You can see the video to the right and his remarks as prepared for delivery on the Senate floor [...]
You can see the video to the right and his remarks as prepared for delivery on the Senate floor [...]
Update: The White House just released its Statement of Administrative Policy (pdf) on H.R. 3590 — Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.
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Getting a bill passed in the U.S. Senate is tricky. Unlike the simple rules that govern the U.S. House, the rules in the Senate provide ample opportunity [...]
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., introduced a health care reform bill which would cost $849 billion over 10 years, reduce the deficit by $127 billion and cover 94 percent of the [...] The U.S. Senate introduced its version of health care reform Thursday night. Senate majority leader Harry Reid said that he expects the battle over health care reform will be a long one.
“We all know that this legislation is tremendously important,” Reid said at the news conference according to the [...]
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid tonight unveiled the Senate version of health care reform legislation as an amendment to H.R. 3590, and named it the "Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act" (pdf). According to the CBO score (pdf), the bill would spend $849 billion over 10 years to [...]
Here is the statement from President Barack Obama on the introduction of health care reform, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, legislation in the Senate:"Today we" [...] This is a guest blog by Tyler Taylor, M.D., who has a solo, patient-focused medical practice in Los Alamos, New Mexico. The piece was written in response to Sunday's op-ed in the Albuquerque Journal North by Carol Miller.
As a member of Physicians for a [...]
Expect for the Senate health care reform bill to be a big topic in Congressional Roundups for the foreseeable future — especially with the news that the Congressional Budget Office scored the Senate version of health care reform.
The CBO says the bill “will cost $849 billion over 10 years, [...]
Congress is recessed for Veteran’s Day, so members of Congress are in their districts. The news out of Washington D.C. is still mostly focused on health care reform, but the attention has turned from the House to the Senate.
Talking Points Memo reports on dueling timelines on health [...]
Spoiler alert: Barela basically touts the GOP party line, where he says that tort reform (which most likely wouldn't cut health' [...]
New Mexico Congressmen Martin Heinrich and Ben Ray Lujan voted for the bill while Congressman Harry Teague voted against the bill.
One Republican, Joseph Cao of Louisiana, voted for the bill.
The bill will now head to the U.S. Senate.
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Earlier today, after a closed door meeting with House Democrats, President Barack Obama addressed the press from the Rose Garden.
"Now is the time to finish the job," Obama said. "The" [...]
Here's the video:
"Six principles have guided my work here and determined my vote on this legislation: health insurance reform must create stability, contain" [...]
Although some news outlets reported that there would be no vote on health care legislation until Sunday, a unnamed House Aide told MSNBC’s First Read that there will be a vote tomorrow in the House on health care reform. One New Mexico Congressman, Harry Teague, says he will [...]
Congressman Harry Teague, D-N.M., issued a release moments ago saying that while he believes "we need to reform our health care system," he will not vote for the House version of a health care reform bill.
Teague's statement says [...]
Congressman Harry Teague, D-N.M., issued a release late Friday afternoon saying that while he believes “we need to reform our health care system,” he will not vote for the House version of a health care reform bill.
The statement says Teague is voting against the health care bill because it fails [...]
Congressman Ben Ray Luján sent out a press release today highlighting the more than 40 events he’s attended throughout his district, to listen to his constituents’ thoughts on health care reform.
Luján has said many times that he favors a health care bill which includes a public option, and this release [...]
Today the American Medical Association and the AARP got onboard with the House Democrats' version of health care reform.
"When it comes to the AARP, this is no small endorsement," President' [...]
There won’t be a vote on a health care reform bill this year, “senior Congressional sources,” told ABC News today. Democratic Congressional leaders as well as the White House wanted to repeatedly have said they wanted a health care reform bill voted on before the end of the year.
“Getting [...]
Here are the FDL Action health care reform highlights for Monday, November 2.
1. First, thanks to Eric Pusey of Minnesota Progressive Project for letting us all know what's going on in the Minnesota Congressional delegation regarding health reform, the public option, etc. Thanks to Eric. Also, [...]
States may make hundreds of important decisions about the way its residents are taken care of once Congress is finished with health care reform legislation, the Washington Post reports. Besides the opt-out choice, proposed last week by Sen. Majority Leader Harry Reid, “health-care legislation being drafted on Capitol [...]
Here are the FDL Action health care reform highlights for Friday, October 30. 1. Jane Hamsher blogs the "Lieberkini." Let's just say, this is appropriate for Halloween, maybe even a creative costume idea if you haven't come up with one yet. Ha.
