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In July, single-payer health care advocates won a prominent victory when the House Education and Labor Committee approved legislation empowering states to adopt Medicare-style health care systems. The 25 panel supporters were a rare mash of liberal Democrats who support the policy and conservative Republicans with a history of advocating for states rights.
Neither group will [...]

The Congressional Budget Office estimates that the health reform bill unveiled today by House Democrats comes in under the $900 billion, 10-year threshold set earlier this year by the White House. TPMDC has more:
At $894 billion, the bill’s 10 year cost comes in a hair under President Obama’s $900 billion red line. But, more politically [...]

Beneath breathtaking headlines, a number of news outlets are reporting this morning that House Democrats will include a public insurance option in the health care reform bill they’ll bring to the floor.
The mystery is why this is news, other than we now have a bill to talk about.

Randall Terry, the anti-abortion rights activist whose visibility has been on the way up since relocating his operation to Washington, is launching another please-let-this-become-viral campaign: encouraging conservatives to create flaming effigies of Sen. Harry Reid (D-Nev.) and Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) to protest Democratic support of abortion rights. The explanatory video (which [...]

This afternoon, MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough got into a spat on Twitter with Salon’s Glenn Greenwald. The blogger fired first, making a frustrated point about the former president and vice president.

Yesterday, Senate Democratic leaders began moving on a proposal to scrap the current formula dictating doctors’ Medicare rates and replacing it with a system more accurately reflecting the costs to treat those patients. Notably, party leaders appear poised to pass the bill separately from broader health reform legislation in order not to upend President Obama’s [...]

From the DCCC’s Jennifer Crider, blasting the NRCC for tweeting a “Downfall” parody video of Adolf Hitler making common cause with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.):
Republican Leader John Boehner should order NRCC Chairman Pete Sessions to immediately remove this vile Tweet and apologize.
A strange story on what is not turning out to be a slow [...]

From the Senate majority leader, following President Obama’s meeting this afternoon with congressional leaders of both parties:
We had a very productive meeting with the President today in assessing a comprehensive strategy in Afghanistan. The Afghanistan-Pakistan border is the single most active terrorist haven in the world, and it is vital to our national security that [...]

Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), the House speaker, waded into the media-manufactured controversy Gen. Stanley McChrystal’s London speech on “Charlie Rose” last night, according to Greg Sargent, who’s got the transcript:
“Let me say this about about General McChrystal, with all due respect,” Pelosi said, according to a transcript sent my way by a Pelosi aide. “His [...]

Not that anyone thought the reaction to the Senate Finance Committee’s long-awaited health reform bill would be any different, but the flurry of criticism from both sides of the aisle in the wake of today’s unveiling of the $856 billion proposal is indication that this debate is just getting started. And the public plan — [...]