theplumline.whorunsgov.com - 15 days ago
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So where are we on health care?
* First, the abortion standoff: The anti-abortion amendment to the health care bill will likely pass with GOP support, a GOP aide predicts.
As you may have heard, House Dem leaders temporarily resolved a standoff last night by agreeing to allow a full vote on an ...
theplumline.whorunsgov.com - 13 days ago
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theplumline.whorunsgov.com —
In a move that will intensify the coming
war over how to treat abortion in the health
care bill, more than three dozen House Dems have signed a letter to Nancy Pelosi firmly pledging to vote against the bill if it contains an anti-abortion ...
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Obtained: In Letter To Pelosi, 41 House Dems Pledge To ...
thedailybeast.com - 17 days ago
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thedailybeast.com —
A sect of hard-right Republicans is celebrating their
loss in a New York House race-but that's just
the beginning of a plan to purge moderates. Benjamin Sarlin speaks to the ringleader. Insurgent conservatives have declared all-out war on the...
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The Plot to Purge GOP Moderates
thenextright.com - 18 days ago
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thenextright.com —
[ Disclosure: I worked with the Doug Hoffman
campaign . However, the views here are my own.
I have not discussed this at all with the Hoffman campaign. ] The bottom line on NY-23 : Doug Hoffman just won the Republican Primary. The general ...
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What Did NY-23 Mean?
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The Bishops' blessing
Political Animal —
... And in fact, most Democratic advocates of abortion rights appear likely to swallow hard and vote for a health care overhaul anyway. "I don't believe any of us believe we can hold up what we've been fighting for ... and that's health care," said Rep. Louise Slaughter (D-N.Y.). Asked whether her allies in the pro-choice movement would support the bill with the Stupak language, Speaker Nancy Pelosi offered a one-word answer: "Yes." As for the vote on the Stupak/Ellsworth measure, Greg Sargent reports this morning that most Republicans are likely to join the Dems who oppose ...
HCR House Debate: Hissy Fits on an Historic Day
Daily Kos —
If you watched any of the Rules Committee, you saw quite a show put on by Republicans. It's only continuing today, and was particularly obnoxious this morning while the House Democratic women were speaking. Here's just a sliver of what we have to look forward to today. In another effort to try to derail this plan, Greg Sargent reports that Republicans are trying to cook up trouble around immigration. Now, the immigration standoff: The GOP leadership hasn’t decided whether to ...
TPMDC Morning Roundup
TPM Election Central —
... The National Republican Congressional Committee has a new robocall against the health care bill, which could be voted on as soon as today, saying that the bill "could lead to rationing of health care for all of Americans," and referring to it as "Nancy Pelosi's dangerous health care scheme." ...
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