huffingtonpost.com - 7/16/2009
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Progressive Democrats are taking a hard stand on health care reform, with a majority committing to oppose any health care reform package that doesn't include a robust public option. On Wednesday, they got an inadvertent assist by an anonymous leak of their "whip list."
A whip list, which is ...
apnews.myway.com - 7/15/2009
humanevents.com - 7/16/2009
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humanevents.com —
Monday night Democrats voted to shut down the
U.S. House Representatives rather than allow a handful of
Republican Congressmen to speak on the floor. What could have been so offensive or frightening about our discourse that Speaker Pelosi felt she had ...
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Censored on House Floor by Pelosi
firstread.msnbc.msn.com - 7/16/2009
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firstread.msnbc.msn.com —
From NBC's Mark Murray In what appears to
be a pretty significant development in the fight over
health care, the American Medical Association has written House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Charlie Rangel a letter supporting the $1 ...
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AMA backs House health-care bill
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The Mark-Up, 07-16-2009
TPM Election Central —
... Health Care: Three House committees are now holding mark-up hearings on health care legislation. At the Energy and Commerce hearing, seven Blue Dogs gave identical opening statements--which I've placed below the fold--restating their desire for a health care bill that cuts costs, but eschews cost cutting measures. They're countered by House progressives, dozens of whom have silently committed to oppose any health care bill without a public option. And in the Senate, things still just ...
Liberals Prepared To Kill Health Care Bill?
Riehl World View —
... Interesting. The stakes are high. A leaked whip list suggests fifty progressive (read liberal) members of the House are prepared to vote against the health care bill if it doesn't contain a "robust" public option. Moderates, or Blue Dogs, ...
Brainster's Blog —
... They're threatening to vote against any insufficiently "progressive" bill. Given that the One's popularity is disappearing faster than an ice cream cone at the shore, it seems likely that he may have to compromise quite a bit to get a bill through, but if the progressives block it we may get nothing at all. Which would indeed be a pleasant surprise. ...
Ben Nelson Calls House Health Care Bill “Class Warfare”
Firedoglake —
... refuse to confirm that they are on the whip list and committed to vote against any bill that doesn't have a public plan that meets the CPC criteria, even though CPC whip Diane Watson confirmed that that it was valid. ...
President boldly vows: My economy-wrecking health care bill will pass this year
Hot Air » Top Picks —
... Never mind that more than 50 liberals in the House are allegedly ready to walk because the bill’s not socialist enough, even as the Blue Dogs are ready to walk because it’s too socialistic. Never mind anything. Not only does health-care reform have to pass, it has to pass this year . The legacy of Hopenchange demands nothing less. Breaking news as I write this: POTUS and TOTUS will be holding court at ...
Healthcare Reform: The Week that Was
Daily Kos —
... that the Congressional Progressive Caucus's internal whip list showed 50 members who were committed to opposing any legislation that does not meet their stringest criteria for a public option. In a follow up story at HuffPo, Ryan Grim got confirmation of the list, and the news that it was slightly out of date, and that there were even a few more members who had signed on. ...
Diane Watson’s Progressive Caucus Whip Operation AWOL on Public Plan
Firedoglake —
... . Ryan Grim contacted Diane Watson, who is in charge of the Progressive Caucus's whip operation, and she confirmed the validity of the list. ...
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huffingtonpost.com 7/16/2009 — A Democratic-endorsed health care bill will pass both the House of Representatives and the Senate this month, one of the White House's main Republican critics in Congress acknowledged on Thursday morning.
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House panel nears exec pay action: Rep. Frank —
Reuters: Politics 7/16/2009
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Representative Barney Frank, chairman of the U.S. House of Representatives Financial Services Committee, told reporters on Thursday that his panel will write and possibly vote in the last week of July on legislation concerning ...
Cost at heart of GOP attack —
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From NBC’s Mike Viqueira Congressional Budget Office chief Douglas Elmendorf's contention this morning the so-called "cost curve" will bend upward and not downward as a result of reform currently being formulated by Democrats is going to go off ...
Baucus apologizes to White House —
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From NBC's Chuck Todd and Domenico MontanaroSenate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus called the White House today and apologized for saying that the president's opposition to taxing health-care benefits "is not helping us" get a bipartisan health ...
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