House Republicans have called upon Congressman Alan Grayson (D-Fla.) to apologize for this characterization of their health plan on the House floor last night: Sure enough, under threat of reprimand, Grayson returned to the House floor tonight. But I’m thinking this is not exactly what his critics had in mind:
It’s not all arguments and split votes in the Senate Finance Committee. Chairman Baucus just led the committee in a chorus for birthday girl Blanche Lambert Lincoln. Not to go all Simon Cowell on them, but it was a little pitchy. The rendition was, however, nowhere near as traumatizing as the sight of a Tom [...]
As Kate notes in her story today, yesterday’s defeat of the public option by the Senate Finance Committee has focused a lot of attention on the next big test, which is Senator Olympia Snowe’s amendment to put the public option on a “trigger“–that is, to establish one only as a fallback if private insurance companies [...]
The Wandering Kagan Minstrel Singers are in full voice this week, plumping for all the usual stuff–regime change in Iran, a surge in Afghanistan. Happily, they have less stroke than they used to–the neocons are not only gone from office, but also pretty much gone from the vast centrist foreign policy consensus. Still, they endure: [...]
The Senate Finance Committee just voted on two amendments offered by Senator Orrin Hatch that form the heart of what Senate Republicans say they would need to make health reform what they call “abortion neutral.” (Whether they would vote for health reform even if their demands were met on abortion, is a question they decline [...]
Our colleague Jim P. has the video of Michelle Obama’s upcoming (November 10) appearance on Sesame Street. And to save White House critics some time, he suggests some possible protest-ready reasons to get outraged about the segment. My favorite: At the end of the video, Mrs. Obama declares homegrown vegetables delicious to eat. Then the [...]
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Although the prospects of a public option finding its way into the Senate Finance Committee health reform bill are bleak, Chairman Max Baucus seems ready to devote the bulk of today’s markup to the topic. The committee spent most of its morning session rehashing the arguments for and against the creation of a public health [...]
