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 February 6th, 2010 by Scott Nance
A reported Republican initiative to seek campaign contributions among bankers and financial industry moneymen in exchange for a promise to block financial reforms puts the GOP squarely on the side of Wall Street over Main Street, according to the chairman of the Democratic Party.
Republicans are making their case among financial industry executives that they represent [...]
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Posted on September 30th, 2008 by Walter Brasch
The Republican leaders of the House of Representatives grabbed a half dozen bags of sincerity, looked directly into every TV camera they could find, and lied.
The House had just defeated, 228–205, a bipartisan $700 billion bailout bill. But it was the Democrats who were the subject of vicious rhetoric.
Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) [...]
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Posted on August 20th, 2008 by Pamela Leavey
I was very sad to read earlier today that Stephanie Tubbs Jones had passed away. Tubbs Jones died “after suffering a brain hemorrhage caused by a burst aneurysm.” She was 58.
Hillary Rodham Clinton, whose presidential candidacy Tubbs Jones had embraced, and her husband, former President Bill Clinton, recalled Tubbs Jones as “one of a kind” [...]
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