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20 hours ago ago from The South Chicagoan
The Dallas Morning News published an analysis Sunday of the immigration reform measure introduced last week by Rep. Luis Gutierrez, D-Ill., that effectively promoted the bill as dead. “It has no hope of going anywhere.” That was the newspaper’s flat-out assessment. THE MORNING NEWS also reported that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., is privately reassuring her caucus that there won’t be any floor debate (nothing that could be quoted ...
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2 hours ago ago from The Sconz
It looks as if the Senate Democrats in Washington are about to do what people who want health care reform have been wishing they would do since Barack Obama's election: Treat the Republican Party like the minority party it is. Democrats have already surrendered so much since 2008; the least they can do is try to push forward the issue that defined their campaign rhetoric and is supposed to be one of the distinguishing points between them and ...
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19 hours ago ago from The Big Black News Blog
WASHINGTON (AP) ― Landmark health care legislation backed by President Barack Obama passed its sternest Senate test in the pre-dawn hours early Monday, overcoming Republican delaying tactics on a 60-40 vote that all but assures its passage by Christmas. "Let's make history," said Sen. Tom Harkin, D-Iowa, shortly before the bill's supporters demonstrated their command of the Senate floor in an extraordinary holiday season showdown. The ...
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13 hours ago ago from Flopping Aces
-They now this trainwreck and it will cost them BIG! -Republicans will keep fighting to the last vote on Christmas Eve! Shortly after 1 AM Monday morning Democrats reached the all important 60 vote mark required to begin moving their health care bill to final passage this week in the U.S. Senate. Not a single Republican voted to end the filibuster. We are only now learning the price Democrats paid for those votes. $100 million for ...
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Who is going to lead the Republican Party political field in Georgia? At a time where all which is spoken about is downbeat and pessimistic many voters are turned off with politics in general but especially with those that call themselves Republican. News sources and blogs are in a feeding frenzy with features on dishonesty and lapses in moral judgment of elected officials at all levels. Couple the chronicles of corruption with the federal ...
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Senate Democrats clear hurdle on health care | detnews.com | The Detroit News
2 hours ago ago from Detroit News
Archive: Mon | Tue | Wed | Thu | Fri | Sat | Sun | Today Last Updated: December 21. 2009 12:46PM Senate Democrats clear hurdle on health care Erica Werner / Associated Press Washington -- A crucial, middle-of-the-night test vote behind them, Senate ...
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17 hours ago ago from The New York Times
WASHINGTON Nasty charges of bribery. Senators cut off mid-speech. Accusations of politics put over patriotism. Talk of double-crosses. A nonagenarian forced to the floor after midnight for multiple procedural votes. Brendan Smialowski for The New York Times Senator Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania, a Republican-turned-Democrat, has lamented the change of tone in the Senate. A blog from The New York Times that tracks ...
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