Harry Reid's public option is a token public option -- a fleeting gesture toward the idea of a public option, so small and desiccated as to be barely worth mentioning except that it still contains the word "public."
Politico | Carrie Budoff Brown | Posted 11.19.2009 | Politics
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said the first key test vote on his $848 billion health care bill will be taken Saturday, but he declined to say whe...
Matt Osborne | Posted 11.19.2009 | Media
The Republican strategy of delay escalated their misfortune; their "tea party" movement is a great, big Teabagger Fail, and the media's credibility is shot right along with them.
Mike Lux | Posted 11.19.2009 | Politics
Ever so slowly, painfully, creakily, the Senate is beginning to move forward on debating health care reform. It will all come down to who blinks first: House progressives or Senate conservatives.
Miles J. Zaremski | Posted 11.19.2009 | Politics
After all, if a public option pays for itself, and does not cost a nickel to create and operate, why not allow as many as 80 million citizens to become eligible when any bill becomes law?
HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 11.19.2009 | Politics
Read the bill (PDF). Senate Democrats have posted the legislation on their web site. --------- Senate Democrats made a big step toward comprehensive...
Jerome Karabel | Posted 11.19.2009 | Politics
Paradoxically, the filibuster -- a classic device of obstruction -- may turn out to be the unexpected pathway to health care reform.
Posted 11.17.2009 | Politics
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid met on Monday night with a group of Senate Democrats who urged him not to back down from his decision to put a publi...
The Hill | Mike Soraghan | Posted 11.16.2009 | Politics
House Democratic leaders, worried they've appeared unresponsive to rising unemployment because they were absorbed by healthcare, are aiming for a legi...
Jessica Alba | Posted 11.16.2009 | Impact
Education is the most effective way to fight poverty. Every year a child is out of school is a year they lose in literacy, in health, in opportunity. 2010 is the year for a breakthrough on global education.
Robert Reich | Posted 11.13.2009 | Politics
Nobody promised you this would be easy, Harry. But, hell, why are you there, anyway? Your responsibility is to do the right thing by the American people and bring down future health-care costs.
AP | DAVID ESPO | Posted 11.12.2009 | Politics
WASHINGTON — Majority Leader Harry Reid is considering a plan for higher payroll taxes on the upper-income earners to help finance health care l...
Rebecca Sive | Posted 11.11.2009 | Chicago
Roland could write an epitaph on that vaunted tombstone of his that actually matters. And, Roland, take note: By doing this, you will have saved the lives of millions of American women.
The Hill | Walter Alarkon | Posted 11.11.2009 | Politics
Senate Democrats will take up a new job-creation bill in the wake of the 10.2 percent unemployment rate, Majority Leader Harry Reid told his colleague...
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 11.10.2009 | Politics
Looking to build momentum before the Senate goes on recess, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid reached out to the White House last week to see if the a...
Politics Daily | Sally Denton | Posted 11.09.2009 | Politics
Sue Lowden's campaign to unseat Senate Majority Leader Sen. Harry Reid (D-Nev.) in his 2010 re-election bid took a nosedive when she laughed about an ...
Philip Lee Miller | Posted 11.07.2009 | Politics
You deserve a more articulate answer to the question: just what is the problem?
HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 11.05.2009 | Politics
In order to fund business tax breaks and an extension of a first-time homebuyers tax credit this week, Harry Reid swiped one of Nancy Pelosi's revenue...
Art Levine | Posted 11.05.2009 | Politics
The centrist lobbying powerhouse for the elderly, the American Association for Retired Persons (AARP), is scheduled to endorse the House health care bill despite its possibly flawed public option.
HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 11.05.2009 | Politics
The GOP called for the check Wednesday night, having had enough of the fight over an extension of unemployment benefits that the party had held up for...
Andrew Kreig | Posted 11.05.2009 | Politics
Despite favorable national poll numbers, the public option faces a potentially fatal counter-attack during the weeks ahead because of lack of follow-up by its proponents.
Charles Karel Bouley | Posted 11.04.2009 | Politics
The fact is, no civil right should be left up to the masses. Our founders were very clear about equality in the Constitution.
nytimes.com | JACKIE CALMES | Posted 11.04.2009 | Business
WASHINGTON -- The Senate and House are poised to agree on a compromise measure to extend unemployment benefits that also would expand a popular $8,000...
AP | DAVID ESPO | Posted 11.04.2009 | Politics
WASHINGTON — In a blow to the White House, the Senate's top Democrat signaled Tuesday that Congress may fail to meet a year-end deadline for pas...
The Hill | Alexander Bolton | Posted 11.03.2009 | Politics
Sen. Joe Lieberman has reached a private understanding with Majority Leader Harry Reid that he will not block a final vote on healthcare reform, accor...
Robert Reich | Posted 11.19.2009 | Politics