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Michael Tomasky: the Senate vote
Lincoln :: AR :: USA | about 16 hours ago
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First of all, it's worth remembering that the bill could face several more cloture votes. There will be a cloture vote to end debate and vote on final passage, which is the biggie. But there could be others -- one expert on such matters told me over the...
Tags: senate, Senate Democrats, allnews, health care, senate votes, procedural motion, senate test, begin debated, president barack, Lincoln, 110th United States Congress, Nuclear option, Gang of 14, United States Senate, Cloture, Parliamentary procedure, Politics, Filibuster, Blanche Lincoln, Barack Obama, Health care reform in the United States, Health care reform debate in the United States, Healthcare reform in the United States, United States National Health Care Act, Medicare, Social Issues, Health Medical Pharma, Bernie Sanders, Democratic Party, Pro-choice, Political positions of Harry Reid, Ben Nelson, Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid
Levin: Hearings to examine ‘Don't ask, don't tell’ repeal likely next year
Washington :: DC :: USA | 1 day ago
Credibility The principal reason for the delay is that Levin's panel is examining the shooting at Fort Hood, Texas, which left 13 people dead and more than 30 injured. After several closed-door briefings, Levin said he planned to hold public hearings on the incident.
Tags: Carl Levin, Washington, United States Senate Committee on Armed Services, Nancy Pelosi, Carl Levin, Don't ask don't tell, Levin, Politics
Canada to review soldier's asylum
Ottawa :: Canada | 1 day ago
Credibility A Canadian court on Friday ordered the country's refugee board to review the rejected asylum application of a lesbian US soldier who claimed her sexual orientation had prompted death threats...Smith's request for discharge from the US military was denied...
Tags: Federal Court of Canada, U.S. Army, Bethany Lanae Smith, Bethany Smith, army deserting, Tell� in Army Deserter, sexual orientation, Afghanistan, board erred, refugee status, Canada, Ottawa, War in Afghanistan, Refugee, Don't ask don't tell, Homophobia, Military history of the United States, Social Issues, War Conflict, Law Crime, Military discharge, Lesbian, Politics, Stupak, Nancy Pelosi, Feministing, Conscription, Military sociology, Nonviolence, Jeremy Hinzman, Conscientious objection, Canada ￢ﾀﾓ United States relations, Conscientious objector
AP Poll: Tax the Rich for Healthcare Reform
When it comes to paying for healthcare reform, Americans see only one way to go: Tax the rich. That finding from a new Associated Press poll will be welcome news for House Democrats, who proposed doing just that in their extensive overhaul of the US...
Tags: healthcare reform, nancy pelosi
Letters to the editor
Dubuque :: IA :: USA | 1 day ago
Credibility The government should never get involved in the medical decisions made between a doctor and a patient." This statement is often made by people supporting abortion rights. Where are those people when their government is about to put a 2,000-page, impossible-to-understand...
Tags: insurance companies, Dubuque, Medicare, Insurance, United States National Health Care Act, Nancy Pelosi, Religion Belief, Healthcare reform in the United States, Healthcare in Australia, Healthcare in Canada, Social Issues, Politics
An Eye-Opening Account of Health Care Lobbying
Seattle :: WA :: USA | 1 day ago
Credibility Bishops have been “betrayed” The implication is that Obama favored the funding ban in order to get the bill out of the House and now opposes it. The bishops have been “betrayed,” Donohue claims. But who played into whose hands? One of the sharpest critics...
Tags: Catholic Charities, Catholic League, Catholic Hospitals, Catholic Bishops, health care, Democratic House, Bill Donohue, USCCB, Obama, socialized medicine, Seattle, Abortion, United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, Roman Catholic Church in the United States, Nancy Pelosi, Barack Obama, Politics, Social Issues, Religion Belief
Have Democrats Been Marginalized Within Their Own Party?
Liberty :: NY :: USA | 2 days ago
Credibility Kennedy wouldn’t be able to garner his political party’s nomination for the presidency in today’s Democrat Party. An examination of his political platform and the principles he embraced would today place him on the right side of the aisle. So, why is...
Tags: Democrat Party, progressive movement, progressive caucus, moneyed interests, House of Representatives, radical islamic, Center for American Progress, political party, file democrat, Liberty, Nancy Pelosi, Progressive Party of Canada, Conservatism in the United States, Congressional Progressive Caucus, Progressivism, Democratic Party, Liberal parties, Politics
Hoyer was healthcare’s middle man
Washington :: DC :: USA | 2 days ago
Credibility But beginning in June, when other House leaders were still focused on passing a climate change bill, House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) was beginning his quest to ensure that a very ideologically diverse caucus and a definitively liberal leadership...
Tags: Steny Hoyer, Nancy Pelosi, House, healthcare reform, Henry Waxman, Washington, Blue Dog Coalition, Congressional Progressive Caucus, Party leaders of the United States House of Representatives, 110th United States Congress, St. Mary's College of Maryland, Politics
AP IMPACT: Some lawmakers send few to academies
Annapolis :: MD :: USA | 2 days ago
Credibility As the nation's military academies try to recruit more minorities, they aren't getting much help from members of Congress from big-city districts with large numbers of blacks, Hispanics and Asians. From New York to Chicago to Los Angeles, lawmakers from...
Tags: House, U.S. Air Force Academy, U.S. Naval Academy, Iraq Caucus, Congressional Hispanic Caucus, Congressional Black Caucus, Afghanistan, freshman class, Baltimore Polytechnic Institute, Nydia Velazquez, Annapolis, United States Air Force Academy, Charles B. Rangel, Elijah Cummings, Reserve Officers' Training Corps, Nancy Pelosi, United States Naval Academy, Education, Social Issues
Pelosi vows action on new economic stimulus
New York City :: NY :: USA | 2 days ago
Credibility We have to do it as international initiative,” even thought the proposal has “substantial currency” among House Democrats, she said. Republicans have stepped up attacks on a White House-backed, nearly 800-billion-dollar economic stimulus package approved...
Tags: Nancy Pelosi, economic stimulus, New York City, Democratic Party, 111th United States Congress, New Energy Reform Act, American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, Eric Cantor, Presidency of Barack Obama, Politics, Labor
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