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TPMDC just obtained an extraordinary email from inside the Tea Party Patriots movement. As the Senate prepares to open debate on a health care reform bill tomorrow, tea partiers appear to be admitting defeat in their push to defeat reform and are promising a "change in tactics" movement leaders ...
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Health care
Washington, D.C
We've heard all day about senate offices getting flooded with phone calls about the upcoming vote on the health care bill tomorrow.
As we reported earlier, Organizing for America is doing a call blast urging supporters to ask their senators to back the first procedural vote to start debate. ...
White House
Health care
Organizing For America
The White House has released a statement of administration policy about the Senate health care bill that will receive its first test vote tomorrow.
If the headline above sounds familiar, so does the statement. They released a very similar one before the House health care vote earlier this ...
White House
Barack Obama
Health care
Here are the line-ups for the Sunday talk shows this weekend:
• ABC, This Week: Sen. Tom Coburn (R-OK), Sen. Ben Nelson (D-NE), Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN), Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL).
• CBS, Face The Nation: Senate Minority Whip Jon Kyl (R-AZ), Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY).
• ...
Congress
ABC News
Tom Coburn
Marsha Blackburn
Debbie Wasserman Schultz
CBS
With Ben Nelson now in the "yes" column, there are now two known Democratic hold outs on tomorrow's health care vote: Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-LA) and Sen. Blanche Lincoln (D-AR).
Landrieu told reporters today that she'll likely make an announcement tomorrow morning. Lincoln, on the other hand, ...
Congress
Health care
Blanche Lincoln
Harry Reid
Max Baucus
Robert Byrd
Bill Nelson
Though he had nothing but praise for Sarah Palin, a spokesperson for Marco Rubio told TPMDC this afternoon that Rubio has no plans to to meet up with Palin when she's in Florida hawking her bestselling book next week.
"It's unlikely," Rubio spokesperson Alex Burgos said when asked about a ...
Congress
Sarah Palin
Marco Rubio
Charlie Crist
Republican National Committee
I'd missed this before, but check out what Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-LA) told reporters last night about conservative Democrats' push for something like a public option trigger mechanism.
"Senator Carper has been trying to help forge a compromise and I'm very proud of his efforts, and he's still ...
Congress
Charles Schumer
Olympia J. Snowe
Health care
Don't call Hi Caliber a Republican rapper.
He prefers conservative hip hop artist, and has lent his rhyme to the tea party movement.
Cal, who wouldn't give his full name because he says he's been threatened by "liberals," starred in a FreedomWorks-produced video called " Patriotic People ...
Congress
Baron Hill
The absentee ballot count is nearly completed in the NY-23 special election, with the new Democratic Rep. Bill Owens on track to gain votes in the process.
With only 813 ballots left to be counted, the Watertown Daily Times has Owens ahead by 3,398 votes over Conservative Party nominee ...
Other
ACORN
Democratic National Committee
The Tea Party Patriots just issued an urgent plea to followers across the country in advance of tomorrow's procedural vote on a health care reform package in the Senate. The group is calling on Tea Partiers across the country to "Converge on the Capitol" tomorrow at 1 p.m. for yet another ...
Congress
Washington, D.C
Health care
Harry Reid
Several conservative Democrats have signaled they will vote with the party to bring the health care bill to the senate floor for debate, but Sen. Mary Landrieu is still on the fence.
TPMDC's Brian Beutler is on the scene at the Department of Health and Human Services, where Landrieu (D-LA) ...
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Health care
Brian Williams
Gov. Tim Pawlenty (R-MN) made an interesting move in a series of unilaterally-imposed budget cuts, the Star-Tribune reports, by suspending a tax-refund program that partially reimbursed small political donations -- and, it turns out, was benefitting the state Republicans much more than the ...
Other
Tim Pawlenty
Republicans may have high hopes for picking up House seats in 2010. But for now, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee is easily outpacing the National Republican Congressional Committee in fundraising and cash on hand, for the filing period that ended October 31.
The DCCC raised ...
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If this amendment passes, it could dramatically change--and most experts would say improve --the Senate health care reform bill.
As part of an agreement hashed out at the end of the Finance Committee mark up process, Sen. Max Baucus (D-MT) and Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR) will join forces to amend ...
Congress
Max Baucus
Harry Reid
Ron Wyden
Health care
The White House, Democratic National Committee and pro-health care groups are going full force to build support in advance of tomorrow test vote on the Senate health care bill.
President Obama had nothing on his public schedule following a return from his 8-day trip to Asia, and ...
White House
Joe Biden
Health care
Barack Obama
Organizing For America
Harry Reid
The Sarah Palin roadshow rolls into Florida next week, and Democrats want to know if Palin will take any time off from Going Rouge to wade into the state's contentious GOP senate primary.
The DSCC sent Palin and open letter this afternoon calling on the former Alaska governor to take a stand ...
Congress
Sarah Palin
Charlie Crist
Marco Rubio
Democratic National Committee
Republican National Committee
Starting next week, the liberal group MoveOn will run a 30-second television ad in Maine and Arkansas highlighting what they describe as the "human cost" of delaying the public option.
"Our health care system is clearly in crisis," reads a statement from Ilyse Hogue, MoveOn's Director ...
Congress
Olympia J. Snowe
Health care
Blanche Lincoln
Earlier today, Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL) told reporters that Sen. Blanche Lincoln (D-AR)--a vulnerable incumbent, and a key health care swing vote--had confided in Majority Leader Harry Reid that she'd made up her mind about tomorrow's test vote on health care reform.
That ...
Congress
Dick Durbin
Blanche Lincoln
Health care
Sen. Ben Nelson (D-NE) just announced that he will vote yest tomorrow on a motion to proceed to debate on Senate health care legislation.
"This weekend, I will vote for the motion to proceed to bring that debate onto the Senate floor," Nelson says. "The Senate should start trying to fix a ...
