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Sen. Michael Bennet suddenly finds himself the darling of liberals on health care reform, but he appears more cautious on the Democrats' other major priority for the year — imposing new regulations on Wall Street. Within the span of a week, Bennet, D-Colo.,...
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Sen. Michael Bennet said Sunday that he is willing to trade his job for health care reform, if that is what a vote in favor of President Barack Obama's top domestic priority eventually costs him. The Colorado senator made the remark at the end of the...
Tags: health care, Denver, Andrew Romanoff, Public health insurance option, Healthcare reform, Run!, Healthcare reform in the United States, Jane E. Norton, Michael Bennet, Health Medical Pharma, Politics
Senator Michael Bennet (D-Colorado), a freshman senator who is fighting to hold on to his seat in 2010, said he would support healthcare reform even if it costs him his job, according to the Huffington Post. Appearing on CNN’s State of the Union,...
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A variety of actresses, Obama administration officials and members of Congress will join first lady Michelle Obama for a series of mentoring activities in Denver Monday. Rep. Betsy Markey, D-Fort Collins, will be among those participating. She and actress...
Tags: Denver West High School, Michelle Obama, Denver, John Hickenlooper, Kathleen Sebelius, Diana DeGette, Colorado, Presidency of Barack Obama, Michael Bennet, Barack Obama, Human Interest
If there was ever to be a race for flower placement, you would have won," Russ Phillip of Flowers for Heroes told the Veterans Day crowd at Abraham Lincoln National Cemetery at Elwood Wednesday. Red, white and blue carnations were placed on 17,000 veterans'...
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The Colorado Democratic Party, Organizing For America (OFA), and the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) campaign "Colorado Change That Works" held a rally at the Colorado State Capitol building in support of President Barack Obama's health insurance...
Tags: HealthCareforALLColorado, Organizing For America, President, Barack Obama, Senator, Michael Bennet, Mark Udall, Dawn Engle, Diane Lucas, public option, health insurance, reform, single payer, universal health care, Denver, Colorado, State Capitol, rally
Small crowds gathered on Thursday, July 23, in Denver, Colorado, at the offices of Senators Mark Udall (D-CO) and Michael Bennet (D-CO) to rally for health care reform of some kind, namely between President Barack Obama’s plan enshrined in...
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Colorado 's senators are headed to a solar energy plant to talk up how the stimulus is helping create green-energy jobs...Mark Udall and Michael Bennet planned to tour Ascent Solar Technologies in Thornton Saturday. Ascent is opening a headquarters and...
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Michael Bennet and Mark Udall are asking that federal bank bailout money be sent to small Colorado banks to help Northern Colorado farmers. Money from the $700 billion Troubled Assets Relief Program should be used to help close a $700 million agriculture...
Tags: Northern Colorado, Colorado Democrats, Mark Udall, Michael Bennet
Of all the extraordinary things about the Senate compromise on the massive federal stimulus package, the most remarkable might be that a deal was cut at all. Sen. Susan Collins, a linchpin to preventing a GOP filibuster, had as late as Wednesday decided...
Tags: Senate, Barack Obama, Sen. Mark Udall, Michael Bennet