The High Drama Behind Reid's Public Option Decision
tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com 10/28/2009 — Today, everyone's officially on the same page. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, and his leadership team, and the White House all stand behind the Senate health care bill, which, as we learned this week , includes a public option. But the days ...

Does Harry Reid Have the Votes To Pass An Opt Out Public Option in Health Care Reform?
themoderatevoice.com 10/27/2009 — And now the key question is emerging — so get ready to hear it: does Senator Majority Leader Harry Reid have the votes to pass the opt-out public option in the health reform care battle? Or does his announcement portend an ugly mega-partisan battle that could end with the passage of ...

All Eyes Turn To Reid: Legacy In Balance As Health Care Debate Continues
huffingtonpost.com 10/14/2009 — The Senate Finance Committee became the last of five congressional committees to pass health care reform legislation on Tuesday, shifting the spotlight of the debate sharply to the Majority Leader in the United States Senate. Harry Reid (D-N.V.) is ...

How Reid Found His Silver Bullet: Opt-Out Pitched Just 3 Weeks Ago
huffingtonpost.com 10/27/2009 — Two months ago, the public option for insurance coverage was being read its last rites. On Monday, it was alive and well after Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid announced that he would include the provision as part of a broader health care bill.  ...

Reid’s Office Pushes Back, Says Lefty Campaign Against Him Is Non-Starter
theplumline.whorunsgov.com 10/14/2009 — Senator Harry Reid’s office is now going on record pushing back hard against a campaign by the left to compel him to force Dem Senators into line on health care, with Reid’s spokesman sending me a statement claiming the idea is unworkable ...

Is Harry Reid Working The Inside Game For A Public Option?
tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com 10/15/2009 — Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid isn't exactly accustomed to kind words from progressives these days. With a health care reform fight that feels endless, and an intractable bloc of conservative Democrats refusing to play nice on the public option, ...

What Comes Next for Health-Care Reform?
voices.washingtonpost.com 10/17/2009 — The first of Harry Reid's meetings to merge the Finance and HELP Committee bills and create one compromise bill able to survive the Senate floor happened Wednesday. The participants in the room were a high-powered bunch: Reid, of course; Max ...

On Being Wrong About the Public Option
fivethirtyeight.com 10/27/2009 — I made two predictions this summer that look like they're not going to turn out very well. One was saying that the unemployment rate wouldn't hit 10 percent (it hasn't yet, although it probably will) and the other was saying that the public option was ...

NRSC: Reid is a 'partisan bully'
thehill.com 10/26/2009 — Republicans are now hoping to use Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's (Nev.) reaffirmed support for a public option as ammunition in their fight to defeat him in 2010. In a statement released just before Reid announced his chamber's final reform bill ...

Progressive Groups Prep Ads To Pressure Reid on Public Option
tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com 10/16/2009 — Remember a couple weeks ago when I reported that progressive groups were organizing a campaign--including television ads--to pressure Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid to include the public option in the Senate health care bill, and to enforce party ...

Bill would halt reductions of Medicare payments to doctors — L.A. Times - Politics 10/20/2009
The legislation is designed to bridge the almost $250-billion gap between the healthcare overhaul proposals by the House and the Senate. > In an effort to ...

Reid plan: 'Vaporize' 2010 GOP opponent (Politico) — Yahoo! News: Politics News 10/20/2009
Politico - Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is prepared to run a sharply negative campaign if that’s what it takes to win reelection next year, with a top adviser predicting that the Nevada Democrat will “vaporize” his Republican ...

Key Democrats push to reverse steep physician payment cuts — CNN Political Ticker 10/20/2009
WASHINGTON (CNN) – Top Democrats ramped up their effort Tuesday to reverse $247 billion in projected Medicare reimbursement cuts to doctors over the next decade. Sen. Debbie Stabenow, D-Michigan, argued at a Capitol Hill news conference ...

Senate Democrats Hit Snag With Doctor Payment Bill — NYT > Politics 10/21/2009
Senate Democrats backed down from their effort to increase Medicare payments to doctors without offsetting any of the cost over the next 10 years.

Charles Bookhammer dies at 61; longtime Hawthorne councilman — L.A. Times - Politics 10/21/2009
He was also a longtime aide to then-Los Angeles County Supervisor Yvonne B. Burke. > Charles Bookhammer, a former Hawthorne councilman and longtime aide to ...