Right now, ten senators are locked in a room looking for a deal on the health care bill. One senator is standing in the way: Joe Lieberman.
usatoday.com | Sandra Block | Posted 12.08.2009 | Business
Last week, the Senate began debate on an $848 billion health care reform bill that includes a 5% excise tax on elective cosmetic surgery, beginning Ja...
Chris Weigant | Posted 12.08.2009 | Politics
Other interesting news from Republicanland is a new poll showing that, given three choices, voters state who they'd likely vote for in the 2010 election in the following order: (1) Democrats, (2) Tea Partiers, (3) Republicans.
Cal Cunningham | Posted 12.07.2009 | Politics
I just made one of the most important decisions of my life. Today, I announced that I am entering the race to challenge Richard Burr for the U.S. Senate seat from North Carolina.
latimes.com | Kim Geiger and Tom Hamburger | Posted 12.06.2009 | Living
Acupuncturists, dietary-supplement makers and other alternative health practitioners, some of whose treatments are considered unproven by the medical ...
HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 12.06.2009 | Politics
As President Obama finished his speech to the Democratic caucus in the Capitol's Mansfield Room on Sunday afternoon, Joe Lieberman made his way over t...
HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 12.06.2009 | Politics
Sen. Bill Nelson, a Florida Democrat, said on Sunday that if leadership doesn't work with him on his amendment that would break the White House deal w...
HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 12.06.2009 | Politics
In a breakthough in Senate negotiations around a public health insurance option, Sen. Olympia Snowe (R-Maine) sat down with centrist conservative Demo...
AP | ERICA WERNER | Posted 12.05.2009 | Politics
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama plans to go to Capitol Hill on Sunday to rally Democratic senators at a crucial time in the health care deba...
AP | ERICA WERNER | Posted 12.06.2009 | Business
WASHINGTON — Senate Republicans forced Democrats to vote in favor of cutting billions from providers of home care for older people as partisan d...
AP/Huffington Post | Posted 12.05.2009 | Politics
***UPDATED, SCROLL DOWN FOR PHOTO OF MELODEE HANES*** WASHINGTON (AP) - Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus is defending recommending his gi...
Huff TV | Posted 12.04.2009 | Media
Health insurance giant Aetna is planning to force up to 650,000 clients to drop their coverage in 2010 as the company seeks to meet profit expectation...
HuffingtonPost.com | Arthur Delaney | Posted 12.04.2009 | Green
On Tuesday, Newsweek hosted a climate and energy policy forum on Capitol Hill with the American Petroleum Institute. Now Greenpeace, which has been he...
thehill.com | Posted 12.03.2009 | Politics
Senate Democrats from the liberal and centrist factions are engaged in increasingly urgent talks aimed at bridging the divide within the party over th...
David Segal | Posted 12.03.2009 | Politics
In its new regulations, the Fed did Americans a huge disservice, doing away with consumers' potential right of recovery of overdraft charges -- which will total nearly $37.5 billion in 2009 alone.
Posted 12.03.2009 | Media
The Ed Show's Ed Schultz let it all out Wednesday evening and expressed the frustration that many progressives feel about attempts by Democrats to wat...
Washington's Blog | Posted 12.03.2009 | Politics
The Senate Banking Committee will be chatting with Ben Bernanke this Thursday to vote on his reappointment. Demand that the Committee ask the followi...
The Hill | Posted 12.01.2009 | Politics
A new measure on the public option will be unveiled next week, which Senate Democratic leaders hope will break the logjam on healthcare reform. Sen. ...
usatoday.com | Posted 11.30.2009 | Politics
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said he is "confident" the Senate will pass a health care bill, but it will take extra work on weekends in December ...
Cynthia Gordy | Posted 11.30.2009 | Chicago
As the Senate gears up for floor debate on its health care reform bill, Illinois Senator Roland Burris says he's through making concessions.
Linda Milazzo | Posted 12.03.2009 | Media
Dick Cheney has committed unconstrained, and as yet unprosecuted offenses, that include circumventing the Constitution and lying the nation into war.
Posted 11.30.2009 | Politics
WASHINGTON (Associated Press) - Sens. Carl Levin (D-Mich.) and Richard G. Lugar (R-Ind.) voiced their concerns Sunday about the war in Afghanistan, it...
AP | RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR | Posted 11.30.2009 | Politics
WASHINGTON — The 60 votes aren't there any more. With the Senate set to begin debate Monday on health care overhaul, the all-hands-on-deck Demo...
Politico | MIKE ALLEN | Posted 11.28.2009 | Politics
A new analysis by a leading MIT economist provides new ammunition for Democrats as the Senate begins formally debating the historic health-reform bill...
HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 11.25.2009 | Politics
David Broder simply doesn't understand the way that today's Senate operates, Jim Manley concluded on Wednesday. Manley, the senior communications advi...
Jason Rosenbaum | Posted 12.08.2009 | Politics