Talking Points Memo:
We'll have Brian Beutler on the Hill tomorrow as the full Senate takes up the health care reform bill. This is the first big procedural hurdle: 60 votes to end debate on the motion to bring the bill to the Senate floor. The d (Read More)
Wall Street Journal:
By Louise RadnofskyWashington Wire loves presidential proclamations, in which the commander-in-chief “by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and the laws of the United States” declares a given time for a (Read More)
The Huffington Post | Full News Feed:
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) argued last Sunday that Republicans deserve at least six additional weeks to consider health care reform before letting the bill come to a vote. By Friday, his top lieutenant said (Read More)
Huffington Post:
Heather Graham follows on her hilarious advocacy spot for health care reformwith a new climate change ad. Graham squares off with Mackenzie Crook(The Office, UK; Pirates of the Caribbean) in this spoof. Grahamdetails the wor (Read More)
Talking Points Memo:
New developments keep popping through the day in the senate health care bill debate. Check out this page to see all our health care reform debate updates over the course of the day.
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Daily Kos:
Mike Lillis of TWI: Reid, Baucus Approve Wyden’s ‘Free Choice’ Proposal Senate Democratic leaders have amended their newly released health reform bill to include a contentious provision allowing some workers to receive cas (Read More)
Talking Points Memo:
Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) must have really gotten under Sen. Blanche Lincoln's skin when he told reporters this morning that the Arkansas senator has made up her mind on tomorrow's procedural vote on health care reform because (Read More)
The Huffington Post | Full News Feed:
And then there were two. Sen. Ben Nelson (D-Neb.) announced Friday for the first time that he will vote to allow the Democratic health care reform bill to proceed to a debate on the Senate floor.That leaves Sen. Mary Landrieu (Read More)
Talking Points Memo:
Sen. Ben Nelson (D-NE) announces that he will vote with Dems on cloture to bring health care reform to the Senate floor.
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TIME:
Senate Democratic leaders are wooing Senators Mary Landrieu, Ben Nelson and Blanche Lincoln -- the last three hold outs who have not pledged to vote for the motion to proceed tomorrow night to start the debate on health care (Read More)
Huffington Post:
There is no question that reproductive health care has become a hot button issue in health care reform. This is very unfortunate. But despite the emotions and sensitivity surrounding the topic of abortion, lawmakers must not (Read More)
The Huffington Post | Full News Feed:
With the Senate poised to cast historic votes on health care legislation, a host of activist groups, labor unions, and even the White House itself launched their closing arguments to ensure passage. On Friday, five different (Read More)
Huffington Post:
Hispanic lawmakers say an old adversary, White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel, has his fingerprints all over a push to prohibit illegal immigrants from buying health insurance plans in a new market for people who don't get (Read More)
washingtonpost.com - Style:
Hours after Max Baucus slipped out the back door of Room 216 in the Hart Senate Office Building -- in the middle of his committee's health-care deliberations on Sept. 25 -- he pulled up a seat at the Mandalay Bay resort in La (Read More)
New York Times:
The recent recommendation on mammographies is guidance for women and doctors, and should not be injected into the partisan debate over health care reform.
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Daily Kos:
Progressives who were paying attention breathed a sigh of relief and gratitude when President Obama left abstinence-only funding out of the 2010 budget. Finally, we had a more reality-based approach to human sexuality reflect (Read More)
Huffington Post:
With health reform's first test vote on the Senate floor less than 72 hours away, a platoon of top strategists -- including pollsters Mark Mellman and Geoff Garin, incoming White House communications director Dan Pfeiffer and (Read More)
Daily Kos:
Rasmussen Reports hits two of the biggest prizes in Election 2010, and in true Rasmussen fashion, find the Republican candidates doing better than any other pollsters in America. That, and a few other choice headlines from t (Read More)
Huffington Post:
Health Care Reform: Will Real Statesmen and Stateswomen Please Stand Up?What would Senators Joe Lieberman, Ben Nelson, Blanche Lincoln, and Mary Landrieu do if they were offered the choice between spending their last dime an (Read More)