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House Republicans approved a conference-wide moratorium on earmarks on Thursday one day after a House committee enacted a ban on for-profit earmarks. The Republican's moratorium is
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The public option just might get its straight up-or-down vote after all. Senator Bernie Sanders , in a brief interview in the Capitol just now, confirmed to me that he’s willing to commit to introducing an amendment that would add the publi...
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“Game on,” says Rep. Paul Ryan (R., Wis.), the ranking member of the House Budget Committee, to National Review Online . “The Democrats are moving on reconciliation. They are revving up their machine, even though they don’t yet have the votes to p...
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SENATE PARLIAMENTARIAN THROWS A CURVEBALL.... House Dems have a fear: they can pass the Senate health care bill, only to see the Senate blow off the reconciliation budget fix agreed to by the leadership. In effect, the House is afraid...
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More than two dozen House Democrats are expected to vote against the party's healthcare bill in the coming weeks.
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# exclusive
Did you know that Scott Brown —the new star Republican Senator—was accused of harassing a female campaign worker in 1998? We have the documents to prove it. Did the Democrats blow an opportunity to keep their 60th Senate seat? More »
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The Senate bill's abortion language is not the House Speaker's only problem.
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Would House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and her fellow House Democratic leaders try to cram the Senate version of Obamacare through the House without actually having a recorded vote on the bill?
Not only is the answer yes, they would, they have figured out...
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Immigration remains an explosive issue and carries the same
potential as abortion to derail the entire healthcare endgame, many
Democrats said.
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Research 2000 for Daily Kos. 3/8-10. Likely voters. MoE 4% ( 8/2-12/09 results) Let's start with the governor's race: Republican primary Meg Whitman (R) 52 (24) Steve Poizner (R) 19 (9) (Tom Campbell, then in the go...
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The public option faces its last stand. With more than 40 senators publicly willing to vote for a health care reform reconciliation package that includes the option, the opportunity to reinsert it into the final bill has never been greater,...
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Hundreds of people and political action committees supported freshman Rep. Eric Massa with millions of dollars because they largely considered him a left-leaning lion in an Upstate New York congressional district chocked with conserv...
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# foolserrands
Slate blogger and pathological counterintuitionist Mickey Kaus is actually serious about challenging Barbara Boxer in the California Democratic primary . The deadline ...
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The House must pass the Senate health care bill into law before fixes can be made to it through reconciliation, the Senate Parliamentarian told Republican leaders.
"The Senate Parliamentarian's office has informed Senate Republicans that...
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Sen.
Kent Conrad (D-N.D.), chairman of the Senate Budget Committee, told
colleagues about the ruling Thursday afternoon.
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Naturally, we need to first disclaim this noise by saying that rumors of third-party multitasking capability in the iPhone are as old as the iPhone SDK itself. That said, it's hard to ignore a new reference to a "multitasking dialog box" buri...
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This is a very interesting turn of events.
Bob Corker was looking for Chris Dodd. When the Tennessee Republican got him on the phone, he started to get the feeling that financial regulatory reform talks were collapsing after weeks...
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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) suggested Tuesday evening that Democrats would have the votes to pass healthcare legislation if it were taken up today.
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Her office took no action after learning of concerns last year, sources say.
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Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) pledged on Wednesday to take a serious look at revising the filibuster rules at the beginning of the next Congress, calling the current level of obstruction in the Senate unacceptable.
In a spe...
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