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		<title>President Obama&#8217;s Abortion Executive Order Pleases No One &#8212; Other Than Rep. Bart Stupak</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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 &#8212; but few other partisans on either side of the abortion debate.
The White House released the text of the order Obama promised to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://thedemocraticdaily.com/2010/03/21/president-obamas-abortion-executive-order-pleases-no-one-other-than-rep-bart-stupak/</link>
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		<title>Racing To The Healthcare Reform Finish Line, Both Sides Scramble</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://thedemocraticdaily.com/2010/03/21/racing-to-the-healthcare-reform-finish-line-both-sides-scramble/</link>
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		<title>Facebooking for social justice</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Facebook pages aren&#8217;t just for social networking.
They can promote social justice, too, according to Axel Caballero and Ofelia Yañez of Los Angeles. They&#8217;re battling anti-Latino “Tea Party racism and violence” on Cuéntame, their Facebook page.
“Both Ofelia and I have seen with great sadness and frustration how Tea Partiers have unjustly and unfairly targeted the Latino [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://thedemocraticdaily.com/2010/03/20/facebooking-for-social-justice/</link>
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		<title>Davy Crockett, R.I.P.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So, let us celebrate the facts, and mourn the passing of a former actor and, seemingly, a nice guy. Who proved that playing a legend makes one a sort of legend himself, assuming that Walt Disney makes enough money on the proposition...]]></description>
		<link>http://thedemocraticdaily.com/2010/03/20/davy-crockett-r-i-p/</link>
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		<title>Immigration Opponents: Hispanic Support For Healthcare Reform Part Of Quid Pro Quo</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://thedemocraticdaily.com/2010/03/19/immigration-opponents-hispanic-support-for-healthcare-reform-part-of-quid-pro-quo/</link>
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		<title>Capitol Idea: Primary Danger</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://thedemocraticdaily.com/2010/03/19/capitol-idea-primary-danger/</link>
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		<title>Senate Healthcare Reform Is Already Bipartisan, Dem Spokesman Says</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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 &#8212; that Senate Democrats have crafted a highly partisan bill devoid of GOP ideas – spokesman Jim Manley says the package more than 145 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://thedemocraticdaily.com/2010/03/18/senate-healthcare-reform-is-already-bipartisan-dem-spokesman-says/</link>
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		<title>Sanders Says He Will Strengthen Financial Reform</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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 &#8212; particularly those placing a new consumer-protection agency within the Federal [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://thedemocraticdaily.com/2010/03/17/sanders-says-he-will-strengthen-financial-reform/</link>
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		<title>House Approps Chairman Asks, ‘Why On Earth Wouldn’t Americans Be So Angry?’</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://thedemocraticdaily.com/2010/03/17/house-approps-chairman-asks-%e2%80%98why-on-earth-wouldn%e2%80%99t-americans-be-so-angry%e2%80%99/</link>
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		<title>Reform Advocates Believe Sen. Chris Dodd&#8217;s Bill Has No Teeth, But That Can Be Fixed</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://thedemocraticdaily.com/2010/03/16/reform-advocates-believe-sen-chris-dodds-bill-has-no-teeth-but-that-can-be-fixed/</link>
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		<title>Think Tank Adds Firepower To Democrats’ Emerging Plan To Reform ‘Abused’ Filibuster</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://thedemocraticdaily.com/2010/03/16/think-tank-adds-firepower-to-democrats%e2%80%99-emerging-plan-to-reform-%e2%80%98abused%e2%80%99-filibuster/</link>
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		<title>Pa. Dem Wants Dodd To Add Foreclosure Prevention Plan To Financial Reform Bill</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A Democratic House member from Pennsylvania is asking the  chairman of the Senate Banking Committee to add the Pennsylvanian&#8217;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 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://thedemocraticdaily.com/2010/03/15/pa-dem-wants-dodd-to-add-foreclosure-prevention-plan-to-financial-reform-bill/</link>
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