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  • Senator Ben Nelson speaks to reporters after a meeting with Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid
    Senator Ben Nelson speaks to reporters after a meeting with Senate ...
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    Senator Ben Nelson (C) talks with reporters
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  • Senator Ben Nelson (C) talks with reporters
    Senator Ben Nelson (C) talks with reporters
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Senator Ben Nelson speaks to reporters after a meeting with Senate ...
Ben Nelson's Biography

Earl Benjamin "Ben" Nelson (born May 17, 1941) is the Senior U.S. Senator from Nebraska, where he was born and has lived for most of his life. Nelson is a Methodist. A Democrat, he was elected to the U.S. Senate in 2000, and is now one of the leading conservative Democrats in the Senate. An April 2006 poll by Survey USA found him to be the Senator with the highest popularity rating, 73%, among his own constituents. In its most recent poll, his approval rating was 68%.

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    Lincoln : AR : USA | 1 day ago

    Making another push for its health care reform bill as the U.S. Senate prepares for a floor debate, the Obama administration said today that 2 million uninsured residents of Ohio and Kentucky could ...

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  • News Source: Asian Wall Street Journal | about 5 hours ago
    Abortion-rights groups, acknowledging they were caught off guard by a last-minute amendment toughening abortion restrictions in the House health-care bill, are mobilizing to ensure that doesn't happen in the Senate. Activists hope to flood
  • News Source: National Public Radio | about 13 hours ago
    The government-sponsored insurance alternative known as the public option stands as the biggest sticking point, though it's not the only one. Abortion and whether to mandate employer coverage of workers remain divisive, the Washington Post writes .
  • News Source: The Boston Globe | about 22 hours ago
    Buoyed by their weekend victory on a vote beginning the health care debate, several Senate Democrats expressed optimism yesterday they could find a way to keep a government-run insurance plan in the sweeping bill. The public insurance option in the

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  • Blog Source: thepoliticalcarnival.blogspot.com | 3 days ago
    Ben Nelson threatens filibuster. By GottaLaff. http://features.csmonitor.com/politics/wp-content/. He and Joe the Traitor can go take a hike on the Appalachian Trail together: Spokesman Jake Thompson elaborated a bit, "The abortion ...
  • Blog Source: spectator.org | 3 days ago
    Ben Nelson tells the Hill that the language in Harry Reid's Senate health care bill does not go far enough in making sure that federal tax dollars are not paying for abortion: "We have looked at the language," Nelson told The Hill. ...
  • Blog Source: americaswatchtower.com | 3 days ago
    Ben Nelson's has different issues that he wants resolved before he agrees to vote for the bill than does Joe Lieberman. While Joe Lieberman opposes the public option Ben Nelson does not want federal funds to be used for abortions. ...

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