From The Hill: The Senate is headed for a rare Saturday vote to advance its major healthcare reform bill without a guarantee of success, Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) indicated Thursday....At a rally with supporters of the healthcare reform bill, Reid would not say he had secured commitments from all 60 members of the Democratic Conference to vote for the legislation — an absolute necessity given unanimous opposition from the 40 Senate Republicans. Read Here: Reid uncertain of tally as... Read Full Story
On Thursday, following news that Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) had delayed a vote on cap and trade legislation until next year, the ranking Republican on the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee James Inhofe (R-Okla.) chose to rub it in at Chairwoman Barbara Boxer's (D-Calif.) expense: The fact that this whole idea on the global warming, I'm glad that's over and gone, done. We won, you lost, get a life. With Saturday's healthcare reform vote not going conservatives... Read Full Story
I started writing this post before it was known that Mary Landrieu had accepted a $100 million bribe for her vote on healthcare reform. While it now seems pointless to fight this legislation anymore because the end result will be passage no matter how much bribe money Harry Reid has to offer I have decided to post in anyway.
The one and only victory that conservatives can claim in the battle over the healthcare reform bill that came out of the House of non-Representatives was on... Read Full Story
While reading this article about the healthcare reform bill I saw a quote from Chuck Schumer that caught my eye.
We’re struggling to come together on the most difficult issue America has ever faced
The most difficult issue that America has ever faced? Really Chuck? Are you serious? There have been at least two depressions in America– the Great Depression and the Depression of 1893– along with the Panic of 1907. We have had a second war for independence– the War of 1812– and a civil... Read Full Story
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A brutal report issued last Monday by a government watchdog holds Timothy Geithner — then the head of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and now the nation’s Treasury Secretary — responsible for over payments that put billions of extra tax dollars in the coffers of major Wall Street firms, most notably Goldman Sachs . Geithner Singled Out In TARP Watchdog Neil Barofsky’s Scathing Report On AIG Bailout :
The authoritative new narrative describes how, while... Read Full Story
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) laid out a scenario Thursday in which the massive overhaul of the nation’s health system could pass by the end of the year.
If the Senate were to pass a bill by next Thursday, Dec. 17, she said, the House and Senate could conduct a conference committee during the next weekend and pass it before New Year’s Day.
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From Reuters: Guess what? It turns out the Chinese are kind of curious about how President Barack Obama’s healthcare reform plans would impact America’s huge fiscal deficit. Government officials are using his Asian trip as an opportunity to ask the White House questions. Detailed questions....Boilerplate assurances that America won’t default on its debt or inflate the shortfall away are apparently not cutting it. Nor should they, when one owns nearly $2 trillion in assets denominated in the... Read Full Story
Just moments ago the senate voted for cloture in the healthcare reform bill sending it ot the senate floor for debate. The vote passed 60-39. It is now inevitable that this bill will become law.
Conservative and moderate Democrats, such as Ben Nelson, who claimed to harbor doubts about the bill in the end fell in line with party leaders and voted to send this bill forward. These politicians who claimed that they would oppose the legislation only to vote in favor of it will use the... Read Full Story
WASHINGTON, Nov. 11 (UPI) --
Repealing a ban on homosexuals serving openly in the U.S. military is to be included in the next Defense Department authorization bill, a lawmaker said.
Repealing the so-called policy is planned as part of next year's authorization bill in both the House and the Senate, Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass., told Politico in a story published Wednesday.
Frank said.
The White House and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., are committed to ending the 1993 ban... Read Full Story
Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner said the government's $700 billion bailout program will end "as soon as we can," and that part of it will be used to lower the record deficit. He urged Congress to move quickly in overhauling the nation's financial rules, which he says is key to a ... Read Full Story
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