Here's some details on the upcoming deal to lower the age of Medicare and drop the public option. Under the potential trade-off with party moderates, near-retirees beginning at age 55 or 60 who lack affordable insurance would be permitted to purchase coverage under Medicare, which generally provides medical care beginning at 65. Medicaid, the federal-state health care program for the poor, would be...
Three contested votes in the Senate over the weekend (plus a unanimous Kerry amendment). I'll get right to it. Saturday was the Johanns amendment (on Medicare again), defeated 53-41. Today we had the Lincoln amendment (a populist measure against insurance executive pay) that fell just short of the 60 votes needed, "losing" 56-42 , and the Ensign med mal amendment, which was crushed 66-32....
Everybody's getting in the negotiating game . Snowe, emerging from a meeting on the first floor of the Capitol, Saturday afternoon, told a few reporters hovering outside the room that she had been approached earlier that morning about attending. She said that no agreement had yet been reached, but that the group was considering "another option," aside from those already under discussion....
Day two of voting on health care reform on the floor of the Senate. Did we learn more? Four more amendments, but this time two were essentially meaningless Dem amendments, with the first passing 98-0 and the next 97-1 (Byrd and Bunning missed today's votes; I'm not aware of any reporting on Byrd, and don't care much about Bunning -- cloture requires 3/5 of all Senators, so what matters are the yes...
I agree, and a successful primary challenge against the likes of the Michael Bennets or the Arlen Specters of our party might make our other senators like Mark Udall or Evan Bayh take notice.
Four members of Colorado's congressional delegation are asking lawmakers to extend a ban on spending money to expand the Army's Pinon Canyon training site. Sens. Mark Udall and Michael Bennet and Reps. John Salazar and Betsy Markey asked a House-Senate conference committee on Tuesday to renew the ban through September 2010. The four Democrats cite unanswered questions about the need. The current ban...
Is fiscal responsibility good if it creates a filibuster proof commission with the final say on cuts to Medicare and Social Security? It seems that a dozen Conservadems (including Bennet and Udall) think so and signed a letter supporting the creation of a fiscal responsibility board . ...it would create budget legislation, including deep cuts to Social Security and Medicare. As Conrad has written the...
Fifty-nine U.S. senators — including Colorado’s Mark Udall and Michael Bennet — have sent an open letter to European antitrust regulators, urging them to hasten their deliberations on software giant Oracle Corp.’s planned acquisition of Sun Microsystems Inc. — a deal that would combine two of Colorado’s largest tech employers. (Click here for details.)
Fifty-nine U.S. senators — including Colorado’s Mark Udall and Michael Bennet — have sent an open letter to European antitrust regulators, urging them to hasten their deliberations on software giant Oracle Corp.’s planned acquisition of Sun Microsystems Inc. — a deal that would combine two of Colorado’s largest tech employers. (ORCL) (JAVA)
Tonight on PBS, Frontline airs The Card Game , a report on the consumer loan and credit card industry: In a joint project with The New York Times, [Lowell] Bergman and the Times talk to industry insiders, lobbyists, politicians and consumer advocates as they square off over new regulation and the possible creation of a consumer finance protection agency. How are the credit, debit and pre-paid card...
Let’s take a snapshot of the legislative landscape as it relates to nuclear energy: Last week, Sens. Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) and Jim Webb (D-Va.) introduced a climate change bill that includes a strong nuclear title, something missing from the initial draft of the Kerry-Boxer bill. Take-away phrase: mini-Manhattan projects, which they use to refer to research initiatives such as nuclear reprocessing...
But of course you knew that. On today's symposium, the blowhard-in-chief and Republican Party head took this shot at Mark Udall : FATASS: There is no majority for the public option in an honest poll. "I'm not going to let four senators dictate to the rest of us..." Well, it's going to be a lot more than four because a lot more than four are going to hold out for something like what Landrieu...
The insect infestation that has killed millions of pine trees is one of the West's "biggest natural disasters," says U.S. Sen. Mark Udall, sponsor of a bill to give forest managers more ways to respond to the outbreak. The Colorado Democrat said Monday that... Mark Udall - United States - Democratic - Colorado - Politics
The insect infestation that has killed millions of pine trees is one of the West's "biggest natural disasters," says U.S. Sen. Mark Udall, sponsor of a bill to give forest managers more ways to respond to the outbreak.
Undoubtedly we will see some form of compromise and legislating 'Health Care Reform". Whether it will truly be a health care reform will be open to debate. Let's face, it seeking perfection is anathema to seeking improvement. Never let perfection obstruct improvement in the status quo. Charlie Rose interviews Friedman. NRO, National Review Online report from Grace-Marie-Turner reflects the following....
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