Reuters:
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Senate will cast its first crucial test vote on healthcare reform on Saturday, with Democrats close to reaching the 60 votes needed to overcome Republican opposition and open debate.
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Nov. 21 - The US Senate began a session on healthcare reform on Saturday (November 21), as it prepares to vote on whether to proceed with debate on the bill.
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Reuters:
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A sweeping healthcare overhaul narrowly cleared its first hurdle in the Senate on Saturday, with Democrats casting 60 party-line votes to open debate on the biggest healthcare changes in decades.
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Politics As Usual:
Democrats eye 60 Senate votes, but differences could threaten bill later.
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Financial Times:
A broad healthcare overhaul was poised to clear its first US Senate hurdle as the last wavering senators said they would vote to begin debate on the legislation, giving Democrats the 60 votes they need. (Read More)
MSNBC:
From NBC's Domenico MontanaroAfter hours of debating whether to allow debate to begin, the Senate voted in favor of letting that happen on the healthcare vote tonight along partisan lines, 60-39.The outcome had become all but assured when Sen. Blanche Lincoln, a moderate Democrat from Arkansas, the last Democratic holdout, (Read More)
washingtonpost.com - Obituaries:
James M. Wilson Jr., 91, a career diplomat who established the State Department's human rights program and became its first coordinator, died Nov. 15 at Ingleside at Rock Creek retirement community in Washington. He had heart disease.
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Huffington Post:
From civil rights to silver rights.In my new book LOVE LEADERSHIP: The New Way to Lead in a Fear-Based World, I submit that there are two things in the world, love and fear, and that what we don't love what we fear. Further, I submit that the reason our world is so screwed up today is that most of our so-called leaders have (Read More)
Law.com - Newswire:
Dietary supplement maker Brain Research Labs has sued Ropers Majeski partner Thomas Clarke Jr. and his law firm, as well as the plaintiff named in a complaint against Brain Research, saying that comments made about the class action litigation on TV and in a YouTube video are defamatory and have hurt the company's business. (Read More)
Law.com - Newswire:
Robert Kelley, the attorney for former smoker Cindy Naugle, who last week won a whopping $300 million verdict in a suit against Philip Morris, spoke to The Am Law Litigation Daily about why the award in Naugle's case was so much larger than those in other so-called Engle progeny suits. One reason, Kelley said, was that this (Read More)
Law.com - Newswire:
Dealing another major setback to the IRS in the ongoing litigation over how it handled a massive $8 billion refund for a now-abandoned telephone excise tax, a Pennsylvania federal judge has refused to dismiss a nationwide class action that says the agency's public notices about the refund's availability violated due process (Read More)
WSJ.com: PJ Main:
Here's a formula for a comfortable retirement: Wait for stocks to plunge 30%. Watch your neighbors panic. Then quit your job. Sound scary? That's the idea, writes Jonathan Clements. (Read More)
Reuters:
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Bank of America Corp Chief Executive Kenneth Lewis has said he would consider postponing his retirement if directors need more time to find a successor or smooth the transition to the next CEO, the Wall Street Journal reported on Friday.
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