GOP Senator: We Will Unanimously Oppose Newest Health Care Compromise
Senate Republicans predicted on Wednesday that the 40 members of their caucus would unanimously oppose health care reform despite changes made by Demo...
Senate Republicans predicted on Wednesday that the 40 members of their caucus would unanimously oppose health care reform despite changes made by Demo...
The Hill | Sam Youngman | Posted 12.04.2009 | Politics
White House press secretary Robert Gibbs told reporters in his West Wing office Friday that the Republican Party's approval rating is "only slightly a...
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 12.01.2009 | Politics
Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) introduced the first Republican amendment to the Senate's version of health care reform on Monday. In doing so, he placed h...
Will Marshall | Posted 11.23.2009 | Politics
In taking a purely obstructionist stance, the GOP has evinced scant empathy for tens of millions of fellow Americans who lack basic protection against illness or injury. So much for compassionate conservatism.
The Huffington Post | Sam Stein | Posted 11.07.2009 | Politics
House Republicans introduced their outlines for health care reform this past week to much anticipation. The minority leadership had pledged to produce...
The Daily Beast | Benjamin Sarlin | Posted 11.06.2009 | Politics
Michele Bachmann took her paranoid campaign against the White House to new heights on Thursday, leading a mass protest inside the Capitol itself that ...
The Huffington Post | Elyse Siegel | Posted 11.06.2009 | Politics
Because the first one apparently didn't do it, Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) issued a statement today calling for a second "House Call" protest against hea...
Deepak Bhargava | Posted 11.06.2009 | Politics
Some had the audacity to hope that the Republicans would work with the President to solve health care. Now, it's clear they are putting insurance industry profits above the health of America's families.
New York Times | David Herszenhorn | Posted 11.04.2009 | Politics
The Congressional Budget Office said on Wednesday that an alternative health care bill put forward by House Republicans would have little impact in ex...
The Huffington Post | Elyse Siegel | Posted 11.04.2009 | Politics
Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) was caught off guard when pressed about health care in Washington D.C. earlier this week. In footage of the incident poste...
The Huffington Post | Elyse Siegel | Posted 11.02.2009 | Politics
Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-N.C.) claimed on Monday that health care reform is a bigger threat than terrorism -- the latest incendiary comment from a Republ...
The Washington Post | Philip Rucker | Posted 11.02.2009 | Politics
If history had taken a different course, Doug Holtz-Eakin would be inside the McCain White House driving the Republican president's domestic agenda, i...
Think Progress | Faiz Shakir | Posted 10.29.2009 | Politics
Republicans have been insisting for months that Democrats are shoving a secret bill down the throats of the American public. The health reform legisla...
Think Progress | Victor Zapanta | Posted 10.29.2009 | Politics
House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-OH) and House Republican Conference Chairman Mike Pence (R-IN) held a press conference today to explain why prog...
The Hill | Molly K. Hooper | Posted 10.27.2009 | Politics
Some House Republicans are growing frustrated that their leaders have not yet introduced a healthcare reform alternative. For months, the message fro...
The Huffington Post | Elyse Siegel | Posted 10.23.2009 | Politics
On Thursday, Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-N.Y.) called on 55 Republican adversaries of the public option to give up their government-funded health insurance...
Washington Post | Ben Pershing | Posted 10.10.2009 | Politics
The House is inching closer to voting on a comprehensive health-care bill, even as the chamber appears so divided that the measure may not attract a s...
The Plum Line | Greg Sargent | Posted 10.08.2009 | Politics
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 ...
Wall Street Journal | Thomas Frank | Posted 10.07.2009 | Politics
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...
New York Times | David M. Herszenhorn | Posted 10.05.2009 | Politics
In a statement distributed by the White House Monday, Tommy Thompson -- the former Republican presidential candidate, health and human services secret...
Time | Karen Tumulty | Posted 12.02.2009 | Politics
Or so the former Senate Republican Leader, a surgeon who has written a new book on health care, told me a few minutes ago in an interview. Were he st...
Daily Beast | Benjamin Sarlin | Posted 12.02.2009 | Politics
Alan Grayson's anti-GOP rant on health care made the Florida congressman a liberal hero--and the right's favorite new whipping boy. Is this a ticket t...
AP | CHARLES BABINGTON | Posted 12.02.2009 | Politics
WASHINGTON — Even as Republicans pummel President Barack Obama's health care proposals, some GOP leaders worry their party is being hurt by a De...
POLITICO | Glenn Thrush | Posted 12.01.2009 | Politics
House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio) has just more or less dared proponents of a public option to bombard his office with their expressions of ...
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 11.30.2009 | Politics
The White House is getting a boost in its efforts to pass health care reform from a potential 2012 opponent. Press Secretary Robert Gibbs urged Repub...
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 12.09.2009 | Politics