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 14th, 2010 by Scott Nance
It’s been declared dead before, only to be resurrected — and Democracy for America (DFA) hopes to pull that rabbit out of a hat one more time.
The progressive advocacy organization is rallying supporters to push House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to include a provision for a healthcare public option in the final bill lawmakers approve and [...]
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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 1st, 2010 by Scott Nance
An obscure conservative group says it is launching a major TV-ad campaign Monday urging 13 House members to vote “No” on comprehensive healthcare reform legislation.
The organization, which calls itself the League of American Voters, says it will target an additional 17 House Democrats, as well. The TV ad is titled “Stop Them Now!”
The group’s intention, [...]
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Posted on February 24th, 2010 by Scott Nance
Turning their backs to the howls of protest from the powerful health insurance lobby, more than 400 Democrats and Republicans voted to do away with the antitrust exemption the insurance industry has enjoyed for 65 years.
In an almost-unheard-of bipartisan move on the issue of healthcare, House members overwhelmingly voted, 406 to 19, to approve H.R. [...]
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Posted on February 12th, 2010 by Scott Nance
A legislative response to the Supreme Court decision in Citizen United vs. FEC unveiled Thursday by Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) and Rep. Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) is a start, but doesn’t address Congress’ reliance on Wall Street and other big special interests, according to two watchdog groups. The two reform groups, Public Campaign and Common [...]
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Posted on February 8th, 2010 by Scott Nance
A conservative Democrat from an increasingly Republican corner of Pennsylvania who nevertheless would become a hero on the Left for his criticism of George W. Bush’s Iraq war, Rep. John Murtha has died. He was 77.
At his death serving in his 19th term, Murtha became an influential lawmaker on defense issues and a close confidant [...]
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Posted on January 17th, 2010 by Scott Nance
This last year saw massive economic stimulus, contentious healthcare reform, persistently record levels of unemployment, birth of the anti-government “tea party” movement and activists who have taken to court Barack Obama’s very right to serve as president.
So the fact that this year voters are angry and “want to throw all the bums out” in this [...]
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Posted on October 8th, 2009 by Pamela Leavey
Lawmakers on Capitol Hill honored the Dalai Lama with a human rights award on Tuesday.
The Dalai Lama said the award encourages him, at 74, to dedicate the rest of his life to the “promotion of human affection and compassion, and equality and basic human rights in Tibet, or in mainland China, or everywhere.”
Nancy Pelosi, the [...]
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Posted on August 3rd, 2009 by Pamela Leavey
Following up on Jonathan Alter’s brilliant piece on healthcare and the “status quo” I noted here yesterday is another brilliant op/ed on the subject from Michael Hiltzik in the LA Times: “What’s so great about private health insurance?”
[...]the battle is just beginning. After the committee vote, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi warned that the health insurance [...]
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