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Blog Entries for Monday, November 30
Afghan Brief for Lawmakers
A fairly sizeable group of lawmakers from both parties in the Congress will meet late this afternoon with President Obama about his plans on Afghanistan. Here is the list provided by the White House. Members of the U.S. House of Representatives: · House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-CA · Representative Steny ...
A Rocky Start
The Senate officially started a debate on major health care changes on Monday, as Democrats kicked off what they hope will be fast action in coming weeks, even though major hurdles remain in the path of this bill. It didn't get off to a good start. Senate Majority Leader Harry ...
A Familiar Argument
President Obama goes to West Point today to lay out his new plans for Afghanistan in a prime time address to the American people, with arguments that we've all heard before. Except it was about Iraq and a different President. "This is not an open ended committment," said White House ...
Statement of Disbursements
"Statement of Disbursements" is the official sounding name for a document that details most every office expense racked up by members of Congress, its committees and leaders. Now it is online and available for download to your computer. Yep, you can download the huge file at http://bit.ly/7BOh9k and leaf through the ...
Blog Entries for Sunday, November 29
Obama & Afghanistan
I would bet that most Americans who voted in 2008 for Barack Obama didn't think that he would go into office and send thousands more U.S. troops to Afghanistan in his first year in office. But that's where this White House is headed. Regardless of whether the correct decision would ...
That Dadgum Media
Unless you turned off your computer and TV over the weekend, you probably spent some of Thanksgiving weekend chatting with friends and family about some of the big issues facing the nation at this time, like what happened the other day at the home of Tiger Woods. It didn't take long ...
Back To Work
The Senate returns to work today after a week off for Thanksgiving, and the pending matter on the floor is the debate on health care legislation from Democrats. It will be a busy run to Christmas for Senators. "What happens next is we legislate," said Jim Manley, the chief spokesman ...
Blog Entries for Wednesday, November 25
Senate Health Stuff
I am still plowing through the health care bill from Democrats in the U.S. Senate, finding provisions that deserve a second look, and straining to figure out what huge chunks of this legalistic text actually mean. On page 32, the bill would make hospitals publish a price list for basic ...
Blog Entries for Monday, November 23
Afghan War Surtax
The White House on Monday shied away from the mention of plans unveiled last week by Democrats in the House, which would levy an income surtax to pay for the increasing costs of the war in Afghanistan. White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs said that the issue of the cost ...
A Busy December
You have heard the talk already about how busy the U.S. Senate will be in December with debate and votes on major health care legislation from Democrats. Well, you know what? They have a ton of things to do other than that as well. This list of "To-Do" items would ...
Not So Fast
While we have been talking about how the Senate will start the debate on health care reform after a break for Thanksgiving, it's not exactly going to be a fast start when Senators return. When the Senate left town after the 60-39 vote on Saturday night that paved the way ...
Health Care Ad War
More liberal groups were firing out emails at a high rate on Monday, beating the bushes for donations to make sure that health care reform doesn't go down the legislative tubes in coming weeks, a sure sign of the battle that lies ahead. "We could still lose this fight," said ...
Blog Entries for Sunday, November 22
Health Bill Politics
Now that Democrats have cleared the first hurdle in the U.S. Senate on health care legislation, look for Republicans to target every single one of those Democratic Senators who is running for election in 2010. And why not? It's a pretty simple campaign formula when you think about it. Because every one ...
What's Next
With the Senate off for Thanksgiving week, the debate over Democratic health care legislation won't resume until next week, but that doesn't mean we can't handicap where it stands. Democrats did take another step forward on Saturday night when they mustered the 60 votes to force the start of official ...
Blog Entries for Saturday, November 21
Dems Win For Now
There were a lot of smiles among Democrats as the final votes were counted on Saturday night in the U.S. Senate. But there were also reasons for concern about where health care legislation will go in the weeks ahead. As expected, Democrats squeezed out the 60 votes needed to shut ...
Senate Debate Updates
If you are looking for quick updates on this Saturday on the Senate debate on health care, you can go visit my Twitter page to get the latest from Capitol Hill. You can find those updates at http://twitter.com/jamiedupree
Blog Entries for Friday, November 20
The Parliamentary Fight
As the Senate takes the first procedural vote Saturday on health care reform, I thought we should run down the procedural situation that Senators find themselves in. It's not simple. First, this vote is not like the vote two weeks ago in the House on health care reform. That was ...
Senate Step One
Despite the drama involving a couple of more moderate Democrats, it seems hard to imagine that Democrats will fail to get 60 votes in the Senate on Saturday on a vote that will allow their health plans to move forward after Thanksgiving. While Democrats will most likely be able to ...
Dems v Palin
National Democrats seem to be a bit aggravated by the media cavalcade that is the Sarah Palin book tour, so they are starting a fundraising drive to counter her public attacks on the Obama Administration. It's an interesting move by an arm of the Democratic National Committee known as Organizing ...
Blog Entries for Thursday, November 19
More Fine Print
When you go through the latest Democratic health care bill unveiled by Senate leaders on Thursday, it's hard to know where to start on the 2,074 page bill. But I found a few things along the way. I'm sure others will find more interesting items, too. But here are a ...
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