Posts Tagged ‘House of Representatives’

Recent Congressional Votes

Wednesday, December 9th, 2009

A summary of recent Congressional action from Congress.org:

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House Republican Economic Recovery Plan

Wednesday, December 2nd, 2009

From Rep. Eric Cantor.

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Read The Bill? Are You Kidding?

Friday, October 2nd, 2009

Finance Committee Democrat Won’t Read Text of Health Bill, Says Anyone Who Claims They’ll Understand It ‘Is Trying to Pull the Wool Over Our Eyes’

Healthcare Reform Ram-Through Plan Exposed

Friday, October 2nd, 2009

Congress is going to enact fundamental change in the healthcare system come hell or high water.  The Foundry spills the beans:

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National Call Congress Day October 6

Thursday, September 24th, 2009

Health care reform is not dead.  Join Americans For Prosperity’s Patients First campaign to call your Representative and Senators on October 6 and tell them what you think about the bills now being considered.

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Good News, Bad News

Thursday, September 17th, 2009

The good news:  the House of Representatives voted to shut down ACORN funding.  House votes to cut off ACORN funding (more…)

Up, Up and Away

Wednesday, August 26th, 2009

From Bloomberg, Obama Raises 2010 Deficit Estimate to $1.5 Trillion (Update3)

Aug. 25 (Bloomberg) — U.S. unemployment will surge to 10 percent this year and the budget deficit will be $1.5 trillion next year, both higher than previous Obama administration forecasts because of a recession that was deeper and longer than expected, White House budget chief Peter Orszag said. (more…)

House Health Care Reform Vote in Late September

Monday, August 17th, 2009

From Politico, Health concession fuels blowback

House Democratic officials say a public option will remain in their version of a health reform bill, even now that the White House has acknowledged it may be dropped later.

“This is just for the Senate,” a House leadership official said about the administration’s concession on a public option. “There is no way it passes the House the first time around without a public option.

“The liberals (around 100+) won’t allow it. It if comes back from conference committee without public option and there is the right pitch that it is this or nothing, then it may pass the House.”

Leaders now say the House will put off a vote on health reform until the end of September — to provide a cooling-off period from the raucous town meetings and to give strategists a better sense of where the Senate is headed.

The White House said the media frenzy was prompted partly by bored reporters who haven’t been paying attention to what the administration has been saying for weeks.

More at the link.

There aren’t enough votes in the Senate to pass the “public option” according to Democrat Senator Kent Conrad in an appearance on Fox News Sunday:

Momentum behind a new government-run health care plan appeared to slow considerably Sunday, as a lead Democratic negotiator called the option a “wasted effort” and President Obama’s health secretary suggested the White House is ready to accept a health care reform package without it.

Sen. Kent Conrad, D-N.D., one of six negotiators trying to hammer out a bipartisan compromise measure on the Senate Finance Committee, told “FOX News Sunday” that the so-called public option simply does not have the votes to pass.

“The fact of the matter is there are not the votes in the United States Senate for the public option. There never have been,” he said. “So to continue to chase that rabbit I think is just a wasted effort.”

Conrad and other negotiators on the finance committee are instead pushing a system of nonprofit insurance cooperatives, as an alternative to the public plan.

“Co-ops are very prevalent in our society,” Conrad said. “They’ve been a very successful business model.”

More at the link.