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• Senator Stabenow Introduces the Clean Energy Partnerships Act

  
  EnviroKnow — Authority: 518
  Via Western Citizen , American Farmland Trust lays out what this legislation aims to do: 1) Ensure agriculture is not subject to an emissions cap; 2) Ensure USDA promulgates the rules and administers any agricultural offset program; 3) Create clear authority so projects partially-funded with government money are ...
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• Casino syndicator with history of illegal activity contributes $30k to Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee

  
  The Verifiable Truth — Authority: 108
  According to OpenSecrets.org, Detroit casino syndicator Michael J. Malik, Sr. contributed $30,400 to the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee on 6.19.09. Previously such contributions by Malik and his casino gaming partners Mike and Marian Ilitch flowed to committees to re-elect Michigan Senators Debbie ...
  2 days ago

• Dana Stabenow Guest Blogs

  
  The Lipstick Chronicles — Authority: 122
  " You Dont Scare Me, Kindle." by Dana Stabenow   Kindle. eReader. EZReader. The Alex. The Que. The Nook, iRex, Plastic Logic. Every time a new e-reader debuts, the book world hurls itself into a panic. " . . . publishers are distracting themselves by fretting over the price of eBooks, without eBook released so ...
  4 days ago

• Defeating the Stabenow Bill: Was that good or bad?

  
  WhiteCoat's Call Room — Authority: 422
  Mark Plaster here, author of EP Monthly’s Night Shift column , guest blogging on WhiteCoat’s Call Room. On October 21, the Senate defeated the procedural vote to close debate (cloture) on the bill to eliminate the sustainable growth rate formula (SGR) , thus killing the bill. Was that a bad thing or a good ...
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• The Obama Fix Fails

  
  The Khaki Elephant — Authority: 117
  As reported by the Heritage Foundation : The White House and Democratic leaders are offering doctors a deal: They’ll freeze cuts in Medicare payments to doctors in exchange for doctors’ support of health care reform . . . [during the the secret Obamacare negotiations] the White House and Senate leaders have ...
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• Today’s Calamity: Senate Concerns on Cap and Trade Cannot Be Fixed

  
  The Foundry — Authority: 758
  Senate Finance Chairman Max Baucus made headlines this week for something other than healthcare. On October 27 Senator Baucus said he has “serious reservations” about the cap and trade bill, especially the increased near-term target of 20 percent carbon dioxide reduction below 2005 levels by 2020 – up from 17 ...
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• What I’ve Been Reading

  
  Random (but not really) — Authority: 129
  Sometimes I get in the mood for a specific type of book. Recently, it’s been mysteries. But not cozies. Sorry cozy authors. My grandmother may love you, but you’re generally not my thing. I’d much rather have blood and guts and action. Kinda like the opposite of my life. Anyway. In my search for something I ...
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• Made in Alaska – Dana Stabenow and Evergreen Films

  
  The Mudflats — Authority: 609
  Alaskans have heard it a million times from those Outside. “I used to love Northern Exposure! Alaska looks so cool!” “Insomnia was great!” “My kids thought Snow Dogs was the best! What beautiful country!” “My only experience of Alaska is Men in Trees.” Then they go on to say how beautiful, rugged, and ...
  2 weeks ago

• Health Care Financing Reform: (48) SGR – Why Physicians Are Facing a 20% Pay Cut from Medicare

  
  Akron Law Caf — Authority: 133
       If Congress does nothing, physicians will experience a 20% reduction in the reimbursements that they receive from Medicare.  The cause of this reduction is a federal law that establishes the "Sustainable Growth Rate" formula for changes in Medicare payments.      The SGR formula is established by law ...
  2 weeks ago

• Stabenow on unemployment insurance: ‘We could have done that three weeks ago’

  
  Michigan Messenger — Authority: 669
  With 7,000 Americans exhausting their unemployment insurance (UI) each day, Senate Democrats are hoping this week to pass legislation extending those benefits nationwide — a bill that’s been held up for weeks while upper-chamber leaders haggle over a series of controversial Republican amendments . First, ...
  2 weeks ago

• Stabenow on Unemployment Insurance: ‘We Could Have Done This Three Weeks Ago’

  
  The Washington Independent Blog — Authority: 155
  With 7,000 Americans exhausting their unemployment insurance (UI) each day, Senate Democrats are hoping this week to pass legislation extending those benefits nationwide — a bill that’s been held up for weeks while upper-chamber leaders haggle over a series of controversial Republican amendments . First, ...
  2 weeks ago

• Doctors Warn Medicare Patients Will Have Fewer Options If Congress Allows 21.5% Reduction In Payment

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 163
  Sen. Robert Menendez, D-N.J., center, flanked Sen. Debbie Stabenow, D-Mich., left, and Sen. Jack Reed, D-R.I., discuss "the urgent need for health insurance reform". GRAND RAPIDS — Senior citizens will find it harder to find a doctor who accepts Medicare if Congress does not stop a 21.5 percent cut in payment rates, ...
  2 weeks ago

• AARP disappointed by Senate’s vote to block protection of access to Medicare doctors

  
  Clarksville, TN Online — Authority: 546
  S. 1776 would have preserved access by replacing flawed payment system Today the U.S. Senate blocked critical  legislation to protect access to doctors for the 44 million Americans who rely on Medicare.  The Medicare Physician Fairness Act (S. 1776) would have replaced today’s broken doctor payment system, ...
  3 weeks ago

• Fun with Honest Budgeting

  
  RedState — Authority: 801
  Dana Milbank of the Washington Post is funny , in his rendition of Majority Leader Reid and his quest to put $250 billion in ObamaCare off-budget, adding it to the deficit. It really is worth the read, here are his first paragraphs: “I will not sign a plan that adds one dime to our deficits, either now or in the ...
  3 weeks ago

• ACP statement on Senate vote, S. 1776

  
  Science Blog - Science news straight from the source — Authority: 616
  The American College of Physicians, representing 129,000 internal medicine physicians and medical student members, is gravely disappointed by the failure of the "cloture" vote today in the U.S. Senate on S. 1776, the Medicare Physician Fairness Act of 2009.
  3 weeks ago

• Senate Shoots Down Permanent Doc-Fix Bill

  
  The Washington Independent — Authority: 781
  Citing budget concerns, the Senate on Wednesday killed a $245 billion proposal to scrap the controversial formula that dictates doctor payments under Medicare. The vote count was 47 to 53 — 13 votes shy of the 60 needed to defeat a GOP filibuster. Though many opponents support the underlying policy, the new ...
  3 weeks ago

• Cloture Vote on Doc Fix at 2 p.m. Today

  
  The Washington Independent — Authority: 781
  Just announced from the office of Senate Majority Whip Richard Durbin (D-Ill.), the upper chamber will vote this afternoon to bring to the floor a $245 billion proposal scrapping the formula by which doctors are paid to treat Medicare patients. A Senate leadership aide says the vote is expected to fail. The ...
  3 weeks ago

• Hasty Medicare bill a bumbling gift to anti-reform Republicans

  
  Colorado Independent — Authority: 671
  With Democratic leaders hoping to bring up legislation to fix, once and for all, the formula to pay doctors who treat Medicare patients, a great deal of attention is now being paid to the fact that Democrats failed to include a plan to pay for the bill’s $245 billion price tag. Newspaper editorials are attacking ...
  3 weeks ago

• Focus on the Doc-Fix Bill Was Not What Democrats Wanted

  
  The Washington Independent Blog — Authority: 155
  But that’s what they’re getting. With Democratic leaders hoping to bring up legislation to fix, once and for all, the formula to pay doctors who treat Medicare patients, a great deal of attention is being paid to the inconvenient fact that Democrats have not presented a plan to pay for the bill’s $245 billion ...
  3 weeks ago

• What Is Pelosi Hiding?

  
  Let Freedom Ring — Authority: 138
  When the House bills were first scored by the CBO, each carried a price tag in excess of $1,000,000,000,000. The deficit created by the bill in the first decade was just short of $250,000,000,000. Based on those numbers, I’m skeptical of Speaker Pelosi’s claims that the new CBO scoring comes in under ...
  3 weeks ago

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