The Associated Press is reporting that a Rapid City, S.D. doctor plans to challenge four-term Rep. Stephanie Herseth Sandlin in the Democratic primary.
Kevin Weiland, a proponent of health care reform, says millions of dollars were spent during the debate by insurance companies making political action committee contributions
With today’s headlines screaming (perfectly legitimately) about last night’s health reform votes, it’s easy to forget that House lawmakers also passed the most sweeping reforms to hit the nation’s student lending system in decades.
The health care reconciliation bill, while predominately made up of health-focused reforms, More…
After a Saturday full of partisan bickering, presidential arm-twisting, rowdy protests, and naked racism, the House stands ready to vote today on a historic, $940 billion health care reform proposal that would leave 95 percent of the country’s population with health coverage More…
House Democratic leaders just ended a much-anticipated press conference to unveil the details of their health care reform bill. Trouble was, the details were few and far between.
Rather than lending many specifics about the changes to the Senate bill, party leaders stuck with talking points about the general need More…
Different week, different sales pitch from Democratic leaders about why heath care reform is worth supporting. The Washington Post’s Paul Kane reports:
House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) told reporters Thursday that the legislation is “the largest deficit-reduction bill that members will have a chance to vote on”
So says Fox News, pointing out that the Ohio liberal — who voted against the House health care reform bill last year because it didn’t include a public insurance plan — has been under intense pressure from Democratic leaders to change his tune this time around.
Looks like More…
Don’t say they’re not on message.
A group of Republicans this afternoon will meet with reporters to protest the Democrats’ plans to eliminate tens of billions of dollars in government subsidies to private companies that lend to students. The Democrats’ bill would have students borrow directly from the More…
For all the criticisms Republicans are lobbing at the House Democrats’ plan to pass the Senate health care reform bill without actually passing the Senate reform bill, even the senior Republican on the House Rules Committee conceded today that there’s nothing the GOP can do to block the More…
Rep. Sander Levin (D-Mich.) will replace Rep. Charlie Rangel (D-N.Y.) atop the powerful Ways and Means Committee, The New York Times reports this morning.
Levin is the No. 3 Democrat on the panel, meaning that party leaders skipped over the second most senior member, Rep. Pete Stark, the More…
Melanie Sloan, executive director of Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, a government watchdog group, points out that Rep. Charlie Rangel’s (D-N.Y.) decision to step down from his perch atop the Ways and Means Committee “didn’t happen in a vacuum.”
“Midterm elections are only eight months away and voters More…
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