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This was on Taegan Goddard’s Political Wire this afternoon…
clipped from politicalwire.com Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) “will announce this afternoon that he plans to push ahead with a public option vote — one that includes an opt-out provision for...
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House Passes Health Care Bill 220 – 215
This from HuffPo: 11:07 PM ET — House health care bill gets votes needed for passage. 220 members of Congress — including one Republican, Rep. Joseph Cao of Louisiana — voted in favor of health care...
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Senate Clears Final Hurdle to Vote on Health Care Bill
This clip from the NY Times: clipped from www.nytimes.com The Senate trudged Wednesday toward passage of sweeping health legislation after disposing of Republican claims that it would be...
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More Senators Have Endorsed Health Care Reconciliation
Here’s the list that has added their names to the four who wrote the letter I reprinted yesterday (bottom of article): Jack Reed (D-R.I.) Tom Udall (D-N.M.) Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) Ben Cardin (D-Md.)...
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5 more Senators on the Public Option list… count is now 30
We now include: Sen. Dick Durbin (D, Ill.) Patty Murray (D., WA), Ben Cardin (D., MD) Jeff Bingaman (D., NM), and Amy Klobuchar (D., MN). (I’m missing 2 in my calculations… I’ll check into this. I...
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Here’s the Situation Maker for the weekend…
Rollcall has just put out this notice: clipped from www.rollcall.com House Democratic Caucus Heading to Meet With Obama on Saturday The entire House Democratic Caucus will meet with President Barack...
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Voting Day in West Virginia
It’s primary day today and I’m getting out to vote for Delegate Doyle (and others) here in Shepherdstown. If it’s voting day where you are, get out and vote… it’s what keeps us free.Filed under:...
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Kagan Approved by Senate Judiciary Committee
With a vote of 13 to 6 the Senate Judiciary Committee voted to submit Elena Kagan to the full Congress, where it is expected she will pass her final nomination procedure before taking the Supreme Court...
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