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Politico - The bill is a lesson in the limits of power for Pelosi.
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The Worst Bill Ever Epic new spending and
taxes, pricier insurance, rationed care, dishonest accounting: The Pelosi...
health bill has it all. How bad is the 1990-page bill that most Congressmen probably won’t even bother read? n a rational political world, this 1,990-page runaway train ...
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Pelosi’s bill has it all
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POLITICO's Meredith Shiner reporting from Nancy Pelosi's big
health care reform announcement: An anti-Pelosi activist started screaming...
into a bullhorn, "Nazi Pelosi! Nazi Pelosi! You'll burn in hell for this!" as she was announcing the ...
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Pelosi vs. the "Nazi Pelosi" bullhorn people
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Pelosi: "We Will Have Other Legislation"
The Page by Mark Halperin —
[image] House Speaker talks to Politico about the latest version of the health bill and its future.
Pelosi: Health Care Just the Beginning
The Page by Mark Halperin —
[image] Speaker talks Dem agenda with Politico.
Moving Days: Can delicate coalition survive thousand cuts?
The Note —
... The New Republic. http://www.tnr.com/blog/the-treatment/bayh-backing-his-threat In the House: "What I think everybody in the caucus sticks by is the notion that they understand how important it is to have healthcare reform," House Democratic Caucus Chairman John Larson, D-Conn., said on ABCNews.com's "Top Line". "We're going to pass health care reform, and we've got the votes to do it." "I'm not big on showing weakness. It's not my thing," Speaker Pelosi tells Politico's David Rogers. From a memo to House Republicans going out ...
The Early Word: Health in the House
The Caucus —
... with the House bill and its toned down version of the so-called public option. In fact, the legislation “includes big pieces of what the most liberal members of her party wanted — most likely setting up a serious battle when negotiators try to merge it with the far more moderate Senate legislation,” Ms. Budoff Brown and Mr. O’Connor report. (Among those pieces: the so-called millionaire’s tax.) Speaker Nancy Pelosi told Politico’s David Rogers that she wasn’t inclined to let a huge floor debate open up for an amendment on what’s called a more robust public option. “I’m not ...
Sexism and The Speaker
Taylor Marsh —
... It may not be all that you want, but no other person has done it. That it was accomplished by the first female Speaker of the House is no small milestone. It’s not easy for ...
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