weeklystandard.com - 29 days ago
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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is expected to release the text of the Democratic health care proposal tomorrow, with the hope of bringing it to the floor as early as next Friday. Pelosi will claim that the Congressional Budget Office has scored the Democratic bill as deficit neutral over the next ...
nytimes.com - 30 days ago
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WASHINGTON Under pressure from moderate-to-conservative members of
the House Democratic caucus, Speaker Nancy Pelosi has decided...
to propose a government-run insurance plan that would negotiate rates with doctors and hospitals , rather than using ...
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Pelosi Backs Off Set Rates for Public Option
thinkprogress.org - 10/27/2009
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One of the most notorious far-right activists is
Randall Terry, who founded the organization Operation Rescue ,...
a radical anti-choice group. In the past, Terry has warned that he and his followers would engage in terrorism unless Congress excludes ...
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Far-Right Activist Launches Nancy Pelosi And Harry Reid ...
thehill.com - 29 days ago
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House First -- By: Yuval Levin
The Corner on National Review Online —
... the combined House Democratic bill tomorrow morning, and may try to push for a vote very quickly, within a week or so. That means, as Bill Kristol suggests here, that she will force her members to vote on painful tax increases and extremely unpopular Medicare cuts before it’s clear what can really clear the Senate—much as she did earlier this year with the cap and trade vote. House Democrats have to be wondering if their Speaker just doesn’t want them to be reelected next year. ...
Signal Visit: Powerful images as president prepares weighty decision
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... Does it matter that the House is, again, voting first? "Speaker Pelosi is once again -- as on cap and trade -- asking her members to walk the plank, absent any evidence there are the votes in the Senate to pass comparable legislation," Bill Kristol writes for The Weekly Standard. "In fact, the reason Pelosi is pulling the trigger now is that Reid failed in his effort to get the Senate up to the starting gate first (that was the point of last week's attempted ‘doc fix'). So, the question is: Will her caucus follow Nancy off a cliff?" ...
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tnr.com 10/21/2009 —
Armed with favorable cost estimates from the Congressional Budget Office and emboldened, perhaps, by the self-destructive behavior of the health insurance lobby, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi plans to propose that her caucus unite behind a reform ...
Obama Says Pelosi Has 'Steel' And 'Doesn't Break A Sweat'
tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com 10/16/2009 — "I love Nancy Pelosi," President Obama declared last night at a swank San Francisco fundraiser for the Democratic National Committee. He lauded the speaker (D-CA) and talked about her role in health care.
"She faces down some of the toughest ...
Pelosi: Republican Health Care Proposal 'Scandalous'
tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com 22 days ago — At her weekly press conference this morning, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi bucked the conservative spin that Tuesday's election was a boon to the GOP by noting that the results actually make health care reform easier for her to pass .
"Tuesday night ...
Pelosi Comes Out Swinging For The Public Option
tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com 10/15/2009 — House Speaker Nancy Pelosi made her most impassioned argument in weeks, today, for including a public option in comprehensive health care reform legislation, arguing against the idea, favored by some conservative Democrats, of mandating that people ...
Pelosi says new tax is 'on the table'
thehill.com 10/6/2009 — A new value added tax (VAT) is "on the table" to help the U.S. address is fiscal liabilities, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said Monday night. Pelosi, appearing on PBS's "The Charlie Rose Show" asserted that "it's fair to look at" the VAT as ...
Pelosi: 'Can't afford' those Bush tax-cuts
swamppolitics.com 10/23/2009 — by Mark Silva
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is having lunch with President Barack Obama at the White House today. Passing a health-care bill isn't the only thing on their plate. So is the economy.
And tax increases -- or, as the speaker calls ...
Pelosi to Include Medicare+5 Public Option in House Bill
news.firedoglake.com 10/21/2009 —
Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) (photo by Orin)
By now you’ve probably heard about Nancy Pelosi’s decision to include the more liberal version of the public option in the final House bill, the one that includes Medicare + 5% rates, as ...
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