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 12th, 2010 by Pamela Leavey
The news broke an hour or so ago tonight… Rhode Island Rep. Patrick Kennedy will not run for re-election. Kennedy will “retire after eight terms in office, bringing an end to his House career just months after his father, legendary Massachusetts Sen. Ted Kennedy, passed away.”
“My father instilled in me a deep commitment to public [...]
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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 February 1st, 2010 by Berry Craig
The union-haters must still be in hog heaven over an AFL-CIO-sponsored poll that showed most Massachusetts union households supported Republican Scott Brown over union-endorsed Democrat Martha Coakley in the special election to succeed the late Sen. Ted Kennedy.
The margin was 49 to 46 percent. The numbers remind me again of Pogo’s apt observation: “We have [...]
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Posted on January 23rd, 2010 by Berry Craig
Eighty-two percent of them said they want a public option as part of the Democrats’ health care reform.
Yet they just helped elect a guy who opposes the public option and the Democrats’ health care reform.
They’re Obama voters who cast ballots for Massachusetts’s new Republican senator, Scott Brown. He promised to be “the 41st vote” against [...]
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Posted on January 19th, 2010 by Pamela Leavey
Buried in the Boston Globe today, hidden under the big story of the week here in Massachusetts, was this piece about the push by Senator John Kerry to get files involved in decades old civil rights cases released:
Nearly half a century after the height of the civil rights movement, hundreds of thousands of pages of government [...]
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Posted on January 18th, 2010 by Pamela Leavey
The Massachusetts special election to fill the late Senator Ted Kennedy’s seat is just a mere hours away and tensions are high here in Massachusetts. There’s a lot at stake for Democrats and Republicans who are very much in the minority here have found a candidate who they feel is a winner. needless to say [...]
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Posted on January 17th, 2010 by Pamela Leavey
The special election to fill Ted Kennedy’s Senate Seat heated up today with Martha Coakley coming down hard on the fact that Scott Brown does not pay for his staff’s health insurance:
“We already knew that Scott Brown didn’t want to make health insurance more affordable for Massachusetts families and businesses. Now we learn that he [...]
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Posted on January 16th, 2010 by Pamela Leavey
As readers here have no doubt noticed I have been MIA here for some time now. I do spend what free time I can posting links to my Twitter Feed, however, I just don’t have much time to write here. I wanted to chime in today though and share this email just received from Senator [...]
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Posted on December 24th, 2009 by Pamela Leavey
Senator John Kerry released the following statement today after the Senate’s historic, Christmas Eve passage of comprehensive health care reform:
“This is a big step towards finally making affordable accessible health care a reality for every American,” said Sen. Kerry. “It took 60 votes, it took the commitment of a Senate willing to put itself on the line [...]
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