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• in Politics
  Hey Congress, Do You Need A Hearing Aid?
  The Nation is tired, frustrated, and perplexed. Our politicians do not have a clue.
  by joseacolon / on Nov 1, 2009

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “senate”

• The moving day that never comes (waiver again to moving embassy to Jerusalem)

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 177
  President Obama and his family did the traditional lighting of the White House Christmas tree Wednesday on the Ellipse. That same day he continued the more recent, lower-key tradition, begun by Bill Clinton and followed by George W. Bush, of approving a waiver every six months to legislation that calls for the ...
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• America…You must WAKE UP to Illegal Immigration…Dems allow it for VOTES!

  
  Desert Conservative — Authority: 154
  Roy Beck, President, NumbersUSA Date:   Monday 7DEC09     Noon EST   INTRODUCING OUR MAJOR NEW TOOL — “Change The Numbers” (animation & interactive charts)   THIS MAY BE THE TOOL TO HELP YOUR FENCE-SITTING FRIENDS/FAMILY/COLLEAGUES TO FINALLY JOIN THE IMMIGRATION-REDUCTION ...
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• PA-Sen: Barney Frank bucks establishment, endorses Sestak

  
  Daily Kos — Authority: 805
  The value of individual endorsements, with a few narrow exceptions, is generally overstated. And the bigger the election being contested, the smaller the value of such endorsements. The only thing bigger than a Senate election is a presidential one, so in practical terms, Rep. Barney Frank endorsing Joe Sestak ...
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• Will Senate Bill Be Public Option’s “Waterloo”?

  
  The Plum Line — Authority: 771
  With events moving fast today, here’s what things look like from the GOP side of the aisle: GOP aides are increasingly confident that the Senate bill will represent the public option’s “Waterloo,” as one aide puts it, chiefly because it’s questionable whether pressure from liberals in the House will do much ...
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• Nelson, others begin bid to restrict abortion in health care bill

  
  Planet Washington — Authority: 431
  A bipartisan group of senators Monday introduced an amendment to health care legislation putting restrictions on abortion, a plan likely to spark strong debate later Monday and probably Tuesday. Sen. Ben Nelson, D-Neb., led the group. Their proposal would assure that no federal money funds abortion in the health ...
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• Is ‘Climategate’ Moving Votes?

  
  The Washington Independent Blog — Authority: 154
  Ben Geman, talking to the senators who’ll decide whether or not to bring cap-and-trade to the floor, reports that it isn’t. And in another report, he finds the EPA blowing off the scandal . The stolen e-mails CRU scandal came amid a decrease in public concern about — and belief in — climate change. ...
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• Reid compares health care to ending slavery

  
  Reformed Chicks Blabbing — Authority: 136
  He charges that the Republicans are trying to slow it down, saying the same thing that was said of slavery and the civil rights movement. Obviously, forgetting history since it was the Democrats who tried to filibuster the Civil Rights Act and it was the Republicans who ended slavery: We all know the Republicans ...
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• Reid compares opponents of health reform to supporters of slavery

  
  osmoothie — Authority: 145
  
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• Barney Frank, Joe Sestak and the Fix endorsement hierarchy

  
  The Fix — Authority: 647
  Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.) has endorsed Rep. Joe Sestak (Pa.) in his Democratic primary challenge to party-switching Sen. Arlen Specter. (REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst) Massachusetts Rep. Barney Frank threw his support behind Rep. Joe Sestaks challenge to Sen. Arlen Specter in Pennsylvania today, a move that raised one very ...
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• LibertyWeek 72: Champagne Wishes and Climate Change Dreams

  
  OpenMarket.org — Authority: 617
  Your host Richard Morrison teams up with collaborators Jeremy Lott and William Yeatman to bring you Episode 72 of the LibertyWeek podcast . We begin with UN climate hypocrisy in Copenhagen, presidential arm-twisting on health care and a cloudy look at government transparency. We conclude with the end of the tobacco ...
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• Senate Keeps Health Insurance Executive Pay Tax Deductible

  
  Irregular Times: News Unfit for Print — Authority: 514
  Did you know that United States taxes are structured to reward corporations for paying big executive salaries? It’s true : under the current U.S. tax code, corporations get to deduct the cost of executive pay up to one million dollars for each corporate executive. This provides an incentive for corporate boards ...
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• Health-Care Bill Breakthrough Eludes Senate After Week of Work (Bloomberg)

  
  enUws — Authority: 172
  Bloomberg – Dec. 7 (Bloomberg) — Seven days of debate that stretched through the weekend have left Senate Democrats no closer to passing legislation to overhaul… Go here to read the rest: (Bloomberg)"> (Bloomberg)">Health-Care Bill Breakthrough Eludes Senate After Week of Work (Bloomberg)
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• Drugmakers’ support for health overhaul tested (AP)

  
  enUws — Authority: 172
  AP – The pharmaceutical industry may have to cough up more than the $80 billion it agreed to contribute to President Barack Obama’s… View original post here: (AP)"> (AP)">Drugmakers’ support for health overhaul tested (AP)
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• 11th U.S. Congressional and U.S. Senate Candidate Forum “Tea Party Style”

  
  Publius Forum — Authority: 548
  -By Warner Todd Huston One of our local Tea Party groups is sponsoring a candidate’s forum On Dec. 9th. I find it a bit telling that these folks invited the local Democrats to participate in the forum and they all declined, yet all the republicans accepted the invitation. So, uh, what are the Dems afraid of? ...
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• New Jersey Marriage Equality hearing is Today!

  
  Maybe it's just me... — Authority: 534
  NJ marriage bill in the Senate Judiciary Committee is happening now! If you want to listen to it, heres the link http://www.njleg.state.nj.us/media/live_audio.asp Good Luck, New Jersey!
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• STOP OBAMACARE…CALL…CALL…CALL!

  
  Desert Conservative — Authority: 154
  Take Action by Calling These Senators Today and All Week: Five Democrat Senators – Evan Bayh (D-IN), Mary Landrieu (D-LA), Blanche Lincoln (D-AR), Ben Nelson (D-NE), and Jim Webb (D-VA)  – are critically important to defeating Obama ’s and Congressional Democrats government-run health care ...
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• Dockery: As Gov, would clean house at FDOT

  
  Naked Politics — Authority: 151
  Sen. Paula Dockery, amid her SunRail tirade during a noon press conference with the group "Ax the Tax,"  dropped this campaign promise: That if elected Governor, one of the first things she would do  is "clean house" at the Florida Department of Transportation. The FDOT stands to gain a lot more power under the ...
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• Another Surprise for Seniors in the Senate Health Reform Bill: A Tax on Their Employer-Provided Drug Benefit

  
  John Goodman's Health Policy Blog — Authority: 437
  As part of the Medicare Modernization Act in 2003, Congress created a new drug benefit — called Medicare Part D — for retirees at a cost of about $1,900 per recipient per year. Many private employers already provided drug coverage for their retirees, and the administration and Congress did not want to tempt ...
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• What Congress Should Ask McChrystal Tomorrow & Wednesday

  
  The Washington Independent Blog — Authority: 154
  As mentioned earlier , tomorrow morning Gen. Stanley McChrystal and Amb. Karl Eikenberry begin two days of hearings on the revised Afghanistan strategy. I’ll be providing up-to-the-minute coverage on this blog. And to that end, I was thinking about writing some preview questions about what to look for, as I ...
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• Medicare Buy-In Gaining Traction in Public Option Negotiations?

  
  Daily Kos — Authority: 805
  Theres a new wrinkle in the public option negotiations that IS very encouraging. Ezra : Sources who have been briefed on the negotiations say that Medicare buy-in is attracting the most interest. Expanding Medicaid is running into more problems, though theres some appeal because, unlike increasing subsidies, ...
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