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LATimes: Senate passes healthcare overhaul
8 hours ago ago from iePolitics.com
Democrats win the vote 60-39 over Republican objections. It must be reconciled with the House's legislation in the New Year before President Obama can sign off on his top domestic priority. By James Oliphant December 24, 2009 | 5:32 a.m. Reporting from Washington Senate Democrats this morning passed a sweeping healthcare overhaul bill, setting the stage for reconciliation early next year with similarly historic legislation ...
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23 hours ago ago from Crooks and Liars
Campaign analyst Charlie Cook says so far, it's still unlikely that we'll see a Republican sweep in 2010: To put it another way, as things stand now, Republicans could win every competitive House race and still come up one seat short. That won't be the case, however, if there is further erosion in the ranks of the solid and likely Democratic seats. Although Democrats can take some solace from the fact that no party has ever lost every single ...
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21 hours ago ago from Beezodog's Place
By Lisa Wangsness, Globe Staff | December 24, 2009 WASHINGTON As jubilant Democrats yesterday cleared the final 60-vote hurdle to passing a sweeping health care bill and prepared for a final vote at 7 a.m. this morning, Republicans fired off a last-ditch round of attacks, calling the bill an unconstitutional budget-buster laden with special deals and unscrutinized details. After months of policy discussions, weeks of negotiations to ...
Related contentHealthcare reform passes, freakout continues
11 hours ago ago from poli
The vote was taken and the deed is done: healthcare reform legislation passed the U.S. Senate in the early morning hours of Christmas Eve with every Democratic and independent senator voting for it and every Republican voting against it. No big surprise there. It is also no big surprise that we will continue to hear the big lie from right-wing blowhards that this piece of legislation is so bad that it will knock the Democrats out of power in ...
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10 hours ago ago from Gospel of Jesus Christ, The Gift of Eternal Life
The first of what the GOP hopes will be many more Democrats FED UP with Obama, Reid and Pelosi's Radical Leftist Agenda switched to the GOP complaining that the Democratic Party didn't leave much room for those who like don't like higher taxes, more debt, more bailouts, more spending and an Obamacare Socialism experiment that critics say will do just the opposite of what the Democrats promise it will do. Rep. Parker Griffith, an ...
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News Analysis: In Senate Health Vote, a New Partisan Vitriol
23 hours ago ago from The New York Times
WASHINGTON The vote on Monday, in the dead of night, was 60 to 40. The vote on Tuesday, just after daybreak, was 60 to 39. And the vote on Wednesday afternoon, at a civil hour but after less-than-civil debate, was 60 to 39 again an immutable tally that showed Democrats unwavering in the march to adopt a far-reaching overhaul of the health care system over united Republican opposition. Health Care Conversations Share your ...
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12 hours ago ago from NPR
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2 hours ago ago from Huffington Post
For those caught up in the obsequiously triumphalist bullshit coming from the DC elite - you know the crap about the Senate allegedly passing the most important piece of progressive legislation in American history today (an analysis I completely reject ) - it's important for us all to remember that the health care battle isn't over - and specifically, the battle over the public option isn't over. Now, I know you've been told over and over ...
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23 hours ago ago from The New York Times
WASHINGTON (AP) The top Senate Democrat and Republican negotiating new Wall Street regulation said Wednesday they expect to resolve their differences before the end of January, an optimistic outlook for a bill that had seemed mired in partisan conflicts. Senators Christopher J. Dodd and Richard Shelby issued a joint statement saying bipartisan negotiations have resulted in meaningful progress. The tone of the statement contrasted with Mr. ...
Related contentSenate Passes Sweeping Health Care Reform, but Trouble Lies Ahead
12 hours ago ago from Politics Daily
After nearly a year of negotiations, concessions, fits and starts, the U.S. Senate passed sweeping health care reform legislation in an early-morning vote Thursday, by a party-line tally of 60 to 39. The Christmas Eve vote was the first on record for the Senate in nearly a century, and marked the end of a grueling work session for the lawmakers, who had plowed through three working weekends since Thanksgiving, often voting into the early ...
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