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Blog Entries for Thursday, October 29
1990 Pages Of Health
Democrats laid out their new health reform bill on Thursday in the House, as party elders and critics predicted the bill would gain approval by lawmakers as early as next week. But that's not to say it will be without controversy. The first red flag about the new bill is ...
Interesting Health Provisions
I'm not going to lie and say that I read the entire 1,990 page health care bill unveiled by House Democrats on Thursday. But I sure did stumble on some interesting things as I ripped through the measure. For one, it looks like "death panels" are back, or at least ...
Dancing With The CBO
As Democrats rolled out their health reform bill in the House, there was a lot of uncertainty about a pretty important topic - how much will the legislation cost? Seems pretty simple, eh? But it wasn't. Democrats claimed the bill weighed in at $894 billion over 10 years. But if ...
Democratic Ethical Zinger
The ethical heat got turned up on two Democrats from California in the U.S. House on Thursday, as the ethics committee voted to investigate Rep. Maxine Waters and Rep. Laura Richardson. Waters has drawn ethics scrutiny because of contacts she had with the Treasury Department last year, in which she ...
1990 Pages of Health Bill Details
The latest bill from House Democrats is now available on the internet, weighing in at 1,990 pages. Let's take a quick look at the basics of what's involved. If you want to download the bill, go to http://bit.ly/3HL23Z Here is the bill's table of contents: TITLE I--IMMEDIATE REFORMS Sec. 101. ...
Blog Entries for Wednesday, October 28
Health Care Rollout
Democrats in the House today will unveil the details of the health reform plan that was hammered out in recent months by Speaker Nancy Pelosi and her top lieutenants. While there is a public insurance option, the details of that are a setback for liberals in the party. The initial leaks ...
Vote No On Confucius
Sometimes there are votes in the House and Senate where you scratch your head and wonder what exactly was going on when certain votes are called. That was true Wednesday in the House with a resolution on Confucius. Yes, you read that right. House Resolution 784, "Honoring the 2560th anniversary ...
Stop Gap Budget
The month is almost over and Congress still hasn't finished work on the budget for the fiscal year that started on October 1st, so lawmakers are poised to extend a temporary budget until early December. Lawmakers gave themselves extra time at the end of September, when they had only finished ...
Blog Entries for Tuesday, October 27
Searching For Sixty
Moderate Democrats in the Senate were underwhelmed with the plan of Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid to include a public insurance option in a major health reform bill, as it quickly became obvious that Democrats don't have 60 votes to stop a filibuster. In fact, some of those who Democrats ...
Blaming Ned Lamont
As I stuck my microphone into the small group of reporters huddled around Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-CT) on Tuesday afternoon, I couldn't help but think about Ned Lamont, as Lieberman threatened to filibuster a health reform bill that had a public insurance option. "I've told Senator Reid that if the bill stays as ...
Alan Grayson Redux
The most interesting job in Washington, D.C. might be that of Todd Jurkowski, a former TV reporter who is the press secretary for Rep. Alan Grayson (D-FL), the Congressman who keeps getting himself into the news, and not always in a good way. On Tuesday, Jurkowski had to issue another written statement from ...
Long Term Care
Democrats are considering plans to add a new long-term care for seniors program to the health reform legislation now in the Congress, but the move could actually cost them some votes. The issue is what's known as the CLASS Act, a bill backed by the late Sen. Edward Kennedy, designed ...
Senate Health Update
It's a busy day in the hallways off the Senate Chamber, as it's become clear that Sen. Harry Reid does not have 60 votes right now for a health reform bill with a public insurance option. First, two GOP Senators who Democrats have talked about possibly supporting health reform made ...
Blog Entries for Monday, October 26
Jobless Benefits Battle
Republicans and Democrats are playing a classic game of legislative chicken in the Senate on a move to extend benefits for the long term unemployed. How long it goes on and who benefits politically isn't quite clear. Democrats want to act quickly on a plan that would extend jobless benefits by ...
Roll The Dice
Short on votes, Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid has decided to go forward anyway with health reform legislation that would include setting up new flavor of the public health insurance option that liberals want as part of that bill. The plan is known as "opt-out", because it would allow states ...
Senate Climate Change
Senate hearings get underway in earnest today on climate change legislation, as Democrats try to find some momentum for what's known as the Cap and Trade bill. It won't be easy. Four Cabinet officials will be on hand today in the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, as the chietains ...
Blog Entries for Sunday, October 25
Government Insurance Overdrive
So much attention has been given in recent weeks in the halls of Congress to the battle over a public health insurance option. And yet, there are so many more potential land mines out there for Democrats in a health reform bill. But the idea of a government-run insurance arm, ...
Maybe Next Year?
We are now into the last week in October, as Democrats play a Big Ten style of political, field position football, trying to grind their way down the field on health care reform. It prompts a good question - When Will It End? We'll see if we get legislative language ...
Health Waiting Lists
While the health reform bill approved by the Senate Finance Committee isn't going to be the final product of Democrats in Congress, it's still instructive to look at. Especially when the phrase "waiting lists" is used. At issue is Section 2215 on page 39, "Temporary High Risk Pools For Individuals ...
Blog Entries for Friday, October 23
No Health Amendments?
At the end of a Friday morning news conference on health care reform, Speaker Nancy Pelosi raised the possibility of not allowing any amendments to be offered on the House floor to the Democratic health care bill. Pelosi was asked by a reporter about abortion and health care reform, as ...
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