Reid Slams Broder: A Retiree Who 'Writes A Column Once In A While'
Speaking from the Senate floor on Saturday, Majority Leader Harry Reid had some harsh words for Washington Post columnist David Broder. Reid was resp...
Speaking from the Senate floor on Saturday, Majority Leader Harry Reid had some harsh words for Washington Post columnist David Broder. Reid was resp...
AP/ The Huffington Post | Posted 11.21.2009 | Politics
WASHINGTON — Democratic leaders secured the last two votes to move ahead on historic health care legislation, clearing the way for a Saturday ni...
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 11.20.2009 | Politics
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) argued last Sunday that Republicans deserve at least six additional weeks to consider health care reform...
TIME | Karen Tumulty / Washington Thursday, Nov. 19, 2009 | Posted 11.19.2009 | Politics
With health reform's first test vote on the Senate floor less than 72 hours away, a platoon of top strategists -- including pollsters Mark Mellman and...
The New York Review Of Books | Michael Tomasky | Posted 11.12.2009 | Politics
So what did the House Blue Dogs do on the health care vote last Saturday? They were more supportive than one might think: Of the fifty-two-member coal...
Joe The Nerd Ferraro | Posted 11.10.2009 | Politics
The problem is the Democrats in Congress pride themselves in being a bunch of twigs. By not sticking together, they lost for everybody.
New York Times | SHERYL GAY STOLBERG | Posted 11.10.2009 | Politics
As health care legislation moves toward a crucial airing in the Senate, the White House is facing a growing revolt from some Democrats and analysts wh...
The Washington Post | Ezra Klein | Posted 11.09.2009 | Politics
Rep. Jim Cooper (D-Tenn.) knows as much about health-care policy as anyone in Congress. He teaches the subject back home in Tennessee, promoted his ow...
HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 11.08.2009 | Politics
CORRECTION: From my vantage point in the press gallery, it looked as if Rep. Don Young (R-Alaska) was leaning on Cao to oppose the bill. But according...
The Huffington Post | Lila Shapiro | Posted 11.07.2009 | Politics
Early Friday afternoon, Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) announced his intentions to wrap the Capitol building in a massive copy of the 1,900-page health bill...
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 11.07.2009 | Politics
Hoping to pull together the needed Democratic support to get health care reform through the House of Representatives, President Barack Obama urged mem...
The Huffington Post | Ryan Grim, Sam Stein, Lila Shapiro, & Nico Pitney | Posted 11.08.2009 | Politics
After months of debate, the House of Representatives passed historic health care reform legislation late on Saturday evening. Read the overview AP cov...
AP | DAVID ESPO | Posted 11.08.2009 | Politics
WASHINGTON — In a victory for President Barack Obama, the Democratic-controlled House narrowly passed landmark health care legislation Saturday ...
AP | DAVID ESPO | Posted 11.08.2009 | Politics
WASHINGTON — In a victory for President Barack Obama, the Democratic-controlled House narrowly passed landmark health care legislation Saturday ...
HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 10.28.2009 | Politics
As Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid works to cobble together the 60 votes he needs to overcome an expected Republican attempt to block a floor vote o...
The Plum Line | Greg Sargent | Posted 10.27.2009 | Politics
The House Dem leadership has conducted its preliminary whip count and has tallied up less than 200 likely Yes votes in support of a health care reform...
Posted 10.14.2009 | Politics
(AP) WASHINGTON - A second Republican senator signaled Wednesday she's open to voting for sweeping health care legislation this year, putting Presiden...
ABC News | Jake Tapper | Posted 10.13.2009 | Politics
Health insurance stocks took a dive Tuesday, with the S&P Health Care Sector index becoming the worst-performing segment of the S&P 500, largely becau...
Politics Daily | Patricia Murphy | Posted 10.13.2009 | Politics
If you've been following the health care debate closely, you probably know the basics of the Senate Finance Committee's version of health care reform ...
New York Times | Carl Hulse | Posted 09.28.2009 | Politics
As Congress prepares to hit the restart button on the health care debate, Senator Olympia J. Snowe does not relish the prospect of becoming a Group of...
FiveThirtyEight.com | Posted 09.01.2009 | Politics
Last night, the Energy and Commerce Committee voted 31-28 to approve a compromise version of the Democrats' health care reform bill. As the Energy and...
AP/CNN | Posted 08.29.2009 | Politics
UPDATE 7/30: CNN is reporting that key GOP Senators Charles Grassley (R-Iowa) and Mike Enzi (R-Wyoming) are saying a health care deal is out of reach...
AP | Posted 08.29.2009 | Home
WASHINGTON — Democrats say the full House won't vote on sweeping health care legislation until September. It's part of a three-way deal between...
HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 08.15.2009 | Politics
The Senate Health Education Labor and Pensions Committee approved a historic overhaul of the health care system on a party-line vote Wednesday morning...
The Huffington Post | Lila Shapiro | Posted 11.21.2009 | Politics