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17 hours ago ago from The Morning Delivery
So if everything goes according to plan, and the Senate approves the health care reform bill on Christmas Eve morning, what happens next? Since both the House and Senate have passed different versions, this historic piece of legislation must be reconciled between leaders of both houses before it’s ready to be presented to the president. The Constitution, after all, requires that the House and Senate approve the same bill or joint ...
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11 hours ago ago from Weasel Zippers
Let him push that crap where it belongs... WASHINGTON -- With the Senate set to pass its health bill on Christmas Eve, President Barack Obama is planning to step up his involvement in the final health-care legislation, White House and congressional officials say. At the same time, Republicans have ratcheted up their attacks on the legislation and begun approaching conservative Democrats to switch parties, in the wake of ...
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16 hours ago ago from Dancing Czars
The latest example of violating principles of transparency and accountability in the single-minded pursuit of legislative victory. By JOHN FUND Dec. 23, 2009 Look for House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid to try to circumvent the traditional conference committee process by which the different versions of health care reform passed by each house will be reconciled. If so, it will be the latest example of ...
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11 hours ago ago from SIC SEMPER TYRANNIS!!!
2009 Heritage.org Posted December 23rd, 2009 at 2.03pm in Health Care. Senator Jim DeMint (R-SC) has pointed observers to a problematic section of the health care legislation now before the Senate that proposes (in Section 3403) to create an Independent Medicare Advisory Board. He rightly observes that the bill language makes it virtually impossible to repeal that part of the legislation, thereby attempting to bind future Congresses. ...
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Democrats Strip Griffith of Committee Assignments
20 hours ago ago from Politics Daily
Rep. Parker Griffith of Alabama announced yesterday that he has switched from Democrat to Republican. House Democrats announced today that Parker is as good as gone. On the floor of the House of Representatives, a clerk read from letters between House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and the chairmen of the House Transportation Committee, the House Small Business Committee, and the House Science and Technology Committee. Pelosi told the chairmen that ...
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20 hours ago ago from BloggingStocks
The solar energy movement, so promising, has hit a speed bump. Just as solar's cost per kilowatt hour starts to become attractive, from a U.S. residential use standpoint, sure enough another roadblock has appeared. The problem? Environmental concern about destroyed or altered vistas -- essentially sight pollution -- but also pollution that physically harms the environment. U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein's, D-California, stated opposition to ...
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16 hours ago ago from Huffington Post
So if everything goes according to plan, and the Senate approves the health care reform bill on Christmas Eve morning, what happens next? Since both the House and Senate have passed different versions, this historic piece of legislation must be reconciled between leaders of both houses before it's ready to be presented to the president. The Constitution, after all, requires that the House and Senate approve the same bill or joint ...
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