John KerryJohn Kerry, Lindsey GrahamLindsey Graham and Joe LiebermanJoe Lieberman as the great, green hope for getting legislation through the Senate. But a tide of bad news, turf fights and delays on the health care bill makes the proposal a difficult sell, even for a bipartisan trio with a combined...
For an entire week Democratic Senator Harry Reid’s office has been trying to get a Republican member of the Senate to “co-sponsor for an utterly non-controversial resolution honoring the legacy and role of Hispanic media.”
As has become common practice in this Congress, the Democrat kept waiting for the Republicans to ...
The House leadership has put forth their massive 2,000 page health care
bill, while there may have been minor tweaking; much of the bill
remains the same.
“The plan unveiled today by House Democrats represents more of the
same,” said Congressman Duncan Hunter-R CA. “Despite the need for
responsible health care reform, ...
WASHINGTON – It's alive. The Medicare end-of-life planning provision that 2008 Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin said was tantamount to "death panels" for seniors is staying in the latest Democratic health care bill unveiled Thursday.
The
provision allows Medicare to pay for voluntary counseling to help
beneficiaries deal ...
Week of October 26, 2009While Aetna and the rest of the
insurance industry continue to focus on important health care reform
issues, some members of Congress and The White House appear unwilling
to stop or even slow the political attacks against insurers. Even as
yet another analysis released last week showed real concerns persist
that ...
A Senate committee Thursday approved a major climate change bill despite a boycott by all of the panel's seven Republican members. Democrats on the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee voted 10-1 to send the measure to the full chamber.
P Senate Democrats sidestepped a Republican boycott Thursday, pushing a climate bill out of committee in an early step on a long and contentious road to passage. Senate Democrats sidestepped a Republican boycott Thursday, pushing a climate bill out...
South Carolina Sen. Lindsay Graham – the Democrats’ best shot at a Republican vote for climate-change legislation – says he would have voted against the bill that passed out of Sen. Barbara Boxer’s Environment and Public Works Committee...
Barbara Boxer, chairman of the environment and public works committee, defied a Republican boycott to vote through a sweeping plan to reduce greenhouse gas emissions 20% over 2005 levels by 2020. Such a law is seen as vital for the ultimate success...
News Source: International Business Times
| 19 days ago
A controversial climate change bill cleared its first hurdle in the U.S. Senate on Thursday, allowing President Barack Obama to tout progress in the run-up to next month's global warming talks in Copenhagen. Democrats on the Senate Environment and...
by Jim Tankersley Democrats on a key Senate committee bypassed a Republican boycott and this morning approved a sweeping plan to limit greenhouse gas emissions, a move meant to reassure other nations as the world prepares for global warming treaty...
The US Senate Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee on Thursday approved a Democratic climate change bill that would require industry to cut emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse.
Yesterday, when Republicans on the Senate Environment and Publics Works Committee boycotted a mark up of Senators Barbara Boxer and John Kerry's climate change bill, things looked bleak for getting a bipartisan measure to the Senate ...
African nations make a stand at UN climate talks. John Vidal, the Guardian African countries have said they are prepared to provoke a major UN crisis if the US and other rich countries do not start to urgently commit themselves to deeper and ...
3 senators join forces to rescue climate bill. A trio of senators with differing political views is working behind-the-scenes to rescue troubled climate legislation. Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., together with Sen. ... Tony Kreindler, a spokesman for
In a rare move, Democrats on the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee on Thursday approved a sweeping climate change bill without any Republicans present. Republicans had boycotted the committee's work on the bill, insisting on ...
Climate change bill advances in Senate. A key Senate committee this morning approved a controversial plan to impose the nation's first-ever caps on greenhouse gas emissions, over the objections of panel Republicans who have blocked work ...
@latimeshiltzik Carly FiorinaCarly Fiorina's Senate campaign launch rehearses a threadbare script: The most cherished American credo .. http://bit.ly/OcGf8
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JNSMALL: A day after climate change talks collapsed in Boxer's EPW cmte, Kerry, Lieberman & Graham annouce they're drafting their own bipartisan bill
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