Tag: Nancy Pelosi
Top economists plead case for unemployment insurance extension
Today Congress must decide on whether it will extend unemployment insurance benefits for millions of out-of-work Americans. Republican lawmakers have resisted extension, in part...
Tied to tax debate, unemployment benefits likely to lapse
Democrats in Washington are catching on to the idea that they can’t capitulate to an extension of Bush-era tax rates for the rich without...
Saletan: Election was all about health care and Republicans lost
Slate columnists and self-described "liberal Republican" (read: former Republican) Will Saletan wrote that Speaker Nancy Pelosi won and the Republicans lost the midterm elections....
Pocket card politics: What your Dems will be saying to you...
With visions of last year's shout-fest health-care town halls dancing in their heads, House Democratic leaders rallied the troops this week for the August...
Who is Steve King, the man Gardner disinvited to a fundraiser...
Steve King is an Iowa Republican Congressman. He was scheduled to host a $100 a plate fundraiser for Fourth Congressional District GOP candidate Cory...
Obama presses to pass Jobs Bill as unemployment hits crisis level
Despite improving economic indicators in GDP, consumer spending and business optimism, the United States’ unemployment rate remains high — flirting with double digits. Fifteen...
Gov. Ritter in D.C. frames state’s ‘New Energy Economy’ as national...
Gov. Bill Ritter today touted Colorado’s “New Energy Economy” as the keynote speaker at the “Good Jobs-Green Jobs” conference in Washington, D.C. – the...
House passes health care reform legislation
Congressional Democrats on Sunday passed historic legislation to extend health coverage to tens of millions of uninsured Americans, protect patients from the most flagrant abuses of insurance companies, and curb runaway health care costs. All told, the $940 billion reforms represent the most sweeping overhaul of the nation’s health care system since the creation of Medicare more than four decades ago.
How reconciliation irons out the House and Senate health bills
Democratic leaders pushing health care reform this year like to argue that a vast majority of the proposals represent uncontroversial changes backed by most Capitol Hill lawmakers. And while that might be true, it hasn’t prevented some sharp disagreements between House and Senate Democrats over a handful of high-profile reform provisions.
Conservatives squeeze $250 million abstinence-only extension into health reform bill
Reverend Dr. Carlton W. Veazey, head of the national Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice, is drawing attention to the fact that social-conservative lawmakers have...