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House Vote On Insurance Industry Antitrust Exemption Coming

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 10.19.2009 | Politics

Read More: Anti-Trust, John Conyers, Congress, Health Care Debate, Senate Judiciary Committee, Health Insurers, Insurance Companies, Obama Weekly Radio Address, Transparency, Politics News, Obama Health Insurance Reform, Health Insurance Companies, Nancy Pelosi, Health Care Reform, Harry Reid, Health Care, Obama Health Care Reform, Politics News

The battle against the health insurance industry is steadily intensifying. House Democrats have formally scheduled a vote to revoke the industry's che...

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A Call For a Bipartisan National Campaign to Overturn Insurance Companies' Exemption From Anti-Trust Laws

Miles Mogulescu | Posted 10.18.2009 | Politics

We need a broad coalition to immediately repeal the insurance industry's exemption from complying with Federal anti-trust laws.

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Reining in the Rogue Democrats--Petition For Primary Challengers

Paul Loeb | Posted 10.16.2009 | Politics

Read More: Baucus Bill, Public Option, Grassroots, Nancy Pelosi, Health Care Reform, Filibuster, Max Baucus, Harry Reid, Petition, Health Care, Politics News

Forcing Senators like Nelson, Baucus, and Lincoln to respond to the American public, through a petition, would be the right thing politically as well as morally.

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Baucus: All Senate Dems Will Support Health Bill

AP | ERICA WERNER | Posted 10.16.2009 | Politics

Read More: Senator Max Baucus, Senator Harry Reid, Senate Finance Committee Health Care Bill, Senate Finance Committee, Health Care Reform, Harry Reid, Max Baucus, Senate Democrats, Max Baucus Health Care, Health Reform, Health Care, Politics News

WASHINGTON — When it comes time to vote, every Democrat in the Senate – and perhaps more than one Republican – will support legislat...

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Reid Aide: Snowe Will Not Be At Negotiating Table

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 10.15.2009 | Politics

Read More: Olympia Snowe, Harry Reid, Reid Snowe, Snowe Health Care, Negotiating Table Snowe, Reid Aide Olbermann, Progressives Health Care, Snowe Public Option, Snowe Health Care Reform, Politics News

Senator Harry Reid's office is pushing back against reports that the Majority Leader is planning to include Sen. Olympia Snowe (R-ME) among the group ...

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What Repealing the Insurer Anti-Trust Exemption Would Do

Jason Rosenbaum | Posted 10.15.2009 | Politics

Read More: Anti-Trust, Health Care Reform, South-Park-Insurance-Companies, Health Care, Health Insurance, Harry Reid, Congrss, Anti-Trust Exemption, Chuck Schumer, Politics News

Price fixing and deal making is absolutely illegal in other businesses, but in the insurance industry, because of an anti-trust exemption, customers are duped without repercussions.

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Halftime At The Healthcare Reform Superbowl

Chris Weigant | Posted 10.15.2009 | Politics

Read More: 60 Votes, Win One for the Gipper, White House, Kennedy, Chris Dodd, Democratic, Reform, Alan Grayson, Football Metaphor, Grayson, Halftime, Snowe, Pelosi, Edward Kennedy, Win One for the Skipper, Baucus, Nancy Pelosi, Budget Reconciliation, Health Care, Reid, Reconciliation, Conference Committee, House, Football, Cheerleader, Olympia Snowe, 50 Votes, Democrat, Congress, Democrats, Floor Vote, Teddy Kennedy, Ted Kennedy, Steny Hoyer, Coach, Chris Weigant, Sailing, Health, Corporate Whore, Max Baucus, Harry Reid, Superbowl, Dodd, Hoyer, Pep Talk, Healthcare, Senate, Politics News

A football locker room. Hundreds of Democrats are sitting on benches, to hear Coach's halftime pep talk in the Health Care Reform Superbowl. Some appear exhausted, some appear battered.

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Punishing the Health Insurance Cartel for Extortion and Fraud

Bob Cesca | Posted 10.15.2009 | Politics

Read More: Public Option, Ahip Study, Olympia Snowe, Ahip, Health Care Reform, Harry Reid, Max Baucus, Mafia, Joe Lieberman, Keith Olbermann, Health Insurance, Health Care, Obama Health Care, Healthcare, Politics News

If there was any lingering doubt about the ethical bankruptcy of the health care cartel, we now have incontrovertible evidence in the form of a new report commissioned by the health insurance lobby.

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Grayson, Progressives Push Reid To Strong-Arm Lieberman, Conservative Dems

HuffingtonPost.com | Jeff Muskus | Posted 10.14.2009 | Politics

Read More: Pccc, Senate Democrats, Health Care Reform, Harry Reid, Alan Grayson, Health Care, Health Reform, Lieberman, Politics News

UPDATE: Reid pushed back Wednesday afternoon against the consensus that health reform is on him -- after Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), laid the fate of...

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Senate Democrats Launch Attack On Insurer Anti-Trust Exemption

POLITICO | Patrick O'Conner and Carrie Budoff Brown | Posted 10.14.2009 | Politics

Read More: Chuck Schumer, Harry Reid, Schumer Insurers Exemption, Insurance Industry, Schumer Health Care, Health Care Debate, Democrats Health Care, Insurance Industry Exemption, Health Care Reform, Insurer Anti-Trust Exeption, Reid Health Care, Senate Health Care, Politics News

The long-simmering tension between insurers and congressional Democrats is erupting into open warfare, with lawmakers stepping up their push to revoke...

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Alan Grayson To Deliver Petition To Harry Reid: Get Tough On Senate Dems

The Plum Line | Greg Sargent | Posted 10.14.2009 | Politics

Read More: Grayson Health Care, Reid Health Reform, Harry Reid, Grayson Health Reform, Reid Senate Health Bill, Alan Grayson, Grayson Harry Reid, Gop Health Filibuster, Reid Gop Filibuster, Reid Senate Health Care, Reid Health Care, Politics News

Liberal hero Alan Grayson -- who's suddenly a national figure thanks to his high-octane tirades against Republicans -- is joining the campaign to pres...

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All Eyes Turn To Reid: Legacy In Balance As Health Care Debate Continues

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 10.14.2009 | Politics

Read More: Harry Reid, Health Care Debate, Reid Public Option, Health Care Merger, Senate Finance Committee Reid, Reid Health Care Reform, Reid Legacy Kennedy, Senate Majority Leader, Reid Legacy, Healthcare Reid Health Care, Health Care, Politics News

With the Senate Finance Committee becoming the last of five congressional committees to pass health care reform legislation on Tuesday, the spotlight ...

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Max Baucus Has Only Himself To Blame

Chris Weigant | Posted 10.14.2009 | Politics

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I have little sympathy for Baucus at this point, when he complains that his adversaries have had time to put out a report attacking his bill. Because there is one reason that they've had all that time.

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"Leader" Reid Must Lead

Adam Green | Posted 10.09.2009 | Politics

Read More: Primary, Public Option, Pccc, Progressive Change Campaign Committee, Progressives, Health Care Reform, Harry Reid, Joe Lieberman, Health Care, Politics News

We have a once-in-a-generation opportunity to pass a public option -- but only if Harry Reid makes sure that his Democratic super-majority does not side with Republicans on basic procedural votes.

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Must Reads: Best Health Care Reporting This Week

Matthew Palevsky | Posted 10.08.2009 | Politics

Read More: Baucus Bill, Public Option, Newstrust, Health Care Reform, Max Baucus, Harry Reid, Health Care, Matthew Palevsky, Blog Health Care Reform, Best Health Care, Politics News

In order to bring you the most thoroughly reported stories about health care reform, the Huffington Post has teamed up with NewsTrust for a week long Health Care News Hunt.

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Join in Demanding Accountability in the Senate: "Vote for Cloture or Lose Seniority"

Paul Abrams | Posted 10.08.2009 | Politics

Read More: Harry Reid, Democratic Senate Campaign Committee, Patty Murray, Seniority, Dick Durbin, Cloture, Politics News

Democrats in the Senate are considering holding colleagues accountable for halting Republican filibusters by stripping seniority and chairmanships from those who do not vote for cloture. Let us demand it.

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Thousands Sign Petition Demanding Reid Get Tough With Filibuster-Supporting Dems

The Plum Line | Greg Sargent | Posted 10.08.2009 | Politics

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A new twist in the left versus left health care wars. A progressive group is launching a campaign to pressure Harry Reid into getting tough with Dem ...

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Combating the Disease of Progressive Cynicism

Robert Creamer | Posted 10.08.2009 | Politics

Read More: Immigration Reform, President Obama, Public Option, Rahm Emanuel, Regulatory Reform, Dick Durbin, Nancy Pelosi, Health Care Reform, Harry Reid, Clean Energy, Progressive Movement, Labor Law Reform, Financial Sector Reform, Health Insurance Reform, Jim Messina, Health Care, Politics News

One thing I know for sure. If progressives constantly pronounce the public option dead -- it will be. The cynics will create a self-fulfilling prophecy.

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Did the NRCC Really Say Nancy Pelosi Should Be Put in Her Place?

Lincoln Mitchell | Posted 10.08.2009 | Politics

Read More: President Obama, Military, Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, San Francisco, Speaker of the House, Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Afghanistan, General Mcchrystal, Democratic Party, Nrcc, Al Quada, Afghanistan War, Politics News

The specific language used by the NRCC in its latest statement reveals the contempt with which it holds not just Speaker Pelosi, but also some of the basic ideas on which our democracy rests.

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Irreparable Damage: Senate Must Block OSM Nominee Pizarchik Today

Jeff Biggers | Posted 10.08.2009 | Green

Read More: Appalachia, Dirty Coal, Osmre, Mountaintop Removal, 60 Minutes, President Barack Obama, Harry Reid, Coal Ash, Cbs, Ken Salazar, Coal, Department of the Interior, Green News

Given the irreparable damage of his mining record, Pizarchik's entrenched support of the coal industry suggests that the OSM would continue its decades-old tradition of lawlessness and betrayal of coalfield residents.

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Republican Leaders Join In Honoring New Rotunda Statue Of Radical Socialist Woman

Chris Weigant | Posted 10.07.2009 | Politics

Read More: Marx, International Workers of the World, Mitch McConnell, Mcconnell, The Spirit of Lenin, John Boehner, Leninism, Wells, Teacher, Statue, Republican, History, Pelosi, Barbara Bindley, American History, Socialist, Lies My Teacher Taught Me, Nancy Pelosi, Russia, Syndicalist, Handicap, Reid, Radical, Red, Leaders, How I Became a Socialist, Socialism, Alabama, marxists.org, James W Loewen, Childhood, Lenin, Soviet Union, State Quarter, HG Wells, Chris Weigant, Revolutionary, Marxism, Harry Reid, Plutocrat, Why I Became an IWW, Republicans, Boehner, Aclu, Capitol, Brooklyn Eagle, Syndicalism, Rotunda, Loewen, Bindley, Iww, Wobblies, Wobbly, Politics News

A woman whose name we all know was a proud Red, a committed Socialist, and an unapologetic Wobbly. And now she's not only buried in the National Cathedral, she's got her own statue in the Capitol.

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Dems: No Blank Check On Afghanistan Despite General Agreement With Obama

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 10.06.2009 | Politics

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Democratic lawmakers stressed on Tuesday that there was no consensus on whether to hand President Obama a blank check to escalate the war in Afghanist...

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The Right Time to Repeal Don't Ask Don't Tell Is Now

Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand | Posted 10.05.2009 | New York

Read More: Senate Armed Services Committee, Gays in the Military, Dadt, Don't Ask Don't Tell, Harry Reid, Gay Rights, Barack Obama, Carl Levin, New York News

I've secured the commitment from Sen. Carl Levin, chair of the Armed Services Committee, to hold the first hearing on Don't Ask Don't Tell since it began 16 years ago.

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Is It Better for the Public Option for Reid to Leave It Out?

Bill Scher | Posted 10.06.2009 | Politics

Read More: Harry Reid, Public Option, Health Care Reform, Senate Finance Committee, Nancy Pelosi, Politics News

Conservatives are experts at taking peripheral, obscure components of legislation and blowing them up into evidence of a government plot to kill your newborns and serve them as pork burritos to illegal immigrants.

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Michael Bennet's Wall Street Ties Bring Him Money, Criticism

The Denver Post | Mike Riley | Posted 10.04.2009 | Denver

Read More: Philip Anschutz, U.S. Senate, Andrew Romanoff, Wall Street, George Soros, Senate Banking Committee, Harry Reid, Chris Dodd, Michael Bennet, Center for Responsive Politics, Senate, Denver News

WASHINGTON -- With a push in Congress to reform regulation over Wall Street, financial firms have been spending big, and among the major beneficiaries...

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