americablog.com - 29 days ago
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Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA) quoted in The Hill this morning: “I’ve not been very happy with the White House’s lukewarm support of the public option,” he said, articulating a gripe liberals have been making for months. “I would hope the president would speak out more forcefully in favor of the ...
iowaindependent.com - 23 days ago
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While once again renewing his call that a
Congressional health care reform will bill with a public
option will be passed and on Pres. Barack Obama’s desk by Christmas, U.S. Sen. Tom Harkin suggested that there are several reasons why ...
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Harkin: Lieberman will come around
tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com - 23 days ago
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Sen. Tom Harkin (D-IA)--chairman of the Senate Health,
Education, Labor, and Pensions committee is rare among senior
Senate Democrats. Whereas many in the party view seniority as akin to tenure, Harkin thinks it should come with responsibility. And ...
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Harkin, Again, Hints At Consequences For ...
iowaindependent.com - 10/22/2009
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CEDAR RAPIDS — U.S. Sen. Tom Harkin met
with several small business owners this weekend to draw
attention to the benefits of health care reform for those owners and the self-employed. U.S. Sen. Tom Harkin (right) met with Shawn Gallagher, owner of ...
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Harkin touts health reform advantages for small businesses
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FROM THE BLOGS: 'Village' surprised by public option support - David Dayen, Firedoglake Kaine fires back at W.H. - Brian Faughnan, The Conservatives Harkin not happy with W.H. public option push - John Aravosis, AMERICAblog Corzine's broken tax promise - Mark Impomeni, RedStates States should not pay too much for reform - Suzy Khimm, The Treatment Did Bush admin. sit on Afghan troop request? - John McCormack, Weekly Standard Trigger unhappy - digby, Hullabaloo Obama will not attend ...
HuffPo: Obama Pushing Against Public Option In Senate
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... President Barack Obama is actively discouraging Senate Democrats in their effort to include a public insurance option with a state opt-out clause as part of health care reform. In its place, say multiple Democratic sources, Obama has indicated a preference for an alternative policy, favored by the insurance industry, which would see a public plan "triggered" into effect in the future by a failure of the industry to meet certain benchmarks. Two Dem Senators confirm this reporting. One 11 Dimensional Chess player accepts this reporting and ...
Obama Not Happy With Public Option
Suburban Guerrilla —
... ! Obama clearly doesn’t understand how positively this will affect people’s lives, or he wouldn’t be so lukewarm. The public option is polling well everywhere – including those conservative districts. ...
HuffPost: Obama Wants Bipartisan Reform Cover for Blue Dogs and Conservatives
Crooks and Liars —
... ! Obama clearly doesn't understand how positively this will affect people's lives, or he wouldn't be so lukewarm. The public option is polling well everywhere - including those conservative districts. ...
White House Responds to Concerns on Public Option, Senate Asks for More
Daily Kos —
... Clearly Senate leadership is concerned with the President's approach, as are other Senators, including Harkin and Brown. They also believe they are very close to having 60 votes, according to ...
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politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com 10/16/2009 —
Sen. Tom Harkin promised Friday that a health care bill will be on President Obama's desk before Christmas.
WASHINGTON (CNN) – Iowa Sen. Tom Harkin, the Democrat who chairs one of the Senate committees tasked with ...
Sen. Harkin: Three ways to public option
thehill.com 10/16/2009 — The Senate has more than one way to get to agreement on the controversial public option, Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee Chairman Tom Harkin (D-Iowa) said Friday. Though Harkin insisted he continues to support a "robust" public ...
Harkin says he has the votes for the public option
americablog.com 9/29/2009 — Things are getting interesting : Sen. Tom Harkin (D-Iowa.), the chairman of the Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee, said that the Senate "comfortably" has a majority of votes to pass the public plan, and that he believes Democrats ...
Harkin: Public option can pass Senate by ‘comfortable’ margin
iowaindependent.com 9/30/2009 — Not only is U.S. Sen. Tom Harkin claiming that he has the votes necessary to pass a health care reform bill with a public option in the U.S. Senate, but that he has a ‘comfortable’ majority to do so.
Harkin, who recently took over as ...
Long live the public option!
the-reaction.blogspot.com 10/2/2009 — By Michael J.W. Stickings Sen. Tom Harkin : "We will have a bill on the president's desk before Christmas, a health-reform bill. It will have a lot of good stuff in it. It will have a lot of prevention and wellness programs in there that I've ...
Key Senate Dem: There will be a public option
politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com 9/14/2009 — INDIANOLA, Iowa (CNN) — Iowa Sen. Tom Harkin, a Democrat who recently filled the late Sen. Ted Kennedy's seat as chairman of the Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, said Sunday that a Senate health-care reform bill would ...
Harkin: There are 51+ Votes for Public Option
openleft.com 9/29/2009 — Open Left has been live-tweeting the Senate Finance Committee debate. Follow it here .
Back on September 16th, I posted in detail that there are enough votes to pass a public option in the Senate . Now, Senator Tom Harkin confirms that assessment ...
Dem senators diverge on public option —
CNN Political Ticker 28 days ago
WASHINGTON (CNN) – As Democratic leaders in Congress appear to be converging on proposals for a public health insurance option that might win passage in each chamber, the comments of two Democratic senators Sunday suggested that a long ...
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