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Ryan Grim

Senate Dems Pass Health Care Reconciliation Package

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 05.25.2011

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UPDATE 3/25 9:47 PM It wasn't easy and it wasn't pretty, but the congressional debate over comprehensive health care reform ended Thursday night with ...

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Ryan Grim

DeMint: 'We Have Not Yet Begun To Fight'

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 05.25.2011

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Jim DeMint, the tactician who led Senate Republicans in unanimous opposition to health care reform, declared early on that a defeat for Obama would be...

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Friday Talking Points [102] -- Harry Reid's Glacial Progress Grinds On

Chris Weigant | Posted 05.25.2011

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Chris Weigant

Harry Reid thinks he's got enough votes, but then this is the reason why the vote keeps getting pushed back -- because he's obviously still scrambling for the final few votes before he moves ahead.

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Jeff Muskus

Waxman Gives GOP One More Day To Stall On Climate Change

HuffingtonPost.com | Jeff Muskus | Posted 05.25.2011

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Henry Waxman has had just about enough. The House Energy and Commerce Committee's climate-change bill has been besieged by hundreds of (mostly Republi...

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Moscow's Unseemly Haste To Amend

Robert Coalson | Posted 05.25.2011

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Robert Coalson

Russia's Federation Council on December 22 signed off on the ratification process of the controversial constitutional amendments that will extend the presidential term of office to six years.

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A Nation Clinging to Guns

Stephen Herrington | Posted 05.25.2011

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Stephen Herrington

Why exactly do we need firearms? A gun will not insure that you do not lose your job to an international merger or international competition. A gun will not get you a raise.

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Scalia's Choice: More Deaths to Defend the Constitution

Sandy Goodman | Posted 05.25.2011

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Sandy Goodman

Congratulations, Justice Scalia! Now we can all look forward to years of arguing over just exactly when, where and how the right to have guns in the home applies.

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