My question again: How is debating something for more than six decades a "rush?"
Allison Kilkenny | Posted 08.18.2009 | Politics
The day before six centrist Senators signed a letter to halt health care reform, citizens were lining up for health care provided by Remote Area Medical, a non-profit relief corps dedicated to providing free health care.
Paul Blumenthal | Posted 08.17.2009 | Politics
Six senators called for a seventy day hold on voting on health care reform legislation today. Each of these senators has raised at least $1 million from the health and insurance sectors over their careers.
HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 08.17.2009 | Politics
A bipartisan group of centrist and conservative senators sent a letter to the Democratic and Republican leaders on Friday urging delay in consideratio...
Dan Sweeney | Posted 08.01.2009 | Politics
Susan Collins and Olympia Snowe lost a huge amount of power yesterday. The battle to get to 60 votes was focused primarily on them, but now the focus will be on moderate Democrats rather than moderate Republicans.
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 07.11.2009 | Politics
The Senate Republican who is front and center in the health care debate has received more than $1 million in campaign contributions from the health ca...
Mike Lux | Posted 07.03.2009 | Politics
If conservative Democrats force the adoption of the trigger, a proposal that will kill the public option in health care insurance, it will destroy Democratic unity and doom health care reform.
Politico | Posted 06.26.2009 | Politics
A bit of relevant history: Five Seven current Senate Republicans -- plus Arlen Specter -- voted for Sonia Sotomayor during her highly contested federa...
Stefan Deeran | Posted 06.21.2009 | Politics
Snowe believes that a government-run health care system may be the only way to respond to the health care crisis.
Kate Clinton | Posted 06.21.2009 | Politics
A strong moderate Republican Party might save the Democrats from themselves but not by trying tag it "the Democrat-Socialist Party," calling for secessions or tea-bagging its way into activism.
Sandy Maisel | Posted 06.14.2009 | Politics
Holds are inherently undemocratic. The filibuster was never meant to be used for such purposes. And it is time for the United States Senate to mend its ways.
Nancy L. Cohen | Posted 09.22.2009 | Politics
Will the GOP continue as the zombie of American politics, returning to life after each purported death, more monstrous in each incarnation?
Paul Jenkins | Posted 06.08.2009 | Politics
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.
Manisha Sinha | Posted 06.08.2009 | Politics
Commentators view the rapid exit of moderates like Senator Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania from the GOP as a culmination of its increasing political narrowness and ideological rigidity.
Rick Horowitz | Posted 05.31.2009 | Politics
Pure like ice. Pure like fire. That's the way they wanted it. That's the way they'd have it, and they'd leave no tone unspurned. Only true believer...
Sandy Maisel | Posted 05.30.2009 | Politics
The Specter switch should be more than a wake-up call for Republicans. It should be a sign for all in Washington that the governing process is out of whack.
Andy Ostroy | Posted 05.30.2009 | Politics
Spector's no dummy. He knows the highly effective and stauchly conservative Club for Growth will lavish support and money on a much more radically right-wing 2010 GOP primary opponent.
New York Times | OLYMPIA SNOWE | Posted 05.29.2009 | Politics
IT is disheartening and disconcerting, at the very least, that here we are today -- almost exactly eight years after Senator Jim Jeffords left the Rep...
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.29.2009 | Politics
Reaction from top GOP officials to the defection of Sen. Arlen Specter has been decidedly mixed. The less orthodox are interpreting the news as a vali...
Michael Rowe | Posted 05.29.2009 | Politics
The GOP has long prided itself on tarring the Democrats with "being out of touch with mainstream American values." Today, that tag seems more applicable to them.
HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 05.29.2009 | Politics
Sen. Olympia Snowe of Maine, one of the few remaining moderate Republicans in the Senate, said Tuesday that Arlen Specter's abandonment of the GOP is ...
Art Levine | Posted 05.28.2009 | Politics
The conventional wisdom among members of the Washington punditocracy is that the EFCA is essentially dead or doomed, in part because of the defections of moderate Senators Specter and Lincoln.
HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 04.25.2009 | Politics
Federal stimulus dollars have begun to flow, initiating an "amazing" number of projects and creating jobs, Sen. Olympia Snowe (R-Maine) said Wednesday...
HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 04.20.2009 | Politics
Congressional Democrats need to stand up for themselves when they disagree with President Obama, Sen. Olympia Snowe (R-Maine) said on Thursday evening...
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 04.18.2009 | Politics
Had Congress ultimately passed Sen. Ron Wyden and Sen. Olympia Snowe's proposal to tax a portion of bonuses issued by bailout recipients, the governme...
David Sirota | Posted 08.23.2009 | Politics