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Democrats put health care bill on brink of passage
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Democrats pushed sweeping health care legislation to the brink of Senate passage Wednesday, crushing a year-end Republican filibuster against President Barack Obama's call to remake the nation's health care system. The 60-39 vote marked the third time in as many days Democrats have posted a supermajority needed to advance the legislation. Final passage, set for about dawn on Thursday, was a certainty, and will clear the way for talks ...
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Hot Breaking News about US Senate Sets Final Health Care Vote for Thursday reading Senate Sets Final Health Care Vote Thursday Voice America ABC News Senate Sets Final Health Care Vote Thursday Voice America Senate scheduled a Christmas Eve Thursday vote health care reform legislation. Photo: AP Sen. Mitch McConnell Ky., center, shows copy Democratic health care reform bill during news conference Capitol Hil (Nov 2009 file ...
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Search Search for: Go Home Archives Subscribe Contact About // you're reading... Politics Tell Gov. Perry to Call a Special Session on Voter ID By Robbie Cooper May 28, 2009 Tweet This Email This Post Print This Post Post a comment Filed Under Rick Perry From an e-mail from Safe Texas : Dear Supporters of secure and fair elections, You've probably heard by now that Voter ID is dead ...
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3 hours ago ago from Crooks and Liars
I've been writing for weeks that the House needs to step up and improve the Senate health care bill in conference. They are co-equal branches and when a bill is to be merged, there are usually compromises made. Sen. Conrad screamed out on FNS and said that if the House tinkers with their precious bill, it won't pass. CONRAD: It is very clear that the bill, the final bill, to pass in the United States Senate is going to be -- have to be very ...
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Senate Health Care Bill Clears Final Vote Before Passage
3 hours ago ago from Huffington Post
WASHINGTON Exultant Senate Democrats pushed President Barack Obama's landmark health care overhaul past a final procedural hurdle Wednesday, setting up a Christmas Eve vote to pass the legislation extending coverage to 30 million Americans. Democrats voted 60-39 to end a GOP filibuster and move to a final vote Thursday. All 58 Democrats and two independents hung together against unanimous Republican opposition. It was the 24th day of ...
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15 hours ago ago from Huffington Post
How dare a progressive suggest a vote against the Senate health bill? When Howard Dean did just that last week he was roundly condemned for casting aspersions on what even many of its more ardent supporters admit is an obviously flawed bill. Instead of focusing their wrath on the few obstructionists in the Senate who blackmailed the majority into dropping a much needed public option in order to avoid a filibuster, they made Dean the villain ...
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7 hours ago ago from Huffington Post
Last month, history was made. The House passed a health care bill that gave the American people what they want. In poll after poll , people want to have the choice of a public option, to keep their health care benefits untaxed, and to have affordable health care. The House bill came very close to those goals. The Senate took its first step towards passing a health care bill. While the Senate bill includes significant reforms, it looks ...
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5 hours ago ago from Huffington Post
Have you heard? Progressives who oppose the Senate health bill are the moral equivalent of mass murderers. That argument is actually being made - along with the charge, ironically enough, that they're being too emotional . Other pro-Senate-bill arguments are pretty thin, too, but let's start with this one: We have met the "death panels" and they are us. Ezra Klein seems to have started the "killers" trope in a response to Markos Moulitsas ...
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22 hours ago ago from U.S. News
Senate passes trade bill stalled by custody fight WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Senate has unanimously approved a trade bill that benefits more than 130 countries exporting thousands of goods into the United States after the legislation briefly became entangled with a New Jersey man's legal battle to have his 9-year-old son returned from Brazil. The trade measure was passed by the Senate late Tuesday without opposition after Sen. Frank Lautenberg, ...
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