MN Progressive Project

• House passes health reform bill

  Still waiting for the official roll, but the bill passed (finally): 220-215. The state DFL and congressional figures are already sending out releases on its passage, we'll pick those up as the weekend moves forward.

  Unfortunately the bill contained an extremely bad amendment from Bart Stupak, one of the Bluest of' [...]

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  Posted: November 07, 2009, 10:24pm EST
  

• Light late-night reading: Pawlenty's antics get Reality Checked

  WCCO's Pat Kessler takes Tim Pawlenty to the toolshed on the GINO's proposed Destroy Minnesota Amendment:Governor Tim Pawlenty is proposing tough new budget standards. However, they are standards he has failed to meet himself since taking office in 2004. He has proposed budgets that far exceed the amount of [...]
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  Posted: November 07, 2009, 9:39pm EST
  

• Michele Bachmann: You owe us an apology

  This is one of the signs displayed at Bachmann's rally against health care. Congressman John Kline told a radio audience that about one hundred members of the Republican Conference in Congress appeared in person in outside the Capitol to support the demonstrators.

  So: do lawmakers like Bachmann and' [...]

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  Posted: November 07, 2009, 1:50am EST
  

• Dear Jim and Keith

  I'll be short, I know you have a lot of work to do.

  Later today you will be voting on H.R. 3962, the Affordable Health Care for America Act. Your college from Michigan, John Dingell, made a very compelling case to vote yes on the bill. Since 1957 Representative' [...]

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  Posted: November 07, 2009, 12:01am EST