edited by: Judy Aron,
Connecticut Editor
Sen. Chris Dodd said the nation is "one step closer to responsible reform" following tonight's vote in the Senate to allow full debate on a planned overhaul of the nation's health-care system.
"We will have a full and open debate on this important issue,'' Dodd said in a statement. "But [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) – 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.
Read more »VOTE: 60 vote yea, 39 nay.
After the vote, Senator Dodd released the following statement:
Tonight's vote takes us one [...]
With a key vote in the U.S. Senate scheduled for tomorrow night on national health care reform, Connecticut’s Joe Lieberman is one of the key Senators to watch.
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With little more than 24 hours left before the U.S. Senate goes forward with a test vote on its health care bill, U.S. Sen. Chris Dodd made a stop at a small manufacturing business in New Britain.
After touring Metalform Company Inc., which manufactures [...] Sen. Joe Lieberman isn’t worried about the political consequences of his stance on health care reform:
“I don’t think about that stuff,” Lieberman told POLITICO this week. “I’m just — I’m being a legislator. After what I went through in 2006, there’s nothing much more that anybody [who] disagrees with [...]
Democrats' Obamacare will raise premiums and taxes, cut Medicare, and drive up the deficit. Is This the kind of health care reform the American people want?
In the following video, Senate Republicans remind us that Americans do not want higher premiums and higher taxes disguised as reform:
' [...]Washington (AP) – The Senate will hold its first vote on health care legislation on Saturday night and Democrats will need 60 votes to prevail.
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Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro, D-CT, is a front-line supporter of the government takeover of this nation’s health care system and spares no one from her lash who stands in the way.
DeLauro’s irrational conduct was just part of the Obama administrations confusion convention this week over breast [...]
About 650 members of the Yale University community -- students, faculty and staff -- signed a letter urging Sen. Joseph Lieberman, a Yale grad, to reverse course on the health care bill.
Lieberman has said he opposes any healthcare bill that includes a government-funded insurance option and has threatened to filibuster any [...]
Per the Courant, Fifth Congressional District Rep. Chris Murphy is at the center of a controversy over his health care vote.
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce is running an advertisement criticizing his vote while a liberal-leaning health care reform group is praising the second term Congressman in a rebuttal ad.
So [...]
After the briefing on the long-awaited Senate health care bill, U.S. Sen. Chris Dodd talked Wednesday about how he wished U.S. Sen. Ted Kennedy were there to be part of this historic moment.
"This bill meets the test of history, reflecting the" [...] By DAVID ESPO
AP Special Correspondent
Washington (AP) – Health care legislation heading for the Senate floor this week would extend coverage to 31 million uninsured Americans at a cost of $849 billion over a decade, a Democratic leadership aide said Wednesday, citing a report from congressional budget experts.
Read [...]Here's the letter given to Senator Lieberman from the Concerned Clergy of Connecticut , which was signed by seventy clergy leaders:
We are not politicians. We are [...]
In his weekly conference call with Connecticut reporters, U.S. Sen. Chris Dodd reacted to last week's poll numbers and talked about how the health care debate is shaping up in the Senate.
"Of course I'd like to see better numbers," Dodd said of' [...] Meriden (WTNH) – All five of Connecticut’s members of Congress voted for health care reform in the House. But only one congressman is being targeted by the industry for that vote.
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[...]I have detested the talking points and approach of his challenger, Merrick Alpert, with his focus on non-existent Dodd "scandals" and his appearances on Fox.
But to me, there is one overriding' [...]
In a discussion on health care reform on Fox News Sunday last week, Senator Joseph Lieberman (I-CT) told Chris Wallace, “If the public option plan is in there, as a matter of conscience, I will not allow this bill to come to a final vote.”
Last night over 500 people [...]
An estimated crowd of 475 files out of Stamford High School to hold a candle light vigil outside of Sen. Joseph Lieberman's Strawberry Hill Ave. apartment building in Stamford, Conn. on Sunday, Nov. [...]
The Catholic Church would have us believe that it simply cannot support any health care bill that might result in a single person getting an abortion, no matter how removed the cause might be from the effect. It’s a matter of principle, don’t you see. Just as millions of Africans [...]
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