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Ryan Grim is the senior congressional correspondent for the Huffington Post. He is a former staff reporter with Politico.com and Washington City Paper. He won the 2007 Alt-Weekly Award for best long-form news-story and is the author of the book, "This Is Your Country on Drugs."

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Pharma Deal To Be Tested On Senate Floor

HuffingtonPost.com   |  Ryan Grim   |   December 5, 2009

Read More: #Hcr, Barack Obama, Big Pharma, Byron Dorgan, Canada, Charles Grassley, David Vitter, Democrats, Drug Companies, Drugs, Gop, Health Care, Health Care Reform Bill, John McCain, Olympia Snowe, Pharmaceutical Companies, Prescription Drugs, Reimportation, Senate Health Care Bill, White House
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) has promised to allow a vote on re-importing prescription drugs from Canada as an amendment to the health care...
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Snowe Rejoins Dems At Public Option Negotiating Table

HuffingtonPost.com   |  Ryan Grim   |   December 5, 2009

Read More: #Hcr, Ben Nelson, Blanche Lincoln, Blue Dog Democrats, Gang Of 6, Health Care Bill, Health Care Reform, John Kerry, Mark Pryor, Mark Udall, Mary Landrieu, Olympia Snowe, Public Option, Senate, Trigger
In a breakthough in Senate negotiations around a public health insurance option, Sen. Olympia Snowe (R-Maine) sat down with centrist conservative Democrats for the first...
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Obama Says Recovery Efforts Come Before Deficit Reduction

HuffingtonPost.com   |  Ryan Grim   |   December 4, 2009

Read More: Deficit, Obama Deficit, Obama Job Summit, Obama Jobs, Obama Jobs Decifict, Obama Jobs Summit, Unemployement
President Barack Obama on Thursday disputed the notion that he is overly concerned about the budget deficit -- and as a result, is under-reacting to...
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Bernanke Channels Willie Sutton In Assault On Social Security: 'That's Where The Money Is'

HuffingtonPost.com   |  Ryan Grim   |   December 4, 2009

Read More: Ben Bernanke, Fed, Federal Reserve, Medicare, Senate Banking Committee, Social Security
Ben Bernanke has overseen the greatest expansion of the Federal Reserve's balance sheet in its history, pouring trillions of dollars into Wall Street firms at...
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White House Told 'Multiple Times' Fannie, Freddie Had No Watchdog

HuffingtonPost.com   |  Ryan Grim   |   December 2, 2009

Read More: Darrell Issa, Fannie Freddie Oversight, Fannie Mae, Federal Home Loan Banks, Federal Housing Finance Board, Fhfa, Freddie Mac, Oversight, Transparency
Whose fault is it that the federal agency that oversees five trillion dollars in mortgages hasn't had an independent inspector general for months? Not ours,...
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African-American Protest Against Obama Jobs Policy Heats Up In House

HuffingtonPost.com   |  Ryan Grim   |   December 2, 2009

Read More: Congressional Black Caucus, Consumer Financial Protection Agency, Financial Regulatory Reform, Financial Services Committee
African-American Democrats in the House upped their pressure on President Obama on Wednesday, boycotting a final committee vote on a financial regulatory reform bill that...
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Fed Needs To 'Start Giving A Red Hot Damn About The American Public,' Says Sen. Whitehouse

HuffingtonPost.com   |  Ryan Grim   |   December 1, 2009

Read More: Ben Bernanke, Bernanke Confirmation, Fed Chairman, Fed Inflation, Fed Policy, Fed Unemployment, Federal Reserve, Ron Paul Fed, Sheldon Whitehouse, Whitehouse Bernanke
Two days before Ben Bernanke's confirmation hearing, most Democrats on the Senate Banking Committee are withholding judgment, waiting to hear directly from the chairman of...
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GOP: Use Unspent Stimulus For War

HuffingtonPost.com   |  Ryan Grim   |   December 1, 2009

Read More: Afghanistan, Afghanistan War, Gop, Tarp
As some Democrats consider raising taxes to pay for President Obama's escalation of the now-eight-year-old war in Afghanistan, the opposition party has a suggestion. Senate...
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Dem Senator Hits White House For Dragging Feet On Small Business Lending

HuffingtonPost.com   |  Ryan Grim   |   December 1, 2009

Read More: Bailout, Small Business, Small Business Administration, Small Business Loans, Tarp
Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.) expressed frustration Tuesday with how slowly the Obama administration is helping small businesses crunched by the financial crisis. Over the last...
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CBO: Three-Quarters Of Stimulus Unspent

HuffingtonPost.com   |  Ryan Grim   |   December 1, 2009

Read More: Cbo, Congressional Budget Office, Economic Crisis, Economy, Stimulus, Stimulus Package, Stimulus Spending, Stimulus Unspent, Where Is The Stimulus Going
Only $100 billion of the $787 billion stimulus package passed nine months ago has actually been spent by the federal government so far, with another...
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GOP Objects To Putting Health Care Amendments Online

HuffingtonPost.com   |  Ryan Grim   |   November 30, 2009

Read More: Enzi Health Care Reform, Enzi Online Amendments, Health Care Amendments, Reid Health Care Reform
Senate Republicans objected on Monday to a proposal from Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid that all health care reform amendments must first be posted online...
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Senate Bill Contains A Gift For Big Banks

HuffingtonPost.com   |  Ryan Grim   |   November 30, 2009

Despite bipartisan consensus on Capitol Hill that the size and interconnectedness of major financial institutions poses a grave risk to the system as a whole,...
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CBO: Reform Will Save Insurers The Cost Of Figuring Out Creative Ways To Deny Coverage

HuffingtonPost.com   |  Ryan Grim   |   November 30, 2009

Read More: CBO Health Care Reform, Health Care Reform, Health Insurance, Health Insurance Costs, Senate Health Care Reform
It takes insurance companies a lot of time and effort to figure out how to deny coverage to insured patients or to write policies that...
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Battle Between David Broder And Harry Reid Heats Up: Broder Comments 'Mind-Boggling'

HuffingtonPost.com   |  Ryan Grim   |   November 25, 2009

Read More: Afghanistan, Baker, Birthers, Broder Column, Broderism, Broderisms, Cbo, Columnist, David Broder, Democrats, Everett Dirksen, Harry Reid, Health Care Reform, House, Jim Manley, Lbj, Lyndon Johnson, Mansfield, Mike Mansfield, Obama, Reid Broder, Republicans, Senate, Senate Democrats, Senate GOP, Senate Health Care Bill, Unemployment Insurance, Washington Post, White House, William Noland
David Broder simply doesn't understand the way that today's Senate operates, Jim Manley concluded on Wednesday. Manley, the senior communications adviser for Majority Leader Harry...
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Frank Vows To Close Big-Bank Loophole

HuffingtonPost.com   |  Ryan Grim   |   November 25, 2009

Read More: Bank Loophole, Bank Regulation, Barney Frank, Barney Frank Loophole, Financial Regulatory Reform, Regulatory Reform Loophole
The financial regulatory reform bill working its way through the House would give Bank of America a legislative gift that it pushed for in early...
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