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End the Obscene Amounts of Money in Campaigns

Peter D. Rosenstein | Posted 03.07.2012

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Peter D. Rosenstein

By limiting incumbents to raising money in their own districts and limiting challengers to specific matching amounts maybe we would finally get to where people in a particular district actually make their own decisions on who will represent them.

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Democratic Senator Expected To Announce Retirement

AP | GRANT SCHULTE | Posted 02.26.2012

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LINCOLN, Neb. — Democrats on Tuesday lamented Sen. Ben Nelson's decision to retire rather than seek a third term in Nebraska, fearing the move s...

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Insurers Lobbying on the Fine Print May Erase Consumer Protections

Wendell Potter | Posted 05.25.2011

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Wendell Potter

The lobbying to change the medical-loss ratio provision in the new health care law is just one example of how special interests are working to gut the reform law while preserving the portions they like.

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CONFIRMED: The Least Reliable Democrat

The Huffington Post | Nick Wing | Posted 05.25.2011

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Sen. Ben Nelson (D-Neb.) is the least likely Democrat to stand with his party on legislative initiatives, a recent analysis of "party unity" votes don...

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Ben Nelson On Blowback From His Opposition To Kagan: 'Are They From Nebraska? Then I Don't Care'

Roll Call | Posted 05.25.2011

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Sen. Ben Nelson is catching a lot of grief from within his party for being the first Democratic Senator in decades to oppose his president's pick for ...

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Matt Osborne | Posted 05.25.2011

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Matt Osborne

The Republican strategy of delay escalated their misfortune; their "tea party" movement is a great, big Teabagger Fail, and the media's credibility is shot right along with them.

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Ryan Grim

Obama To Nelson: We're Going Around You

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 05.25.2011

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It might not be the most glamorous hill, but it's the one that Sen. Ben Nelson (D-Neb.) has vowed to die on. President Obama, however, isn't going to ...

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Evan Bayh's "Name That Obstructionist!"

Matthew Filipowicz | Posted 05.25.2011

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Matthew Filipowicz

Senator Bayh announced today the formation of a "Moderate Dems Working Group", or to put it in layman's terms, a group of 15 or so Bush Dog... I'm sorry... Blue Dog conservative Democratic Senators.

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Latest Stimulus Cuts: Head Start, Food Stamps, Public Transit

The Plum Line | Posted 05.25.2011

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I've just obtained an internal Senate committee memo detailing the latest cuts being eyed by the gang of Senators being led by Dem Ben Nelson and GOPe...

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Nebraska Senator Obama's Latest Endorsement

AP | ANNA JO BRATTON | Posted 05.25.2011

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Presidential hopeful Barack Obama won the endorsement Saturday of U.S. Sen. Ben Nelson, a popular moderate in largely Republican Nebraska who said he ...

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