Mary Landrieu Wooed To Back Health Care With $100 Million For Her State
Louisiana Senator Mary Landrieu, one of three lawmakers being wooed by Democratic leaders to back health-care legislation, won the inclusion of an ext...
Louisiana Senator Mary Landrieu, one of three lawmakers being wooed by Democratic leaders to back health-care legislation, won the inclusion of an ext...
Politico | Carrie Budoff Brown | Posted 11.19.2009 | Politics
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said the first key test vote on his $848 billion health care bill will be taken Saturday, but he declined to say whe...
Suzanne Langlois | Posted 11.19.2009 | Politics
Senator Joseph Lieberman is the rarest of creatures, a political Chimera. He calls himself an Independent, caucuses with the Democrats and is at his core a staunch conservative.
latimes.com | Noam N. Levey and Janet Hook | Posted 11.19.2009 | Politics
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) on Wednesday unveiled his long-awaited plan for expanding medical coverage to millions more Americans over ...
HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 11.18.2009 | Politics
The health care reform package unveiled by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) Wednesday night bars the use of federal funds for abortion servi...
Politics Daily | Patricia Murphey | Posted 11.17.2009 | Politics
Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) told Politics Daily Tuesday that he plans to introduce an amendment to the Senate health care reform bill similar to the ame...
The Stamford Advocate | Devon Lash | Posted 11.16.2009 | Politics
Quietly holding candles, hundreds of clergymen, congregants and reform advocates lined the sidewalks outside Independent U.S. Sen. Joe Lieberman's Sta...
The Daily Beast | Benjamin Sarlin | Posted 11.10.2009 | Politics
When Sen. Joe Lieberman issued fresh threats to filibuster any health-care reform proposal including a public option, he did more than just blunt the ...
AP | DAVID ESPO | Posted 11.11.2009 | Politics
WASHINGTON — Former President Bill Clinton urged Senate Democrats on Tuesday to pass health care legislation by year's end, pointedly telling sk...
AP | Posted 11.09.2009 | Politics
WASHINGTON — Abortion opponents in the Senate want tough restrictions in the health care overhaul bill, similar to the limits passed by the Hous...
The Huffington Post | Elyse Siegel | Posted 11.05.2009 | Politics
Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) was pressed earlier this week on whether he knew how many constituents in his district were uninsured. The conservative congr...
The Los Angeles Times | Tom Hamburger and Kim Geiger | Posted 11.03.2009 | Politics
Reporting from Washington - Backed by some of the most powerful members of the Senate, a little-noticed provision in the healthcare overhaul bill woul...
New York Times | Robert Pear and Sheryl Gay Stolberg | Posted 11.02.2009 | Politics
After months of plodding work by five Congressional committees and weeks of back-room bargaining by Democratic leaders, President Obama's arms-length ...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jeff Muskus | Posted 10.22.2009 | Politics
Sen. Olympia Snowe (R-Maine), the most likely Republican vote for the Democratic health care bill, told reporters Thursday that she would not vote to ...
AP | Posted 10.13.2009 | Politics
WASHINGTON — About 30 unions will run a full-page ad in newspapers Wednesday announcing their opposition to the Senate Finance Committee's healt...
Bloomberg | James Rowley and Kristin Jensen | Posted 11.20.2009 | Politics