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From our White House Photo Blog, this scene from President Obama's trip to China:
White House
Barack Obama
China
Senate Democratic leaders are wooing Senators Mary Landrieu, Ben Nelson and Blanche Lincoln -- the last three hold outs who have not pledged to vote for the motion to proceed tomorrow night to start the debate on health care reform. Lincoln, an embattled Arkansas centrist, has been demanding 72 ...
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Blanche Lincoln
Health care
Bill Nelson
Forget WWJD. The new question is apparently What Would MLK Do? A coalition of politically and theologically conservative Christian leaders, including nine Roman Catholic bishops, who have just signed a declaration saying they will not comply with laws that could require them to recognize ...
White House
I've always had trouble understanding the opt-out version of the public option. Or more specifically, I've had trouble understanding why any state would actually opt out of something that some might find ideologically objectionable, but that doesn't actually cost them anything, gives their ...
Congress
Health care
Harry Reid
I'm still wading through the Congressional Budget Office's preliminary analysis, but here's a Power Point circulating among Senate Democratic staffers that gives you a
basic tour of the bill, with some comparisons to other versions.
Congress
Health care
Harry Reid
Let me get this straight: Dov Hikind is not only a U.S. citizen, but also a member of the New York state legislature...but he wants to buy property in an illegal Jewish settlement, in an East Jerusalem neighborhood that the U.S. government considers a Palestinian area. Indeed, it is an area that ...
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United States
E.J. Dionne has an interesting column today on the Republican party's Senate strategy of forcing a cloture vote on everything, even on the few provisions they support. A few months ago, I wrote that the G.O.P. had become a party led by nihilists. This is further evidence of that. I have doubts ...
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Count me among Kate's colleagues who are flummoxed by this report. I think it proves that even scientists can be pinheads. My issue is not with their recommendations on when and how often women should get mammograms. That seems worthy of debate. What I don't get is their finding that women ...
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The U.S. Preventive Task Force is under fire this week after it issued new clinical guidelines recommending that women 40-49 forgo annual mammograms unless they have certain risk factors, like genetic mutations that make them more susceptible to breast cancer. The task force also said self-exams ...
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A number of outlets are reporting that the bill that Harry Reid will take to the Senate floor has gotten a pretty favorable "score" from the Congressional Budget Office. I'll be writing more as I get details, but here's the email from one Democratic source:
We are awaiting a final CBO report ...
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Harry Reid
Health care
The question of whether to try the 9/11 perpetrators in federal court or a military tribunal is not an easy one. It turns, in part, on whether you see the Al Qaeda attacks as an act of war or a criminal conspiracy. Al Qaeda declared war on the United States in the mid-1990s, an act [...]
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al-Qaeda
9/11
United States
George W. Bush
At least, that's what he tells CBS's Chip Reid:
Reid says he asked the president if he's as angry as Defense Secretary Robert Gates about all the leaks coming out of his administration about the Afghanistan decision.
"I think I'm angrier than Bob Gates about it," Mr. Obama replied. "We have ...
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Barack Obama
Afghanistan
Valerie Plame
Karl Rove
CIA
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has said he will include a public option that states can vote to opt out of in his version of the health care reform bill that could be unveiled as early as Wednesday. But that certainly hasn't ended the debate in the Senate about what kind of public option may ...
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Health care
Harry Reid
Olympia J. Snowe
In French when one bids a more permanent goodbye to a friend you say adieu – farewell. But if you shall see them again, even if it might be a while, you tell them au revoir or bon voyage – until we meet again and good travels. I want to add my thanks and best [...]
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Michael Bloomberg
If Josh would ever come visit us in the Washington bureau, we'd give him the grand Swampland send-off he deserves, complete with the baked goods we're always snarfing down here. It's a measure of the impact Josh has had on all aspects of the magazine and Time.com that I don't think any of us can ...
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A poll taken by CNN today has Americans opposed to the health care legislation passed by the House, 49-46. A poll taken by the Washington Post has a 52% majority opposed to the war in Afghanistan.
I'd say that I take both with a grain of salt, except a grain of salt is more substantive. Let's [...]
