collin peterson

Here’s a brief summary of the day’s health care news.
President Obama is slated to address a joint session of Congress on Sept. 9 to lay out more detailed demands for health care reform, ABC News reported today. The move — which came on the heels of a written invitation from House Speaker Nancy Pelosi [...]

At a town hall meeting in Minnesota Tuesday, Rep. Collin Peterson (D), the moderate chairman of the House Agriculture Committee, reportedly urged President Obama to get more specific about his plans for health care reform, or risk having them dashed.
“He’s talking about generalities and concepts, but he has not said, ‘This is what I’m for,’” [...]

Here’s a head-scratching quote from today’s Politico piece on how Republicans struggle to deal with conspiracy theorists who don’t think Barack Obama is a legitimate president.
“Twenty-five percent of my people believe the Pentagon and Rumsfeld were responsible for taking the twin towers down,” said Rep. Collin Peterson, a Democrat who represents a conservative Republican district [...]

As the Senate takes up debate on climate legislation, environmental groups slam a biofuels provision.

House lawmakers announced a deal last night on their sweeping proposal to tackle climate change, but not before the bill’s sponsors were forced to bow once more to a polluting industry that would be affected by the proposal.
Observers of this debate might recall that Reps. Henry Waxman (D-Calif.) and Edward Markey (D-Mass.), both ardent environmentalists, [...]

The Obama administration’s plans are running smack into an industry buzz saw that they might not escape.