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• Expose Him To Reality, Now!

  
  Corrente — Authority: 628
  Bill Moyers hosted an interesting conversation the other day among Robert Kuttner, Matt Taibbi, and himself about health care reform, the performance of the Administration to this point, and the relations of progressives with the President. The conversation focused in part on how Taibbi and Kuttner would vote on the ...
  6 hours ago

• The Starter Home

  
  The New Republic - the treatment Feed — Authority: 138
  At Saturday’s press conference announcing that Democrats had the sixty votes necessary to pass health reform legislation, Majority Leader Harry Reid was flanked by three of his colleagues: Max Baucus, Chris Dodd, and Tom Harkin. But Harkin was, in a sense, the odd man out. Unlike Baucus and Dodd, who managed health ...
  1 day ago

• Harry Reid Talks About Healthcare Vote Video

  
  Today With President Barack Obama — Authority: 448
  Harry Reid says he has the 60 votes . Obama will speak at about 1:30 pm eastern. It will be live streamed at msnbc.com and cnn.com . Bernie Sanders amendment sounds good. It expands community health centers, which will help drive down costs. Visit msnbc.com for breaking news , world news , and news about the ...
  1 day ago

• Democrats Clinch a Deal on Health Bill

  
  BeltwayBlips - Top Political News, Videos, and Blogs — Authority: 511
  Senator Max Baucus (D-MT) (L), Senator Christopher Dodd (D-CT) (2R) and Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA) (R) listen while Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) speaks during a press conference on Capitol Hill, Saturday. MyDD found this 4 hours ago on nytimes.com Find more top political news, videos, and blogs on ...
  1 day ago

• For Chrissake, If You Really Care About America, Tell Harry Reid “No”

  
  Corrente — Authority: 628
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  2 days ago

• Harkin, Grassley see same problem for biodiesel credit, different obstacles

  
  Iowa Independent — Authority: 629
  If Congress doesn’t act soon, biodiesel producers will lose a $1 per gallon tax credit. Creative Commons photo by rrelam via Flick The credit, which is given for biodiesel made from soybean oil or yellow grease and animal fats, helps to maintain the competitiveness of the domestically-produced fuel, and experts ...
  2 days ago

• Braley doubts Senate health bill passes House

  
  Iowa Independent — Authority: 629
  While he understands why Democrats in the Senate made the changes they have to health care reform legislation, including dropping the public option, U.S. Rep. Bruce Braley , D-Iowa, said their version of the bill is unlikely to pass in the House. In an interview with Des Moines Register columnist Kathie ...
  2 days ago

• Harkin: Health care drama will fade

  
  Des Moines Register Staff Blogs Iowa Politics Insider — Authority: 140
  The daily drama surrounding health care legislation in the Senate will be forgotten as long as Congress passes a bill, Sen. Tom Harkin said today. “Mark my words, decades from now people will not remember the twists and turns of debate on health care reform in 2009,”Harkin told reporters today. “What they will ...
  3 days ago

• Harkin: Health Reform Bill Just a Foundation

  
  The Washington Independent Blog — Authority: 153
  At TWI’s sister site The Iowa Independent, Lynda Waddington relays the thoughts of Sen. Tom Harkin (D-Iowa), chairman of the Senate health committee, who told reporters today that the health care reform bill moving through the Senate is far from a liberal’s dream, but nonetheless represents a good first step ...
  3 days ago

• Harkin: Think of health care reform as a starter home

  
  Iowa Independent — Authority: 629
  U.S. Sen. Tom Harkin has advice for progressives frustrated with the prospects of meaningful health care reform in the U.S. Senate: Think of it as a starter home. U.S. Sen. Tom Harkin (Creative Commons photo by turtlemoon via Flickr) “What we are buying here is a modest home, not a mansion. What we are ...
  3 days ago

• Mr. President, "Your base is leaving you...." (Video)

  
  This Week With Barack Obama — Authority: 138
  From the two polls that have come out the past two days, the erosion is from the Democrats. People are angry and this is not the change people voted for. The compromises are going in one direction and it surely is not in OUR favor. And going after Howard Dean? WTH is going on in that White House?From The Ed ...
  3 days ago

• Howard Dean Advises To Kill the Bill that’s "A Bigger Bailout for the Insurance Industry than AIG"!

  
  Corrente — Authority: 628
  Howard Dean said to George Stephanpolous this morning, “This is a bigger bailout for the insurance industry than AIG.” Could he have been any clearer? Now, a number of high profile Congressional Dems are all over the media today playing mollifiers for the Trojan Horse bill that Obama is pressuring to have ...
  4 days ago

• Health reform: Presents, Lieberman, AARP

  
  Politically Speaking — Authority: 128
  Several pieces of the health care reform effort in Congress to share this morning: (1) The day began with the American Cancer Society making an early delivery to the Sioux City office of U.S. Sen. Tom Harkin, D-Iowa. The society used the present delivery as a photo-op to remind Harkin to “give America the best ...
  4 days ago

• Harkin health care figure off; nearly 8,000 lose insurance every day

  
  Iowa Independent — Authority: 629
  A figure regularly cited by Democrats, most recently U.S. Sen. Tom Harkin of Iowa, that 14,000 Americans lose their health insurance every day is no longer accurate, according to analysis by PolitiFact . Research showed the number had fallen since the summer to roughly 8,000 people a day. U.S. Sen. Tom Harkin ...
  4 days ago

• Drug-import legislation dies in Senate

  
  Iowa Independent — Authority: 629
  In a big win for the pharmaceutical industry, the Senate on Tuesday killed legislation that would have made it easier for Americans to buy their prescription drugs from abroad, where prices are generally much cheaper. The final tally was 51 to 48 , nine shy of the supporters needed to overcome a filibuster. ...
  4 days ago

• Harkin supports reform bill with no public option or Medicare buy-in

  
  Iowa Independent — Authority: 629
  Even if a version of health care reform legislation in the U.S. Senate does not include a public option or a Medicare expansion , U.S. Sen. Tom Harkin, D-Iowa, said it still has enough positive attributes to garner his support. Liberal blog Talking Points Memo caught U.S. Sen. Tom Harkin , D-Iowa, on his way into ...
  5 days ago

• Cutting a deal with Lieberman

  
  The Reaction — Authority: 556
  By Michael J.W. Stickings Following up on Creatures post from earlier this evening... The White House is apparently behind the move to scrap the Medicare buy-in, pushing Reid et al. to cut a deal with Lieberman. Specifically, and not surprisingly, its Rahm Emanuel behind it. Its a flip-flop for ...
  6 days ago

• MSNBC Seems To Be Very Disappointed With Senator Joe Lieberman

  
  Mediaite — Authority: 782
  Health care reform is a subject that often elicits blank stares and yawns from an audience. It not only lacks a clear and simple narrative; it’s hard to follow the characters involved. Recent debate over health care has forced the topic back on the cable news rundowns, and at least one cable network has found their ...
  6 days ago

• Harkin: Theres Enough Good In This Bill Without Medicare Buy-In

  
  BeltwayBlips - Top Political News, Videos, and Blogs — Authority: 511
  Sen. Tom Harkin (D-IA) just walked walked into the Democrats all-important caucus meeting tonight sounding defeatest about the chance that a Medicare buy-in or public option trigger will survive Sen. Joe Liebermans (I-CT) decision to block the compromises this weekend.... Democratic Underground Latest Breaking ...
  6 days ago

• Time to dump the filibuster

  
  Corrente — Authority: 628
  The filibuster is the greatest block to the will of the people in American politics. Harkin is talking about getting rid of it. Harkin said he tried in the 1990s to change the rule. “In fact, do you know who my co-sponsor was? Joe Lieberman,” Harkin said in a conference call with Iowa reporters. Lieberman has ...
  6 days ago

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