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The Caucus: The Early Word: Bill Passage, Cao and Next Steps
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Health Care Plan Passes Legislation 220-215. It's only costing 1.1 trillion dollars to become Canda! Eh? http://tinyurl.com/ykqjd6v 14 days ago |
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RT @pickledpolitics Glad Obama managed 2 pass biggest hurdle on Healthcare. Unhappy with concessions on abortion rights http://bit.ly/2nAIuI 14 days ago |
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In case you hadn't heard yet: Obama's Health Care bill passed the House: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/08/health/policy/08health.html 14 days ago |
The Early Word: Bill Passage, Cao and Next Steps
The Caucus —
Late Saturday night the House passed a health care bill . The final vote, 220 to 215, was Democrats’ attempt to answer what President Obama described as “the call of history” and marked the culmination of months of inter-party and intra-party squabbling, town hall meetings and tea parties, and 14 hours of passionate Saturday floor debate. In a celebratory news conference winding into the early hours this morning Speaker Nancy Pelosi and House leaders praised the chamber’s work and, amid chuckles, their “bipartisanship.” Today Anh “Joseph” Cao (pronounced g-OW, ...
Halfway to history
MNpublius.com —
The health reform plan that passed the House last night is not perfect; in particular, it has one huge mistake I’m hoping will not make it through the conference committee. But it’s never going to be perfect, and I really want to emphasize how incredible it is that we’ve finally gotten health care reform through even one branch of Congress.
Americans have been grappling with how to provide universal health care for about 100 years, starting with Theodore Roosevelt. And in those 100 years, we’ve never been closer than we are ...
Whose health care victory?
Feministing —
... I'm sure you've heard by now that, last night, the House passed a health-care reform bill. I got this lovely email from Barack Obama telling me what a victory this is: ...
Why McMahon Voted No on Health Care Bill
City Room —
... . And yet, when the House of Representatives took its historic vote on Saturday on an overhaul of the health care system, Representative ...
Candidates in Mass. Senate Race Spar Over Stupak Measure
The Caucus —
... , which the late Senator Edward M. Kennedy spent years fighting for, has become a large issue in the campaign for his Senate seat. The unexpected part is that two candidates are fighting about whether or not to support the legislation. Attorney General Martha Coakley said on Monday that she opposed the health care bill approved by the House last weekend, because it contained an ...
Podcast: Fort Hood, Corruption and Health Care
The Caucus —
... — from the security contractor Blackwater Worldwide bribing Iraqi government officials to the travails of Karzai regime in Afghanistan. Will corruption and fecklessness in Kabul derail the Obama administration’s plans to send more troops? Also, forget what we said last week: After the 11th hour breakdown of an intraparty political deal , a Democrat versus Democrat ...
Mitchell Bard: It's Too Early to Celebrate the Senate Health Care Vote
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com —
... Also, it is easy to forget that a health care bill only barely made it through the House (220-215), and did so only after Democrats agreed to pass the bill ...
