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Sam Stein

Wyden Urges Dems To Keep Trying For Bipartisan Approach To Health Care

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 07.09.2009 | Politics

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One of the key Democratic senators whose vote remains up for grabs when it comes to health care reform urged his colleagues to continue to push for a ...

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Sam Stein

Senators Buck Obama, Urge Progressives To Keep Targeting Dems On Health Care

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 07.08.2009 | Politics

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Two Senators said on Tuesday that they disagreed with President Obama's backchannel complaints that progressive advocacy groups ought to stop targetin...

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Barack Obama Immediately Regrets Asking For Your Help

Allison Kilkenny | Posted 07.05.2009 | Politics

Read More: Arlen Specter, Ron Wyden, Public Option, Dianne Feinstein, Max Baucus, Mary Landrieu, Barack Obama, Healthcare, Politics News
Allison Kilkenny

"We shouldn't be focusing resources on each other," Obama said, "We ought to be focused on winning this debate." But winning the healthcare debate for whom?

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Friday Talking Points [83] -- Dan Froomkin's Final WashingtonPost.com Column

Chris Weigant | Posted 06.26.2009 | Politics

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Chris Weigant

It's been a crazy rollercoaster of a week, and at the end of it, California can proudly state that not only do we no longer have the most embarrassing...

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Health Care: Lobbyists, Blue Dogs and the 'No, We Can't Coalition'

Deepak Bhargava | Posted 06.10.2009 | Politics

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Deepak Bhargava

A surprising number of Democrats are saying no to real health care reform.

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Ryan Grim

Wyden Open To Public Health Care Option If His Plan Stalls

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 05.26.2009 | Politics

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Sen. Ron Wyden, an Oregon Democrat, is a key player in the health care debate, the sponsor of the only bipartisan health care bill in the Senate. Back...

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Sam Stein

Labor Hammers Dem Senator Over Plan To Tax Health Benefits

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.19.2009 | Politics

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The ad wars in the health care reform debate are beginning to heat up, even as key members of Congress plead for a détente until an actual bill mater...

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Ryan Grim

Dem Senators Push Foreign Banks To Aid Global Bailout

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 03.30.2009 | Politics

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A group of Democratic senators, in advance of the G-20 summit in London, are calling on the administration to push foreign central banks to cooperate ...

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Congress Taking on Cell Taxes

Jonathan Spalter | Posted 03.23.2009 | Politics

Read More: Cell Phones, Taxes, Ron Wyden, Rep. Zoe Lofgren, Economy, Olympia Snowe, Mobile Phones, Trent Franks, Politics News
Jonathan Spalter

Representatives Zoe Lofgren (D-CA) and Trent Franks (R-AZ) recently introduced a bill in Congress which could positively impact the millions of consum...

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Sam Stein

Wyden-Snowe Proposal Could Have Saved Govt. $3 Billion-Plus

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 03.18.2009 | Politics

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Had Congress ultimately passed Sen. Ron Wyden and Sen. Olympia Snowe's proposal to tax a portion of bonuses issued by bailout recipients, the governme...

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Sam Stein

Wyden: My Bill Could Have Prevented AIG Mess

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 03.17.2009 | Politics

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Additional reporting by Arthur Delaney Senator Ron Wyden said on Tuesday that the furor surrounding AIG's bonus payments could have been avoided had...

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Key Senate Dems Suddenly Backtracking On Torture Policy

Salon | Posted 12.04.2008 | Politics

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Time constraints prevented me yesterday from writing about Dianne Feinstein's comments concerning torture in yesterday's New York Times, in which the ...

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My Movie About Better Health Care [Rated PG-13]

Sen. Ron Wyden | Posted 04.17.2008 | Politics

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Sen. Ron Wyden

I launched a video with one goal in mind: to get people talking about health reform and the problem of "job lock" -- when you're stuck in your job because you can't afford to give up your health care.

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A Warning to Our Superdelegates

Paul Jenkins | Posted 03.12.2008 | Politics

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Paul Jenkins

It is increasingly unseemly for superdelegates to stand by as the Clinton campaign resorts to techniques that would have made Jesse Helms blush 20 years ago.

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