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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...
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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...
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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.)...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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In a party line vote of 60-39, the Senate voted Saturday evening to open debate on the bill put forward by Senate Majority leader Harry Reid. All 58 Democrats and both Independents voted in favor of the motion while 39 out of 40 Republicans voted against...
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But it's not yet clear whether Majority Leader Harry Reid can round up enough support. Every member of the Democratic caucus is vital to reach the 60 votes needed to push the bill forward...The Congressional Budget Office says the Senate version of the...
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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...
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