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13 hours ago ago from The Progressive Electorate - Front Page
Good afternoon, Progressive Electorate readers. This is your afternoon open thread to discuss all things Hill-related. Use this thread to praise or bash Congresscritters, share a juicy tip, ask questions, offer critiques and suggestions, or post manifestos. We'll be checking in all weekend, especially if the snowpocalypse hits. As always, this is a crosspost from Congress Matters. Here are some of my own thoughts. It's looking like the ...
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13 hours ago ago from Hot News Daily - Updated News Daily
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17 hours ago ago from Accomack County Democrats
An Unlikely Friendship On C-SPAN this morning, Sen. Tom Coburn (R-OK) described his close friendship with President Obama, despite being one of the most conservative members of Congress. Said Coburn: I try to write him about every week or two. Write him a note, encourage him. No one has a tougher job than he does We came into the Senate together, and I just have a lot of admiration for him. I'm 180 degrees from him on policy on most ...
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21 hours ago ago from DATAMINDER 3.0
A MERRY CHRISTMAS? SENATE EYES DEC. 24 VOTE ON HEALTH REFORM The Senate is heading toward a Christmas Eve vote to pass landmark healthcare legislation, but instead of holiday cheer, Democrats and Republicans are digging in for trench warfare. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) is determined to finish work before the Christmas holiday and has set a schedule that would end with a final vote on the evening of Dec. 24. "We're going to ...
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21 hours ago ago from HOWIEINSEATTLE
Eugene Robinson (WaPo): As the attempt to pass meaningful health-care reform stumbles oafishly toward home plate, having missed a base or two along the way, it's hard not to repeat Casey Stengel's famous lament about the hapless 1962 Mets: "You look up and down the bench and you have to say to yourself, 'Can't anybody here play this game?' " The answer is that some can and some can't. Nancy Pelosi can play. Faced with adamantine ...
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18 hours ago ago from Huffington Post
COPENHAGEN - The Copenhagen game of tag-in-the-dark enters its eleventh hour. With over 100 heads of states arriving in the next few hours, negotiators of some 200 countries are gearing up for the last remaining miles of this two week marathon. The Copenhagen wish list has shrunken slightly, down from a legally binding treaty to a comprehensive operational agreement that will lay the groundwork for said legally binding treaty. Despite ...
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15 hours ago ago from Washington Post - Politics
With tensions running high in the Senate amid a grueling schedule, Democrats are trying to make political hay out of Republicans' failed effort to filibuster the defense spending bill. The Senate voted at 1 a.m. Friday to invoke cloture on the $626 billion measure funding the Pentagon, a key procedural step that will allow the chamber to vote on final passage Saturday morning. The motion passed, 63-33, with just three Republicans joining ...
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19 hours ago ago from Huffington Post
At the end of a decade marked by a general failure of US leadership, 2009 saw the collapse of the Senate. Confronted with an array of difficult problems, a reactionary Senatorial minority put their personal political interests above those of the nation and blocked action by the progressive majority. While polls don't differentiate between levels of support for the House of Representatives and the Senate, the long-term trend is down. At the ...
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18 hours ago ago from Politics Daily
Good morning, Capitolists! The Senate has officially gone from herding cats to Christmas chaos, with Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid announcing last night that he will hold procedural votes at 7:30 a.m. Saturday, and several times throughout the week, ending with a final vote on health care at 7 p.m. on Christmas Eve. The only twist, in addition to the glaring fact that Reid does not yet have 60 votes for his Christmas cliffhanger, is ...
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