Here's a new brush off technique: "Ask Tiger, not me." A group of reporters approached Sen. Harry Reid on Thursday afternoon and attempted to quest...
Sen. Byron Dorgan | Posted 12.03.2009 | Politics
There is no government program that can substitute for a good job that pays well. A key function of government, however, is to create conditions that help businesses grow and hire new workers.
Mark Green | Posted 12.03.2009 | Politics
Who elected Joe Lieberman the president of health care? Abuse of the filibuster and special interest money may still combine to stop health care reform and stop America from becoming a 21st century society.
The Hill | Posted 12.01.2009 | Politics
A new measure on the public option will be unveiled next week, which Senate Democratic leaders hope will break the logjam on healthcare reform. Sen. ...
Cynthia Gordy | Posted 11.30.2009 | Chicago
As the Senate gears up for floor debate on its health care reform bill, Illinois Senator Roland Burris says he's through making concessions.
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 11.30.2009 | Politics
As health care reform enters its final stages in the Senate, Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) faces a paramount question: to what extent, if any, d...
Huffington Post | Dan Abramson | Posted 11.25.2009 | Comedy
Is it just us, or is the political scene overrun by guys who look like turkeys? It's probably just us, but we thought we'd compile our favorites. ...
HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 11.25.2009 | Politics
David Broder simply doesn't understand the way that today's Senate operates, Jim Manley concluded on Wednesday. Manley, the senior communications advi...
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 11.24.2009 | Politics
Despite mounting pressure to pass health care legislation through a parliamentary maneuver that would allow portions to be considered by an up-or-down...
LIFE.com | Posted 11.24.2009 | Style
Text and photos from LIFE.com, where you can check out more odd social pairings at state dinners. The state dinner dates back to 1874, when Ulysses G...
Chris Weigant | Posted 11.24.2009 | Politics
Let's look at the poker hand we've been dealt on health care reform. Democrats have now officially gone from "pot committed" to "all in." The stakes, to be blunt, have been raised until they are as high as they can go.
Jerry Chautin | Posted 11.23.2009 | Politics
Turkey, cranberry sauce, and a side of health care debate is dominating Thanksgiving tables this year. The debate gets more heated when some worry that their situation will be adversely affected.
Shawn Healy | Posted 11.23.2009 | Politics
By my calculation, Senator Reid can count on 56 votes for the health care legislation as it now stands. Any attrition from this group would require Reid to reach across the aisle to recruit one or more moderate Republicans.
Mike Lux | Posted 11.23.2009 | Politics
Given the stubborn logjam between progressives and conservatives on the public option and other issues, here are six different scenarios for what might happen next.
HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 11.22.2009 | Politics
Harry Reid sealed the biggest legislative victory of his career Saturday night with a kiss. And then a hug. Emotionally reserved doesn't begin to des...
AP | DAVID ESPO | Posted 11.22.2009 | Politics
WASHINGTON (AP)-- Invoking the memory of Edward M. Kennedy, Democrats united Saturday night to push historic health care legislation past a key Senate...
HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 11.21.2009 | Politics
The Senate has voted to move forward with the health care bill. The vote was 60-39 in favor of debating the bill put forward by Senate Majority Leader...
The Huffington Post | Lila Shapiro | Posted 11.21.2009 | Politics
Speaking from the Senate floor on Saturday, Majority Leader Harry Reid had some harsh words for Washington Post columnist David Broder. Reid was resp...
HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 11.21.2009 | Politics
In a letter to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.), AARP CEO Addison Barry Rand backed the leader's health care bill and urged the chamber to v...
Chris Weigant | Posted 11.21.2009 | Politics
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.
Robert Reich | Posted 11.23.2009 | Politics
Harry Reid's public option is a token public option -- a fleeting gesture toward the idea of a public option, so small and desiccated as to be barely worth mentioning except that it still contains the word "public."
Politico | Carrie Budoff Brown | Posted 11.19.2009 | Politics
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said the first key test vote on his $848 billion health care bill will be taken Saturday, but he declined to say whe...
Matt Osborne | Posted 11.20.2009 | Media
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.
Mike Lux | Posted 11.19.2009 | Politics
Ever so slowly, painfully, creakily, the Senate is beginning to move forward on debating health care reform. It will all come down to who blinks first: House progressives or Senate conservatives.
Miles J. Zaremski | Posted 11.19.2009 | Politics
After all, if a public option pays for itself, and does not cost a nickel to create and operate, why not allow as many as 80 million citizens to become eligible when any bill becomes law?
Posted 12.03.2009 | Politics