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 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 2nd, 2010 by Scott Nance
Republicans continued to support Sen. Jim Bunning’s effort to block an extension of unemployment benefits and other federal funding programs this week, even as a Democratic spokesman called the Kentucky Republican a hypocrite for his stance.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) tried again Tuesday to bring legislation to a vote that would extend unemployment insurance, healthcare [...]
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Posted on February 27th, 2010 by Scott Nance
Millions of out-of-work Americans are poised to lose critical benefits due to the opposition of one Republican senator who would only agree to an extension of those benefits if they come out of federal economic stimulus dollars, according to the Senate’s top Democrat.
The Senate adjourned for the week with Sen. Jim Bunning (R-Ky.) continuing to [...]
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Posted on February 18th, 2010 by Scott Nance
The number of senators looking to enact federally run public option health coverage through a controversial procedure known as reconciliation has doubled in just the last 24 hours, according to a progressive advocacy organization.
Eight additional members of the Senate Democratic Caucus have signed onto a letter to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) that was [...]
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Posted on February 17th, 2010 by Pamela Leavey
Four more Democratic Senators signed on to the push for a vote for the public option today, including Senator John Kerry of Massachusetts. The following is an email sent out today via BoldProgressives.org:
Senator John Kerry did Massachusetts proud today.
The DC pundits are telling Democrats to cave to Republicans and big corporations in the name of “bipartisanship.”
But [...]
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Posted on February 17th, 2010 by Scott Nance
Eight Senate Democrats are looking not only to finally approve comprehensive healthcare reform, they want to enact a federally run public option under a controversial procedure known as reconciliation.
The lawmakers — Sens. Michael Bennet (D-Colo.), Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.), Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio), Al Franken (D-Mass.), Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.), Pat Leahy (D-Vt.), John Kerry (D-Mass.), and Sheldon [...]
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Posted on February 16th, 2010 by Scott Nance
A bipartisan employer tax credit proposed in the Senate is likely to create few jobs, and at an excessively high cost, according to a new economic analysis.
The tax credit at issue has been introduced by Sens. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) and Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) that would offer a tax cut to businesses that hire a worker [...]
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Posted on February 15th, 2010 by Scott Nance
Just weeks ago the Senate majority leader declared there was “no rush” to complete comprehensive healthcare reform. But a California insurer’s intent to raise rates as much as 39 percent appears to have lit a new fire under Sen. Harry Reid, as he took to the Senate floor to beseech his colleagues to “finish the [...]
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Posted on February 7th, 2010 by Scott Nance
Republicans have long howled that use of a Senate procedure known as reconciliation to approve healthcare reform would be out-of-bounds and amounts to a political act of war. An independent think tank, however, finds that use of reconciliation “would be fully consistent with past practice.”
Reconciliation becomes important because bills considered under the procedure cannot be [...]
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