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13 hours ago ago from The Baltimore Reporter
from the Examiner Senate Democrats are threatening Republicans with midnight and crack-of-dawn votes if they continue to fight the majority on the health-care bill and defense spending legislation. The Senate Democratic leadership office is advising lawmakers, staff and reporters that if the GOP does not yield back time on the defense spending bill now under consideration, a vote will be scheduled for Friday morning at 1 a.m., with ...
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18 hours ago ago from Support our Country
A merry Christmas; Senate eyes Dec. 24 vote on health reform The Senate is heading toward a Christmas Eve vote to pass landmark healthcare legislation, but instead of holiday cheer, Democrats and Republicans are digging in for trench warfare. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) is determined to finish work before the Christmas holiday and has set a schedule that would end with a final vote on the evening of Dec. 24. “We’re going ...
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17 hours ago ago from Larvatus Prodeo
Peter Wood notes an American attempt to insert a watering-down of developed-world commitments into one of the draft texts to, essentially, whatever the countries of the developed world feel like promising. While it's easy to be disgusted at this, as Peter notes, any international treaty relies upon the national parties ratifying it and acting upon it; in the case of the United States, any treaty has to be acceptable to two-thirds of ...
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5 hours ago ago from DENTOCAFE
Politico: Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's plan to pass the Senate health care reform bill by Christmas looked increasingly in doubt Wednesday, as Republicans launched an offensive to stall the legislation and Democrats had yet to strike a 60-vote compromise. Senators privately considered one scenario Wednesday that would have them casting a final vote at 7 p.m. Christmas Eve... DentOCafe Home
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14 hours ago ago from WSDJ
More info Ho, ho oh, no! For weeks months, really Republicans have stalled health-care legislation in the Senate. But now Democrats have come up with a formidable weapon: They are threatening to steal Christmas. And Republicans would give large sums of frankincense and myrrh to keep that from Health care bill in balance without Nelson's vote (AP via Yahoo! News) A year in the making, sweeping health care legislation backed by ...
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Senate Democrats threaten to hold health-care vote on Christmas
12 hours ago ago from Washington Post - Politics
Ho, ho -- oh, no! For weeks -- months, really -- Republicans have stalled health-care legislation in the Senate. But now Democrats have come up with a formidable weapon: They are threatening to steal Christmas. And Republicans would give large sums of frankincense and myrrh to keep that from happening. The threat dribbled out Thursday morning in the form of rumors and whispers emanating from Majority Leader Harry Reid's office. If ...
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3 hours ago ago from The New York Times
WASHINGTON The Senate voted early Friday morning to force final action on a Pentagon spending measure as Democrats broke a Republican attempt to use the military money to stall action on the health care overhaul. Multimedia Blog In an unusual dead-of-night session that opened just after midnight, senators voted 63 to 33 to shut off debate on the $626 billion plan, which is the last spending measure due ...
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20 hours ago ago from Washington Post - Business
Senate Republicans said Thursday that they would try to filibuster a massive Pentagon bill that funds the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, an unusual move that several acknowledged was an effort to delay President Obama's health-care legislation. Late into the night, Democrats emerged from a huddle confident that they would muster the 60 votes needed to thwart the GOP effort at blocking the military spending bill as an antiwar liberal said he ...
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12 hours ago ago from Washington Post - Business
KANNAPOLIS, N.C. -- To voters in this hard-luck town where stable factory jobs and the health care that came with them have long since disappeared, change looked good a year ago. Change came not only from President Obama, who narrowly won this swing state, but also from a millworker-turned-high school civics teacher who had no political experience but ran on a promise to bring a progressive everyman's sensibility to Congress. This ...
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2 hours ago ago from Politics Daily
Good morning, Capitolists! The Senate has officially gone from herding cats to Christmas chaos, with Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid announcing last night that he will hold procedural votes at 7:30 a.m. Saturday, and several times throughout the week, ending with a final vote on health care at 7 p.m. on Christmas Eve. The only twist, in addition to the glaring fact that Reid does not yet have 60 votes for his Christmas cliffhanger, is ...
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