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Sealing the Senate deal
15 hours ago ago from Support our Country
Sealing the Senate deal If and when Senate Democratic leaders finish healthcare negotiations and nail down 60 votes, they will begin the process spelled out in Senate rules for ending the expected Republican filibusters and moving to a final vote on the legislation. The expected sequence of events is likely to stretch well into next week, possibly culminating in a Senate session on Christmas Day: Step 1: The 'manager's amendment' Senate ...
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21 hours ago ago from Houston Young Republicans
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has struggled to herd and to hold the 60 votes required to advance the health care overhaul, and Senate aides say the effort may culminate with a final vote on Christmas
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7 hours ago ago from ARRA News Service
The House ended their session yesterday and is on Christmas break. The Washington Post identified that "The House pushed through a last-minute flurry of legislation Wednesday, including a $636 billion Pentagon funding bill, a short-term rise in the nation's debt limit, and an extension of unemployment and health benefits for millions of jobless Americans. But Democrats put off until next year some of the thorniest political issues facing the ...
Related content3 out of 4 New Yorkers Want State Senate Democrats to Keep Majority
20 hours ago ago from WNYMedia.net
The Siena Research Institute poll released yesterday indicates that 72 percent of New Yorkers want State Senate Democrats to keep the majority attained in last year’s historic elections. The poll showed a paltry 23 percent of New Yorkers would like to see Republicans in charge of the State Senate, which they held for the previous four decades. Even among registered Republicans, only 53 percent want their party to run the Senate again. ...
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16 hours ago ago from Balkinization
My colleague Bruce Ackerman's theory of "constitutional moments" is designed to explain how large scale constitutional change occurs. This theory is actually a collection of different mechanisms, which, together, show how a mobilized public gives its support to constitutional change. One of these components is the idea that politicians, in desperate political circumstances, engage in what Ackerman calls "unconventional adaptation" to ...
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Senate Republicans vow to delay health-care vote
22 hours ago ago from Washington Post - Business
Senate Republicans vowed Wednesday to use every available tactic to delay voting on the health-care bill as Majority Leader Harry M. Reid (D-Nev.) scrambled to unify Democrats in support of the legislation. Democratic leaders continued to court Sen. Ben Nelson (D-Neb.), whose vote appeared to be the most elusive in the 60-member Democratic caucus ; he was unsatisfied with language in the $848 billion legislation related to abortion ...
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5 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 ...
Related contentReid Fights for 60th Vote on Health Bill
22 hours ago ago from Wall Street Journal
WASHINGTON -- Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid struggled to win over the last Democratic vote on health-overhaul legislation as uncertainty grew about whether the measure can be brought to a vote before Christmas. After more than two weeks of debate, Mr. Reid (D., Nev.) remained a vote short of the 60 votes needed to ensure passage of the White House-backed initiative. The focus Wednesday was on Sen. Ben Nelson, the conservative ...
Related contentIn Senate Health Showdown, Round Goes to G.O.P.
1 day ago ago from The New York Times
WASHINGTON On the 17th day of Senate debate on health legislation, it came down to this: A rock-ribbed conservative physician from Oklahoma squared off against a self-described democratic socialist from Vermont who was hoping for a full-throated debate on his proposal to establish a system of Medicare for all. The Oklahoman, Senator Tom Coburn , a Republican, had propounded a unanimous-consent request, stipulating that no amendment could be ...
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