Anyone trying to delay the House floor vote on health reform should know they're not leaving until it's done, Majority Leader Steny Hoyer said Friday....
HuffingtonPost.com | Shahien Nasiripour | Posted 10.31.2009 | Business
A leading House Democrat backed away Wednesday from a sweeping proposal that would have watered down a post-Enron reform, permanently exempting small ...
Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 10.22.2009 | Politics
The public option epitaph was written months ago during the more than two dozen secret meetings that Obama and his aides had with the insurance industry and pharmaceutical bigwigs.
HuffingtonPost.com | Tim Taliaferro | Posted 10.21.2009 | Home
After GOP members of the House oversight committee shot footage for a "campaign style video" in the committee room, Democrats responded by changing th...
washingtonpost.com | Dan Balz | Posted 10.17.2009 | Politics
Three forces threaten Democrats in the 2010 elections: populist anger on the right, disaffection in the middle and potential disillusionment on the le...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jeff Muskus | Posted 10.14.2009 | Politics
President Obama may not have a final health reform bill on his desk by the end of the year, but House Democratic leaders are still committed to passin...
Kathleen Wells, J.D. | Posted 10.14.2009 | Politics
"There are people who say that money doesn't really matter in public eduction. If it really doesn't matter, then we should equalize the expenditures. If it does matter, we should equalize the expenditures."
HuffingtonPost.com | Jeff Muskus | Posted 10.08.2009 | Politics
House leadership is still hedging its bets on what version of the public option will make it into the unified House health reform bill, but Speaker Na...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jeff Muskus | Posted 10.06.2009 | Politics
Look for financial regulatory reform to get a House floor vote in November, Majority Leader Steny Hoyer said Tuesday. "We expect to bring that bill t...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jeff Muskus | Posted 12.01.2009 | Politics
Members of the Congressional Progressive Caucus met with House Democratic leaders Thursday afternoon to reiterate their commitment to a strong public ...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jeff Muskus | Posted 11.29.2009 | Politics
The combined House health care reform bill is coming in October, Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) said Tuesday, but there are no hard deadlines for...
The Colorado Independent | Katie Redding | Posted 11.15.2009 | Denver
LEADVILLE -- A long overdue environmental clean-up bill that would see industrially contaminated water evacuated from the Leadville Mine Drainage Tunn...
AP | BETH FOUHY | Posted 11.13.2009 | Politics
NEW YORK — Despite sweeping Democratic successes in the past two national elections, continuing job losses and President Barack Obama's slipping...
HuffingtonPost.com | Shahien Nasiripour | Posted 11.08.2009 | Business
The Democrats' health care plan costs half as much as the two major tax cuts pushed by the George W. Bush administration, according to a report issued...
Washington Post | Paul Kane, Ben Pershing and Perry Bacon Jr. | Posted 10.23.2009 | Politics
After a nearly 40-day recess that was anything but restful, House Democrats are returning to work Tuesday still unsettled over pending health-care leg...
The Plum Line | Greg Sargent | Posted 10.19.2009 | Politics
In a letter that was delivered to the White House moments ago, the two leaders of the bloc of House progressives bluntly told President Obama that the...
Mother Jones | David Corn | Posted 10.18.2009 | Politics
"It had better be wrong." That was the response of Representative Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) to Wednesday's Politico story that the Obama White House, as...
The Plum Line | Greg Sargent | Posted 10.18.2009 | Politics
The poll slide Congressional Dems are enduring right now has increased pressure on Dems to succeed on health care this year, Democratic aides privatel...
Politico | Posted 09.21.2009 | Politics
A day after House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said that health reform won't get through the House without a public option, House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer ...
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein and Ryan Grim | Posted 09.18.2009 | Politics
House Democrats dialed in Tuesday for their weekly caucus meeting and uniformly expressed support for a public health insurance option as part of comp...
The Plum Line | Greg Sargent | Posted 09.17.2009 | Politics
Nancy Pelosi just blasted out this statement signaling that House Dems are standing firm behind the public option, despite the White House's apparent ...
The Huffington Post | Susan Crile | Posted 09.07.2009 | Politics
Rep. Mike Ross on Thursday boasted about how his Blue Dog coalition "held the [health care] bill hostage in committee for 10 days" and prevented a sin...
Beth Shulman | Posted 09.05.2009 | Home
The GOP are shameless in their arguments against Democratic approaches to health care reform. We need health care for every American, regardless of income, and the rich should pay their share.
AP | Posted 09.03.2009 | Politics
WASHINGTON — House Republicans are trying to rebound in the 2010 election from the hit they took last year's contests by targeting 70 districts ...
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 08.30.2009 | Politics
Despite Blue-Dog claims that a compromise they engineered Wednesday would trim $100 billion from the cost of health-care legislation, their weakening ...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jeff Muskus | Posted 11.06.2009 | Politics