by Mark Silva
With the Senate's 60-39 vote to proceed to debate, after Thanksgiving, on a health-care bill that the president is seeking by year's end, the debate of the 2010 midterm elections has been joined:
For the Democrats, in control of the White House and Congress, the congressional elections will [...]
Senator Mitch McConnell's closing words before last night's US Senate cloture vote, which the Democrats won with not a vote to spare, 60 to 39:
“Mr. President, the nation is watching the Senate tonight. The American people know how important this vote is. They’ve seen the bill the Democratic Leaders want [...]
Invoking the memory of Edward M. Kennedy, Democrats united Saturday night to push historic health care legislation past a key Senate hurdle over the opposition of Republicans eager to inflict a punishing defeat on President Barack Obama. There was not a vote to spare.
The 60-39 vote cleared [...]
A few minutes ago, 60 Senate Democrats--but no Republicans--voted to proceed with debate on the Harry Reid health care bill. WASHINGTON--As the Senate debates health care on Saturday, Democrats Sen. Dick Durbin of Illinois and Sen. Tom Harkin of Iowa are making a quick daytrip to the Illinois prison the Obama White House is targeting for Guantanamo detainees. The senators, flying on an Air Force jet, expect to be [...]
Senate President John Cullerton and his political hit team have found a Streamwood Democrat to file an objection to the nominating petitions of Steve Rauschenberger, who is running for Illinois State Senate in the 22nd district.
The basis for their objection is NOT the number of signatures [...]
Saturday could be a pivotal day in the history of our republic. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) says there are 10 things you should now about the Senate health care bill:The folks in Standish Michigan are concerned about transferring Gitmo prisoners to their area, just as the people of Illinois are...despite what the liberal media and radical Democrats are trying to diminish with their pre-9-11 sarcasm.
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According to the Daily Herald, both the Green Party and the Democrat Party are working to remove Richard B. Mayers - an admitted anti-Semite - from the ballot in February. Not surprising that someone who once made a Nazi salute in a Lake County court would find a home [...]
by Mark Rhoads
President Obama, who was a mediocre and non-leadership state senator in Springfield, has labored to explain why its OK to throw people in jail if they don't buy health insurance the bureaucrats approve. He often points out that many states require people to buy auto collision insurance if' [...]
Bernard Schoenburg uncovered some hypocrisy on the part of U.S. Rep. Phil Hare. To be sure, regular hypocrisy is not surprising for a Democrat. Especially one from Illinois. But this one is worth noting.
It seems that while Philly boy was using his father's death (Democrats have no shame) to' [...]
The federal government is one step closer to providing health care and retirement benefits to domestic partners of its gay and lesbian employees. Yesterday, the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee approved H.R. 2517 by a 23-12 vote. Illinois Democrats Mike Quigley, Danny Davis, and Bill Foster all supported the legislation. GOP Rep. Aaron [...]
WASHINGTON--The price tag on the Senate Democrats health reform bill was put at $849 billion late Wednesday afternoon by the Congressional Budget Office, less than the amount in the bill the House passed but within President Obama's target.
Here's a top line comparison, according to Senate sources
Cost
Senate $849 [...]
In a press release Tuesday, 8th CD GOP candidate Dirk Beveridge's campaign headlined with these words: The Democrats are handing Al Qaeda a significant victory." The candidate insisted that will happen if the Obama Administration transfers Gitmo prisoners to the Thomson Correctional Facility.
The headline drew the attention of National'" [...]
WASHINGTON--Senate Democrats defeated Tuesday a bid by Republicans to bar money being spent for prisons--that would include a proposed Gitmo North in Illinois--to take detainees from Guantanamo Bay military prison in Cuba. This is only the first skirmish. Attorney General Eric Holder testifies before the Senate Judiciary Committee [...]
For 6 weeks, and behind closed doors, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and Democrats have been crafting their own version of a socialized health-care bill.
With the House's passage of its bill, Reid is ready to pull the trigger, now only awaiting a cost estimate' [...]
Below, release from Illinois GOP survey....
Survey Shows Only 32% of Illinois Voters Support Quinn/Durbin Plan to Move Gitmo to Illinois, 57% Oppose
60% of women, 58% of independents and plurality of Democrats call plan a "bad idea"
CHICAGO - Less than one-third [...]
Todd Stroger's inadequacies weren't the only topics of discussion at yesterday's forum for the Democrats vying for Cook County Board president. Two of Stroger's rivals also weighed in against one of Mayor Daley's: his resistance to full disclosure of how hundreds of millions of dollars in taxpayer money [...]
From the NRCC:
“‘They say, wait a minute: For 40 years, the Democrats have been fighting to preserve Medicare, other people in the country are fighting to get rid of it. It's always been the Democrats that have stood up to protect Medicare,’ Foster said. ‘Now how likely is it that' [...]
The Department of Health and Human Services' assessment of the Democrats' Health Care plan shows HR 3962 will cost Americans at least $935 billion more over the next ten years. But if the plan reduces nation's care of senior citizens by over $500 billion as HR 3962's language specifies, it will cost [...]
WASHINGTON -- About a year ago, thousands jammed Grant Park in Chicago to celebrate Barack Obama's election to the White House, a communal civic defining moment. But those giddy days are long gone as Democrats in Illinois face the potential of losing the Senate seat President Obama once [...]
Rep. Stephanie Herseth Sandlin (D-SD) voted sensibly, in my opinion, when she cast a "nay" vote on ObamaCare last weekend. South Dakota is a conservative state, and with its large Native American population, many of its residents have at least second-hand knowledge of the failure of government-run [...]
Turns out, Bush’s tax cuts hurt the economy. Wha…?
From the Citizens for Tax Justice:
And yet, many of the lawmakers who argue that the health care reform legislation is “too costly” are the same lawmakers who supported the Bush tax cuts. Their own voting record demonstrates that health care [...]
