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Finance Panel Easily Passes Health Care Reform
The Democrats’ plans to overhaul the nation’s dysfunctional health care system took a giant step forward Tuesday when the Senate Finance Committee passed a $829 billion proposal designed to expand coverage to millions of uninsured Americans while reining in runaway health care costs.
The vote was 14 to 9, with Sen. Olympia Snowe (R-Maine) the only [...]
Religious Groups to Pray With Lawmakers for Immigration Reform
Pro-immigrant religious groups with about 700 members from nine different states plan to rally this afternoon on the West Lawn of the Capitol to press for immigration reform.
Immigrants, including veterans fighting deportation, will speak at the event, as will Rep. Luis Gutierrez (D-Ill.), who, with House and Senate allies, will set out key principles of [...]
Big Pharma Showers Home-State Senators With Campaign Cash
It came as little surprise when Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.) yesterday movedĀ to kill efforts to lower seniors’ drug costs by squeezing Big Pharma. After all, Baucus earlier in the year had agreed to a controversial deal with the drug lobby, under which the drug companies vowed to support health reform legislation [...]
Some Holes in the Dems’ Energy Bill
The Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee yesterday approved an energy bill designed to straddle the partisan chasm between Democrats intent on tackling global warming and Republicans pushing to open more coastal waters to petroleum drilling.
The resulting measure requires electric utilities to generate 15 percent of their power with renewable sources by 2021, aims to [...]
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