WASHINGTON (MNI) – For congressional Democrats there are two main issues that will dominate the agenda for the next several months: passing health care legislation and trying to create jobs. The Senate will begin debating Monday a nearly $900 billion …
Read Original Story: US Hill Dems Try To Juggle Health Care, New Job Creation Push – Market News International
Pennsylvania Senator Bob Casey, a Democrat who opposes abortion, wants changes in the health care overhaul bill, but he’s confident the measure will pass the Senate by year’s end. Casey says Democrats don’t have the sixty votes they need to pass health …
Read Original Story: Sen. Casey calls for changes in health care bill – WHYY
WASHINGTON — Senate Democrats, without a vote to spare, pushed forward a bill to overhaul the US health care system, but a divisive debate still lies ahead and there is no assurance the measure — as written — will win approval in the upper chamber of …
Read Original Story: Health care reform bill headed for Senate debate – The Boston – Bay State Banner
May I suggest to those who anxiously wait for the monstrous House health care bill to work its way through the congressional pipeline to read the Thanksgiving ads? We learn that a 10- to 12-pound turkey will feed six to eight adults. …
Read Original Story: Health care bill's a turkey – Sun-Sentinel.com
After winning this year’s American League Eastern Division championship, the New York Yankees faced a gauntlet of 11 more games before they could claim their 27 th World Series title. Each playoff victory took the team closer to its …
Read Original Story: Senate's turn to pass health plan – Hudson Valley Press
The best definition of “fanaticism” I have ever heard is “Redoubling your efforts, while losing sight of your goal.” This whole Health Care and/ or Insurance Reform is a classic example. We started with the premise that Health Care Reform was necessary …
Read Original Story: Health care fanaticism – Victorville Daily Press
Nov. 25 (Bloomberg) — Raising the US government’s $12.2 trillion borrowing limit tops an agenda of must-pass legislation that imperils Senate Democrats’ ability to pass a health-care bill this year. …
Read Original Story: Health-Care Bill May Be Stalled by Legislative Crunch – Bloomberg
We have heard from a few readers that Indiana Sen. Evan Bayh is hard to reach these days. Now, Indiana’s newscenter is reporting on the same phenomenon: “As a possible swing vote on the very controversial health care reform package, Sen. …
Read Original Story: No time to tinker with the health care reform mess – News Sentinel
President Barack Obama and his party in Congress are attempting to dig this country so deep into debt that we may not be able to climb out. This is a strong and resilient country, but we wouldn’t be the first …
Read Original Story: Mona Charen: Nurse Ratched Democrats – Noozhawk
There have been many great debates over the last 80 years on social issues in this country. In the early 1930s there was the debate over Social Security, which came into being in 1935. There was the debate over Medicare in the 1960s, which ended with …
Read Original Story: Do what is right and pass health care bill – Albert Lea Tribune