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Blog Entries for Thursday, December 24
Sine Die
The first session of the 111th Congress is now over, as the House and Senate have adjourned sine die for the year. The House will return the week of January 11 - the Senate is back the week after that. So, I'm going to take a little time to pay ...
Blog Entries for Wednesday, December 23
Health Bill Rumblings
The votes weren't even finished yet in the U.S. Senate, and already a lot of Democrats were making noise about what should or should not be in a final health care reform bill in Congress. "The Senate health care bill is not worthy of the historic vote that the House ...
The Senate Bill
As the Senate gets ready to finish work on its version of health care reform, we may as well take some time review what is in this bill, since the debate has unfortunately glossed over much of the fine print in this over 2,000 page measure. * Like the House ...
Another CBO Missive
A letter from the Congressional Budget Office to Republican Senators on Wednesday raised fresh questions about whether the health bill from Democrats will really reduce the federal deficit as advertised. The explanation is a bit difficult, and we struggled up in the Press Gallery yesterday to get our heads around ...
Health Bill Success
It's a big day for Democrats in the Senate, especially their leader Sen. Harry Reid, as they get to celebrate Christmas Eve approval of major health care legislation, after a long and somewhat tortuous fight. Reid took a lot of flak along the way for how he handled the bill, ...
Blog Entries for Tuesday, December 22
Blue Dog To GOP
If there weren't enough alarm bells going off for Democrats about more moderate members of their party in the Congress, Tuesday brought the news that a Democratic member of the U.S. House was switching to the Republican Party. Already, four Blue Dogs had decided not to run for re-election. Griffith ...
The Stretch Run
The end is in sight for Democrats in the U.S. Senate on health care legislation, as Senate leaders set a vote on the Democratic health bill for 8 am EST on Christmas Eve, which will allow Senators to zip home for the holidays soon after. As some of my colleagues ...
Health Rules Changes
The lines were buzzing on talk radio the last two days about a provision in the Senate health care bill that would not allow a future Congress to repeal or amend part of a new health care law and would change the rules of the House and Senate along the ...
Blog Entries for Monday, December 21
More Senate Votes
The Senate won't be burning the midnight oil, but Senators will be in the Capitol early on this Tuesday, moving to the next round of votes as Democrats move closer to approval a health care bill. After a cloture vote at 1 am on Monday, this time the votes begin ...
Health Care Process
As the health care debate comes to a close this week in the Senate, it shouldn't really be a surprise that it has been more of a political exercise than a legislative one. But it would have been nice to see a real debate. What I mean by a "real" ...
Abortion Fight Looms
As Sen. Ben Nelson (D-NE) left the Senate chamber around 1:30 am on Monday, he found himself on the defense yet again over the abortion funding restriction deal he agreed to in the Senate health care bill. It was a reminder that this issue will again be the center of ...
Second Amendment Health
The Democratic amendment to the health care bill that was rolled out this weekend has several pages about gun rights and health care, as gun possession pertains to "Wellness and Prevention Programs." It's right there, starting on Page 5, with a section entitled, "PROTECTION OF SECOND AMENDMENT GUN RIGHTS." "A ...
One Step Closer
It was a tale of two parties in the wee hours of Monday morning, as Democrats were all smiles and Republicans were a bit glum and clearly frustrated on health care legislation in the Senate. As Senators in both parties battled in increasingly partisan exchanges on the floor, Democrats won ...
Democratic Deal Making
It's not exactly a shocker that the latest version of the Democratic health bill in the Senate has a series of deals that wrapped up the support of certain Senators, but you have to wonder if it will add to a growing backlash against health legislation. Republicans grabbed the latest ...
Another Invisible Item
I have talked a lot on this blog in recent months about how difficult it is to figure out sometimes what exactly is in a major piece of legislation. That would ceratinly apply to the changes unveiled by Democrats to their health bill on Saturday. That chunk of legislative text was ...
CBO Fact Error
A lot of Republicans have been raising questions about how the Congressional Budget Office has dealt with cost estimates for health care legislation in recent months, and on Sunday, they got even more ammunition for those attacks. "CBO has discovered an error in the cost estimate released just yesterday," said ...
Blog Entries for Saturday, December 19
Ne-braska Health Details
I'm not saying it was done on purpose. But the fact that the one mention of the state of Nebraska (the home state of Sen. Ben Nelson, the final Democrat to back the health care bill) was hyphenated, made me wonder. What am I talking about? Well, if you search ...
Abortion Fight Continues
While Sen. Ben Nelson (D-NE) did his best to convince reporters on Saturday that his deal on abortion funding language in a new Democratic health amendment would end controversy on that issue, it seems far from over, and will likely spice up House-Senate negotiations on health care. All eyes quickly ...
Sunday Health Care
If Democrats want to finish the health care bill in the Senate before Christmas, they can do that. But it will take every available minute from now until the time most of you are eating your dinner on Christmas Eve. The Senate returns to session on this Sunday at 1pm, which ...
Thumbs Down on Abortion Deal
While Sen. Ben Nelson (D-NE) cut a deal with Democrats on abortion restrictions in a new health care bill, the deal is not being embraced by one major anti-abortion group. Here is a release from the National Right to Life Committee, expressing their opposition to the language in the new ...
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