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Harkin: Health plan with ‘strong public option’ will pass by Christmas

At a fundraiser in Iowa Sunday, the new chairman of the Senate health committee, U.S. Sen. Tom Harkin, D-Iowa, declared that a health-reform bill...

Radio host Boyles ‘spends hours’ studying health bill, gets it all wrong

On Thursday's radio show, KHOW's right-wing host Peter Boyles claimed that the Democratic health reform bill, H.R. 3200, contains Orwellian euphemisms. He said that,...

Democrats could go it alone on health care, Udall says after Obama meeting

Senate Democrats could be ready to draft health care reform legislation without the help of Republicans, according to Colorado Sen. Mark Udall, who spoke with reporters Thursday afternoon following a meeting Udall, Sen. Michael Bennet and 15 other Democratic senators held with President Barack Obama. "At some point, after you've extended your hand for a number of months and it's not reciprocated," Udall said, "I think it is incumbent on us as the majority party, with responsibility to govern and solve problems, to act."

Udall, Bennet summoned with other conservative Dems to the White House

ABC is reporting that President Obama has asked to meet with select Democratic senators, including Colorado Sens Mark Udall and Michael Bennet, as well...

Colorado swing voters swayed by Obama health-reform speech

Polling firms Greenberg Quinlan Rosner and Democracy Corps teamed up to "dial test" a group of Colorado swing voters during the President's health-reform address...

Joe ‘you’re a liar’ Wilson’s health-industry donors

U.S. Rep. Joe Wilson, R-S.C., let his emotions run away with him on the floor of the U.S. House last night in the middle...

Joe Wilson: unhinged, red-faced, stressed-out and unassailable?

Don't criticize U.S. Rep Joe Wilson, R-S.C., the angry guy who screamed out like an unhinged teabagger last night from the floor of the...

Colorado politicians react to Obama health care address to Congress

The reviews of President Barack Obama's health care speech are coming in from Colorado elected officials and political leaders. We will post them here as they arrive.

White House releases full text of Obama’s health reform speech

The full text of the President's speech to a joint session of Congress tonight has begun to appear online. It's available at the New...

‘Gang of Six’ health reform draft plan hits the internets

The Hill’s Jeffrey Young scores big with an 18-page draft summary (PDF) of the health reform legislation being drafted, ever-so-carefully, by a small group...
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