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12 hrs ago | Boston Globe

Many skeptical on health cost-cutting

As health care legislation moves toward a crucial airing in the Senate, the White House is facing a growing revolt from some Democrats and analysts who say the bills Congress is considering do not fulfill President Obama's promise to slow the runaway rise in health care spending.

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Related Topix: US News, Healthcare Law, Law, US Politics, US Senate, Ron Wyden, Democrat, US House of Representatives, Medicare, Health, Health Insurance

Mon Nov 09, 2009

New York Times

Trick for Democrats Is Juggling Ideology and Pragmatism

Democrats have displayed a striking degree of pragmatism in seeking to push the health care bill through Congress, embracing or rejecting ideological considerations as needed to keep the legislation moving.

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Related Topix: US News, Healthcare Law, Law, US Politics, US House of Representatives, Democrat, Anthony Weiner, Chris Van Hollen

Free Republic

Four Things We Learned From the NY 23 Race

After weeks of ups and downs and unknowns in the special election for the 23rd congressional district of New York with conservative candidate Doug Hoffman losing to Democrat Bill Owens analysts can agree on one absolute: we love drama.

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Related Topix: US Politics, US News, US House of Representatives, Democrat, Steve Israel, 2008 Presidential Election, US Governors, Sarah Palin, Joe Biden

Sun Nov 08, 2009

Mercury-Register

House Democrats, Obama push for health vote

House Democrats put the finishing touches on their health care legislation Friday, and cleared an abortion-related impasse over compromise language on the politically treacherous issue of insurance coverage for abortions, as party leaders and the White House pushed to lock in votes on the eve of a historic floor debate.

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Related Topix: Immigration Reform, US News, US Politics, 2008 Presidential Election, Barack Obama, Joe Biden, US House of Representatives, Democrat

Sat Nov 07, 2009

ABC News

Democrats Clear Impasse Blocking Health Care Vote

Consumers would have the option of picking a government-run plan, the most hotly contested item in the legislation and the basis for the Republican claim that Democrats were planning a government takeover of the insurance industry.

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Related Topix: Immigration Reform, US News, Insurance, US Politics, US House of Representatives, Representative Jason Altmire, Democrat, Nydia Velazquez

Fri Nov 06, 2009

Mydd.com

Smells Like Clinton, Waddles Like Cleveland

MSNBC talk show host Chris Matthews had Robert Gibbs, the White House Press Secretary, on his show today.

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Related Topix: US News, US Politics, 2008 Presidential Election, US House of Representatives, Democrat

Thu Nov 05, 2009

StartupJournal

Opinion: The Madness of Queen Nancy

Close NOVEMBER 5, 2009, 12:40 P.M. ET The Madness of Queen Nancy By JOHN FUND It's one thing to be serene under fire, it's another to be delusional.

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Related Topix: US News, US Politics, Nancy Pelosi, US House of Representatives, Democrat, Representative Parker Griffith, Bill Pascrell, Hillary Clinton, US Senate, Opinion

Politico

Kanjorski snipes at Emanuel

A powerful subcommittee chairman working on financial regulations didn't appreciate Rahm Emanuel's role in trying to change his bill - and he pointedly reminded members of his panel that President Barack Obama's chief of staff isn't in the House anymore.

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Related Topix: US Politics, US News, US House of Representatives, Democrat, 2008 Presidential Election, Barack Obama, Representative John Adler, Scott Garrett, Republican, Paul Kanjorski

Wed Nov 04, 2009

NewsBusters.org

ABCa s Stephanopoulos Spins NY 23 as a a Big Lossa for Sarah Palin, Hits GOP a Civil Wara

Former Democratic aide turned journalist George Stephanopoulos appeared on Wednesdaya TMs Good Morning America to spin the loss of a Conservative Party congressional candidate in New York as a " big loss for Sarah Palin.

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Related Topix: US News, US Governors, Sarah Palin, US Politics, US House of Representatives, Democrat, 2008 Presidential Election, Barack Obama

Sister Toldjah

Shocker: Scozzafava endorses Democrat in NY-23 race

A bitter liberal Republican throws her support behind the Democrat. Who'da thought? The Watertown Daily Times reports : Sen.

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Related Topix: US News, US House of Representatives, US Politics, Democrat

Tue Nov 03, 2009

The Huffington Post

White House Quietly Working To Weaken Investor Protection

The White House is quietly working to undercut a key post-Enron reform, significantly weakening protection for everyday investors and threatening the administration's image as a champion for financial regulatory reform.

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Related Topix: US News, US Politics, US House of Representatives, Democrat, Small Business, Personal Finance, Corporate Governance, Securities and Exchange Commission, Corporate / Securities Law, Law, Carolyn Maloney

MySanAntonio.com

Politico: Winning Dede: How Dems got her nod

Fearful that the party had almost no chance of winning the Nov. 3 New York special election after Republican nominee Dede Scozzafava abruptly announced Saturday that she was dropping out, high-ranking national Democrats immediately began working to secure her endorsement of Democrat Bill Owens, POLITICO has learned.

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Related Topix: US News, US Politics, US House of Representatives, Democrat, Steve Israel, John McHugh, Republican

Myrtle Beach Online

Voters head to polls to fill vacant House seat

Voters in one South Carolina county will decide whether to fill a vacant House seat with its previous occupant or send a local school board member to the Statehouse.

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Related Topix: US Politics, US News, 2008 Presidential Election, John Spratt, US House of Representatives, Democrat, Ellen Tauscher

Mon Nov 02, 2009

Bloomberg Business News

Sarbanes-Oxley Exemption for Small Companies Said to Be Pushed by Emanuel

The Obama administration is pushing House Democrats to spare small public companies the cost of complying with investor-protection rules imposed after the accounting frauds at Enron Corp.

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Related Topix: US News, Corporate Governance, Energy, Telecom, IT Services, US Politics, US House of Representatives, Democrat, Carolyn Maloney

Watertown Daily Times

Scozzafava endorses Owens

Former candidate Dierdre K. Scozzafava is getting praise from Democrats and condemnation from Republicans after she announced Sunday afternoon she will back Democratic candidate William L. Owens in the 23rd Congressional District race.

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Related Topix: US News, US Politics, US House of Representatives, Democrat, 2008 Presidential Election

New York Times

Obama Strategy on Health Care Legislation Appears to Be Paying Off

After months of plodding work by five Congressional committees and weeks of back-room bargaining by Democratic leaders, President Obama 's arms-length strategy on health care appears to be paying dividends, with the House and the Senate poised to take up legislation to insure nearly all Americans.

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Related Topix: US News, US Politics, US House of Representatives, Democrat, Harry Reid, US Senate, Benjamin Cardin, Nancy Pelosi

Sun Nov 01, 2009

Washington Times

Is Republicans ready to lead?

We are nearly a year into the Obama presidency now. Yet, with each passing day, this administration becomes increasingly focused on the issues that matter less, not more, to the average man on the street.

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Related Topix: US News, US Politics, US House of Representatives, Democrat, US Military Prisons, Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp, Prison, John Boehner, Republican

Fri Oct 30, 2009

Kentucky.com

Obscure New York House race divides Republicans

The future of the Republican Party will be tested Tuesday in upstate New York. A special election for an open seat in the U.S House of Representatives has turned into a high-profile proxy war over how the party should come back from the stinging losses of both the House and Senate in 2006 and the White House in 2008.

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Related Topix: US News, US Politics, John McHugh, Republican, US House of Representatives, 2008 Presidential Election, Barack Obama, Democrat

Politico

Opt-in divides Schumer and Emanuel

Chuck Schumer and Rahm Emanuel, the architects of the Democratsa historic take-back of Congress in 2006, talk to each other nearly every day in abrupt, Morse code bursts stripped of hellos, goodbyes and thank-yous. Chuck Schumer and Rahm Emanuel, the architects of the Democrats' historic take-back of Congress in 2006, talk to each other nearly ...

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Related Topix: US News, US Politics, US House of Representatives, Democrat, 2008 Presidential Election, Barack Obama, US Senate, Republican, Olympia Snowe

Thu Oct 29, 2009

KSOC-FM Dallas

What Americans are thinking

Americans are growing increasingly pessimistic about the economy after a mild upswing of attitudes in September.

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Related Topix: US News, US Politics, 2008 Presidential Election, Barack Obama, US House of Representatives, Democrat

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