tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com - 30 days ago
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Today, everyone's officially on the same page. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, and his leadership team, and the White House all stand behind the Senate health care bill, which, as we learned this week , includes a public option. But the days leading up to Reid's big Monday announcement were ...
huffingtonpost.com - 30 days ago
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As Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid works to
cobble together the 60 votes he needs to overcome...
an expected Republican attempt to block a floor vote on health care, there is still one powerful parliamentary weapon he could draw from his back pocket. ...
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Reid, Durbin Open To Majority Vote To Beat Health Care ...
mediamatters.org - 30 days ago
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Following reports that Senate leaders will include a
public option in health care legislation, on Fox &...
Friends , Glenn Beck falsely suggested that only "35 percent of the population" supported a public option and accused Senate Majority Leader ...
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Beck falsely accused Reid of lying about support for ...
politico.com - 10/28/2009
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politico.com —
Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) said Tuesday that he
d back a GOP filibuster of Senate Majority Leader...
Harry Reid s health care reform bill. Lieberman, who caucuses with Democrats and is positioning himself as a fiscal hawk on the issue, said he opposes ...
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Joe Lieberman: I'll block vote on Harry Reid's plan
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Behind Closed Doors
Talking Points Memo —
... So what happened between the White House and Sens. Reid and Schumer in the week before Reid announced he was backing a public option in the senate bill? Brian Beutler spent the day talking to various players close to the negotiations to try to piece together what each side wanted, what happened at that meeting last Thursday night at the White House and how Reid mad his decision. Here's his report. ...
Daily Treatment, Revelations Edition
The New Republic blogs —
... explains. And must-read of the day: Brian Beutler has reconstructed the deliberations about the public plan between the White House and Senate Democratic leadership. Neither one was that eager to include the public option. But neither wanted to take the blame for ditching it.
Harry Reid and the public option
Crooks and Liars —
So it may turn out that Harry Reid was the hero in the public option after all.
Much of the hoopla surrounding Reid's decision centers around a tense Thursday night meeting between President Obama and Senate health care principles--including Reid and Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY)--at the White House. But according to sources briefed on White House-Senate health care negotiations, things began boiling over earlier in the week, when a key question was, Who's going to take the blame when the public option doesn't make it in to the base health care bill? ...
No Health Care Bill Til Next Year? Fine By Me
Firedoglake —
... Why is this happening? Pure guess: White House and Reid argue about who’s going to take the heat for ditching the public option. Reid decides ...
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boldprogressives.org 10/21/2009 — NEVADA POLL SHOWS HARRY REID'S POLITICAL SURVIVAL REQUIRES STRONG LEADERSHIP ON THE PUBLIC OPTION The Research 2000 Nevada Poll was conducted for the Progressive Change Campaign Committee from Oct. 17 - Oct. 19, 2009. A total of 600 likely voters who ...
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huffingtonpost.com 10/26/2009 — The public option lives.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) announced Monday that the bill he will bring to the Senate floor will include a public health insurance option that individual states could decline to participate in.
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NRSC: Reid is a 'partisan bully'
thehill.com 10/26/2009 — Republicans are now hoping to use Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's (Nev.) reaffirmed support for a public option as ammunition in their fight to defeat him in 2010. In a statement released just before Reid announced his chamber's final reform bill ...
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foxnews.com 10/26/2009 — Home Senate Bill Will Include 'Public Option' Opt Out Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said Monday that Senate legislation will include government-backed health insurance that allows states to opt out, but it's "not a silver bullet" FOXNews.com ...
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tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com 10/16/2009 — Remember a couple weeks ago when I reported that progressive groups were organizing a campaign--including television ads--to pressure Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid to include the public option in the Senate health care bill, and to enforce party ...
Is Harry Reid Working The Inside Game For A Public Option?
tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com 10/15/2009 — Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid isn't exactly accustomed to kind words from progressives these days. With a health care reform fight that feels endless, and an intractable bloc of conservative Democrats refusing to play nice on the public option, ...
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CNN Political Ticker 30 days ago
WASHINGTON (CNN) – The players have yet to hit the field, but World Series trash-talking is already in full swing - on Capitol Hill.
It started on Monday with a bet on who was going to win the World Series. New York Sens. Chuck Schumer ...
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