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Progressive Breakfast - 7/10/2009
House Health Care Bill Bumped to Next Week Blue (Cross) Dogs once again get in the way. CQ: "House Democrats acknowledged that they would not be able to release a final version of their legislation Friday as planned, because of opposition by members of the Blue Dog...
Top GOPer: We Can't Judge The Stim For "At Least A Year"
There are two ideologically opposite criticisms of the stimulus package, which was proposed by President Obama, then shaped and reduced in size by so-called Senate "moderates" (who never seem to have to take responsibility for their legislative handiwork.) The liberal...
Progressive Breakfast: Deadlines Get Nudged Back
Search For Revenue May Affect Health Care Timing Politico Pulse reports: "Both the House and Senate may delay their summer breaks by a few days in order to get health-care bills off the floor. A House leadership aide: 'If we need to, we’ll go longer.' Ditto from a...
Progressive Breakfast - 7/9/2009
Search For Revenue May Affect Health Care Timing Politico Pulse reports: "Both the House and Senate may delay their summer breaks by a few days in order to get health-care bills off the floor. A House leadership aide: 'If we need to, we’ll go longer.' Ditto from a...
Rapping Without Health Insurance
Try telling Maureen Yancey that health care reform is too expensive for the country to tackle right now, or that we should leave everything to the private insurance market. Yancey is among the millions of Americans who can't afford the status quo. She's already paid...
What Religious Progressives Bring To The Party
I spent several days over last weekend as a volunteer webworker covering the Unitarian Universalist General Assembly in Salt Lake City. These annual confabs are always a highlight of the summer for me as a UU. They're also one of the best shows going if you want to...
Building a Clean Energy Economy: The IMPACT Act
The Waxman-Markey Clean Energy and Security Act squeaked through the House of Representatives late last week (219-212). Although some expressed doubts, many people consider the bill a terrific breakthrough and important step in the right direction. But one unheralded...
Symbolic Blather: Washington's Congenital Disease
This Congress potentially could be the most productive in over 40 years. It has passed the largest recovery plan in the nation's history. It extended health care to millions of children. It passed Obama's first budget with its significant down payment on education and...
Don't Just Watch The Obama-Rahm Kabuki. Call Congress.
Yesterday, health care watchers tried to read the tea leaves after White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel expressed willingness to compromise on a public plan option via a "trigger" that would indefinitely delay its creation, followed by a
Progressive Breakfast: Taxing Health Benefits Losing Traction
Congressional Dems Push Back on Baucus, Rahm Baucus gets blowback from fellow Senate Dems. Bloomberg: "Senate Democratic leaders are pressing Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus to reconsider a plan to tax employer-provided health benefits because they say it would...
