wonkroom.thinkprogress.org - 10/15/2009
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As Democrats move to reconcile the Senate Finance bill with the far more progressive HELP legislation , some are hoping to attract the vote of so-called moderate Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME). This morning, during an appearance on Fox & Friends, Collins laid out her objections to the Senate ...
seminal.firedoglake.com - 10/16/2009
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seminal.firedoglake.com —
via Brooks Elliott The New York Times finally
caught up with the phony claim Max Baucus and...
CBO foisted on the media that the Baucus reform bill is the only bill that is deficit neutral. But that’s all smoke, mirrors, and heroic ...
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Health Care Reform: Only the Baucus Bill is Deficit ...
themoderatevoice.com - 10/14/2009
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themoderatevoice.com —
A second Republican senator has indicated that she’s
open to voting for health care legislation this year....
Sen. Olympia Snowe’s Maine colleague, fellow Republican Susan Collins, said in a statement : “There simply is no question that our nation’s health care system requires ...
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Collins Signals Cover for Snowe
theplumline.whorunsgov.com - 10/14/2009
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theplumline.whorunsgov.com —
Is Senator Susan Collins open to supporting the
health care reform proposal in the Senate? The Associated...
Press caused a bit of a stir in Democratic circles this morning by reporting that Collins, the other moderate GOPer from Maine, may be ...
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Susan Collins Open To Supporting Reform Proposal? Her ...
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What Does Susan Collins Want?
Matthew Yglesias —
... Igor Volsky has a good post taking a look at Senator Susan Collins’ objections to the Finance Committee version of health reform. She appears to me to be taking a constructive tone with regard to the whole thing, but as is frustratingly often the case on this issue her concerns are somewhat contradictory. She’s concerned the bill doesn’t do enough to ensure affordability, but she opposes additional revenue measures to enhance affordability. She’s concerned the bill doesn’t do enough to control costs, but she’s voiced objections to many of the ...
Daily Treatment, Advice Columnist Edition
The New Republic blogs —
... thinks liberals should learn the difference between holding a seat in the Senate and getting that senator's vote. Igor Volsky thinks Susan Collins should make up her mind about what she really wants out of legislation. Now, if only a few other senators heeded that advice as well.... ...
Fred Hiatt's Strange Argument
Obsidian Wings —
... Hiatt's main concern is cost control. He thinks (maybe correctly) that Congress is punting on controlling costs. Instead, Hiatt wants Congress (1) to impose taxes on employer-provided health care benefits; and (2) to cede their power over Medicare reimbursement rates, etc. (For the record, the Baucus bill includes the latter -- along with many other promising cost-reducing measures). ...
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What Else Does Collins Want?
tnr.com 12/6/2009 — The cost-control amendment that Susan Collins is co-sponsoring with Lieberman is the most promising sign yet that she might be willing to support the overall reform bill. But it’s not just over the public option that Democrats might have to ...
President Collins Calls Public Option a “Non-Starter”
firedoglake.com 10/15/2009 — Susan Collins had a malign influence on the stimulus package, demanding $100 billion in cuts arbitrarily, mostly to state fiscal stabilization, which crippled state spending and led to massive losses in government jobs at a time when the private ...
GOPer Collins Opposes House Dems
blogs.abcnews.com 11/9/2009 — ABC’s Z. Byron Wolf reports: Here’s a wrinkle in the abortion debate: Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, one of the few Republicans considered to be a strong supporter of abortion rights, said today she opposes the language inserted in the House health ...
Collins vote appears up for grabs
politico.com 12/1/2009 — Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) has asked top administration officials to make certain changes to the Senate health care bill as part of discussions that suggest her vote is up for grabs.
Collins met Monday with White House health reform director ...
Can the Democrats Get Collins on Board?
tnr.com 12/2/2009 — What would it take to get Susan Collins on board with the health reform bill? After months of sending hot and cold signals about the bill, the Maine Republican made remarks yesterday that suggested she might be willing to support the legislation if ...
Susan Collins's health-care wish list
voices.washingtonpost.com 12/3/2009 — According to Politico , Susan Collins met with the White House on Monday to offer her list of demands for health-care reform. And they sound, well, pretty good. "The senator said she put several amendment requests on the table: raising the penalty ...
Susan Collins and Ron Wyden get to work
voices.washingtonpost.com 12/10/2009 —
Later today, Sen. Ron Wyden and Sen. Susan Collins will release a bipartisan package of amendments to the health-care reform bill. One of them is really good. One of them is harder to evaluate. And one of them is rather small. But all are worth ...
Snowe, Collins Will Not Back Public Option
politicalwire.com 9/13/2009 — More proof that the "public option" is all but dead comes from the two senators Democrats hoped might side with them in supporting a health care reform bill.
Sen. Olympia Snowe (R-ME) said President Obama "should take it off the table" since it ...
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Wash Post In Congress
Sen. John D. Rockefeller IV (D-W.Va.) has been a passionate, and often blunt, voice for health-care reform for nearly four decades, starting when, as a young Vista volunteer, he took children to the dentist in the rural hills of Appalachia. A scion of ...
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