House Democrats

Jeff Muskus

Hoyer: House Stays Until Health Care Vote Happens

HuffingtonPost.com | Jeff Muskus | Posted 11.06.2009 | Politics


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....

Shahien Nasiripour

Another House Democrat Backs Away From Loophole In Investor Protection Bill

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 ...

The Public Option is Dead as a Doornail

Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 10.22.2009 | Politics


Earl Ofari Hutchinson

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.

Tim Taliaferro

House Oversight Dems Change Lock On Hearing Room Door After GOP Video

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...

GOP Gaining Advantage In 2010

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...

Jeff Muskus

House Expects Health Care Vote By Christmas

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...

Congressman Chaka Fattah Talks Education

Kathleen Wells, J.D. | Posted 10.14.2009 | Politics


Kathleen Wells, J.D.

"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."

Jeff Muskus

Strong Public Option "Very Close," Pelosi Says

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...

Jeff Muskus

Hoyer: Financial Reform Floor Vote Coming Next Month

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...

Jeff Muskus

Progressives Push Pelosi On Public Option

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 ...

Jeff Muskus

House Leadership Commits To Health Care Bill In October, But Not Specifics

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...

Leadville Contaminated Pipeline Bill To Return To House Floor, Dems Control Schedule

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...

2010 Election: Trouble Brewing For House Democrats

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...

Shahien Nasiripour

Dems' Health Plan Half As Costly As Bush Tax Cuts: Report

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...

Deeply Divided House Democrats Return To Work

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...

House Progressives To Obama: No Public Option, No Support

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...

Nadler: Article On Obama Dropping Public Option "Better Be Wrong"

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...

Health Care Failure Could Mean Electoral Disaster: Dems

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...

Hoyer: Public Option May Have To Go

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 ...

Sam Stein and Ryan Grim

House Dems Rally Behind Public Option In Weekly Caucus Gathering

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...

Pelosi To White House: We're Standing Firm Behind Public Option

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 ...

Top Blue Dog Boasts: "We Held Bill Hostage," Killed Single Payer (VIDEO)

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...

Shame Is the Name of the Game

Beth Shulman | Posted 09.05.2009 | Home


Beth Shulman

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.

House GOP Targeting 70 Democrats In 2010 Rebound Hopes

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 ...

Sam Stein

Blue Dog Compromise Removes Billions In Savings From Public Plan

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 ...