Why We Can't Afford to Fail: A Blue Dog for Reform
As a member of the fiscally conservative Blue Dogs, I believe this health care reform legislation is an opportunity our nation cannot afford to miss.
As a member of the fiscally conservative Blue Dogs, I believe this health care reform legislation is an opportunity our nation cannot afford to miss.
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...
Veronica De La Cruz | Posted 11.06.2009 | Politics
Being excluded from the health care system because of a preexisting condition robbed my only sibling of his fair chance at life, and it robbed all of us of his gifts, talents and love.
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 11.06.2009 | Politics
With the House of Representatives set to vote on health care reform during a session on Saturday, the White House announced its support for the legisl...
AP | ANDREW TAYLOR | Posted 10.08.2009 | Politics
WASHINGTON — Despite a vague veto threat by President Barack Obama, the House on Thursday easily passed a major defense policy bill that calls f...
AP | JIM ABRAMS | Posted 08.29.2009 | Politics
WASHINGTON — The House took emergency steps Wednesday to keep vital federal programs from going broke while Congress is absent next month, remov...
Wall Street Journal | James Stewart | Posted 11.01.2008 | Business
They're angry and they're not going to take it anymore. That's the message opponents of the proposed financial rescue, now widely derided as a bailou...
Wallstrip | Posted 11.01.2008 | Business
Wallstrip's Julie Alexandria hit the street to see what people in New York think of the bailout plan -- and its failure in the House of Representative...
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 10.30.2008 | Politics
At 5:15 p.m Monday evening, Sen. John McCain addressed a pool of reporters in Ohio, declaring that it was not the appropriate time or place for people...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 10.30.2008 | Politics
Once the press is finished chewing over whether it was the monolithic left or the monolithic right that doomed the passage of whatever rough beast had...
Time | Posted 10.30.2008 | Politics
I don't blame John McCain for not rounding up enough Republican votes to get this bailout bill through the House of Representatives--he's not a member...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jed Lewison | Posted 10.30.2008 | Politics
Moments after the Dow Jones largest single-day point drop ever, the McCain campaign went on the warpath, blaming Barack Obama for the crash of the bai...
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 10.30.2008 | Politics
A prominent GOP strategist said on Monday that John McCain handled his role in the bailout process poorly and would ultimately be hurt politically by ...
Huffington Post | Dave Burdick | Posted 10.30.2008 | Business
Today, the House of Representatives denied the bailout deal negotiated by Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson, President George W. Bush and Congressional...
Posted 10.30.2008 | Politics
Joe Klein: I do blame McCain for his puerile histrionics and for dragging this issue--which should have been above partisanship--into presidential po...
HuffingtonPost.com | Seth Colter Walls | Posted 10.30.2008 | Politics
At a press conference held mere moments after Monday's defeat of the $250 billion bailout proposal, several top Republicans nominated a scapegoat for ...
David Sirota | Posted 10.30.2008 | Politics
Will the Democratic leadership make this bill a vehicle for the kind of New Deal-style investments and regulations that are necessary to start rebuilding this country, and pass this bill with full Democratic support?
AP | JULIE HIRSCHFELD DAVIS | Posted 10.30.2008 | Business
WASHINGTON — In a vote that shook the government, Wall Street and markets around the world, the House on Monday defeated a $700 billion emergenc...
Rep. Patrick Murphy | Posted 11.07.2009 | Politics