Photograph of Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., center, embracing Sen. Jay Rockefeller, D-W.V., as Sen. Chris Dodd, D-Conn., left, looks on by Jose Luis Magana/ Last night, the Senate voted to debate health care legislation after Thanksgiving, in a 60-39 vote along party lines. Two weeks after the House passed its health care legislation , Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nevada) said,...
Hmm that is how I would categorize this post. After doing the mandatory Republican bashing in the comments( which is silly and incorrect) the goal posts are moved to where there answer is to outlaw the paying of all abortion in private plans. Which of course is so UNconstitutional it is not even funny and would require a reversal of Roe V Wade and touches on many other matters. If one wishes to concede...
Man oh man, I thought I was the only one who remembered that Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL)a called for a special election to choose Barack Obama's replacement in the US Senate. Instead we ended up with Roland Burris. The Chicago Tribune remembers: Then came the maneuvering we've characterized in headlines as "Profiles in cowardice" and "The silence of the Dems." Wow, if we schedule a...
Senators Harry Reid (D-NV) and Max Baucus (D-MT) have agreed to support a version of Senator Ron Wyden's Free Choice Act as an amendment to the health care bill moving through the Senate. Wyden has long argued that the key to health reform is allowing millions of Americans the right to opt out of their employer-based health care and use their employers' health-care contribution in the health exchange...
We need to peel off one Democrat to kill this thing. For those of you glued to your laptops when the abortion known as PelosiCare was passed a couple of weeks ago, this Saturday's fight in the Senate will consist of 10 hours of debate, which were won by Republicans in return for their not having the entire bill read on the floor. According to Roll Call (subscription required, but the snippet is there),...
WASHINGTON -- Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's health care bill has millions of dollars to help Louisiana finance Medicaid at a time when he is hoping that state's wavering Democratic senator will support overhaul legislation.
FOXNews.com : The Senate paid tribute Wednesday to the longest serving lawmaker in U.S. congressional history, a milestone marked with tributes and a special resolution. "I look forward to serving you for the next 56 years and 320 days," Sen. Robert Byrd said in a statement marking the occasion. His only regret, Byrd said, was that his late wife, Erma, was not there with him. "I know...
WASHINGTON — West Virginia Sen. Robert C. Byrd became the longest-serving lawmaker in congressional history Wednesday, a milestone to be marked with a morning of Senate tributes and a special resolution. "I look forward to serving you for the next 56 years and 320 days," Byrd said in a statement marking the occasion. His only regret, Byrd said, was that his late wife, Erma, was not...
With her recent announcement that a resignation will not come before the March primary, Kay Bailey Hutchison hopes to balance successfully fending off healthcare reform by herself, following that up by destroying the idea of a Cap and Trade Bill, and topping it off with a win over Rick Perry in the the party that Rick Perry seems to control. She has a lot on her plate, doesn't she? Well, she might,...
WASHINGTON -- A Nevada man has complained to the Federal Election Commission that his former employer forced him to donate to U.S. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's re-election campaign, and later reimbursed him.
WASHINGTON (AP) - A Nevada man has complained to the Federal Election Commission that his former employer forced him to donate to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's re-election campaign, and later reimbursed him.
The high-stakes election is still a year away, but Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., is already leveling criticism at Republican Sue Lowden, the former state GOP chairwoman, state legislator and Miss America candidate who hopes to unseat him. Lowden, however, is apparently holding her on against Reid, leading him in mid-October polling. Her problem is the barrage coming from her own party, which...
Susan Barker is the superintendent of Castle Rock schools in Washington state. And the Daily News of Longview, Washington reports that she is upset with the Obama administration. State and federal figures released last week report that initial federal stimulus dollars “saved or retained” 24,000 teachers in Washington — including 36 in Castle Rock. Teaching positions make up the bulk...
There’s word today that Senator Lieberman is saying he won’t join a Republican filibuster of the health care bill after all. Harry Reid and Lieberman have reached a “private understanding” on the matter, Alexander Bolton says at The Hill. Steve Benen says that in fact Senate Democrats and the White House never thought he would [...]
otherwise known as Hate Crime Legislation was signed into law. The Dems put it on the Defense Spending Bill because they knew it wouldn't pass on its own merit as it creates a special class of citizens and will not treat people fairly. It is totally against the 14th Amendment of our constitution that guarantees fair and unbiased treatment under the law. A person can now be charged with a hate crime...
Swearing in on a stack of Bibles, the Senate and House are getting back to the work of whatever it is they do these days. Unfortunately, two tree stumps will still run Congress - Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid.
I seriously doubt that there is a snowballs chance in hell of this bill getting a vote in Ringside Harry Reid's Senate, simply because it would put Democrats in the awkward position of having to either supporting the bill and angering the Shamnesty base or oppose it and turning off a large majority of voters that recognize that providing legal ID's to Illegal immigrants is a bad idea.
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