The Republicans tonight had one last chance to put a wrench in the Democrats’ plans to tweak the Senate health bill via reconciliation. It came in the form of something called a motion to recommit, which effectively represented the one GOP amendment allowed under the rules set for the health More…
The White House has announced that it will issue an executive order reiterating the 34-year old prohibition on the federal funding of abortion. The move was required to rally Rep. Bart Stupak (D-Mich.) and a handful of other anti-abortion Democrats behind the Senate-passed health reform bill that the More…
So reports MSNBC, without adding any details. The anti-abortion Michigan Democrat has threatened to kill the bill over concerns that the Senate language would open doors to federal subsidies for abortion coverage. Stupak had been in talks with the White House over an executive order reiterating the federal More…
Rep. Betty Sutton (D-Ohio) just introduced an amendment to the Waxman-Markey energy and climate bill to include a “cash-for-clunkers” program — and after having initially billed the proposal as an environmental measure, it looks like Sutton and her fellow Democrats are finally dropping the green label and calling it More…
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