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Congress: We Need You to Lead

Steve Hildebrand | Posted 10.07.2009 | Politics

Read More: House of Representatives, Congress, Senate, Lobbying, Lobbyists, Economy, Health Care, Politics News

We need Congress to lead, so what do we do? Should we throw them out? Do we shut down the national political party committees, outlaw high-priced professional lobbying and ban PACs once and for all?

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Are 44,000 Deaths a Year More Or Less Important Than 7.6 Million Lost Jobs?

Stephen Herrington | Posted 10.07.2009 | Politics

Read More: Taxes, U.S. Economy, Congress, Senate, Human Rights, Unemployment, Economy, Health, Health Care Reform, Jobs, Health Care, Legislation, 000 Health Care Deaths, 44, Politics News

44,000 deaths is the equivalent of 14.6 of Al Qaeda's 9/11s per year. It's 24 Katrina-scale disasters per year. It is a pandemic of omission and exclusion.

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Hiring Tax Credit: Support Builds For Proposal Rewarding Employers For Hiring, More Hours

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/07/business/07tax.html | Catherine Rampell | Posted 10.07.2009 | Politics

Read More: Tax Credit for Hiring, Tax Credit, More Jobs, Robert Reich, House, Unemployment Rate, Washington, Economy, Hire, Bipartisan, Obama, Job Growth, Stimulus, D.C, Eric Cantor, Barack Obama, Economists, Employer Tax Credit, Unemployment, Hiring Tax Credit, What Is Hiring Tax Credit, Cantor, Senate, Tax Credit Incentives, Incentives for Employers, Incentives, Hiring Incentives, Politics News

The idea of a tax credit for companies that create new jobs, something the federal government has not tried since the 1970s, is gaining support among ...

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Senate Passes Pentagon Budget, War Funding Bill

AP | By ANDREW TAYLOR | Posted 10.06.2009 | Politics

Read More: Gop, Pentagon, Defense Budget, House, Afghanistan, Billion, Obama, Iraq, Defense Spending, Republicans, Defense Spending 2010, Democrats, Barack Obama, Senate, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- As President Barack Obama weighs major shifts in strategy in the deteriorating mission in Afghanistan, the Senate on Tuesday passed a bi...

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Only in the Bizarro World

B. Jeffrey Madoff | Posted 10.05.2009 | Politics

Read More: Second Amendment, National Academy of Sciences, Gun Violence, Congress, Senate, Amtrak, Abstinence Only, Crime, Suicide, Bizarro World, Superman, Institute of Medicine, Guns, Politics News

Households with guns are 11 times more likely to use those guns to commit suicide than for self defense. But to be fair, we don't just kill ourselves, we kill others, a lot.

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Michael Bennet's Wall Street Ties Bring Him Money, Criticism

The Denver Post | Mike Riley | Posted 10.04.2009 | Denver

Read More: Philip Anschutz, U.S. Senate, Andrew Romanoff, Wall Street, George Soros, Senate Banking Committee, Harry Reid, Chris Dodd, Michael Bennet, Center for Responsive Politics, Senate, Denver News

WASHINGTON -- With a push in Congress to reform regulation over Wall Street, financial firms have been spending big, and among the major beneficiaries...

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No Climate Change Bill This Year, Says Obama Adviser

The Associated Press | Posted 10.04.2009 | Politics

Read More: White House, Cap and Trade, Carbon Emissions, House, Waxman Markey Bill, Copenhagen, Copenhagen Talks, Obama, Waxman-Markey Climate Bill, Climate Change, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Carol Browner, Waxman-Markey, Emissions, Senate, Climate Bill, Politics News

WASHINGTON (AP)- President Barack Obama's top energy adviser says there is no way Congress will be able to pass a bill on climate change this year. "...

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WSJ: Ensign's Senate Prospects Grow Cloudy

wsj.com | NAFTALI BENDAVID | Posted 10.03.2009 | Home

Read More: GOP Scandals, Senate, Mitch McConnell, John Ensign, Cynthia Hampton, Ensign Affair, Cynthia-Hampton-Ensign, Republican-Affairs, Nevada, Republican Senators, Republicans, Home News

Sen. John Ensign's future grew more unsettled Friday as Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell declined to offer his support or express confidence in ...

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Friday Talking Points [96] -- The Impressiveness of Alan Grayson

Chris Weigant | Posted 10.03.2009 | Politics

Read More: 80, Chicago, Spiro Agnew, Eighty Percent, Reform, South America, Alan Grayson, DC City Council, Dc, Charles Schumer, Death Panel, Die Quickly, Grayson Transcript, William Safire, Floor Speech, Midotw, Sexual Harassment, Most Impressive Democrat of the Week, Don't Get Sick, Health Care, Kenneth Feinberg, Reid, Tarp, Abortion, Public Option, Grayson Speech, Democrat, Letterman, Congress, Pay Czar, Democrats, Barack Obama, Schumer, Mddotw, Child Rape, Health, Harry Reid, Vacation, Nixon, Bonuses, Polanski, Gay Marriage, Healthcare, Senate, David Catania, Ben Nelson, Cloture, President Obama, Sex Scandal, Washington, Filibuster, Moral Relativism, Obama, Democratic, Friday Talking Points, Grayson, Republican, Most Disappointing Democrat of the Week, Paranoid Delusions, Rio, Roman Polanski, Salaries, Rape, House, Copenhagen, Nelson, Consensual, Olympics, Wall Street, Chris Weigant, Sex, Columbus Day, Chuck Schumer, Executive Pay, Troubled Assets, David Letterman, Agnew, Safire, Feinberg, Catania, Politics News

First, let's get rid of the distractions this week. Chicago will not be getting the Olympics in 2016, even after President Obama went over to Copenha...

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Dr. Coburn's Peculiar Privilege

Jacob M. Appel | Posted 10.02.2009 | Politics

Read More: Nevada, Law, Marriage, Politics, Senate, Tom Coburn, John Ensign, Oklahoma, Sex, Doctors, John Ensign Affair, Health Care, Bioethics, Medicine, Extra-Marital-Affairs, Physician-Patient Privilege, Politics News

Senator Coburn claims physician-patient privilege to avoid testifying against Ensign. But this is not a "Get out of Jail Free" card for physicians who acquire knowledge outside of their work as doctors.

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A Critical Mass of Thinking on Health Care Reform

Robert R. Hoopes, Jr. | Posted 10.02.2009 | Politics

Read More: Reagan, Town Halls, Politics, Healthcare Reform, Senate, Baucas, Politics News

On healthcare reform, we need more critical thinking -- we need a critical mass of thinking.

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An Interview With Senate Candidate Ken Buck

David Thielen | Posted 10.01.2009 | Denver

Read More: Ken Buck, Senate, Colorado, Colorado Republicans, 2010 Senate Races, Colorado Politics, New Frontier Bank, 2010 Senate, Denver News

Buck's a Republican -- but that doesn't mean he isn't in favor of passing regulations to prevent medical insurers from denying coverage on the basis of pre-existing conditions.

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David Vitter Having Yet Another Lousy Week

Senate Guru | Posted 10.01.2009 | Politics

Read More: 2010 Senate, Louisiana, Rachel Maddow, La-Sen, Hypocrisy, James Carville, Republican Hypocrisy, Charlie Melancon, Scandal, Prostitutes, Senate, David Vitter, Politics News

This week has demonstrated that both Democrats and non-partisan ethics organizations will not let the voters forget about Vitter's law-breaking and dumbfounding hypocrisy.

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Who's Leading the DADT Debate?

Aubrey Sarvis | Posted 09.30.2009 | Politics

Read More: Bill Clinton, House of Representatives, Congress, Joint Forces Quarterly, George W. Bush, Harry Truman, Senate Armed Services Committee, Admiral Mike Mullen, Obama Pentagon, Afghanistan War, Defense Secretary Robert Gates, H.R. 1283, Senate, Dadt, George H.W. Bush, Jimmy Carter, Politics News

it is one thing to give the Pentagon considerable weight and another thing altogether to let it dictate the timing and terms of the debate, and the final decision.

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Panel Votes To Restore Abstinence-Only Education Money

AP | Posted 09.30.2009 | Politics

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WASHINGTON — A Senate committee voted Tuesday night to restore $50 million a year in federal funding for abstinence-only education that President Ba...

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Senate Dems Look To Obama To Move Health Care Votes

washingtonpost.com | Posted 09.29.2009 | Politics

Read More: Health Care Bill, Senate, Public Option, Senate Finance Committee, Health Care Reform, President Obama Health Care, Max Baucus, Senate Democrats, Health Care, Health Care Public Option, Politics News

For many months, advocates of health care reform have implored President Obama to outline in greater detail the provisions he's prepared to push and d...

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Bennet gets seat on Senate health, education committee

Denver Business Journal | Denver Business Journal | Posted 09.30.2009 | Home

Read More: Committee, Labor, Education, Democrat, Senate, Bennet, Kennedy, Health, Pensions, Reform, Home News

Colorado's U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet said Tuesday he has been chosen to serve on the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions, a panel...

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What's Spanish for Total and Complete BS?

James Boyce | Posted 09.29.2009 | Green

Read More: Senate, Clean Energy, Waxman-Markey Climate Bill, Green Energy, Green Energy Economy, Global Warming, Climate Change, Green News

The money spent presenting fiction as fact over the past decade has had a real impact on the average American. Still, to this day, you will hear that there is debate about global warming, about whether it's happening at all.

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The Anti Public Option Pledge: No Health Care For Me!

Katie Halper | Posted 09.29.2009 | Comedy

Read More: Obama Healthcare, Congress, Senate, Va, Public Option, Health, Medicare, Medicaid, Healthcare Reform, Health Care, Veterans, Comedy News

Like my fellow American patriots, I refuse to sit by while the Nazi Marxist President sends storm troops of Dr Mengeles to pull the plug on millions of grannies.

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Barack Obama, Yom Kippur, Chief Plenty Coups, and Wild Horses

Deanne Stillman | Posted 09.28.2009 | Politics

Read More: Native Americans, Yom Kippur, Senate, Obama, Wild Horses, Politics News

Alas, the wild horse has endured yet one more violent season. This summer, the dwindling herds that still roam public lands were again besieged with massive takings -- and there are more scheduled for the fall.

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Friday Talking Points [95] -- A Call To Action

Chris Weigant | Posted 09.26.2009 | Politics

Read More: Progressives, Al Franken, Chief of Staff, Reform, Alan Grayson, Paul Kirk, Aid of the Party, Emanuel, Midotw, Glenn Greenwald, Nancy Pelosi, Department of Justice, Most Impressive Democrat of the Week, Health Care, Peter Paul and Mary, Reid, Public Option, Democrat, House Progressives, Congress, Mary Travers, Democrats, Barack Obama, Ted Kennedy, Acorn, Progressive, Constitution, Mddotw, Rahm Emanuel, Party, Health, Blue Dogs, Harry Reid, Republicans, Senate, Healthcare, President Obama, David Kris, Sherrod Brown, Obama, Democratic, Democratic Party, Friday Talking Points, Fourth Amendment, Republican, Paul Wellstone, Pelosi, Defense Contractor, Co-Op, Baucus, Typewriter, Most Disappointing Democrat of the Week, Rahm, Representative Grayson, Trigger, Time for All Good Men, House, Franken, Rahmbo, Surreal, Fraud, Chris Weigant, Max Baucus, Kris, Politics News

The progressives and Blue Dogs are going to have a showdown. It is going to culminate not in statements to the press (or the lack thereof), not in some whispered whip count, but rather in a very public vote.

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CA Shocker: DeVore Ahead of Fiorina In Race Against Boxer

Mark Joseph | Posted 09.25.2009 | Politics

Read More: John & Ken Show, Gop, Barbara Boxer, Chuck DeVore, Republicans, Carly Fiorina, Democrats, California, 2010 Senate, Senate, 2010 Elections, Politics News

Sen. Boxer, who has coasted to victories over a series of weak candidates, may face the challenge of her lifetime should State Assemblyman Chuck DeVore make it to the show.

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Paul Kirk: Massachusetts GOP Seeks To Block Kennedy Interim Successor

AP | ANDREW MIGA | Posted 09.25.2009 | Politics

Read More: Massachusetts GOP, Congress, Senate, Boston Politics, Kennedy, Ted Kennedy Successor, Interim Appointments, Massachusetts, Paul Kirk, Ted Kennedy, Republicans, Politics News

WASHINGTON — Former Democratic Party chairman Paul G. Kirk Jr. stepped in Friday as the temporary replacement in the Senate for his longtime fri...

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Obama the Impotent

Steven Hill | Posted 11.24.2009 | Politics

Read More: Europe, Financial Industry, Bush Administration, John-Bruton, United Nations, g20, European Union, Reform, Barack Obama, Global Warming, Senate, Politics News

This week saw two showdowns between Europe and the US that have revealed further slippage in American global leadership. The very structure of the American political system is at the heart of these failures.

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Public Option Headed For Vote Tomorrow

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 11.24.2009 | Politics

Read More: Jay Rockefeller, Health Care, Max Baucus, Public Option, Health Care Reform, Senate, Health Care Public Option, Politics News

The public option is headed for a vote in the Senate Finance Committee on Friday. Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D-W.Va.) lamented on a conference call Thursd...

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