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The Craziest Examples Of Congressional Theatrics (VIDEO)

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 11.11.2009 | Politics

Read More: Slidepoll, House of Representatives, U.S. Congress, Tom Latham, George Voinovich, Alan Grayson, Peter Roskam, John Shadegg, Frank Lautenberg, U.S. Senate, Video, Michele Bachmann, Orrin Hatch, Slideshow, Chuck Grassley, Politics News

Elyse Siegel contributed to this story Just over twenty years ago, the cable industry launched the Cable-Satellite Public Affairs Network -- better k...

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Food Lobby Mobilizes, As Soda Tax Bubbles Up

HuffPost Investigative Fund | Posted 11.05.2009 | Green

Read More: Funds, Fast Food, Congress, Nhma, Snapple, Senate Finance Committee, Lobbyists, Agriculture, American Beverage Association, Soda Tax, Food Loby, Funding, Hispanics, National Corn Growers Association, Health Insurance, Policy, National Hispanic Medical Associaiton, Huffington Post Investigative Fund, Coca-Cola, Soft Drinks, Chuck Grassley, Dr. Pepper, Food Politics, Health Care, Beverage Tax, Aba, Lobbying, Corn, Americans Against Food Taxes, Supermarkets, Coke, Alex Padilla, Pepsi, Corn Syrup, Nutrition, Grocery Stores, Health Care Reform, Max Baucus, Green News

By Christine Spolar, Huffington Post Investigative Fund and Joseph Eaton, Staff Writer, Center for Public Integrity Washington lobbyists have been en...

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What's the Role of Fiction In a World Gone Completely Berserk?

John Eskow | Posted 10.17.2009 | Media

Read More: Andy Kauffman, Local Tv News, TV News, Chuck Grassley, Glenn Beck, State of the News Media, Tv News Fiction, Media News

Let's take a measured step back and check out the off-the-charts Madness Quotient in just one recent episode of the nightly news.

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Christie Vilsack: Grassley's Unexpected Challenger?

Radio Iowa | O. Kay Henderson | Posted 10.14.2009 | Politics

Read More: Vilsack 2012 Election, Vilsack Iowa Senator, Christie Vilsack, Grassley Seat Challenged, Vilsack Challenge Grassley, Grassley Iowa Senator, Christie Vilsack Senate Run, Chuck Grassley, Grassley 2012 Election, Grassley Re-Election, Politics News

Christie Vilsack, the wife of former Iowa Governor Tom Vilsack, sounds as if she may be the "mystery candidate" the chairman of the Iowa Democratic Pa...

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Thomas Frank: GOP Leaders Treating Health Insurers Like "Panda Bears"

Wall Street Journal | Thomas Frank | Posted 10.07.2009 | Politics

Read More: Public Option, Grassley Health Insurance, Chuck Grassley, President Obama, Gop Health Care, Health Care Reform, Gop Health Insurance, Gop Insurance Industry, Obama Health Care, Grassley Public Option, Grassley Health Care, Health Care Public Option, Health Insurance Reform, Politics News

In June 2008, I used this space to call on then-Sen. Barack Obama to add economist James K. Galbraith's book, "The Predator State," to his reading lis...

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Thomas Frank: Conservatives Treating Health Insurers Like 'Panda Bears' That Need 'Our Nurturing'

wsj.com | THOMAS FRANK | Posted 10.07.2009 | Politics

Read More: The Predator State, Thomas Frank, Chuck Grassley, James Galbraith, Health Insurers, Health Care Reform, Health Insurance, Health Care, Health Insurance Panda Bears, GOP Panda Bears, Grassley Panda Bears, Thomas Frank Health Care Reform, Politics News

In June 2008, I used this space to call on then-Sen. Barack Obama to add economist James K. Galbraith's book, "The Predator State," to his reading lis...

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Ensign Shows There's No Blushing in Politics

Rick Horowitz | Posted 10.02.2009 | Politics

Read More: GOP and Health Care, Health Care Reform Opponents, Congress and Health Care, Charles Grassley, Senate Finance Committee, John Ensign, Health Care Reform, John Ensign Affair, Max Baucus, Republicans, Republicans and Health Care, Chuck Grassley, Democrats, Jon Kyl, Politics News

Here's the inspiring part: the sight of John Ensign sitting behind a microphone and talking about how people need to follow the rules. He can do all this while keeping a straight face!

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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

Read More: Big Pharma, Donut Hole, Chuck Schumer, Congress, New York, Senate Finance Committee, Delaware, Senator, Ny, Tom Carper, Barack Obama, 2009, John Kerry, Pharmaceutical Industry, Senate, Montana, Ma, Chuck Grassley, Baucus Committe, Doughnut Hole, Iowa, Health Care Reform, Max Baucus, Ben Nelson, Florida, Healthcare Reform, Health Care, Massachusets, Fl, De, Ia, Politics News

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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Baucus Bill Hearings Day 1: Heroes--Cantwell, Kerry, Nelson, Wyden. Grumpy Old Men--Republicans. Goat--Tom Carper.

Paul Abrams | Posted 09.23.2009 | Politics

Read More: Ron Wyden, Healthcare Reform, Medicare Part D, John Kerry, Maria Cantwell, Home Healthcare, Medicaid, Chuck Grassley, Chuck Schumer, Seniors, Politics News

Overall, it was a good opening day. One could measure how good it was by the sour faces and wounded-appearing body language of the Republicans.

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Republicans Dominate Twitter, Accounts Double The Dems'

Politico | Posted 09.23.2009 | Technology

Read More: Dana Rohrabacher, Republicans Twitter, John McCain, Mccain Twitter, Jim Demint, Roy Blunt, Twitter, GOP Twitter, John McCain Twitter, Chuck Grassley, Claire McCaskill, Republican Party, Democrats Twitter, Technology News

Nearly twice as many Republicans as Democrats have accounts on the social networking platform Twitter (101 compared with 57), and the GOP dominates Tw...

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Nate Silver: Health Care Is Hazardous To Poll Numbers For Grassley, Other Senators

fivethirtyeight.com | Posted 09.23.2009 | Politics

Read More: Polls, Congress, Health Care Debate, 2010 Elections, Gang of Six, Health Care Negotiations, Health Care Polls, Elections, Nate Silver, Olympia Snow, fivethirtyeight.com, Chuck Grassley, Mike Enzi, Health Care Reform, Max Baucus, Health Care, Blue Dog Democrats, Politics News

One of the things about the so-called Gang of Six -- the group of Senators to which Max Baucus issued an exclusive invitation to participate in health...

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The Gang of Six: An Epic of Futility

Rick Horowitz | Posted 09.17.2009 | Politics

The Baucus Caucus came to town one morning in the early spring, / They said, "You want a health-care bill? Don't sweat -- we'll handle ev'rything!"

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Are We Finally Done With This Bipartisanship BS?

Dan Sweeney | Posted 09.17.2009 | Politics

Read More: Public Option, Chuck Grassley, Mike Enzi, Olympia Snowe, Health Care Reform, Max Baucus, Bipartisanship, Bipartisan, Health Care, Politics News

Max Baucus, in his insistence on bipartisan reform, is almost entirely responsible for the brain-cell-killing month of 'deathers' and 'birthers' we have had to endure.

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Dems May Be Walking Into Republican Health Care "Trap"

Politics Daily | David Corn | Posted 11.16.2009 | Politics

Read More: Jay Rockefeller, Chuck Grassley, Mike Enzi, Olympia Snowe, President Obama, Health Care Reform, Max Baucus, Gang of Six, Democrats, Politics News

Are the Democrats about to walk into a Republican trap on health care? As I monitor the latest back and forth, I feel as if I'm watching a cheesy horr...

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Obama vs. the Lobbyists: A Scorecard for the Future of American Politics

Andy Kroll | Posted 11.15.2009 | Politics

Read More: Health Care Reform, Max Baucus, Chuck Grassley, Health Care, Death Panel, Politics News

Health care may be the most striking example of the extreme lobbying that's been going on in Obama-era Washington, but this sort of lobbying onslaught actually extends to Obama's whole agenda.

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The Weak In Review

Dave Hackel | Posted 11.13.2009 | Politics

Read More: John McCain, Karl Rove, Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Liz Cheney, Lindsay Graham, Joe Wilson, Glenn Beck, Chuck Grassley, Newt Gingrich, Barack Obama, Michael Savage, Jim Greer, Dick Cheney, Politics News

I know for sure that Obama's speech on health care was good because Rush Limbaugh thought it was "disgusting, reprehensible, embarrassing, petulant, divisive and crude."

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Gang Of Six: Who Votes With Whom?

Sunlight Foundation. | Sunlight Foundation | Posted 11.10.2009 | Home

Read More: Transparency, Gang of Six, Max Baucus, Mike Enzi, Kent Conrad, Jeff Bingaman, Chuck Grassley, Olympia Snowe, Health Care, Health Care Reform, Home News

Since the end of July the Senate Finance Committee has been the focus of health care reform discussions. More specifically, the bipartisan “Gang...

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Hatch: I Sincerely Doubt Snowe Or Collins Will Support Health Care Reform

Talking Points Memo | Brian Beutler | Posted 11.10.2009 | Politics

Read More: Susan Collins, Orrin Hatch, Obama Health Care Speech, Chuck Grassley, Mike Enzi, Olympia Snowe, Republicans, President Obama, Politics News

What did conservative Republicans think of President Obama's health care speech last night? Not very much, apparently. Sen Orrin Hatch (R-UT)--who, yo...

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President Must Keep It Simple, Hold On To Public Option Tonight

Scott Foval | Posted 11.09.2009 | Politics

Read More: Obama Speech, Blanche Lincoln, Blue Dogs, Max Baucus, Scottsbigmouth, Congress, Health Care Reform, K.I.S.S., Right Wing, Chuck Grassley, Barack Obama, Politics News

It is time for the Congress to actually deliver real health care coverage for poor, low income, and the uninsured. We must take care of our people, period.

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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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Free Now To Do the Right Thing

Stephen M. Davidson | Posted 11.08.2009 | Home

Read More: Health Care Reform, Health Insurance, Health Care Costs, Health Policy, Chuck Grassley, Mike Enzi, Senator Grassley, Senator Enzi, Home News

Why do people make dysfunctional health care decisions? The main answer is cost.

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Why the President Has Been Losing on Health Care, and What He Needs to Say

Drew Westen | Posted 10.23.2009 | Politics

Read More: Speech on Health Care, Public Option, Roe v Wade, Death Panels, Olympia Snowe, Ronald Reagan, Michael Dukakis, Pension Plans, George Bush, Washington Post, Taxpayers, Economic Recovery, Great Depression, Uninsured, Barack Obama, Chuck Grassley, Al Qaeda, 401k, Bill Clinton, Brown v Board of Education, Health Insurance, Health Care Reform, Fdr, Medicare, Medicaid, Electronic Records, Health Care, Hillary Clinton, Republicans, Politics News

At this historic moment, the White House has determined that the best way to win the center is to tack right. But sometimes, the best way to win the center is not to move to the center, but to move the center.

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The 3 Lost Lessons of Healthcare History: Will Obama Re-Learn Them in Time?

John Neffinger | Posted 10.22.2009 | Politics

The New York Times recently reported that the Obama administration is heeding a list of six lessons from previous efforts to reform health care. Unfortunately, the three most crucial lessons were left off the list.

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Treasury Backs Down In Clash With Bailout Watchdog

AP | JIM KUHNHENN | Posted 10.19.2009 | Politics

Read More: Treasury Department, Senate Finance Committee, Chuck Grassley, Obama Administration, Neil Barofsky, Max Baucus, Justice Department, Sigtarp, Transparency, Politics News

WASHINGTON — The Treasury Department has decided not to challenge the independence of the government watchdog agency that Congress created to ov...

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Gang Of Six Back In Action: Giving Bipartisanship One More Try

POLITICO | Carrie Budoff Brown | Posted 10.19.2009 | Politics

Read More: White House, Jeff Bingaman, Chuck Grassley, Mike Enzi, Kent Conrad, Olympia Snowe, Max Baucus, Bipartisanship, Healthcare Reform, Politics News

Most top Democrats, including senior White House advisers, may no longer expect a health care deal out of the bipartisan "Group of Six," but the senat...

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