| Nov 21 | The Quest For 60 A curated list of the 30 top #HCR Twitterers as the Senate debates health care reform legislation. new TWTR.Widget({ version: 2, type: \'list\', rpp: 30, interval: 6000, title: \'Senate Health Care Debate\', subject: \'Tweeting #HCR\', width: \'auto\', heigh.. |
| Nov 21 | Reid reaches 60 as Sen. Lincoln pledges vote to begin debate Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) has secured the vital 60th vote he needs to advance healthcare reform legislation. Read more... |
| Nov 21 | There\'s Your 60 Arkansas Sen. Blanche Lincoln just announced her support for bringing the health care reform bill to the floor for debate -- so that makes the Dems united ... on debating the bill. Not a surprise, but an important step. The official vote later today.. |
| Nov 21 | What Have You Done For Me Lately? Mary Landrieu says Harry Reid will have to make a tough call on the public option at some point very soon, and that Chuck Schumer\'s at the center of the trigger negotiations . |
| Nov 21 | Some states already poised to opt out of government-run public health .. At least 11 states intend to forge ahead with bills and ballot questions designed to block some Dem healthcare reforms. Read more... |
| Nov 21 | Lincoln on board, 60 in hand Sen. Lincoln (D-Ark.) says she\'ll deliver the deciding vote to push forward with health reform plan. |
| Nov 21 | Landrieu to back Dems on healthcare vote One of two Democratic centrists previosuly not committed will back her party, according to the Democratic leadership. Read more... |
| Nov 21 | New Documentary Challenges Gore\'s \'Inconvenient Truth\' on Global Warmi.. In 2007, a British High Court judge ruled that Al Gore\'s global warming film contained nine significant errors and should no longer be screened in schools unless accompanied by guidance notes to balance Gore\'s \"one-sided\" views. |
| Nov 21 | The Brett Favre Of HCR Mary Landrieu will finally announce her decision on how she\'ll vote today on cloture on the Senate floor in about 20 minutes. Hard to imagine she\'d go so far as to block the bill from even being debated. Then again, you never know. Late Update : Lan.. |
| Nov 21 | Saturday Quick Hits Key Senate Vote: Want to stay in this evening? Sit back and watch the Senate debate health care reform on C-SPAN. Two weeks ago, the House took most of the night to complete their votes. This time around, the roll call in the Senate, expected around.. |
| Nov 21 | VIDEO: Week in Playback A recap of this week\'s POLITICO Playbacks. |
| Nov 21 | VIDEO: Palin hits the airwaves Sarah Palin hits the airwaves this week ... |
| Nov 21 | Pennsylvania is still using voter registration forms that omit Liberta.. Ballot Access News Ballot Access News has just learned that Pennsylvania is still distributing voter registration forms that don’t include any parties except the Democratic and Republican Parties. However, the Libertarian Party polled enough votes i.. |
| Nov 21 | A Milestone In the Health Care Journey When I reached Jonathan Gruber on Thursday, he was working his way, page by laborious page, through the mammoth health care bill Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid had unveiled just a few hours earlier. Gruber is a leading health economist at the Mass.. |
| Nov 21 | Stupakified In a statement to TPMDC , Rep. Bart Stupak (D-MI) takes issue with that George Washington University study which found that his anti-abortion amendment would ultimately cause insurance companies to stop covering abortions. |
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| Nov 21 | Pennsylvania Is Still Using Voter Registration Forms That Omit Liberta.. Ballot Access News has just learned that Pennsylvania is still distributing voter registration forms that don\'t include any parties except the Democratic and Republican Parties. However, the Libertarian Party polled enough votes in November 2008 to .. |
| Nov 21 | UFC Senior Division On the Senate floor this morning, Majority Leader Harry Reid dismissed David Broder as \"a man who has been retired for many years and writes a column once in a while.\" The jab came in response to Minority Leader Mitch McConnell\'s citation of Broder\'.. |
| Nov 21 | Reid, McConnell trade barbs early in session The Senate convened at 9:45 a.m. Saturday, beginning immediately with a sharp clash by the chamber’s top Democrat and Republican. Read more... |
| Nov 21 | Hoeven Would Beat Dorgan Easily A new Zogby poll in North Dakota finds Sen. Byron Dorgan (D-ND) would be crushed if challenged by Gov. John Hoeven (R), 55% to 36% with 9% undecided. Dorgan, however, leads another possible challenger, Duane Sand (R), 60% to 28% with 10% undecided. |
| Nov 21 | Saturday Roundup * The Senate vote tonight on whether to bring the health care bill to a debate is a high-stakes one for Harry Reid , his re-election campaign, and his entire political future : “His entire political future is predicated on a campaign that ‘I get thi.. |
| Nov 21 | Rating Change: Iowa GOP Gets Serious About Boswell Challenge After passing on a vigorous campaign against Rep. Leonard L. Boswell in 2008, Republicans in Iowa are signaling that they are more serious about challenging the seven-term congressman next year. |
| Nov 21 | Lieberman, Nelson, Durbin on Sunday shows Whether or not healthcare legislation survives its first test vote in the Senate, the Sunday shows will have all the key reactions. Read more... |
| Nov 21 | Grassley Declines to Make Personal Tax Returns Public By Martin Vaughan Sen. Charles Grassley (R., Iowa) Friday refused a request from Dow Jones to release his personal tax returns. Sen. Grassley, the senior Republican on the Senate Finance Committee, has criticized several Obama administration nominee.. |
| Nov 21 | Tough U.N. Critic Tapped to Represent U.S. on Human Rights Council Eileen Chamberlain Donahoe has called the U.N. policy and record toward human rights abuses erratic, inhumane and dysfunctional. U.N. critics are cautiously optimistic she\'ll bring that hard-nosed attitude to the Human Rights Council as its U.S.. |
| Nov 21 | Germany Concerned Its Evidence to Be Used to Back Death Penalty in 9/1.. Justice Ministry spokeswoman Katharina Jahntz on Saturday confirmed a report in Der Spiegel that a German observer would attend the trial to ensure that no evidence provided by Germany would be used to apply the death penalty. |
| Nov 21 | Obama Cites Asia Trip as Boost to U.S. Economy Citing progress on a trip that took him from Tokyo to Seoul, President Obama noted that \"Asia is a region where we now buy more goods and do more trade with than any other place in the world -- commerce that supports millions of jobs back home.\" |
| Nov 21 | Question Of The Weekend: How Important Is The Vote? How important is Saturday\'s Senate vote on health care reform, given that a \"yes\" would simply mean that debate starts nine days later, and that \"no\" would mean health care fails its first test and Reid is probably forced to change parts of his bill?.. |
| Nov 21 | Tweeting #hcr Sarah Palin tells her 25,000 Twitter followers just now: Thot I\'d stick w tour news on Twitter but can\'t help digress: Call senators! Tell \'em KILL THE BILL tonite;horrible govt healthcare takeover |
| Nov 21 | Gal With a Suitcase Back at home after a trip to Iceland, GWS reveals the haunts of her neighborhood in East London, where bars and bargains abound in equal measure. It\'s the hipster capital of England-and maybe the world. Home to galleries, graffiti, a famed flower... |
| Nov 21 | Converge! (If You Live Nearby) A Tea Party group that had planned an event to \"converge\" on the Capitol for today\'s crucial test vote on health care clarifies - the event is for those \"within driving distance of DC\" who \"want to be there tomorrow when the Senate votes in the cove.. |
| Nov 21 | GOP eyes McDonnell strategy Top Republicans believe they’ve found a winning formula for appealing to voters in 2010. |
| Nov 21 | Sunday talk show tip sheet Hours after Saturday’s cloture vote on a $848B health bill, senators take to the Sunday shows to discuss it. |
| Nov 21 | What to watch for in today\'s debate Today, Harry Reid can\'t spare a single Democrat as the Senate decides whether to start the debate. |
| Nov 21 | Staying In Saturday Night? Political junkies will have a couple of good choices: You\'ll be able to follow the Senate health care debate on C-SPAN or you can watch the live stream of the Iowa Democratic Party\'s Jefferson-Jackson dinner with Vice President Joe Biden as the keyno.. |
| Nov 21 | What\'s Missing From The Health Care Reform Bill As a doctor, I\'ve seen the positive effects of preventive care. The current bill fails in this critical area of reform. More than half of the money we spend on health care is spent on just five percent of the people. Basically, these are people who.... |
| Nov 21 | Philadelphia Eagle turned potential candidate has spotty voting record Former offensive lineman Jon Runyan (R) is the latest professional athlete to look at running for political office. Read more... |
| Nov 21 | Levin: Hearings to examine ‘Don\'t ask, don\'t tell’ repeal likely next .. Sen. Carl Levin (D-Mich.), the chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, has always opposed the policy. Read more... |
| Nov 21 | From the Senate, it\'s Saturday night: Health debate vote looms The Senate will vote Saturday night to begin debate on a 2,074-page healthcare bill that is estimated to cost $849B. Read more... |
| Nov 21 | Crapo: Read the Senate health bill yourself On the day of the Senate’s first vote on healthcare reform legislation, Sen. Mike Crapo (R-Idaho) gave the GOP’s address. Read more... |
| Nov 21 | Obama talks jobs, not healthcare, from Asia The president pledged a “relentless” approach to the U.S. economic recovery, claiming progress during his Asian trip. Read more... |
| Nov 21 | Senate Health Bill Up for First Crucial Vote Saturday\'s vote will determine whether debate can go forward on Majority Leader Harry Reid\'s 2,074-page bill to dramatically remake the U.S. health care system over the next decade. |
| Nov 21 | Obama: Asia trip part of U.S. jobs push In his weekly address, President Obama says he \"will go anywhere\" in pursuit of economic growth and jobs. |
| Nov 20 | Up to 7,000 NATO Forces Sought for New Afghan Strategy NATO secretary general is expected to announce new troops shortly after Obama unveils his plan, officials say. |
| Nov 20 | Golden Dukes It\'s hard to believe we\'re coming up on the third annual Golden Duke Awards . |
| Nov 20 | GOP: Breast exams show \'rationing\' Current events are playing into public fears about a bigger government role in health care. |
| Nov 20 | NRCC tries to showcase map expansion efforts In case you were wondering what is the one thing the NRCC would like to see congealed as conventional wisdom, its attempt to get minuscule ad buys in 3 districts held by veteran Democrats covered as a major strategic move should give you the answer:.. |
| Nov 20 | GOP: Women\'s Health Recommendations Could Affect Care Republicans are using this week\'s recommendations for fewer Pap smears and mammograms to make their case that the health care overhaul amounts to government-rationed health care. |
| Nov 20 | Obama, the Un-decider The president\'s approach to the 9/11 trials offers something for everyone-and decisions on nothing. Obama may be the anti-Bush, Lee Siegel argues-but he\'s failing to govern. Lord Acton once wrote that in a political system\'s success lie the seeds of... |
| Nov 20 | San Francisco Young Democrats Forum Includes Discussion of “Top-.. The San Francisco Young Democrats held a public forum on October 14, 2009, on proposals to write a new Constitution for California. The meeting was chaired by California Assemblymember Fiona Ma, who asked the panel to comment on the “top-two&#.. |