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Jane Harman

Before We Pass Health Insurance Reform, We Must Do More to Limit Big Pharma's Monopoly on Biologics

Marcy Winograd | Posted 11.02.2009 | Politics

Read More: Pharmaceutical Industry, Hiv, Jane Harman, Breast Cancer, Biologics, Anna Eshoo, Health Insrance Reform, Big Pharma, Marcy Winograd, Aids, Jane Hamsher, Biolsimilars, Health Care, Politics News
Marcy Winograd

In Congress, I will work to support affordable prices on biologics, so that victims of cancer, HIV, diabetes, Parkinsons, rheumatoid arthritis, and multiple sclerosis can afford the medicine they need to stay alive.

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No Diet COLA for Seniors -- Fight the Freeze and Save Social Security

Marcy Winograd | Posted 10.24.2009 | Politics

Read More: Primary Challenger, Anthony Weiner, Social Security, Jane Harman, Joe Lieberman, George Voinovich, 36th Congressional District Race, Marcy Winograd, Social-Security-Cost-of-Living-Adjustment, Social Security Trust Fund, Politics News
Marcy Winograd

If we accept the 2010 COLA freeze, if seniors fail to grab their bullhorns, then we may be looking at another freeze in 2012, 2013 and beyond, while the Right continues to hammer away at the big lie -- that we cannot afford Social Security.

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You Ain't Nothin' But a Blue Dog

Robert J. Elisberg | Posted 10.15.2009 | Politics

Read More: George Bush, Talking Points Memo, Brentwood, Orange County, Jane Harman, Iraq War, Loretta Sanchez, Los Angeles, Blue Dog Democrats, Politics News
Robert J. Elisberg

I'm glad to know that Reps. Harman and Sanchez have joined the growing call for a public option. But for the life of me, I do not understand what took Jane Harman so long.

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Why We're Breaking With the Blue Dogs on the Public Option

Rep. Jane Harman | Posted 10.13.2009 | Politics

Read More: Jane Harman, Public Option, Health Care Reform, Blue Dogs, Loretta Sanchez, Health Care, Obama Public Option, Blue Dog Democrats, California, Politics News
Rep. Jane Harman

We understand the fear of many insured Californians that health care reform will revoke their current doctors and coverage. But the grim reality is that many more insured people will lose their coverage without reform.

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It's the corruption, stupid!

Rep. Jane Harman | Posted 11.11.2009 | Politics

Read More: Corruption, Rep. Jane Harman, Jane Harman, Afghanistan, Stanley McChrystal, Jon Kyl, Afghanistan Troop Levels, Afghanistan War, US Troop Levels, Politics News
Rep. Jane Harman

Success in Afghanistan is essential; the United States has invested too many troops and too much treasure to fail. But raising troop levels is the wrong place to start the discussion of how to move forward.

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The Seven Unsung Heroes of Washington Fashion

Karin Tanabe | Posted 10.17.2009 | Style

Read More: Valerie Jarrett, Michelle Obama, Jane Harman, David Dreier, Kathleen Sebelius, Style, Maria Cantwell, Desiree Rogers, Gary Ackerman, Fashion, John Thune, Barack Obama, John Kerry 2004, Style News
Karin Tanabe

Michelle Obama and her well-dressed entourage came to town and Washingtonians aren't likened to burlap-clad trolls anymore.

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Winograd For Congress Sponsors Rare Reading of "My Name Is Rachel Corrie"

Linda Milazzo | Posted 09.08.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: New York Theater Workshop, Rachel Corrie, Palestinian Territory, Demolitions, My Name Is Rachel Corrie, Jane Harman, Israel, Palestine, Aipac, Congress, Levantine Center, Marcy Winograd, Entertainment News
Linda Milazzo

Progressive Democrat Marcy Winograd is bringing Rachel's story to LA to support President Obama's call to freeze further expansion of Israeli settlements into the Palestinian territory.

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Jeff Muskus

Waxman: Health Care On Track To Meet Deadline

HuffingtonPost.com | Jeff Muskus | Posted 08.20.2009 | Politics

Read More: Mike Ross, Jane Harman, Health Care Reform, House Health Care Bill, Henry Waxman, Health Care, Health Reform, House Energy and Commerce Committee, Politics News

Democrats on the Energy and Commerce Committee met behind closed doors Monday as they worked to become the third and final House committee to approve ...

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Obama and Anti-War Democrats

Norman Solomon | Posted 07.19.2009 | Politics

Read More: Eric Massa, Jim McDermott, Rahm Emanuel, Chellie Pingree, Jane Harman, Peter DeFazio, Donna Edwards, Alan Grayson, Marcy Winograd, Barack Obama, Jared Polis, Jackie Speier, Politics News
Norman Solomon

Progressives across the country should plan on giving special support to anti-war democrats Edwards, Grayson, Massa, Pingree, Polis and Speier in 2010.

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Jane Harman: Napolitano Should Kill Spy Satellite Office

Politico | GLENN THRUSH | | Posted 07.13.2009 | Politics

Read More: Jane Harman, Harman Napolitan, Spy Satellites, Jane Harman Spy Satellites, National Applications Office, Jane Harman Janet Napolitano, Janet Napolitano, Politics News

Rep. Jane Harman and Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano are old friends, but that isn't stopping Harman from calling out Napolitano for slow...

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Ryan Grim

Blue Dogs Backsliding On Anti-Health Care Reform Backsliding

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 07.10.2009 | Politics

Read More: Blue Dogs, Harman Health Care, Jane Harman, Jane Harman Health Care, Jane Harman Health Care Policy, Blue Dog Health Care Policy, Politics News

Rep. Jane Harman (D-Calif.) is "unwavering" in her opposition to a Blue Dog Coalition health care position issued late last week, she said Tuesday. Th...

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Jane Harman: Shut Down Domestic Spy Office

Politico | Posted 07.09.2009 | Politics

Read More: Harman Wiretapped, Jane Harman Wiretapped, Jane Harman, Jane Harman Spy Office, Jane Harman Wiretapping, Harman Wiretapping, Harman Spy Office, Israel, Politics News

The infamously wiretapped Jane Harman wants to shut down the federal agency slated to oversee the use of satellites for spying on U.S. residents suspe...

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Second Thoughts on Cheney Indictment: Pardon Him ... And Others Too

Lanny Davis | Posted 06.28.2009 | Politics

Read More: Democratic Congress, Bush Administration Torture, Jane Harman, Cia Waterboarding, Richard Nixon, Guantanamo Torture, Gop, Obama Administration, Cheney Torture, Waterboarding, Dick Cheney, Politics News
Lanny Davis

Obama should pardon not only Mr. Cheney, but everyone else in the prior administration who approved or knew about the illegal water-boarding and other enhanced interrogation techniques.

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What, Exactly, Was Pelosi Supposed to Do?

Chris Weigant | Posted 06.18.2009 | Politics

Read More: Harman, Jingoism, Abuse, Central Intelligence Agency, Cia, Leon Panetta, Truth Commission, Jane Harman, Cheney, Democratic, Majority, Media, Policy, Bush Policy, Cindy Sheehan, Republican, Bush, Pelosi, National Security, Nancy Pelosi, Waterboard, Speaker, Briefed, House, Panetta, Interrogation, Amnesty, Democrat, Treason, Speaker of the House, Enhanced Interrogation Techniques, Congress, Press, Democrats, Detainee, Briefing, Classified, Prisoner, Secret, Chris Weigant, Traitor, Leak, Waterboarding, Minority, Senate, Classified Information, Torture, Politics News
Chris Weigant

Pelosi can be defended for being in an impossible situation at the time. Even if she disagreed with the policy, there simply wasn't much for her to do about it.

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Election Trouble for Jane Harman

Norman Solomon | Posted 06.12.2009 | Politics

Read More: Warrantless Wiretapping, Civil Liberties, Progressive Democrats of America, Marcy Winograd, Democrats, War, Jane Harman, Politics News
Norman Solomon

Congresswoman Harman provides a particularly spectacular example of an officeholder who has boosted militarism while helping to undermine civil liberties and human rights.

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Specter: Loyal Opportunists

Paul Jenkins | Posted 06.08.2009 | Politics

Read More: Tom Ridge, George W. Bush, Jane Harman, Connecticut, Immigration, Iraq, Mary Landrieu, Democratic Party, Guns, Same-Sex Marriage, California, Moderates, Charlie Crist, Mark Kirk, Gay Rights, New Jersey, Conservatives, Maine, Katrina, Republican Party, Illinois, Abortion, Arlen Specter, John McCain, Florida, Louisiana, Olympia Snowe, Mitt Romney, Massachusetts, Texas, Pennsylvania, Civil Unions, Kay Bailey Hutchison, Barack Obama, New York, Susan Collins, Jon Corzine, Jon Huntsman, South, Israel, Christopher Christie, Joe Lieberman, Pat Toomey, Utah, Kirsten Gillibrand, Chuck Schumer, Politics News
Paul Jenkins

There is little doubt that the country has made a political left-turn, leaving opportunistic moderates from both parties scrambling to find their cherished middle.

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Rep. Jane Harman Rails Against Wiretapping That Ensnared Her

Washington Post | Mary Beth Sheridan | Posted 06.03.2009 | Politics

Read More: Jane Harman AIPAC, Jane Harman Wiretapped, Jane Harman, Jane Harman Nsa, Jane Harman Wiretapping, Harman Wiretapping, Politics News

Rep. Jane Harman vowed yesterday to clear her name after the revelation of a wiretapped conversation in which she reportedly agreed to intervene in th...

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The AIPAC Case in Washington, Iraq, and Beyond

David Bromwich | Posted 06.02.2009 | Politics

Read More: Aipac, Jane Harman AIPAC, Steven Rosen, Jane Harman, Keith Weissman, Israel, Obama AIPAC, Politics News
David Bromwich

Like many stories about Israel and the neoconservatives, the prehistory of the case against Rosen and Weissman lies somewhere in the run-up and immediate aftermath of the war in Iraq.

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Pelosi Harman

Jeff Danziger | Posted 05.29.2009 | Comedy

Read More: Barbara Boxer, Jane Harman, Diane Feinstein, Nancy Pelosi, Political Cartoons, Cartoon, Comedy News
Jeff Danziger

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CIA 'Whistleblower' Informed Hastert Of Harman Wiretap Being Suppressed

CQ | Posted 05.28.2009 | Politics

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Former House Speaker J. Dennis Hastert says he learned from a CIA-connected "whistleblower" in 2006 that Bush administration officials were suppressin...

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Pelosi Now Says She Was Told Of Harman Wiretap

CNN | Posted 05.24.2009 | Politics

Read More: Pelosi Harman, Jane Harman AIPAC, Jane Harman Nsa, Jane Harman, Pelosi Harman Wiretap, Rep. Jane Harman, Nancy Pelosi, Politics News

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Wednesday she had been informed that Rep. Jane Harman had been picked up on a wiretap -- after Tuesday telling reporte...

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Who Gets the Prize for the Most Stupid Behavior in the Jane Harman Fracas?

Dan Fleshler | Posted 05.23.2009 | World

Read More: Aipac, Stephen Rosen, Jane Harman, Israel, Fbi, World News
Dan Fleshler

I believe we now have incontrovertible proof of the utter stupidity exhibited by some of the main players.

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Prosecutors Considering Dropping Espionage Charges Against Former AIPAC Lobbyists

Jerry Markon | Jerry Markon | Posted 05.22.2009 | Politics

Read More: Aipac, Steven Rosen, Keith Weissman, Espionage Act, Jane Harman, Politics News

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Harman "Disappointed" By NSA Wiretapping She Voted To Allow

Think Progress | Posted 05.22.2009 | Politics

Read More: Nsa, Rep. Jane Harman, Jane Harman Nsa, Jane Harman, Jane Harman Wiretapping, NSA Wiretapping, Jane Harmon MSNBC, Politics News

On Sunday, CQ reported that the NSA had wiretapped Rep. Jane Harman (D-CA), listening in on a call in which she apparently offered a quid pro quo to a...

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Ryan Grim

Pelosi Denies Being Threatened By Funder Over Harman

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 05.22.2009 | Politics

Read More: Nsa, Haim Saban, Jane Harman, Nancy Pelosi, National Security Agency, Politics News

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) denied Tuesday that a Democratic donor, Haim Saban, threatened to withhold campaign contributions if Pelosi woul...

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