Posts Tagged ‘ House ’

When 30 Senate Republicans voted to protect corporate-sponsored rape, it seemed that we had finally reached the nadir of the Party of No. But yesterday, House Republicans gave their senate cohorts a run for their scum-sucking money when they refused to support H.R. 4247, the Preventing Harmful Restraint and Seclusion in Schools Act. ...
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Michael Barone has a reality check for the "pass the damn Senate bill already" crowd. My colleague Mark Tapscott cites an anonymous quote by a House Democratic leader from a Politico story on why the House Democratic leadership can’t muster the votes needed to pass the Senate health care bill. "‘You just...
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Greg Sargent is reporting that the White House has "privately told Dem Congressional aides that the White House supports the House passing the Senate bill with a reconciliation fix." The private communications will lend a bit of cheer to those who had hoped the White House would use its heft to help...
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As noted in two rec list diaries by bernardpliers and D Wreck (update: and Julie Gulden), President Obama today spent 90 minutes taking questions from the House GOP Conference in Baltimore, Maryland. The bad news for the GOP is that President Obama not only took their tough questions, but he answered them --...
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Yesterday, Pelosi talked about a two-track approach to getting healthcare reform passed, in which the smaller parts of the House bill that could be passed as stand-alone legislation would be acted on while the negotiations with the Senate continue on the "sidecar" approach--passing a reconciliation fix to clear the way for the House to...
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The political will is there on one side of the Hill for comprehensive healthcare reform. Greg Sargent talks to Dem House whip James Clyburn: "I feel certain that the House Democrats will pass health care reform if the fixes that we feel need to be made to the Senate bill are guaranteed,"...
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If there's a "fierce urgency of now" behind health care reform, the pressure needs not to be on the House, but on the White House and Senate. Consider this from Josh Marshall. I'm not certain it's over yet. Pelosi clearly doesn't want it to be over. She may be hoping the...
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Filed under: Emily's PostRepublican South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford was on the floor of the House of Representatives Thursday talking to GOP congressmen. As a former member of Congress, Sanford is allowed to visit the chamber at will. Among others, Sanford chatted with Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas) and Rep. Bill Young (R-Fla.). Sanford...
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The message has been coming through loud and clear from a number of House members--the votes for the Senate bill aren't there. Barney Frank expanded on his earlier statement in conversations with constituents today, reported at TPM. I asked him about Democrats' prospects in the 2010 election if they don't get something...
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Today the White House offered their thoughts on the disgusting remarks by Rush Limbaugh and Pat Robertson in the wake of the horrific earthquake that struck Haiti two days ago. Q: And just one more quick question. What did you think of Pat Robertson's comments yesterday that the Haitians brought this on...
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