Share Washington – Four senators have signed a letter urging Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) to pass a public option for insurance coverage through the use of reconciliation. Sphere: Related Content
Share Washington — Senate Republicans are using the filibuster to limit and often derail Democrats’ initiatives, paralyzing the Senate and making it nearly impossible to accomplish even the most routine matters. Sphere: Related Content
Share Washington – The Obama administration on Friday invited 12 Democratic members of Congress and nine Republicans to a February 25 conference on healthcare and said it would post its proposal for a legislative overhaul online before the event. Sphere: Related Content
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Share Washington – President Obama wants to keep the option of using reconciliation to pass health care reform despite calls from Republican lawmakers that he agree to drop the parliamentary maneuver as a “good faith” gesture” before their bipartisan health care summit. Sphere: Related Content
Share Washington – Immediately after President Barack Obama announced a bipartisan health reform summit, Democrats and Republicans made clear they have almost no expectation the half-day meeting can break a bitter yearlong standoff. Sphere: Related Content
Share Washington – President Obama’s bipartisan meeting on health care reform planned for February 25 will be broadcast live, a senior administration official said Monday. Sphere: Related Content
Share Washington – President Obama said on Sunday that he will hold a meeting with Republican lawmakers next week, to be followed by a meeting with members of both parties, in an effort to get health care reform legislation back on track. Sphere: Related Content
Share Washington – Just a year after celebrating Barack Obama’s inauguration, despondent Democrats on Saturday heard from their party leader who urged optimism in the face of Republicans’ strong challenge to their congressional dominance. Sphere: Related Content
Share Washington - House Speaker Nancy Pelosi seized on the falling unemployment rate Friday as evidence of Democratic-led success in reversing the economic downturn. Sphere: Related Content
Share Washington – No, maybe he can’t. President Barack Obama, who insisted he would succeed where other presidents had failed to fix thenation’s health care system, now concedes the effort may die in Congress. Sphere: Related Content
Share Washington – Republican Scott Brown was sworn in Thursday as the new U.S. senator from Massachusetts to fill the seat formerly held by the late Sen. Ted Kennedy, and immediately signaled opposition to President Obama’s spending plans. Sphere: Related Content
Share Washington – President Barack Obama made an emotional, public appeal to Senate Democrats on Wednesday to finish the job on health care reform. Sphere: Related Content
Share House progressives organizing to rescue health care reform are pressuring their Senate counterparts to go back to the provision that has most energized the party and a majority of Americans throughout the debate: The public option. Sphere: Related Content
Share Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner, in a recent interview with Mike Allen of Politico warned that the financial markets could react negatively if Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke isn’t confirmed for a second term. (READ Politico’s full story here.) Sphere: Related Content
Share Washington — President Barack Obama and Democratic leaders insist they will push ahead with efforts to overhaul health care despite losing undisputed control of the Senate. Sphere: Related Content
Share Republicans are riding high in the wake of Scott Brown’s win, talking up an authentic resurgence for their party and a real chance for reclaiming power. Sphere: Related Content
Share Sen. Tom Harkin (D-Iowa) is asking his Senate colleagues to join his effort to effectively take away the minority party’s power to filibuster legislation. Sphere: Related Content
Share WWCD: What Would Clinton Do? That’s not a question that President Barack Obama and his team of loyalists from the 2008 campaign are prone to ask, because they don’t much care about the answer. Sphere: Related Content
