Wyden Amendment

There are two critical tests for health care reform: Is it an improvement over what we have today? And is it structured so that further improvements can be made?

Putting Sen. Lieberman aside for a moment (and who wouldn't want to?), what can we expect to see if the final health reform bill conforms to Sen. Reid's outline?

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.

The mystery over who killed a provision in the stimulus package that would have curtailed bonuses at bailed out companies is a disturbing D.C. whodunit. But even more disturbing is what it reveals about how our government is run.

The question of who killed a provision that could have reined in lavish bonuses issued by bailout recipients remains a mystery, with key players eithe...