REMARKS BY THE PRESIDENT CHALLENGING AMERICANS TO LEAD THE GLOBAL ECONOMY IN CLEAN ENERGY Massachusetts Institute of Technology Boston, Massachusetts 12:44 P.M. EDT Excerpts: Hundreds of people will be put to work building this new testing facility, but the benefits will extend far beyond these jobs. For the first time, researchers in the United States will be able to test the world's newest and largest...
The New York Times reports that the goals of coverage and affordability in health insurance may be mutually exclusive (in other news, sun expected to rise in east today): As Democrats prepare to take up health care legislation on the floor of the Senate and the House, they are facing tough choices about two competing priorities. They want people to pay affordable prices for health insurance policies,...
If you wonder why there's still any doubt a public option will be part of health care reform when President Obama claims to favor it, Congressional leaders claim to favor it, and two-thirds of Americans keep telling pollsters they favor it, Robert Reich explains: Tomorrow (Tuesday) is a critical day in the saga of the public option. Democrats Charles Schumer (New York) and Jay Rockefeller (West Virginia)...
Announcement courtesy of the Christian Coalition The Senate Financial Services Committee will vote tomorrow on several amendments offered by Senator Orrin Hatch to prevent federal funding for abortions and to provide conscience clause provisions to protect medical service workers in the health care legislation. It is imperative that you call key Senators on the Financial Services Committee to tell...
Big ObamaCare Vote on Tuesday - amendment to get public option re-inserted into the bill: Originally the Senate Finance Committee was to vote on the Public Option Amendments today, but it seems that it has been pushed back until Tuesday September 29, 2009. It has been called the beginning of the battle; in an interview Wednesday night, Charles Schumer is quoted saying, “Tomorrow is the opening...
Climate-change legislation has stalled on Capitol Hill, but the White House's unofficial "Green Cabinet" is quietly trying to revive the effort by lobbying dozens of senators. President Obama has dispatched Energy Secretary Steven Chu, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar and Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa P. Jackson to Capitol Hill. White House aides said that they and other...
After a couple of weeks that have generally looked pretty good for Team Blue on health care reform, Max Baucus's Senate Finance Committee bill suddenly finds itself devoid of supporters. And everyone seems to have their own, unique way of objecting. Firstly, there's Jay Rockefeller, who opposes the lack of a pubic option. Ron Wyden doesn't think the subsidies are sufficient. Then there's Olympia Snowe,...
The U.S. House of Representatives, by a vote of 316-109, today approved a $2 billion extension of the "Cash-for-Clunkers" automobile sales incentive program. The Democratic proposal would run through September 30, 2010, and tap funds from an Energy Department loan guarantee program included in the economic stimulus package enacted in February. An initial $1 billion in funding approved this...
Kay Bailey Hutchison appeared on CNBC's Squawk Box to whine and bellyache about the Grand Old Anglo Party being "shutout" of the healthcare debate in Washington. "There is no bipartisanship here," she said. "There were something like 45 amendments on the health care bill that came out of the Senate committee. Two Republican amendments were put on out of 45 offers." Speaking...
A Busy Week Ahead as Senate Starts Work on Climate [Hoax] Bill - NYTimes.com These are the first in a long line of Senate climate hearings as the Democratic-led chamber tries to cobble together a bill in time for Majority Leader Harry Reid's (D-Nev.) Sept. 18 deadline for all committees to clear their pieces of the legislation. Also Wednesday, Reid plans to bring together the chairmen of the six key...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Democratic-led U.S. Congress gave final approval on Wednesday to sweeping land and water conservation legislation that environmental groups praised as one of the most significant in U.S. history.
There was a huge breakthrough in health insurance today. The groups America’s Health Insurance Plans and Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association announced that they would “phase out the practice of varying premiums based on health status in the individual market.” What this means is that two of the largest insurance groups in the country [...]
The health insurance industry offered Tuesday for the first time to curb its controversial practice of charging higher premiums to people with a history of medical problems.
The health insurance industry offered Tuesday for the first time to curb its controversial practice of charging higher premiums to people with a history of medical problems.
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