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20 hours ago ago from MyDD :: Direct Democracy for People-Powered Politics
Home Diaries Breaking Blue E-Wire 2008 REAL Progs Stand With House Progressive Women and FIGHT! by ludwigvan , Sat Dec 26, 2009 at 10:16:48 AM EST "The Senate health care bill is not worthy of the historic vote that the House took a month ago," "Supporters of the weak Senate bill say "just pass it -- any bill is better than no bill. I strongly disagree," she wrote. "It's time that we draw the line on this weak bill and ask ...
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2 hours ago ago from TalkLeft
This NYTimes editorial is almost surreal. In almost every respect it finds the Senate bill wanting and prefers the House bill but we all know that the final bill, the bill Obama wants, is the Senate bill. So a read of the editorial is basically a litany of everything that is is wrong with the health bill: Here are the major differences: FINANCING The Senate bill has the better financing feature to help subsidize coverage of the ...
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16 hours ago ago from Nation of Immigrants
On December 15, Representative Gutierrez (D-Ill.) introduced the Comprehensive Immigration Reform ASAP Act of 2009 (H.R. 4321) in the House of Representatives. To date, the bill has 92 co-sponsors, all of them Democrats. We link to the 646-page bill and to summaries of the bill from our Immigration Legislation page at http://shusterman.com/toc-leg.html#3 The bill provides a generous legalization program whereby persons who were ...
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3 hours ago ago from theinferior4+1
I've been reading about the new health care bill, and it's just made me more confused than ever. We're lucky we got a health bill at all, some people say -- it's the first socially progressive program since LBJ's Great Society and Medicare. But it's a terrible bill, other people say. But it's only the bill in the Senate that's terrible, and that can change that when it merges with the House's bill. But it forces people to get insurance. But ...
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Next month marks PubliCola’s one-year anniversary. Throughout December, we’ve been re-posting our favorite Cola articles from our first 12 months. (Apologies to those who don’t like the reprints, but we’ve got thousands of new readers these days who haven’t seen some of our greatest hits. December, in fact, has been a record month for us, hitting over 10,000 unique visitors one day this month.) Last week, we hooked you up with a ...
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House Democrats May Give Up Public Health Care Option (VIDEO)
28 minutes ago ago from Huffington Post
(AP) WASHINGTON Two House Democrats who favor a government insurance plan, a central element of health care legislation passed in their chamber, acknowledged Sunday it might have to be sacrificed as negotiators work out a final agreement with the Senate. Rep. James Clyburn of South Carolina, the No. 3 Democrat in the House and one who had appealed to President Barack Obama not to yield on the public plan, set out conditions for yielding ...
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1 hour, 58 minutes ago ago from Huffington Post
Politico : Bruised by the health care debate and worried about what 2010 will bring, moderate Senate Democrats are urging the White House to give up now on any effort to pass a cap-and-trade bill next year. "I am communicating that in every way I know how," says Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-La.), one of at least half a dozen Democrats who've told the White House or their own leaders that it's time to jettison the centerpiece of their party's ...
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