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So much for "fixing the bill in conference"
16 hours ago ago from AMERICAblog News| A great nation deserves the truth
For a while now, whenever we've written about concerns that President Obama wasn't sufficiently supporting his own campaign promise, the public option, many of the President's defenders told us to fret not, the President had a plan, and it involved fixing the bill in conference, where the public option would be magically saved. Now it's increasingly sounding like there may not be a conference at all. As I wrote in the post below, some ...
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11 hours ago ago from TalkLeft
You've probably read about the idea of bypassing a House-Senate conference on the Health Insurance Premium Assistance Bill so that President Obama can tout it in his State of the Union address. apparently, House liberals are not pleased with the notion : Two well respected House liberals Jan Schakowsky and Jerrold Nadler expressed skepticism about the current public option compromises emerging from the Senate, and vowed that House Dems ...
Related contentUnion deal with Tri-Rail, transportation officials means Senate approval likely | Post on Politics
13 hours ago ago from News about politics and government in Florida | Post on Politics, a PalmBeachPost.com blog
A last-minute deal between the AFL-CIO, Tri-Rail and state transportation officials has satisfied union leaders that their workers won't be laid off under a bill now being debated in the Senate. The union had opposed the measure, which the House passed easily yesterday. The labor issue posed a threat to its passage in the Republican-dominated Senate despite the support of GOP leaders including Senate President Jeff Atwater. The ...
Related contentSmoke and Mirrors in HealthCare Votes
7 hours ago ago from Just Americans Making Ethical Statements Weblog
from Conservative.com: Is the Cloture Vote the Final Real Vote on Health Care? By Brian Faughnan | Dec 8, 2:07 PM According to several media reports, Congressional leaders are increasingly learning toward avoiding a House-Senate conference on health care. Instead of resolving the differences between the two bills and sending that new bill back to both chambers for passage, the House would simply take up any bill that makes it ...
Related contentTransportation approps bill moving
12 hours ago ago from Federal Transportation Issues
Late Tuesday a House-Senate conference committee finalized a package of appropriations bills, including Transportation, that could become law by December 18th. That's when the current continuing resolution expires. The House is tentatively scheduled to vote on it this week, with the Senate following shortly after. If one Chamber gets delayed, another short-term continuing resolution may be required to finish. (" Conferees Agree to Omnibus ...
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