Budget Reconciliation

House Passes Bombs-Not-Bread Bill To Spare Military, Cut Food Aid

HuffingtonPost.com | Michael McAuliff | Posted 05.10.2012

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WASHINGTON -- The House on Thursday passed its plan to spare the military's growing budget from mandatory cuts, instead slashing Medicaid, benefits fo...

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Bombs Not Food: Republicans Aim To Save Military By Cutting Food Stamps

HuffingtonPost.com | Arthur Delaney | Posted 04.27.2012

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WASHINGTON -- The latest Republican plan to reconcile the budget and preserve defense spending extracts even deeper cuts from programs to help the poo...

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GOP Vows To Use Reconciliation To Repeal Health Care Reform, Will The Media Bless The Effort?

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 12.05.2011

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TPM's Brian Beutler reports today that the GOP is mulling over whether to attempt to repeal the Affordable Care Act using a parliamentary strategy tha...

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Where Are We the People? Human Impacts vs. Budget Battles

Paul Kleyman | Posted 05.25.2011

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My simple proposal is to impose on our political process a bit of policy analysis -- to go with standard budget analysis -- that I call the Human Impact Report.

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RNC's Steele Calls Reconciliation A 'Parliamentary Trick'

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011

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EDITOR'S NOTE: The story below includes references to polling conducted by the firm Research 2000. The reliability and accuracy of Research 2000's pol...

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Can We Find Common Ground?

Dr. Jim Taylor | Posted 05.25.2011

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I got to thinking about issues on the current political landscape on which I might find common ground. Here's the common ground I found with the Tea Party.

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Chris Matthews Is Just Not Ever Going To Admit He Was Wrong About Budget Reconciliation

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011

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Not long ago, we all took a trip in the Hot Tub Time Machine to that time MSNBC's Chris Matthews made all sorts of mocking assertions to Representativ...

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Media Scare Tactics: Do They Create Controversy in the Guise of News for the Sake of Ratings?

Michael Russnow | Posted 05.25.2011

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Is that the media's job? To invent scenarios that are for the most part implausible just to give them the excuse to have another ten minute panel discussion?

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Health Care U.S.A.: A Half-Century of Fear, Morality, Lobbying, and Defeat Gets Its Vote

James Campion | Posted 05.25.2011

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It is hard to fathom it's come this close, and if a Health Care Reform Bill becomes law this week, than this is what the Barack Obama administration will take into history as its legacy.

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Student Aid: The Future of Educated Youth in America

Katie Naranjo | Posted 05.25.2011

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As students organize for affordable college, it looks like Democratic leaders in the Senate intend to incorporate the student lending package (SAFRA) into the budget reconciliation vote.

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Obama, Durbin and Pelosi All Point Fingers at Someone Else for Killing Public Option

Miles Mogulescu | Posted 05.25.2011

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It's all Kabuki theater to cover up the truth that President Obama made a backroom deal with the for-profit hospital industry that the final health care bill would not include a national public option.

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Kent Conrad's Repeated Explanation Of Budget Reconciliation Not Good Enough For Mike Allen

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011

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No discussion of the media's ongoing battle to understand basic seventh-grade civics would be complete without enjoying Jonathan Chait's post in which...

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Let's Flashback To That Time Chris Matthews Was Crazy Wrong About Parliamentary Procedure [UPDATE]

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011

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Here's something fun you can do with the YouTube Time Machine today! You can go back to January 23rd of this year and watch MSNBC's Chris Matthews be...

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Weekly Pulse: Obama to Push for Reconciliation

The Media Consortium | Posted 05.25.2011

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By Lindsay Beyerstein, Media Consortium blogger Today, President Barack Obama will deliver a speech to Congress outlining his plan to move forward on ...

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Alexander: Budget Reconciliation Will 'End The Senate'

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011

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Anyone who has observed the goings-on in the U.S. Senate for the past couple of decades can tell you that the budget reconciliation process is a commo...

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Kent Conrad Bashes Media Portrayal Of Reconciliation, Defends Passage Of Health Reform

Plum Line | Greg Sargent | Posted 05.25.2011

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In an interview with me just now, Senator Kent Conrad tore into the media for repeatedly botching its reporting on reconciliation, and confirmed that ...

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Friday Talking Points [113] -- Republican Reconciliation Hypocrisy

Chris Weigant | Posted 05.25.2011

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As the dust settles on the aftermath of the health reform summit, not much has changed. Not that anyone really expected anything to change, much, to be honest.

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Filibuster Solved

Sen. Fritz Hollings | Posted 05.25.2011

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1974, the Senate approved the reconciliation rule by a vote of 80-0. No amendment to the rule has been suggested in thirty-five years. So why do republicans oppose it now?

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Now or Never

Dylan Loewe | Posted 05.25.2011

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When Democrats needed a pep talk and reassurance, they didn't get any. Now, in the midst of a growing skepticism, the president has only one weapon in his arsenal that can restore that confidence: Action.

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GOP Summit Attendees Supported Reconciliation For Past Projects

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011

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Republican leadership is prepping a full-fledged assault on Democratic lawmakers for the possibility that they will pass health care legislation throu...

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Weekly Pulse: Obama to Promote Health Plan at Summit

The Media Consortium | Posted 05.25.2011

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Weekly Pulse: Obama to Promote Health Plan at SummitBy Lindsay Beyerstein, Media Consortium blogger On Monday, the White House released its plan for h...

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The War On Budget Reconciliation, Part Deux

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011

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The battle lines over the use of the budget reconciliation process have been drawn for a long time. Back in October, Republicans were referring to the...

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Friday Talking Points [112] -- Public Option's Last Stand

Chris Weigant | Posted 05.25.2011

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Before we begin here, I'd like to humbly propose a new law. No American television station should be allowed to have an exclusive contract for any Ol...

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Public Option, Medicare Buy-In Could See Senate Floor Fights

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 05.25.2011

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Real health care reform is threatening to emerge from the ashes of the Massachusetts special election that exploded the effort in January. A growing m...

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Hatch Threatens Partisan 'War' If Dems Attempt Reconciliation Strategy

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011

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If Senator Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) is any indication, the GOP plans on greeting any attempt to move health care fixes into law through the budget reconci...

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