It includes six spending bills for fiscal year 2010: the Transportation and Housing and Urban Development bill; the Commerce, Justice, Science bill; the Financial Services and General Government bill; the Labor, Health and Human Services and... Full Article at The Hill
Debate on the abortion amendment laid bare divisions among Democrats that could still hamper progress on the health care bill: Seven Democrats joined most Republicans in backing the anti-abortion amendment. Full Article at Belleville News-Democrat
A giant model of a globe in the shape of a piggy bank in Copenhagen. Full Article at Calcutta Telegraph
WASHINGTON The Senate majority leader, Harry Reid, said Tuesday night that he and a group of 10 Democratic senators had reached “a broad agreement” to resolve a dispute over a proposed government-run health insurance plan that has posed the biggest... Full Article at The New York Times
We spent weeks and weeks and weeks negotiating with the nation’s governors [in the Finance Committee] ... When you start to change the formula, you put that all at risk.
You always have critics and doubters, but Coach (Conrad) Nix tells us he doesn’t care who leaves, how big you are (or) how small you are ... He says he expects the same every year.
I'm intrigued by it. I think it has real potential ... I would not be intrigued by a Medicare buy-in that did not deal with the fact that my state is the second-lowest or third-lowest reimbursement state in the nation.
Conrad Black still has the old Groucho Marx problem: 'Who are you going to believe, me or your lying eyes,'