We can add Chris Dodd’s name to the list of senators that received money in exchange for their affirmative vote on the healthcare reform bill. According to this article, Chris Dodd has requested $100 million to aid in the building of a state run hospital in his home state of Connecticut. While it is not confirmed that Chris Dodd will receive this money, the money has been added to the bill and states will have the right to compete for the funding.
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Yesterday Ben Nelson, senator from Nebraska, won “concessions” from Harry Reid on the healthcare reform bill and announced that he would vote in favor of the bill. While Ben Nelson threw up a smokescreen by declaring that he would not support the bill because of the abortion language that it contained, he was really working behind the scene to “negotiate” a Medicare expansion cost deferment for his state. In other words, Nebraska will be wholly exempted from paying the higher Medicare... Read Full Story
The U.S. has transferred a dozen Guantanamo detainees to Afghanistan, Yemen and the Somaliland region as the Obama administration continues to move captives out of the Cuban facility in preparation for its closure. The Justice Department said Sunday that a government task force had reviewed each case. Officials considered the potential threat and the government's likelihood of success in court challenges to the detentions. Over the weekend, four Afghan detainees were transferred to their... Read Full Story
There was no way in hell that Ben Nelson was not going to vote in favor of the healthcare reform bill eventually, the only question was, how much will it take? Ben Nelson and Harry Reid have be in marathon “negotiations” to secure the senator’s healthcare reform vote and last night those “negotiations” paid off for the Democrats.
Ben Nelson is now on board and will vote in favor of the healthcare reform bill. The supposed issue that Ben Nelson had with the bill was language in the bill... Read Full Story
The last Democratic holdout in the Senate against healthcare reform, Sen. Ben Nelson (D) of Nebraska, said Saturday that he is now prepared to vote for the bill.
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Ben Nelson backs healthcare reform bill, Dems see finish line (The Christian Science Monitor via Yahoo! News)
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According to the Wall Street Journal , Rahm Emanuel has "shrugged off" liberal opposition to the Senate healthcare bill. Although one liberal senator (Bernie Sanders of Vermont) says he will not vote for the measure, Emanuel says "[t]here are no liberals left to get." Emanuel's comment indicates that the White House will not lobby for the reinsertion of favored liberal provisions like the public plan and Medicare buy-in. According to many published reports, Emanuel himself instructed Senate... Read Full Story
When congress passed the disastrous and failed stimulus bill nobody in the House or Senate had a chance to read the bill before they voted on it. As dumbfounding as it is that a person could vote on a bill without bothering to read what they are voting on, Harry Reid has taken it to another level on the healthcare reform bill.
He is not even allowing senators to SEE the healthcare reform bill that he wants them to debate and vote on. He is not even giving them a chance to read the bill... Read Full Story
In an effort to win one senate vote– Joe Lieberman’s– in order to pass the healthcare reform bill, the senate has alienated many on the far left. Harry Reid gave Joe Lieberman the concession that he sought by dropping both the public option and the Medicare buy-in for people 55 or older. While this has successfully won Joe Lieberman’s vote, it may have actually hurt the chances of the senate passing this bill. Those on the far left are now opposed to the bill.
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After appearing asleep at the wheel during much of the healthcare debates, the White House is now passionately advocating passage of a Senate bill that betrays many of President Obama's campaign promises. The bill, if passed, would force people to purchase health insurance. The bill, however, does not contain measures like the public plan option or a Medicare buy-in that Democrats -- including Obama -- have long advocated as ways of increasing competition and making health insurance... Read Full Story
A veteran judge says domestic street gangs are more deadly than some detainees at Guantanamo Bay facing trial in U.S. courts. Judge Royce Lamberth, the chief judge at federal court in Washington, was speaking at an American Bar Association breakfast about Attorney General Eric Holder's recent decision to put the reputed Sept. 11 mastermind and four accused henchmen on trial in New York federal court. Lamberth didn't refer specifically to those five in his comments, but said some gangs "are... Read Full Story
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