Photograph of Senator Ben Nelson (D-Nebraska) by Harry Hamburg/AP Yesterday, Senate Democrats announced they had 60 votes to pass their health care reform bill. One of the central issues that was revised in order to get the support of Senator Ben Nelson [...]
Vice President Joe Biden makes the argument for passage of this week’s iteration of health insurance reform. The Democratic Party is a coalition party of progressives and centrists, and the very nature of compromise means that no one will be happy. Legislatures have to compromise. [...]
Watch this Democrat state Senator provides her wealth of knowledge about the New York State budget. This is Suzi Oppenheimer from the New York State 37th Senate District, thats downstate just outside New York City.
And taxpayers wonder why we’re in a financial mess right now?
The best game Paterson has [...]
Photograph of Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., speaking to reporters as Sen. Max Baucus, D-Mont., left, Sen. Christopher Dodd, D-Conn., and Sen. Tom Harkin, D-Iowa, listen by Harry Hamburg
The NY Times reports, "Senate Democrats said on Saturday that they had" [...]
Bill Moyers (one of the reasons I’m a member of WXXI) delivered yet another blockbuster episode last night as he hosted Rolling Stone editor Matt Taibbi and Economist and American Prospect Editor Rob Kuttner. They commented on Heath Care - the bill and the process.
Bottom line - the Democrats blew [...]
The Democrat & Chronicle reports that City Councilmember Lovely Warren will take control of the Rochester City Council as its president next year. Warren works for Democrat State Assemblyman David Gantt and will most likely take her lead on all matters coming before City Council from Gantt himself. That’s a very, [...]
Surprise…surprise…surprise…stimulus money spent in partisan ways.
From Jerry Brito, Veronique de Rugy in their report:
For our analysis, we looked at the 435 congressional districts in the United States [...]
I was under the impression that area politicians are not only here to govern said jurisdiction but also to act as a promoter of the people and places that they represent. Why are the Democrats not doing that any longer? City Council in Rochester this past week voted to spend [...]
We reported on channel 8’s Evan Axelbank’s story on the Senate Democrats tax payer funded campaign outreach office on Wednesday.
There was a second part of the report– sorry no video link. Mayor Duffy’s staff and County Executive Brooks tell Axelbank that they’ve had no contact with anyone from [...]
Found this little tudley at Yahoo News and felt it needed to be shared with those who still feel we should be breathing life into the Senate’s HCR bill.
As currently written, the Senate Democratic health care bill would permit insurance companies to place annual limits on the dollar value [...]
Just what we need…
Centrist Democratic Sen. Ben Nelson (Neb.) said Thursday he won’t vote to advance the Senate healthcare bill unless it’s changed.
Nelson said more stringent restrictions on the use of federal funds for abortion must be included in the bill if it is to win his vote.
“If it’s [...]
Trump Organization lawyer Michael Cohen tells Our Town that he's going to challenge State Senator Liz Krueger in the Democratic primary next year. He "wants to tap into voters’ anti-incumbency mood, especially toward those in Albany" and says the Senate coup was the [...]
Here’s this week’s Health Care Reform Video, “I’m a Democrat and I’m a Republican”
And here’s an action page so you can call your reps.
Related posts:Get on the Bus for Health Care Reformladkiddo writes [...]
On the topic of his party's chances in next year's elections, Robert Menendez is a study in resolute optimism.
Not that he has much choice. Mr. Menendez, New Jersey's junior senator, chairs the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, which recruits and provides financial and political support for the party's U.S. [...]
Above you’ll find a video of Republican Senate challenger Andrew Russo operating in his current job — as a grammy-nominated pianist. Russo is one of two Republicans challenging Democratic Sen. David Valesky in 2010.
This song featured in this video, “The Body of Your Dreams,” is a collaboration [...]
Leave it to the New York State Senate Democrats — they are wasting our money (over $200,000 a year) on a political office right here in Rochester. Hats off to Evan Axelbank over at channel 8 for exposing this waste of taxpayers money.
[...]The lobbying group Democrats for Education Reform got its start in New York, but is spreading fast. Its latest branch is in Michigan, where it’s going by MDFER (a bit of a mouthful). With chapters in five states, the organization is halfway to its goal of being in 10 [...]
In the wake of reports that Senate Democratic Conference Leader John Sampson is discussing the possibility of awarding committee chairmanships to a few Republicans, Senate Minority Leader Dean Skelos has released a statement calling for more reform and not to do it in “piecemeal fashion.”
From the statement:
Senator Sampson’s proposal [...]
A libertarian extols the virtues of the French single-payer health care system, and declares it vastly superior to the American status quo, but doesn’t want to implement it here because I-Me-Mine:
when free marketers warn that Democratic health care initiatives will make us more “like [...]
ALBANY—What is David Paterson thinking?
Polls show he’s more than 40 points behind Andrew Cuomo in a Democratic primary, he’s got next to no friends left in Albany and, in all likelihood, he’ll be shown to have raised embarrassingly little money for a sitting governor at the next filing [...]
