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Reid to Mitch How we plan to sneak Obamacare through Don Surber

Posted by porra in What Is It on October 8, 2009 at 7:03 am

We will finish the job. We will do so by revising individual elements of the bills both Houses of Congress passed last year, and we plan to use the regular budget reconciliation process that the Republican caucus has used many times. ... Reconciliation is designed to deal with budget-related matters, and some have expressed doubt that it could be used for comprehensive health care reform that includes many policies with no budget implications. But the reconciliation bill ...

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Nancy Pelosi The choice has to be made Dominic Stoughtons Blog

Posted by lasanen in What Is It on October 8, 2009 at 7:03 am

And it complicates the endgame for Pelosi and her leadership team as they try to bring health care reform in for a dramatic landing, because they may need to pass a bill no one likes before Congress can change it. ... But most Democrats are learning to swallow their concerns under the realization that this might be their last, best chance to provide health care coverage to more than 30 million uninsured Americans — a longtime goal of almost every Democrat. ...House Speaker Nancy Pelosi assured a skeptical Rachel Maddow that Rep. Bart Stupak won't actually try and derail health care reform over abortion, in an interview Thursday night. ... legislative maneuvers” to “delay and kill” the bill, claiming the opposition was motivated by a “partisan desire to discredit Democrats.” “We will finish the job,” Reid wrote to Sen. Mitch McConnell , “and we plan to use the regular budget reconciliation process. ...

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November The Alan Katz Health Care Reform Blog

Posted by lasanen in What Is It on October 8, 2009 at 7:03 am

Uniting the Democrats to allow debate on health care reform is a victory for the Obama ... making up the conference committee will try ... of the way there, but to get across the finish ...Health care reform takes center stage Thursday as President Obama and top congressional Democrats work behind closed doors to nail down a final agreement. See the original post: Democrats try to finish health care reform ...Washington, D.C., United States – Democrats in Congress moved closer Thursday to a final proposal for health care reform as President Obama pressured them to complete their work quickly. ... “We will finish the job,” Sen. Harry Reid said in a letter Thursday to the Republican leadership. “We will do so by revising individual elements of the bills both houses of Congress passed last year, and we plan to use the regular budget reconciliation process that the ...HEADLINE: Democrats try to finish health care reform. DATELINE: Washington. Health care reform takes center stage Thursday as President Obama and top congressional Democrats work behind closed doors to nail down a final agreement. ...

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National Journal Online Health Care Experts How Much Are

Posted by david in What Is It on October 8, 2009 at 7:03 am

"As they push to finish health-care legislation by the end of the month, Democratic leaders in Congress are weighing whether to add another of" Obama's "priorities to the package: a popular proposal to overhaul the federal student ... They just launched ad campaigns spending over $1 million per day to try and kill health care reform to protect their profits - profits which are apparently so small as to be unworthy of scrutiny. ... GOP Leaders Try To Undercut Democrats ...Do health care reform headlines leave you saying “huh? ... Bill Clinton told anxious Senate Democrats on Tuesday to pass a health care bill ... care system to cover all Americans and try ...... most now is a failure to reach the finish ... on next year's midterms, then Republicans will pay for opposing Health Care reform. ... klansman looks like Senator Byrd. Care to try ...Harry Reid is now saying that health care reform will be passed by April, using reconciliation: Democrats will finish their health ... I try to explain FUIGM to them, but I haven't ...

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Posted by kouwenhovenm in What Is It on October 8, 2009 at 7:03 am

... impatient with the slow pace of health care reform ... If Democrats can't get health care reform passed now, the lesson that they will learn is to never try anything big or difficult ...We the American people implore rational Democrats in the Congress to stand on principle, to separate themselves from the pack, be the guardian of freedom and put an an end to the madness of what is obviously not healthcare reform, ... The wholesale change of over 1/6 of our economy calls for a deliberative process, not the mad dash for the finish line advocated by leaders of your party whose palpable contempt for you and the majority of the electorate is both disgraceful ...The Senate minority leader is "very much part of a newly launched Republican shadow war to block health care reform by playing on the nerves of wavering Democrats across the Capitol" with "his real goal of sowing doubts about the ... Graham said Tuesday that a coalition of Republican and Democratic senators could rescue the Senate from an institutional disaster brought on by the use of the parliamentary maneuver known as reconciliation to finish the health care bill. ...

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For Health Care a Frantic Ride in the Final Days ABC News

Posted by kpelckmans in What Is It on October 8, 2009 at 7:03 am

WATCH: The Fate of Health Care Reform ... window of perhaps days only to try to ram the bill through — at considerable risk of incurring public wrath.Cast your vote now: http://sparkwords.com/sw/1450/Health-Care-Reform #tcot ... to his vow to “remake America” from the ground up and get health care legislation across the finish ...... Democrats can have the last laugh. All they have to do — and they have the power to do it — is finish the job, and enact health reform ... try at health reform ... health care reform ...

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Charge With Bipartisan Hurdle Cleared Democrats Will Finish Off

Posted by mountain in What Is It on October 8, 2009 at 7:03 am

Where do we go from here? Health care reform is locked and loaded from the Democratic perspective after President Obama challenged the GOP to work with them or get out of the way. ... He admitted that "politically speaking, there may not be any reason for Republicans to want to do anything," but said he would sure like to try. "I don't need a poll to know that most Republican voters are opposed to this bill and might be opposed to the kind of compromise that we could ...Republicans freak out in face of health reform passage ... Do health care reform headlines leave you saying “huh ... job is to get this bill across the finish ...They Will Pay The Price, If They Try It Democrats, Health Care Reform, Megan McArdle, ... He quips that the health care reform bill is as dead as the Articles of ...

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