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Joe Lieberman Filibusters Health Care While Americans Suffer

Bob Cesca | Posted 11.13.2009 | Politics

Read More: Evan Bayh, Blanche Lincoln, Ben Nelson, Public Option, Health Care Reform, Lieberman Filibuster, Filibuster, Joe Lieberman, Health Care, Conservadems, Blue Dog Democrats, Politics News
Bob Cesca

With every month that goes by without health care reform, another 3,600 Americans die due to a lack of insurance. And Joe Lieberman, like Elaine in that classic Seinfeld episode, is stopping off for Jujyfruits.

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Can We Afford to Let Blanche Lincoln Stop Health Care Reform Dead in Its Tracks?

Howie Klein | Posted 11.10.2009 | Politics

Read More: Senate Races, Health Care Reform, Arkansas, Filibuster, Cloture, Joe Lieberman, Ben Nelson, K Street, Lobbyists, Politics News
Howie Klein

Blue America has run TV spots against Lincoln all summer and fall and she's watched her re-elect numbers dwindle. This week Blue America has a brand new ad for Arkansas voters to look at.

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Senate "Moderates" Delaying Health Care Bill With Demands

The Washington Post | Shailagh Murray and Lori Montgomery | Posted 11.04.2009 | Politics

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Moderate lawmakers are exerting their outsize influence in the divided Senate to secure changes to health-care reform legislation, potentially adding ...

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Nebraska Voters Favor Public Option, Want Ben Nelson To Back It

Posted 11.02.2009 | Politics

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If Ben Nelson decides to filibuster a Democratic health care bill that includes a public insurance option, he should expect to lose support among Nebr...

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Jason Linkins

Senators Who Could And/Or Will Screw Up Health Care Reform

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 10.27.2009 | Politics

Read More: Public Option, Kent Conrad, Mary Landrieu, Roland Burris, Max Baucus, Evan Bayh, Olympia Snowe, Harry Reid, U.S. Senate, Joe Lieberman, Ben Nelson, Health Care Reform, Blanche Lincoln, Politics News

Harry Reid boldly announced the bill would contain something public option-esque. But will a reform bill that contains as limited a measure as the opt-out plan survive the Senate?

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Arianna Weighs In On The Senate Health Care Bill And The Challenges Ahead

Huff TV | Posted 10.27.2009 | Media

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Huff TV

Arianna appeared on MSNBC's Countdown With Keith Olbermann on Monday to discuss news that the Senate's health care bill would include an opt-out publi...

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Who Should Pay for Health Insurance Reform?

Peter Dreier | Posted 10.16.2009 | Politics

Read More: Progressive Taxation, Evan Bayh, Ben Nelson, Blanche Lincoln, Health Care for America Now, Congressional Budget Office, Hcan, Who Should Pay?, Max Baucus, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, Glenn Beck, Kent Conrad, Mary Landrieu, Citizens for Tax Justice, Wall Street Journal, Health Insurance Reform, Politics News
Peter Dreier

"Much has been given" to those Americans at the pinnacle of wealth. So it is only fair that "much will be required" when it comes to helping pay for health insurance for those who can't otherwise afford it.

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Health Insurance Industry Exposes Its Insatiable Greed

Peter Dreier | Posted 10.13.2009 | Politics

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Peter Dreier

After pretending for months to cooperate with the Obama administration and Democrats to secure a reasonable health reform bill, the industry's CEOs and lobbyists on Sunday double-crossed their one-time political allies.

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Sam Stein

Opt-Out Public Option Gains Steam Among Dems, But Questions Remain

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 10.09.2009 | Politics

Read More: Democrats Public Option, Joseph Lieberman, Democrats Compromise Approach, Sherrod Brown, Lieberman Opt Out, Approach Health Care, State Option, Ben Nelson, Nelson Lieberman, Opt-Out, Opt-Out Public Option, Politics News

With Reporting By Jeff Muskus Democratic senators were largely caught off-guard on Thursday as a compromise approach to health care reform -- emergin...

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Jeff Muskus

Conservative Dems, GOP Senators Lobby To Delay Health Reform

HuffingtonPost.com | Jeff Muskus | Posted 10.07.2009 | Politics

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Republican and conservative Democrat lawmakers revived a push Wednesday for the kind of delay to health care reform that a GOP senator admitted was pa...

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Sam Stein

Nebraska Dems Put Nelson On The Spot On Public Option

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 10.05.2009 | Politics

Read More: Nebraska Dems Public Plan, Nelson Public Plan, Ben Nelson, Public Option Platform, Democrats Nebraska, Nebraska Democratic Party, Politics News

The Nebraska Democratic Party put the state's senior senator, Ben Nelson, in an awkward spot on Saturday by passing a resolution making support for a ...

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Friday Talking Points [96] -- The Impressiveness of Alan Grayson

Chris Weigant | Posted 10.03.2009 | Politics

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Chris Weigant

First, let's get rid of the distractions this week. Chicago will not be getting the Olympics in 2016, even after President Obama went over to Copenha...

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Sam Stein

Nelson Supported Reconciliation For Bush Tax Cuts, But Not Health Care

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 09.29.2009 | Politics

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Now that Sen. Ben Nelson, (D-Neb.) has definitively stated that he opposes the use of reconciliation to pass health care reform, it's worth noting tha...

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Sam Stein

Nelson Will Oppose Reconciliation On Health Care

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 09.29.2009 | Politics

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Senator Ben Nelson (D-Neb.) threw another hurdle in the path of health care reform on Sunday, declaring he would oppose a legislative maneuver to have...

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Sam Stein

Ben Nelson Won't Commit To Blocking GOP Health Care Filibuster

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 09.24.2009 | Politics

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One of the toughest Democrats to corral in the Senate confirmed on Thursday that he is not committed to helping his party block a Republican filibuste...

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Erasing the Doughnut Hole for All Seniors -- A Senate Revolt Against Big Pharma Brewing!

Gail McGowan Mellor | Posted 09.26.2009 | Politics

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Gail McGowan Mellor

An amendment offered by Senator Ben Nelson [D-FL] would reportedly lower the health care reform bill's cost by an additional $86 billion without reducing services.

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To Succeed, Obama Needs to Channel His Inner LBJ

Steven Hill | Posted 09.22.2009 | Politics

Read More: Lbj, Senate, Barack Obama, Olympia Snow, Harry Reid, Ben Nelson, Lyndon Johnson, Max Baucus, Health Care, Politics News
Steven Hill

When it comes to Obama lining up votes from recalcitrant members of his own party, LBJ's brawling, Southern style of trench politics is the one best suited for the current health care reform challenge.

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Obsessive Compulsive Bipartisanship Disease

David Sirota | Posted 09.17.2009 | Politics

Read More: Ben Nelson, Health Care, Bipartisanship, Sen. Ben Nelson, Senator Ben Nelson, Politics News
David Sirota

There are numerous examples of the fetishization of bipartisanship -- but none have been as blatant as what we see today from Nebraska Sen. Ben Nelson.

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Reid Confident On Eve Of Health Bill's Debut

The Hill | J. Taylor Rushing | Posted 11.15.2009 | Politics

Read More: Health Care Bill, Evan Bayh, Mitch McConnell, Senate Finance Committee, Public Option, Health Education Labor and Pensions Committee, Kent Conrad, Mark Warner, Max Baucus, Harry Reid, Ben Nelson, Politics News

A day before delivery of the Senate's long-awaited healthcare bill, Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) on Tuesday struck a cautiously optimistic tone...

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"Go Out And Make Me Do It"

Peter Dreier | Posted 11.09.2009 | Politics

Read More: Evan Bayh, Insurance Companies, Ben Nelson, Health Care for America Now, Public Option, Grassroots, Hcan, Barack Obama, Insurance Industry, Jeff Bingman, Mary Landreiu, Activists, Max Baucus, Kent Conrad, Health Care, Blanch Lincoln, Obama Speech to Congress, Politics News
Peter Dreier

Having a president who inspires people to act collectively on their own behalf can make a difference. It gives people hope and courage to defy obstacles.

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The President's Speech

Robert L. Borosage | Posted 11.09.2009 | Politics

Read More: Obama Speech, Health Care, Olympia Snowe, Joint Session, Senate, Congress, Barack Obama, Health Care Reform, Ben Nelson, President, Politics News
Robert L. Borosage

The President gives a great speech. He challenged politicians and Americans to do "great things," because that is "who we are." Once more, he offers his hand; once more it is spit upon.

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Hitting the Jackpot

Mike Lux | Posted 11.09.2009 | Politics

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Mike Lux

This was one of the very best Presidential speeches I have ever heard. And more importantly, Barack Obama did everything he needed to do.

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Despite Fears, Health Care Overhaul Is Moving Ahead

New York Times | Sheryl Gay Stolberg | Posted 11.09.2009 | Politics

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WASHINGTON -- The conventional wisdom, here and around the country, is that the centerpiece of President Obama's domestic agenda -- remaking the healt...

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Obama Healthcare Speech: How To Watch it

New York Times | David M. Herszenhorn | Posted 11.09.2009 | Politics

Read More: Susan Collins, Raul Grijalva, Mike Ross, Ben Nelson, Senior Citizens, Chuck Grassley, Public Option, Mike Enzi, Olympia Snowe, President Obama, Medicare, Bipartisanship, Mary Landrieu, Healthcare Reform, Politics News

In his speech to Congress at 8 p.m. Wednesday, President Obama will press his case for major health care legislation, not just with lawmakers in the a...

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Ben Nelson: Back To Opposing the Public Option

The Huffington Post | Rachel Weiner | Posted 10.20.2009 | Politics

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Sen. Ben Nelson (D-Neb.) has managed to keep his position on a public health care option maddeningly opaque for months. First, he said he was against ...

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