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Obama pushes Senate Democrats to pass health bill
6 hours ago ago from Christopher Howell
WASHINGTON (Reuters) President Barack Obama pushed fractious Senate Democrats on Tuesday to pass a broad healthcare overhaul and said he was cautiously optimistic they could iron out their differences to win the 60 votes needed.
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20 hours ago ago from Common Sense
President Barack Obama pushed Senate Democrats on Tuesday to pass a broad healthcare overhaul and said he was cautiously optimistic they could agree on a bill that saves money and improves millions of lives. Continued here: Obama cautiously optimistic on healthcare bill (Reuters via Yahoo! News)
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22 hours ago ago from Lake Minnetonka Liberty
Rep. Paul Ryan of Wisconsin doesn't think so , and neither do I. It had much to do with Hate Bush simple mindedness at the time, than it did with actual policy. Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wisc.), the ranking Republican member of the House Budget Committee, said that more than a year after Obama was elected president with 53 percent of the popular vote, Americans wouldn't select him if the vote were held again today. Aside from taking the ...
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20 hours ago ago from Geo News Blog
WASHINGTON: President Barack Obama said Tuesday he was optimistic over his top priority health care bill, saying Democrats were on the cusp of an achievement that had eluded them for generations. But Obama warned that compromises would have to be made to get the bill through the Senate, as intense horse-trading takes place with holdout lawmakers to get the required 60 votes in the 100-vote chamber. It is clear we are on the ...
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11 hours ago ago from BBC
President Obama: I'm feeling cautiously optimistic US President Barack Obama has said he is cautiously optimistic that a stalled healthcare bill will be passed in the Senate by the end of the year. The president said the country was on the verge of an achievement that has eluded Congresses and presidents for generations . He was speaking after talks with Senate Democrats at the White House. Mr Obama urged senators not to let ...
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18 hours ago ago from U.S. News
Dems to Lieberman: Say it's so, Joe on health care WASHINGTON (AP) -- The senator Republicans love and liberals love to hate is at it again. Sen. Joe Lieberman, who no longer considers himself a Democrat but is holding tight to a coveted chairmanship, thoroughly rattled the Obama administration and his colleagues in the last 48 hours when he threatened to join Republicans in blocking health care overhaul over government-run insurance and an ...
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19 hours ago ago from Politics Daily
Americans are split on President Obama's handling of the economy with 46 percent approving and 44 percent disapproving, with 10 percent undecided, but those numbers are better than the ones for the Democratic or Republican Party, according to a poll conducted Dec. 1-3 for CNBC by Hart/McInturff . The margin of error is 3.5 points. Forty-seven percent disapprove of the Democrats' handling of the economy while 39 percent disapprove, with 14 ...
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30 minutes ago ago from Huffington Post
House Democrat Michael Capuano shocked House Democrats at their weekly Caucus meeting recently when he flatly told them they're screwed. Capuano was being charitable. They aren't screwed. They screwed themselves. And it wasn't just the Democrats abysmal cave to Obama on Afghanistan, or their even more abysmal failure to plow some of the taxpayer booty Congress ladled out to Wall Street and the big banks into a direct jobs and home foreclosure ...
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22 hours ago ago from Media General - TBO.com
WASHINGTON - After months of turmoil, President Barack Obama is calling Senate Democrats to the White House to say it's time to come together and pass legislation embracing a wholesale remodeling of America's health care system. The meeting set for this afternoon comes a day after Senate Democratic leaders suggested they were ready to abandon the last vestiges of a government-run insurance program that liberals have long sought, in order to ...
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