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  • Did Obama Just Convict the Suspected Fort Hood Shooter?

    The Trail

    By Scott Butterworth President Obama began his weekly Internet and radio address on Saturday with these words: "This past Thursday, on a clear Texas afternoon, an Army psychiatrist walked into the Soldier Readiness Processing Center, and began shooting his fellow soldiers." Did the president, speaking directly about the man suspected [...]
    Posted: November 07, 2009, 5:06pm EST
  • Lawmakers get each other's autographs

    Blog Briefing Room

    Despite numerous defections among their ranks, Democrats are confident enough that they'll pass healthcare legislation tonight that they already appear to be celebrating.

    During a procedural vote, members began walking up to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), asking her to sign their phone-book sized copies of the bill.

    Among' [...]

    Posted: November 07, 2009, 4:54pm EST
  • Health-Debate Starts With Historic Bang

    Washington Wire

    Number of comments: 2

    Rep. John Dingell, the House’s longest-serving member, brought a bit of history to Saturday’s health debate.

    The former Energy and Commerce Committee chairman presided over a rules debate in the morning while House leaders stepped out to meet with President Barack Obama. The gavel he used was the same one he [...]

    Posted: November 07, 2009, 4:30pm EST
  • Infants oppose healthcare reform bill

    Blog Briefing Room

    Rep. John Shadegg (R-Ariz.) brought an infant onto the House floor during his speech opposing the healthcare reform bill.  Shaddegg held the baby to make a point that future generation would feel the burden of debt if the healthcare reform package was passed.

    The 7-month old Maddie Thompson is the daughter of Shadegg's' [...]

    Posted: November 07, 2009, 4:29pm EST
  • Baby Talk in the Health Debate

    Washington Wire

    Naftali Bendavid reports from the Capitol

    Critics sometimes suggest that someone on the House floor is acting like a baby. At one point in today’s heated health care debate, it was literally true.

    Rep. John Shadegg, an Arizona Republican, held up his granddaughter Maddy, who appeared to be several months old, as [...]

    Posted: November 07, 2009, 4:01pm EST
  • Infants Against Health Reform (IAHR)

    Swampland

    Number of comments: 10
    Good Lord. GOP Congressman John Shadeeg just used the ultimate prop in his floor statement, hoisting six-month-old Maddie and telling his colleagues that the infant opposes the current health reform bill because, among other things, "she wants choices in her health care." What a precocious little tyke. Maybe she could [...]
    Posted: November 07, 2009, 3:44pm EST
    by Amy Sullivan
  • The Final Push

    Swampland

    Number of comments: 8
    We're now in the midst of four hours of final debate on the health care bill. After two hours of gabbing – double the time allotted thanks to GOP foot dragging – the House passed the rule on the bill 242-192 with 15 Dems joining all Republicans in voting Nay.' [...]
    Posted: November 07, 2009, 3:37pm EST
    by Jay Newton-Small
  • Republicans Stress Jobs in Health-Care Debate

    Washington Wire

    Number of comments: 3

    Peter Landers reports on health care.

    Republicans are seizing on Friday’s unemployment report to step up attacks on the Democrats’ health-care bill. In statements on the floor of Congress today, Republican lawmakers repeatedly referred to the rise of unemployment above 10% to make the case that Democrats have “misplaced priorities,” in [...]

    Posted: November 07, 2009, 2:47pm EST
  • Fifteen Dems oppose taking up health bill

    Blog Briefing Room

    Fifteen Democrats joined a unanimous Republican caucus in voting against a procedural measure to begin debate on healthcare reform.

    Most of the Democrats who voted "no"--listed below--are Blue Dogs who reperesent centrist or conservative districts.

    But Democrats did manage to scrap together 242 votes in favor of taking up the [...]

    Posted: November 07, 2009, 2:41pm EST
  • Pro-Life Dems Win a Big Victory

    Swampland

    Number of comments: 9
    The deal was cut verrrrry late last night, so maybe the news hasn't gotten out everywhere. When Obama arrived on the Hill to rally House Democrats to pass health reform around 11:30 this morning, his motorcade passed anti-abortion activists protesting outside with "Kill the bill!" "Kill the Pelosi bill!" signs.' [...]
    Posted: November 07, 2009, 1:57pm EST
    by Amy Sullivan
  • Bigoted Religious Extremists

    Swampland

    Number of comments: 10
    There are today several odious attempts by Jewish extremists, like this one by Martin Peretz and this one by La Pasionaria of the Neocons, to argue that the massacre perpetrated by Nidal Hasan was somehow a direct consequence of his Islamic beliefs as opposed to a direct consequence of his [...]
    Posted: November 07, 2009, 1:49pm EST
    by Joe Klein
  • And We're Off...

    Swampland

    Number of comments: 10
    The House has just started debate on the rule on the health care bill. Thus far Rep. Tom Price, a George Republican, has objected to every speaker – mostly women Democratic representatives talking about women's health care issues (note to GOP: the optics of Price bullying and yelling over these [...]
    Posted: November 07, 2009, 11:10am EST
    by Jay Newton-Small
  • House health-care compromise reached

    The Swamp

    by Noam N. Levey and James Oliphant

    With a historic floor vote looming on their healthcare bill today, House Democratic leaders secured an 11th-hour compromise late Friday night to settle a long-simmering debate over how to restrict federal funding for abortion.

    The deal appeared to clear the way for a vote on [...]

    Posted: November 07, 2009, 9:30am EST
  • Obama honors Fort Hood's fallen

    The Swamp

    by Mark Silva

    President Barack Obama, who has ordered feeral flags lowered to half-staff until Veterams Day for the soldiers killed and wounded in an Army psychiatrist's rampage at Fort Hood, Texas, honors the fallen, their families and their comrades today in a weekly address that also honors the service [...]

    Posted: November 07, 2009, 9:15am EST

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