The New York Times today points out the chief flaw in the sweeping health reform bills passed by Congress last week: Health care spending might be unsustainable, it might be threatening to bankrupt the entire country, but there’s very little in the legislation that tackles the public’s severe More…
For the second time this week, the House tonight passed a health care reform bill designed to complement the larger reform package that President Obama signed into law Tuesday.
The vote was a technicality. The House had passed the bill Sunday night, sending it over to the Senate. More…
The count was 56 to 43 to tweak the large health reform bill signed by President Obama on Tuesday. Because the proposal was moving via the reconciliation process, the Democrats needed just a simple majority to pass the measure.
Minor changes to the reconciliation bill in the Senate More…
In short, the Senate parliamentarian has ruled that the health care reconciliation bill moving through the upper chamber this week will have to go back to the House. The New York Times reports:
Senate Democrats had been hoping to defeat all of the amendments proposed by Republicans and
Rep. Louise Slaughter (D-N.Y.), the head of the Rules Committee and a high-profile player during the debate over health care reform, has been threatened in the past few days with at least two acts of violence. From her just-released statement:
There was a brick thrown through my Niagara Falls district
The list of amendments that Republicans are hoping will derail the health reconciliation bill moving through the Senate this week is an entertaining read, if only because it so clearly illustrates the GOP’s strategy of forcing Democrats to go on the record to vote against some pretty odd things.
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Just off the phone with the offices of both Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), where spokespeople outlined the Senate’s path to finalizing the health reforms passed by the House over the weekend. The rundown:
1) President Obama at 11:15 this morning will More…
With the House last night passing its health care reconciliation bill, the measure moves to the Senate this week, where Democratic leaders are claiming they’ve got the 51 votes needed to pass it. We’ll take them at their word. But just in case, it’s worth noting More…
Of the many reasons to oppose health care reform, this is probably the worst. From today’s Washington Post:
Former Republican House speaker Newt Gingrich said Obama and the Democrats will regret their decision to push for comprehensive reform. Calling the bill “the most radical social experiment . . .
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…
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