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(1) 53% to 36% disapprove of health care legislation; & (2) 73% to 18% say they do not believe it will reduce future budget deficits (which it won't)
23 hours ago ago from Cracker Squire
David Broder writes in The Washington Post : The health-care reform bill coming out of the Senate presents a real dilemma for spectators: How do you applaud while holding your nose? There is so much that is wrong with it -- and the way it was made -- and, at the same time, so much that is right that you just have to shake your head in despair and in wonder. As one who covered the Clintons' struggle 15 years ago to pass health-care ...
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49 minutes ago ago from Cervantes
Every Democrat cast the deciding health-care vote. In the post-dawn hours on Thursday the Senate passed ObamaCare 60 to 39, in the first vote on Christmas Eve since 1895 and after the longest consecutive session in Congress since World War I. We are thus heading toward the first U.S. entitlement program dragged across the finish line on a straight partisan majority, a bill that even its most fervent supporters admit is but better than ...
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22 hours ago ago from Unemployed in Michigan
Now that the Senate and House have both approved their own versions of the healthcare bill, it is time to use reconciliation to bypass Joe Lieberman. House and Senate leaders can throw out the Stupak amendment and bring back the public option, passing the bill with 51 votes in the senate. This would satisfy Obama's campaign promises and actually present some hope that health care costs can be controlled in the long run.
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12 hours ago ago from robertreeddaly
T hough the House comes back on the 12th, the current plan is for them to recess again almost immediately and head out of town for a Democratic Issues Conference on the 14th & 15th. Republicans want to do the same on the 28th through the 30th. In addition to the mid-January restart, there's also the issue of getting a CBO score on the final version of the bill, which the articles flying around the web say could take as long as 10 days. ...
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15 hours ago ago from Goobergunch Political Report
Well, that planned amendment postings got somewhat ruined with the downtime we had recently. While I guess I could put it together now, it's really kind of pointless given that the full text of the bill, as passed by the Senate, has been printed . Hopefully the new Congressional session will be a bit more productive. With both the House and Senate adjourned sine die (a nice Latin way to say that the first session is officially ...
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