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Political Meanderings in Clay County writes: Missourians need to get behind a recent bill co-sponsored by Senator Stouffer
22 hours ago ago from Lafayette County Politics
From the Clay County Political Meanderings blog: Looks like all Missourians need to get behind a recent bill cosponsored by Senator Stouffer. Senate Joint Resolution 25 allows Missouri to opt-out of any federal health care public option or proposal. They may very well pass this, but we still have a lot of power at the state level. It’s time to remind them of that fact. Referencing: The Stouffer Report 12/10/2009 December 16, 2009 at ...
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16 hours ago ago from The Alan Katz Health Care Reform Blog
With a commitment of 60 votes, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid unveiled the manager’s mark of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act or, as it is better known, the Senate’s health care reform bill. After day long negotiations over abortion and other issues, Senator Ben Nelson agreed to vote in favor of bringing the bill to the Senate floor. The manager’s mark of HR 3590 identifies the changes made to the original Senate health ...
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1 day ago ago from Congress and Law
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16 minutes ago ago from YourCT.com — Connecticut Political Commentary, News and Analysis
by turfgrrl on December 20, 2009 0 comments To read the assemblage of media stories on the health care bill that the Senate is working on, you'd have thought that there was some there, there. On the one hand you have Howard Dean saying the protectionist legislation for the insurance companies that is in there now needs to be stripped out entirely. Meanwhile the lefty blogsphere is upset that Senator Joe Lieberman opposed the expansion of ...
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18 hours ago ago from NPR
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19 hours ago ago from BloggingStocks
Senator Ben Nelson, who had been holding out on voting for health care, finally agreed to go along and vote yes . Nelson, a right-to-life supporter, gained some concessions to limit the availability of abortions in insurance sold in newly created exchanges. Of course he was paid off. He got tens of millions of dollars in federal Medicaid funds for his home state. He also noted that he had fended off attempts to provide for government-run ...
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