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• The Senate Cloakroom: Nov. 9 – 13

  Posted November 8th, 2009 at 3:01pm in Energy and Environment with 2 comments

  Analysis – With Veterans’ Day on Wednesday, the Senate will have a shorter than normal workweek – Monday and Tuesday. Senators will spend the remainder of the week back home honoring veterans and, presumably, hearing from constituents about health care. The timeline for Senate action on the Reid-Obama health care bill is ever changing, which suggests [...] More

• Morning Bell: The Baucus Bait And Switch

  Posted October 8th, 2009 at 9:10am in Health Care with 41 comments

  Throughout the health care debate, President Barack Obama repeatedly promised the American people that his health care plan “will help bring our deficits under control in the long term.” The problem is that the White House could not get the Congressional Budget Office to cooperate. Throughout the summer the CBO issued report after report showing [...] More

• Read the Bill! What Bill?

  Posted September 23rd, 2009 at 1:16pm in Health Care with 21 comments

  Live from the Senate Finance Committee Mark-up During the Senate Finance Committee mark up of the Baucus health bill today Senator Bunning of Kentucky put forth an innovative amendment. This amendment stipulated that before voting on the measure in Committee, legislative language would have to be accessible to the public for 72 hours and that the [...] More

• Passing a Shell of A Bill: Congress’ Secret Plan to Ram Through Health Care Reform

  Posted September 22nd, 2009 at 3:34pm in Health Care, Ongoing Priorities with 52 comments

  With the President and Congress’s plan to pass comprehensive health care reform reaching increasingly high levels of unpopularity, and reconciliation becoming an impediment, the leadership of the Senate is rumored to be preparing a new secret plan to railroad the bill through the Senate in record time by using a seldom used parliamentary procedure. Their plan [...] More