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• Health Care Financing Reform: (71) Are Filibusters Constitutional?

  
  Akron Law Caf — Authority: 133
       Absent the threat of a filibuster, health care reform would already have been enacted into law.  Are filibusters constitutional?      By itself, the "filibuster" is nothing more than an attempt to wear down the opposition through endless debate.  It is an annoying tactic whenever it is used by family ...
  3 days ago

• Cloture Reform

  
  Red Tory v.3.0 — Authority: 480
  Long overdue and much needed. Along with his co-sponsorship of Ron Paul’s bill to audit the Federal Reserve (HR 1207 and S 604), this seems like another winning issue for Grayson. Could we get a few more Dems like him with verifiable backbones to replace those cowardly, interminably waffling “blue dog” ...
  5 days ago

• Alan Die Quickly Grayson Seeks 55-Vote Supermajority

  
  MoJo Blog Posts: mojo — Authority: 131
  The Dems bombastic pit-bull Alan Grayson started a petition (sub req) yesterday urging Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid to lower the Senate’s cloture requirement from 60 votes to 55. Edging dangerously close to his " die quickly " meme, Grayson says that "every day the Senate delays, more people die from lack ...
  6 days ago

• Lieberman Standing His Ground Over Public Option

  
  The Lonely Conservative — Authority: 584
  Senator Joe Lieberman (I-CT) is standing his ground against the public option. And it sounds like he’s quite serious. The Wall Street Journal reported: Sen. Joseph Lieberman, speaking in that trademark sonorous baritone, utters a simple statement that translates into real trouble for Democratic leaders: ...
  6 days ago

• Thank or Spank Your Senators

  
  Liberty Maven Liberty Maven: For Liberty, One Individual At A Time — Authority: 565
  D o w n s i z e r – D i s p a t c h The Senate voted to consider Harry Reid’s healthcare bill on Saturday night. We must say, first of all, that there’s no need to panic. Keep in mind . . . * The Senate did NOT pass the bill, it only agreed to end a filibuster that prevented the bill from being ...
  1 week ago

• Monday Open Thread: Landrieu Edition

  
  Big Government — Authority: 818
  Today is the birthday of Louisiana Senator Mary Landrieu. What do you get someone who has already drawn an extra $100-300 million from the federal Treasury?
  1 week ago

• Senate Health Care Bill, Cloture, Debate, Senate schedule, Senate proceedings, Harry Reed, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell

  
  Citizen Wells — Authority: 567
  I was asked to post the following email.   “Healthcare Tea Party on the Las Vegas Strip today   SENATE VOTES TO BEGIN FORMAL DEBATE ON HEALTH CARE BILL   The Senate has voted to begin debate on the Senate healthcare bill, by a party line vote. As we wrote earlier today, even though we have been considering ...
  1 week ago

• In Ted Kennedy’s Honor, Let’s Pass ‘Kopechne Care’

  
  Start Thinking Right — Authority: 475
  I wrote this several months ago, after Ted Kennedy passed away.  I decided not to publish it, out of respect for the recently deceased.  But the Democrat leadership rushing out to invoke Kennedy’s name during and after the vote last nigh t made me realize that the time had come to put it out there. Nancy Pelosi, ...
  1 week ago

• Senate Health Care vote, Cloture vote, November 21, 2009, 2010 elections scorecard, Vote for Government Health care means no vote in 2010

  
  Citizen Wells — Authority: 567
  I would like to thank the 60 senators who voted yesterday for the Senate version of the Health Care bill for providing us with a convenient score card to vote them out of office in 2010. Harry Reid is already a goner. Perhaps these 60 can form a club to stay occupied after the 2010 elections. Perhaps it could be ...
  1 week ago

• No Guilt, Only Gall

  
  hillbillypolitics.com — Authority: 407
  The author of the article likens it to a Tennesee Williams play. Mary Landrieu sold out the country for $300 million, not $100 million as previously reported. Dana Milbank is right. It is a play but nothing really like those from Williams. The script has become old and worn from overuse and the lines have [...]
  1 week ago

• Queen High Flush: Round Of Senate "Holdem" Results In Healthcare Debate

  
  Brown Man Thinking Hard — Authority: 122
  Senator Mary Landrieau deserves an Oscar for her performance leading up to last nights Senate vote on cloture to officially open the Senate floor to debate over the long awaited healthcare legislation. She certainly won the best actor award among a cast of dozens last night, walking away with 300 million dollars in ...
  1 week ago

• Definition of Cloture: An Agreement to Limit Debate NOT to Begin Debating

  
  Will Johnston | Mind Muse — Authority: 104
  Time for a quick civics lesson! Countless news agencies are misreporting that yesterday’s Senate vote on the health care bill is a vote to begin debating the bill. From the Washington Post : After days of indecision, the last two Democratic holdouts — Sens. Blanche Lincoln (Ark.) and Mary Landrieu (La.) — ...
  1 week ago

• Quote of the day.

  
  Upper Left — Authority: 433
  Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid … "Ted would be happy." Me too.
  1 week ago

• Senate Health Bill Clears Hurdle

  
  PA Pundits - International — Authority: 490
  By Anna Edney and Dan Friedman The Senate voted 60-39 along party lines Saturday night to take up sweeping healthcare overhaul legislation, a victory that belies the tough haul ahead to assuage lingering Democratic concerns that threaten final passage. Four moderate Democrats – Sens. Blanche Lincoln of ...
  1 week ago

• Health Care Financing Reform: (68) Democrats Secure 60 Votes for Cloture

  
  Akron Law Caf — Authority: 133
       The Senate voted 60-39 this evening to cut off a filibuster, thus allowing debate on the health care bill that is pending in the Senate, the  Patient Protection and Affordable Health Care Act .  Links to news stories below.      On a straight party-line vote, the Senate voted for cloture on the ...
  1 week ago

• Email from Arlen Specter on Obamacare vote (VANITY)

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 175
  Received this in my inbox tonight... Dear Friends, The Congress is continuing its work to try to get healthcare reform legislation, and I believe the prospects are reasonably good that we will produce a bill. I hope that the bill will have the public option - and a robust public option. We will have a cloture vote ...
  1 week ago

• Todays Healthcare Debate In The Senate

  
  DownWithTyranny! — Authority: 642
  I watched the "debate" today on whether or not there should be a healthcare reform debate. Listening to the Republican claptrap obstructionism was actually embarrassing. That men like David Vitter (R-LA), Jeff Sessions (R-AL) and Kit Bond (R-MO) are in the Senate is nothing short of a disgrace. Sheldon Whitehouse, the ...
  1 week ago

• Liveblog: Senate Vote on Cloture for Health Care Reform Bill

  
  Firedoglake — Authority: 753
  [ Ed. Note: as of 8:10 p.m. ET, the Senate voted 60-39 for cloture on the Health Care Reform bill. Debate on the bill will proceed after the coming holiday break. ] 8:22 p.m. ET — There is the usual post-vote speechifying outside the Senate chamber. Reid and Dodd both make predictable remarks about the importance ...
  1 week ago

• Democrats Call Healthcare Vote: Sen. Lincoln Says She Will Vote for Debate

  
  CafeSentido.com — Authority: 501
  Sen. Blanche Lincoln (D-AR) has announced she will vote to support cloture, which will allow debate to move forward in the Senate on healthcare insurance reform legislation. Lincoln joins other conservative Democrats, Mary Landrieu, of Louisiana, and Ben Nelson, of Nebraska, in supporting her party leadership’s call ...
  1 week ago

• Sen. Lincoln on Board as 60th Vote: Enjoyed Her Senate Career

  
  Big Government — Authority: 818
  From tonight’s Politico : Sen. Blanche Lincoln is a yes for debating health reform, but a no for the public option, and she and fellow centrists are making clear they expect Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid to scrap his current plan for a government-run insurance program. Lincoln (D-Ark.) announced ...
  1 week ago

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