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Seattle :: WA :: USA | 1 day ago

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Pro-Choice America announced Thursday afternoon that it would air television ads in markets around the country, including Maine and Virginia, criticizing Nelson and Stupak for putting a debate over abortion in the middle of the healthcare debate.   “Why...

Tags: Bill Nelson, Medicare, John McCain, Bart Stupak, Seattle, Politics, Social Issues, Ben Nelson, Healthcare reform in the United States, United States National Health Care Act, Pro-choice, 111th United States Congress, America's Affordable Health Choices Act, Susan Collins, Byron Dorgan, Political positions of Harry Reid, Lobbying, Reconciliation, Harry Reid, Jon Kyl

San Luis Obispo :: CA :: USA | 3 days ago

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If congressional Republicans continue to oppose Democratic plans to overhaul the nation's health care system, should majority Democrats employ a process called reconciliation to pass parts of it without Republican support? Reconciliation is a procedure...

Tags: health care, San Luis Obispo, Health Medical Pharma, Reconciliation, Politics, United States federal legislation, Republican Party, Political parties in the United States, Democratic Party

Los Angeles :: CA :: USA | 3 days ago

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Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) discussed reconciliation with wavering centrists before an important procedural vote to begin debate on healthcare reform. On Saturday, Nov. 21, three centrists, Sens. Ben Nelson (D-Neb.), Mary Landrieu (D-La.)...

Tags: Los Angeles, Politics, Social Issues, Debbie Stabenow, Excise, Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act, America¬タルs Healthy Future Act, Ben Nelson, Tax, AFL-CIO, Kent Conrad, Labor, Taxation, Health Medical Pharma, Reconciliation, United States federal legislation, Richard Trumka, Parliamentary procedure, Democratic Party, Filibuster

New York :: NY :: USA | 8 days ago

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Yet this is where America, a nation often inclined to tell other nations how to practice democracy, finds itself as the debate about healthcare reform reaches its critical stage. We have a president who is prepared to sign legislation to expand access...

Tags: public option, Blanche Lincoln, Senate, majority rules, Harry Reid, New York, Political corruption, Reconciliation, Politics, Social Issues, Ben Nelson, Parliamentary procedure, Supermajority, United States Senate, Filibuster

San Francisco :: CA :: USA | 9 days ago

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But if Democrats don't deliver now, no excuse will cut it. Share and save this post:                      AlterNet Social Networks: The single biggest complaint I hear by non-DC insiders is the sheer dysfunction of Washington. Whether it's Jon Stewart's...

Tags: Harry Reid, Senate, San Francisco, Joe Biden, Politics of Fiji, Reconciliation, United States federal legislation, Nuclear option, Politics

Brunswick :: ME :: USA | 9 days ago

Credibility Credibility of 5

That’s a compromise long advocated by GOP Sen. Olympia Snowe of Maine, and one that even Democrats say they increasingly see as the most possible path to get President Obama's top legislative priority passe—-- maybe even before his January State of the...

Tags: public option, Senate Democrats, Thomas Mann, health care, Democratic, democrats leaders, Fenn, Olympia Snowe, White House, Maine, Brunswick, Joe Lieberman, Susan Collins, Blanche Lincoln, Filibuster, Reconciliation, Parliamentary procedure, Olympia Snowe, Ben Nelson, Politics, Social Issues

Posted by: steph10  | 

New York City :: NY :: USA | 3 months ago

Credibility Credibility of 5

The Huffington Post has reported that Senator Joseph Lieberman, (I-Connecticut) said today that he thinks it would be a "real mistake" if Democrats used the parliamentary maneuver known as reconciliation to get healthcare reform considered by an up-or-down...

Tags: The huffington post, senator joseph lieberman, democrats, reconciliation, healthcare, cnn, state of the union, obama, republicans, senate finance committee, senator john mccain, caucusing, senator richard lugar

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