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Gothamist (Free subscription) | yesterday
Now that the Senate will debate health care reform next week, the question is whether Senate Democrats can gain enough support to pass legislation. Senator Charles Schumer told Face the Nation , "Look, there are still many bumps in the road, discussions, arguments, disagreements. But I think now the wind is at our back. There's real momentum. And the good news here is we still have a very diverse...
DownWithTyranny! (Free subscription) | yesterday
Republicans hardly waited for the Sunday morning bobblehead shows to go into the greatest display of political hypocrisy anyone has ever heard. One after another, they came up to the podium all day Saturday, and railed against the healthcare reform bill they have been trying to sabotage from the moment Democrats announced they would try to pass it-- in the 1940s. Rhode Island Senator Sheldon Whitehouse...
Prairie Weather (Free subscription) | yesterday
Republican leaders conceded that the Democratic victory, while not conclusive, improved the odds that a bill would pass. “Ordinarily, when you do start debate on a bill like this, it ends up passing,” Jon Kyl of Arizona, the No. 2...
........Scattershot........ (Free subscription) | 11/22/2009
It's interesting to note that Senator Jon Kyl (R-Lala Crazyland) on Face the Nation is either lying about his reading of the ramifications of the health care reform bill, or he can't read. BINGO: He just said: "I've read good portions of this bill..." Don't you supposed he ought to read the whole thing before he starts popping off on national television about what he knows?
Gretawire (Free subscription) | 11/22/2009
Here are more pics (behind the scenes) from our Friday interview with Senator Kyl in US Capitol (LBJ room)
Rather Than Working (Free subscription) | 11/22/2009
Here's a link to an interview with Senator John Kyl on NPR this morning (I'm lazy, you get the ugly version): http://www.npr.org/templates/player/mediaPlayer.html'action=1&t=1&islist=false&id=120646662&m=120646647 In the interview he says the public option is step one in a two step plan to have only government insurance. OK, maybe all the Democrats are socialists or communists; but,...
The Corner (Free subscription) | 11/22/2009
Sen. Jon Kyl (R., Ariz) on tonight’s 60-39 vote: Any pretense or claim that this is a bipartisan bill is gone. Every Senator who voted for tonight’s procedural motion ignored the American people and instead voted with the leaders of the Democratic party. At a time when our nation is facing its highest unemployment level in almost three decades, American families and small businesses do...
RealClearPolitics (Free subscription) | 11/22/2009
SCHIEFFER: And good morning again. Joining us now in the studio, Senator Chuck Schumer, Democrat from New York and Senator Jon Kyl , Republican of Arizona. If there were two key players in this -- leading up to the Senate deciding to debate this whole health care issue, it is you two. So I'd just like to get your reaction, Senator Schumer, on what happened last night. SCHUMER: Well, I thought last...
Medical Futility (Free subscription) | 11/21/2009
From a Friday news conference with Republican Senators: CORNYN : In addition to everything that Senator Kyl and Senator Murkowski have said, I think we all recognize that most of the costs in our health care system are in the end-of-life, with chronic diseases. And to me, the disturbing thing about what we're seeing with regard to mammograms and the possibility that -- is it Medicare will not pay for...
Gretawire (Free subscription) | 11/21/2009
Here are some pics from the LBJ room in the US Capitol. We did our interview the other day with Senator Kyl in the room. This is where the minority party - the Republicans - caucus (meaning meet.) I figure you would never get a chance to see it (I had never seen it before) [...]
AterSlash (Free subscription) | 11/21/2009
The NY Times reports that the Jason panel, an independent group of scientists advising the federal government on issues of science and technology, has concluded that the program to refurbish aging nuclear arms is sufficient to guarantee their destructiveness for decades to come, obviating a need for a costly new generation of more reliable warheads, as proposed by former President Bush. Senator Jon...
Gretawire (Free subscription) | 11/21/2009
[BY THE WAY --- CHECK OUT THE GREEN OVAL VIDEOS WE JUST POSTED -- CLICK ON THE GREEN OVAL on the upper right hand side of GretaWire] A quick tease...tonight ON THE RECORD at 10pm .... Senator Kyl has lots to say about tomorrow night's 8pm vote. and .... Congresswoman Cathy McMorris Rodger about cancer screenings for women...and [...]
Click World News (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
pickens writes "The NY Times reports that the Jason panel, an independent group of scientists advising the federal government on issues of science and technology, has concluded that the a program to refurbish aging nuclear arms is sufficient to guarantee their destructiveness for decades to come, obviating a need for a costly new generation of more reliable warheads, as proposed by former President...
Jeff Weintraub (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
... or, what Republican opponents of health care reform really believe, deep down--once we get past the cynical demagoguery about " death panels " and the pseudo-concern about "pulling the plug on Grandma". I happened to be reminded today of this exchange between Senators Jon Kyl of Arizona and Debbie Stabenow of Michigan (on September 25, 2009), which I thought at the time was...
The Corner (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
It's hard to when you're making it up as you go along. In yesterday's exchange with Senator Kyl, while giving the back of the hand to my claim that leftist lawyers had derailed the Military Commissions Act of 2006, Attorney General Eric " Real American Values " Holder argued that it was the Supreme Court -- "not, I think, a group of leftist lawyers" -- who had "had concerns"...
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