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• Two Thirds Of Americans Want Congress To Keep Trying on Healthcare Reform. 58% Say Republicans Arent Compromising Enough

  
  Newsvine - Killfile's Column - Articles and Seeds — Authority: 148
  Nearly two-thirds of Americans want Congress to keep trying to pass a health care reform bill, according to a new national poll.
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• Draft Senate Bill Includes 3-Month Unemployment Benefits Extension

  
  The Washington Independent — Authority: 749
  It’s just an early version — or so the Democrats are saying — but Senate leaders appear to be that much closer to extending the filing deadline for unemployment insurance (which expires Feb. 28) through the end of May. The additional three months are half what the House passed in December, and an even ...
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• McConnell’s Plan to Create Jobs: Drill, Baby, Drill

  
  The Washington Independent — Authority: 749
  Following this morning’s White House jobs meeting with congressional leaders from both parties, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) issued a statement laying out his four-part plan to tackle the nation’s unemployment crisis. Let’s just say there’s a bit of a theme: •           ...
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• GOP leaders have pointed health care questions for White House

  
  Planet Washington — Authority: 568
  Republican congressional leaders made it clear Monday they have serious questions about the value of President Barack Obamas planned Feb. 25 health care summit. Obama said Sunday he wants to engage lawmakers in a half-day, bipartisan, nationally televised discussion of ways to overhaul the health care system. Senate ...
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• Lawmakers and Obama Eulogize Rep. John Murtha

  
  American Conservative Daily — Authority: 580
  Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) said those in Congress ?will miss the tenacity and passion that he brought to his job every day.?
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• Jobs Bill Eyed by Congress

  
  The Caucus — Authority: 813
  Action on Capitol Hill will be a bit delayed this week, in the aftermath of the blizzard that gripped Washington.
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• The Stolen Valor Act of 2005

  
  Opinione — Authority: 119
  Opinione recently learned about The Stolen Valor Act of 2005 , which President George W. Bush signed into law in 2005. This Federal law makes it a federal crime, punishable by up to one year in jail, to falsely claim to have received a medal from the U.S. military. Although the Stolen Valor Act of 2005 is being ...
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• Palins Speech

  
  Swampland — Authority: 762
  The Grand Ole Opry may have been next door but Sarah Palin preached to the choir on Saturday at the National Tea Party Convention and brought down the house. The two-day event, held at the Gaylord Opryland Resort and Hotel, had been a relatively placid affair – Tea Partiers learned how to social network and [...]
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• Loophole found in Dems reconciliation attempt?

  
  Try 2 Focus — Authority: 432
  It appears Senator Majority Leader Reid may not be able to push healthcare through under reconciliation . As it turns out, Senate Democrats may not be able to force healthcare legislation through the chamber on a simple majority vote. Republicans say they have found a loophole in the budget reconciliation ...
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• Clean Power = More Jobs

  
  CleanTechnica — Authority: 622
  A new study shows that requiring utility companies to get 25% of their power from renewable energy sources such as solar and wind (by 2025) would result in more jobs . “A strong renewable electricity standard is crucial to create a stable investment environment and grow this highly promising sector,” says Don ...
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• Obama suggests extending debate as way to pass health reform

  
  Politics or Poppycock — Authority: 436
  By Shailagh MurrayWashington Post Staff WriterSaturday, February 6, 2010President Obama sketched out an alternative approach to passing health-care legislation that would enlist Republicans and potentially extend debate into the spring, a strategy seemingly in conflict with the fast-track talks among Democrats on ...
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• Your Evening Dept of Boogers & Crazy Geriatrics

  
  Page One — Authority: 488
  HILARIOUS rumor: I hear the infamous Thom Karmik is headed back to Kentucky. Who will he be working for? Greg Fischer? [Hilarious Rumor] Former Lt. Governor Steve Pence endorsed Republican Bruce Wicker for Congress in Kentucky’s 3rd District against John Yarmuth. [ The ‘Ville Voice ] Now go to bed, you ...
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• The GOP Twitter Kings

  
  Swampland — Authority: 762
  Everyone thinks of Obama-land and the Dems as the rulers of new media after their successful harnessing of facebook and social media networking during the 2008 campaign. Apparently, Congressional Republicans have caught on quick. According to a new Congressional Research Study, House Republicans are responsible for ...
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• The Tea Party Goes Mainstream

  
  Swampland — Authority: 762
  The organizers of the National Tea Party Convention today announced that they will be forming a 501(c)4 corporation and related political action committee (PAC) to raise money to support 15-20 candidates for Congress or the Senate in the 2010 elections. “I have long said that the Tea Party movement doesnt endorse ...
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• John Boehner is Kidding Himself

  
  Stop The ACLU — Authority: 656
  -By Warner Todd Huston Yesterday our Republican minority leader in the House of Representatives proved that he still isn’t seeing the problem with the GOP. He’s living in denial, at least he is if we can take his words at face value. On the Mike Gallagher radio show yesterday, leader Boehner insisted that ...
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• Blue Green Alliance Letter to the Senate on Climate Legislation

  
  EnviroKnow — Authority: 564
  I’m glad to see folks letting the Senate know that an energy bill without a cap on emissions and a price on carbon is not acceptable. BGA Letter to Senate FINAL –
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• A Rocky Start to the New Era of Bipartisanship

  
  The Washington Independent Blog — Authority: 154
  And not just on health care reform. Sen. Chris Dodd (D-Conn.), head of the Banking Committee, announced this morning that, after weeks of financial reform negotiations with the panel’s senior Republican, Sen. Richard Shelby (Ala.), the two sides “have reached an impasse.” While I still hope that we will ...
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• Today in Unprecedented Obstructionism [Sigh]

  
  Gawker — Authority: 870
  Senator Richard Shelby will block all of Barack Obamas nominees until he gets his pork.
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• Economist Endorses the CLEAR act over a Cap and Trade Bill

  
  Earth Day Network Blog — Authority: 431
  Yesterday the Economist endorsed the Cantwell-Collins climate legislation- The CLEAR Act- Carbon Limits & Energy for America’s Renewal. The CLEAR Act developed in part by Working Assets entrepreneur Peter Barnes proposes a Cap and Dividend scheme that differs from a Cap and Trade scheme. The Cap and Dividend ...
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• Senate Democrats muster all 60 votes one last time (McClatchy Newspapers)

  
  enUws — Authority: 469
  McClatchy Newspapers – WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama called for more civility and bipartisanship at a prayer breakfast … Here is the original post: (McClatchy Newspapers)"> (McClatchy Newspapers)">Senate Democrats muster all 60 votes one last time (McClatchy Newspapers)
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