the conference committee, Republicans and Democrats are likely to highlight the reform during next years campaigns. Recent polls have shown that most Americans dont ...
  1 week ago

• Harkin looking for allies to change filibuster rules

  
  Featured States News — Authority: 156
  Original Author:  desmoinesdem Senator Tom Harkins commitment to end the abuse of the filibuster hasnt waned just because Democrats managed to find 60 votes to pass health insurance reform. Harkin discussed the current dysfunction in the Senate with Ezra Klein : In the past, ...
  1 week ago

• End the filibuster! An interview with Sen. Tom Harkin

  
  BeltwayBlips - Top Political News, Videos, and Blogs — Authority: 523
  Sen. Tom Harkin has served in the Senate since 1984, and currently chairs the influential Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee. Before coming to the Senate, he served in the House of Representatives from 1975 to 1984. Health-care reform has, in part, focused a lot of attention ... J. Bradford DeLongs ...
  1 week ago

• Harkin vote for health bill a “defining” one in his career

  
  Des Moines Register Staff Blogs Iowa Politics Insider — Authority: 138
  Iowa Sen. Tom Harkin today called his vote for the Senate health care bill “one of the defining votes” of his 34-year congressional career. The five-term Democrat’s role in the bill included work early this year writing disease prevention and public health language that was included in the bill. Meanwhile, he ...
  2 weeks ago

• Nightmare Before Christmas

  
  Iowa Defense Alliance — Authority: 114
  When I went to bed last evening, I did so praying for a Christmas miracle this morning. I was hoping that enough US Senators would see the error of their ways. I was hoping that they would see the light of truth in regards to the health reform bill that they were set to vote [...]
  2 weeks ago

• Senate passes health reform bill 60-39

  
  Featured States News — Authority: 156
  Original Author:  desmoinesdem Senators approved the health care reform bill 60-39 as Vice President Joe Biden presided over the Senates first Christmas Eve session in at least four and a half decades. It was the expected party-line vote, with Republican Jim Bunning absent. ...
  2 weeks ago

• Senate passes historic, if diluted, health reform bill

  
  Iowa Independent — Authority: 676
  Senate Democrats on Thursday approved the best health care reform bill they could manage: a sweeping $871 billion proposal designed to extend coverage to tens of millions of uninsured Americans and slow the growth of runaway costs. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev. (WDCpix) It was at once a monumental ...
  2 weeks ago

• Senate Health Care Bill Passed

  
  Black Entertainment, Money, Style and Beauty Blogs - Black Voices — Authority: 155
  Filed under: News , Politics , President Obama , Race and Civil Rights , Health Care Debate The health care bill passed by the Senate this morning is far from perfect. Theres enough pork in the bill to turn off the entire Nation of Islam. The lack of a public option for health care insurance is a real ...
  2 weeks ago

• Latte Links (12/23) Health Care Edition Redux

  
  Caffeinated Thoughts — Authority: 136
  More health care reform links before we have a Harry, Harry Christmas . Cato @ Liberty: Death Panels? Sarah Palin was Right by Alan Reynolds Sarah Palin: Midnight Votes, Backroom Deals, and a Death Panel The Iowa Republican: Congress and White House Exempted Itself from New Healthcare Law CNS News: ...
  2 weeks ago

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