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Senate HCR Bill Clears Final Procedural Vote

Healthcare Reform Scheherazade - December 23, 2009 2

From Talking Points Memo: Senate Votes Again And Just One Vote Left On Health Care The Senate just cleared its next-to-last procedural hurdle before passing its...

Dem Committee Chair: Kill the Bill

Healthcare Reform Scheherazade - December 23, 2009 16

Congresswoman Louise Slaughter of New York's 28th congressional district wrote an op-ed for CNN on Wednesday that outlines why she feels it's time to...

God’s Blog – 12-21-09

Healthcare Reform AdLib - December 21, 2009 96

Being that I'm God, I hear everyone's prayers...even some I'd rather not (Sarah, you know who I'm talking about). Last night I heard this...

Mary Matalin Said What?

Healthcare Reform Scheherazade - December 21, 2009 51

From Think Progress: Matalin slurs health reform advocates as ‘health care jihadists.’ Yesterday on CNN, Republican strategist and CNN contributor Mary Matalin railed against Democrats for...

Health Care Bill Clears Senate Test

Healthcare Reform Scheherazade - December 21, 2009 86

Amidst a DC blizzard Senators arrived for a cloture vote that began at 1:01am EST to determine whether or not to end the debate...

Senate Reaches Health Care Reform Agreement

Healthcare Reform Scheherazade - December 20, 2009 79

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) is now confident that he has the sixty votes needed to proceed with cloture for H.R.3590. The Senate...

To be, or not to be.

Healthcare Reform Scheherazade - December 19, 2009 88

Despite the fiasco that the Senate has made of things we are now faced with a simple question: what now? We know we aren't...

Progressive Senators to Contact NOW

Healthcare Reform Chernynkaya - December 17, 2009 26

If you have contacted a representative in Congress, other than the ones from your area, you soon learned that they only want to hear...

How it is that we get our butts kicked

Healthcare Reform KevenSeven - December 17, 2009 21

I came across a few columns that I thought that you might find interesting. The reason that I get to write this column is...

Dear Ted Kennedy, Wish you were here….

Healthcare Reform PatsyT - December 16, 2009 11

Dear Ted Kennedy, I miss you, so many of us miss you, so very much. Ted, I am torn on our current health care reform...

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Senate HCR Bill Clears Final Procedural Vote

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Mary Matalin Said What?

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