Senior Senate Democrat Asks How Treasury Can Support House Derivatives Legislation In a letter to Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner, Senator Maria Cantwell expressed severe disappointment in Treasury's support for the OTC Derivatives Markets Act reported out of the House Financial Services Committee with what the senator called large loopholes that would allow financial firms to continue unregulated...
By a whisker-thin margin, the Senate Finance Committee included a semi-public option in its reform bill last night. The amendment (PDF) from Sen. Maria Cantwell (D-WA) is modeled on Washington State's Basic Health plan. Supporters of the public option hope the bill will improve in the remaining stages of legislative sausage-making. It had better do so, because this is the worst possible way to bring...
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)...
Okay, as McJoan says over at DailyKos , (and Jane says at FDL ) if you live in any of the following states, you've got phone calls to make: Contact info for all Dem Senators on Finance is below the fold. The focus should be on Baucus, Nelson, Conrad, Lincoln, and Carper. But if you live in any of the states represented by the Senators below, calls to them certainly won't hurt, as well as "thank...
Blue Jersey: Covering NJ like a rug (Free subscription) | 09/28/2009
Politico had a story yesterday talking about how the NRSC will be trying to score political points against Democats up for re-election during the healthare debate: The NRSC already has its eyes on Democrats up in 2012 - and plans to bombard Democrats who sit on the Finance Committee with attacks on their votes on controversial amendments during the Committee deliberations beginning Tuesday. Its top...
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...
WASHINGTON -- A health care overhaul bill being considered in the Senate includes an amendment by Sen. Maria Cantwell to change the way doctors serving Medicare patients are paid.
Sen. Maria Cantwell says President Barack Obama must do more to help the nation emulate Washington and other states that deliver health care efficiently.
U.S. Sen. Maria Cantwell, a Democrat from Washington, will be here Sunday to help raise money for Laure Quinlivan's campaign for Cincinnati City Council.
Health-care advocates favoring a national public-health plan say they are intensifying pressure on Sen. Maria Cantwell, the most prominent member of Washington's congressional delegation who has yet to unequivocally embrace President Obama's idea to create a public-health plan.
A change of heart by Washington Sen. Maria Cantwell has helped salvage a $1 billion "cash for clunkers" program that would encourage motorists to trade in old gas guzzlers for more fuel efficient vehicles.
WASHINGTON -- A change of heart by Washington Sen. Maria Cantwell has helped salvage a $1 billion "cash for clunkers" program that would encourage motorists to trade in old gas guzzlers for more fuel efficient vehicles.
New York Supreme Court Criminal Ter (Free subscription) | 06/05/2009
Source: Lexology, June 5, 2009. The Shareholder Bill of Rights Act of 2009 Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison LLP "On May 19th, Senators Charles Schumer of New York and Maria Cantwell of Washington introduced the Shareholder Bill of Rights Act of 2009 (S. 1074), which, if adopted in its current form, would encompass the most fundamental restructuring of U.S. corporate governance in recent...
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