Posted on March 21st, 2010 by Scott Nance
The executive order the White House has prepared for President Obama to sign to restate a prohibition of federal funding of abortion has won the support of an anti-abortion Democrat in Congress — but few other partisans on either side of the abortion debate.
The White House released the text of the order Obama promised to [...]
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Posted on March 21st, 2010 by Scott Nance
A crescendo of activity in the House Saturday as lawmakers readied themselves for a final vote on healthcare reform sent ripples of activity around Washington and across the country as supporters and opponents both tried to seize what could be an uncertain outcome until the very end.
Each side attempted to take advantage of every development [...]
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Posted on March 19th, 2010 by Scott Nance
In a sign that it seems to want to capture the same anger that has threatened healthcare reform, a prominent group of anti-immigration activists are charging that congressional Hispanics are supporting healthcare reform because President Obama promised also to push immigration reform this year.
The Congressional Hispanic Caucus (CHC) Thursday called for passage of Obama’s healthcare [...]
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Posted on March 18th, 2010 by Scott Nance
Healthcare reform legislation in the Senate already is very bipartisan, according to a spokesman for Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid.
Refuting one of the key charges Republicans have leveled against healthcare reform — that Senate Democrats have crafted a highly partisan bill devoid of GOP ideas – spokesman Jim Manley says the package more than 145 [...]
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Posted on March 17th, 2010 by Scott Nance
Rep. David Obey has made no secret of his skepticism of President Obama’s direction in Afghanistan. But when it comes to Obama’s economic policies, the chairman of the House Appropriations Committee on Tuesday leaped to the president’s defense.
In fact, the veteran Wisconsin Democrat opened a hearing on the federal budget and broader economic outlook for [...]
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Posted on March 16th, 2010 by Scott Nance
A liberal Washington think tank is throwing its weight behind a nascent plan among Democrats to reform the escalating use of the filibuster to block an ever-increasing amount of legislation in the Senate.
Top Senate Democrats last week began to lay groundwork to change the way the filibuster works after Senate Republicans turned what was once [...]
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Posted on March 13th, 2010 by Scott Nance
With Democrats moving ever-closer to moving healthcare reform across the legislative finish line, initiatives to block that reform on the state-level have expanded to 38 states, according to a conservative organization promoting the so-called Freedom of Choice in Health Care Act.
Virginia earlier this month became the first state in the nation to enact legislation [...]
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Posted on March 12th, 2010 by Scott Nance
It’s called the Fair Sentencing Act, and it would have eliminated what has been a decades-long vast disparity in how those convicted of crack cocaine offenses receive punishments much more harsh than those convicted of powder cocaine crimes.
Now, perhaps, it ought to be more honestly renamed the “Not So Unfair Sentencing Act,” or the “Still [...]
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Posted on March 11th, 2010 by Scott Nance
Just three weeks ago, Eric Massa was a scrappy freshman congressman, rallying liberals to fight for single-payer health care. Now, as I write this, it’s just a day after he resigned the House seat that he worked so hard to win, and he’s on right-wing talker Glenn Beck’s show as a friendly guest.
It’s a turn [...]
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Posted on March 11th, 2010 by Scott Nance
If healthcare reform is shaping up as the equivalent of political combat in the Senate, then consider the issue of climate change as its Cold War.
Legislation to limit greenhouse gas emissions through a new cap-and-trade system has languished in the Senate for the better part of a year. The bill has gone nowhere, despite the [...]
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