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Democrats use legal bribing in the U.S. Senate
13 hours ago ago from OutsideLansing.com - Front Page
I tried to think of another way to express the disgust that I currently have for the U.S. Senate. Now, I am the first to admit, I am a bit bias. I do not believe that the current health care reform bill is a good idea, nor will it work. But my disgust in the bill is dwarfed by the disgust in what the Democratic Party is doing to pass this bill. Bribed Nebraska's Senator Ben Nelson with a special provision that has the Federal Government ...
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18 hours ago ago from Michelle Malkin
Sellout Sen. Ben Nelson (D-Neb.) got his Cash-for-Cloture Christmas present early: Special Medicaid expansion subsidies for his state ( $45 million for starters over the next decade). The budget-strapped governors of every other state in the union ought to be crying foul. Despite his protestations and rationalizations, government abortion funding remains in the bill. As the Small Business Against Big Government blog quipped : The ...
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20 hours ago ago from The People's Business
Several Fayetteville officials will get ethics training next month. They are traveling to Wilmington for a two-day conference, “Essentials of Municipal Government.” Two hours of Ethics 101 will be part of the coursework. The ethics education is a new requirement of all local elected officials, thanks a law the General Assembly adopted this year. The state wants all local governing boards to adopt a code of ethics and have their ...
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18 hours ago ago from DMEC Legislative Updates
Republican Senators, who generally do not oppose the content of the defense measure, did seek to delay the progress of H.R. 3326 to delay the progress of the health reform bill. The bill is expected to be signed quickly by President Obama. It is expected that if this extension is enacted, the federal Departments of Labor and Treasury will issue guidance about how to handle the transition of individuals who have gone off the original ...
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21 hours ago ago from No Hidden Magenta
With Senator Ben Nelson now on board , the Senate Bill could pass by Christmas and the (surely dramatic) conference committee hearings could conclude in January with a final bill. The key sticking point for him, of course, has been whether this bill even indirectly subsidizes abortion. The early details of the compromise are starting to come through , but the National Right to Life Committee isn't happy : The manager’s amendment is ...
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Franken: Dems Unified Behind 'Historic' Health Reform Legislation
20 hours ago ago from Huffington Post
The Senate Democratic caucus is unified following a Saturday meeting and poised to pass a much-weakened health care reform proposal before Christmas day. "The mood was great," said Sen. Al Franken (D-Minn.) of the party gathering earlier Saturday. "It was a very, very good mood, even [among] those of us who have disappointments about what is and isn't in." Though it's far from what progressives and, according to surveys, most voters ...
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2 hours ago ago from Huffington Post
New York Times : IF I were still a United States senator, I would not only vote yes on the current health care reform bill, I would do so with the sure knowledge that I was casting one of the most historic votes of my 36 years in the Senate. I would vote yes knowing that the bill represents the culmination of a struggle begun by Theodore Roosevelt nearly a century ago to make health care reform a reality. And while it does not contain every ...
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3 hours ago ago from Huffington Post
Sen. Kent Conrad (D-N.D.) asserted on Sunday that the Senate's version of health care legislation will, by and large, be the final product, even though negotiators in the House and Senate have yet to merge their respective bills. The North Dakota Democrat, during an appearance on Fox News Sunday, offered a reading of the political tea leaves, predicting that several conservative Democratic senators would abandon reform if too many changes ...
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1 hour, 38 minutes ago ago from Wall Street Journal
WASHINGTON--David Axelrod, an adviser to President Barack Obama, predicted health-care legislation would pass "soon," after Senate Democrats on Saturday secured the 60 votes needed to clear a path for quick Senate passage of the measure. "We're right on the one-yard line" with Senate Democrats reaching a deal, Mr. Axelrod said on CNN's "State of the Union" which aired Sunday. "I believe this is going to happen soon . People understand we're ...
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17 hours ago ago from Politics Daily
If you've been following the health debate, nobody could blame you if you were confused today to hear that there is a new health bill that senators will vote on Monday morning. By our count, today's draft, with the so-called managers' amendment, is the ninth version of health reform to emerge from this process. Nobody said passing legislation was easy, but we're here to help you make sense of it all. Below is a breakdown of what the big ...
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