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Immigration Opponents: Hispanic Support For Healthcare Reform Part Of Quid Pro Quo

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 [...]

Capitol Idea: Primary Danger

The forces that propelled a political breakdown between Democrats and Republicans which rendered the notion of bipartisanship nothing more than quaint and unattainable is so complete that it has moved on and metastasized.
The phenomena fueling the disunity now has manifested within each party, wearing away at the internal cohesion of each. For proof, just listen [...]

Senate Healthcare Reform Is Already Bipartisan, Dem Spokesman Says

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 [...]

Sanders Says He Will Strengthen Financial Reform

Apparently a day is all it took.
We reported Tuesday that, although a variety of financial reform advocates believe the new Senate reform package lacks needed teeth, they stopped short of declaring outright opposition to the bill. There appeared to be a sense that provisions — particularly those placing a new consumer-protection agency within the Federal [...]

House Approps Chairman Asks, ‘Why On Earth Wouldn’t Americans Be So Angry?’

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 [...]

Reform Advocates Believe Sen. Chris Dodd’s Bill Has No Teeth, But That Can Be Fixed

Supporters of financial reform are, as expected, panning Sen. Chris Dodd’s legislation for submerging a proposed Consumer Financial Protection Agency (CFPA) within the Federal Reserve.
But there also seems to be a sense that that can be changed before the bill becomes law.
The chairman of the Senate Banking Committee, Dodd unveiled his reform legislation Monday, after [...]

Pa. Dem Wants Dodd To Add Foreclosure Prevention Plan To Financial Reform Bill

A Democratic House member from Pennsylvania is asking the chairman of the Senate Banking Committee to add the Pennsylvanian’s foreclosure prevention plan to the Senate version of financial oversight reform.
Rep. Chaka Fattah (D-Pa.) asked Sen. Chris Dodd (D-Conn.) to add an emergency mortgage assistance program to the financial reform [...]

Capitol Idea: Stay Classy, Eric Massa

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 [...]

Razorback Labor Union Lines Up Behind Blanche Lincoln’s Democratic Senate Challenger

The Arkansas members of a large U.S. labor union Monday announced their support of Lt. Gov. Bill Halter in the U.S. Senate primary challenge to incumbent Democrat Blanche Lincoln.
The backing of the United Steelworkers (USW) members in the Natural State adds a dimension to the Halter campaign, which up to now, had attracted support largely [...]

Republicans Now Even Block Judges They Like

The Senate GOP is blocking the confirmation of even those Obama judicial nominations that Republican members of the Senate Judiciary Committee supported unanimously. In fact, Republicans have allowed even fewer of President Obama’s nominated judges to even reach an up-or-down vote on the floor of the Senate than they did for Bill Clinton back in [...]