With Sen. Ben Nelson (D-Neb.) siding again with the Republicans, the Senate for the second time just failed to agree to start debate on Sen. Chris Dodd’s (D-Conn.) financial regulatory reform proposal. The vote, which is going through final processing right now, was 57 to 41, with 60 needed to More…
This morning, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) came out swinging against Senate Republicans’ obstruction of debate on Sen. Chris Dodd’s (D-Conn.) financial regulatory reform bill. In a press release, he argues:
The American people also demand that their leaders discuss these details and improve on these ideas. They have
Sen. Ben Nelson (D-Neb.) has voted no on the cloture motion to start debate on Sen. Chris Dodd’s (D-Conn.) financial regulatory reform bill — meaning the motion will likely fail, 58 to 42, short of the 60 votes needed. Republicans will tout this as an extraordinary victory demonstrating bipartisan opposition More…
Meet Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), the only man in Washington who’s actively working to undermine legislation he’s in the process of writing.
Graham’s surprising (and politically brave) work on a comprehensive climate bill with Sens. John Kerry (D-Mass.) and Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) has been punctuated by hedges and More…
On Tuesday, a group of moderate Senate Democrats — wary that a proposal to scrap billions of dollars of subsidies to private student lenders would cost jobs in their states – urged party leaders to consider alternatives to the student lending reforms moving their way through Congress.
Yesterday, Democratic More…
Why did Blackwater/Paravant’s personnel carry weapons in Afghanistan for “personal use,” anyway? Brian McCracken, the former Paravant vice president, conceded to Sen. Ben Nelson (D-Neb.) that it never received authorization from either the Army or U.S. Central Command, as it needed before carrying guns in a war zone. He nevertheless More…
Two days after it overcame its chief procedural hurdle, a scaled-back jobs bill just passed the Senate by a vote of 70-28.
The $15 billion bill must now be reconciled with a $154 billion jobs bill passed by the House in December.
The Senate just voted 62-30 to allow a $15 billion jobs bill to go to the floor for a final up-or-down vote. Five Republicans crossed the aisle to vote for the bill, while Sen. Ben Nelson (D-Neb.) was the only Democrat to vote against it.
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Since Scott Brown’s stunning Senate victory in Massachusetts last month, the thinking among a good number of moderate Democrats seems to be that simply having the House pass the Senate’s version of health care reform — complete with $100 million in special Medicaid funding for Sen. More…
A group of powerful Senate Democrats is urging leadership today to repeal the federal anti-trust exemption that insurance companies have enjoyed for more than six decades. In a letter to President Obama, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), the Democrats More…
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