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Conrad may be pushing for them to go into Medicare Advantage plans instead of Original Medicare. I don’t see that happening. MA plans waste Medicare’s money. However, if it’s coming from Jane I’m not really going to hold my breath over this one. Full Article at Balloon Juice
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THE PRESIDENT: Good afternoon, everybody. I am pleased that you could all join us today as we announce three new initiatives to help our community health centers provide better care to people in need all across America. Full Article at The White House
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People like Bernie Sanders want to pull down the Fed’s pantaloons to look at its fiscal naughty parts. (05:32) "Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination." —Oscar Wilde. Full Article at The Big Picture
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failure and pledged to "do everything I can to stop your nomination and drag out this process as long as I can." Full Article at Sentinel & Enterprise
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Senate Democrats have worked out a tentative compromise that would nix the public option in favor of a national non-profit plan and an expansion of Medicare. Sens. Full Article at Truth Dig
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UPDATE: Or maybe not. Full Article at Suburban Guerrilla
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You can view this video right here by getting the latest version of Flash Player! From Hardball, Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse and Sen. Bernie Sanders discuss the progress being made in the Senate on the health care bill. Full Article at Crooks and Liars
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tool goes here WASHINGTON — A key Senate panel will vote next week on Ben Bernanke's nomination for a second term as Federal Reserve chairman. Full Article at Centre Daily Times
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If you join a fight for social justice you many win or lose, but just by being part of the struggle, you win, and your life will be better for it. Already defenders and apologists for the Democrat’s health care legislation are busy at work. Full Article at Counterpunch
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NOTE: If you want to add your voice to the grassroots campaign to stop Ben Bernanke's reappointment to the chairmanship of the Federal Reserve, go here. Full Article at Huffington Post
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Nobel Laureate economist, John Harsanyi, said that “apart from economic payoffs, social status seems to be the most important incentive and motivating force of social behavior.” The more noticeable status disparities are, the more concerned with status... Full Article at Scientific American
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Yes, another conservative picking on Cananda (or Britain) who do have some problems. Why do you ALWAYS focus on these two, and never on the elements where they beat us. For example, Britain smacks us around on cancer mortality rates. Full Article at Reason
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After yesterday's whirlwinds of inscrutable developments on the health-care front -- by last night, on "Hardball," for instance, Sheldon Whitehouse persisted in conflating the newly proposed private-insurance exchange with a public option, while his... Full Article at BuzzFlash
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I was amused by Jim DeMint’s palpable fear about being on the same side as Bernie Sanders in any debate: “It’s very scary,” said DeMint, a darling of the tea party movement, when asked how he feels finding himself on the same side of the Fed issue as... Full Article at Firedoglake
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Politics Today is CBSNews.com's inside look at the key stories driving the day in politics, written by CBS News Political Director Steve Chaggaris: ** Another public option compromise surfaces... ** Making a profit on TARP... Full Article at CBS News
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Interest rate guru and uber inflation hawk Jim Grant lays out a message in the Wall Street Journal to Ben Bernanke that's more chilling than anything Jim Bunning or Ron Paul have ever said to the Fed chief: Ben S. Bernanke doesn't know how lucky he is. Full Article at The Business Insider
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Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders announced Wednesday that he is stepping into the path of Ben Bernanke's nomination to a second term as Federal Reserve chairman. Full Article at American Spectator
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It’s Monday after a weekend of non-stop health care action. Full Article at The Politico
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There’s a strange political cocktail brewing in Washington, one that mixes top conservative strategist Grover Norquist and tea party organizers at FreedomWorks with democratic socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), progressive activists and public... Full Article at The Politico
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WASHINGTON -- December 4, 2009 – U.S. Senator Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.), U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and U.S. Representative Peter Welch (D-Vt.) announced Friday that the U.S. Labor Department will conduct a building and heavy construction wage... Full Article at All American Patriots
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WASHINGTON - DECEMBER 09: (L-R) U.S. Rep. Tom Perriello (D-VA), Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-CA), House Majority Whip Rep. James Clyburn (D-SC), Sen. Bernard Sanders (I-VT) and Sen. Kent Conrad (D-ND) look on as President Barack Obama (C) signs a memorandum during an event in the South Court...
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WASHINGTON - SEPTEMBER 30: Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) speaks at a news conference presenting petitions to Congress signed by more than a hundred thousand seniors nationwide September 30, 2009 in Washington, DC.
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WASHINGTON - MARCH 02: U.S. Sen. Sheldon WhiteHouse (D-RI) (C) speaks as Sen. Bernard Sanders (I-VT) (L) and Sen. Mark Warner (D-VA (R) listen during a hearing on 'Economic and Budget Challenges for the Short and Long Term' before the Senate Budget Committee on Capitol Hill March 3, 20...
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WASHINGTON - DECEMBER 03: Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke testifies before the Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee on his re-nomination to the position December 3, 2009 in Washington, DC.
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WASHINGTON - DECEMBER 03: Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke testifies before the Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee on his re-nomination to the position December 3, 2009 in Washington, DC.
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They look at Wall Street, and they say, ‘Who’s been held accountable? Anybody going to jail? No? These guys are actually getting huge bonuses,’
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I will also object to floor consideration of Mr. Bernanke’s nomination until the Senate votes up-or-down on the Federal Reserve Sunshine Act ... This bipartisan legislation, sponsored by Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont, has over thirty cosponsors and would allow the Government Accountability Office to...
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Notre Dame just fired a coach with a 6-6 record ... Well, Ben Bernanke had much worse than a 6-6 record.
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Mr. Bernanke has failed at all four core responsibilities of the Federal Reserve
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The American people want a new direction on Wall Street and at the Fed. They do not want as chairman someone who has been part of the problem and who has been responsible for many of the enormous difficulties that we are now experiencing ... It's time for a change at the Fed.
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The American people overwhelmingly voted last year for a change in our national priorities to put the interests of ordinary people ahead of the greed of Wall Street and the wealthy few ... What the American people did not bargain for was another four years for one of the key architects of the Bush econo...
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In this country, there is profound disgust at what happened on Wall Street
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The American people are disgusted with the greed and recklessness of Wall Street .... People are asking why didn't the Fed intervene at the appropriate time to stop the casino-type activities of large financial companies
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Why are American taxpayers and our brave soldiers bearing almost all the burden in what should be an international effort? Where are Europe, Russia, China and the rest of the world? ... My nightmare is that we may get caught in a quagmire situation from which there will be no successful exit.
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My view is that among many other things, in the middle of a severe recession with 17 percent of our nation unemployed or underemployed with one fourth of our kids living on food stamps, I'm not sympathetic to spending $100 billion a year on Afghanistan, plus what we are spending on Iraq
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The president -- we've heard signals from the White House that they're going to be asking agencies to start cutting back
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I'm in a quandary; I don't support the damn thing to begin with ... But what is unacceptable is what Bush did...you could fight the war in Iraq, and no one had to pay for it.
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I've got a real problem about expanding this war where the rest of the world is sitting around and saying, 'Isn't it a nice thing that the taxpayers of the United States and the US military are doing the work that the rest of the world should be doing?'
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No one is talking about bringing the troops home tomorrow ... But if you're going to have a presence there, you just can't pass the bill on, as we did in Iraq, to our kids and our grandchildren. I think that's wrong.
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The middle class is collapsing...the gap between the rich and the poor is growing wider...I have a real problem supporting 30,000 or 40,000 more troops and $100 billion more a year for that war on top of what we're spending in Iraq.
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As a result of the greed, irresponsibility and illegal behavior of Wall Street our country has experienced the worst economic decline since the Great Depression ... Mr. Bernanke was head of the Fed and the nation's chief economist as this crisis, driven by reckless speculation, developed. Tragically, li...
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As a result of the greed, irresponsibility and illegal behavior of Wall Street our country has experienced the worst economic decline since the Great Depression ... Mr. Bernanke was head of the Fed and the nation's chief economist as this crisis, driven by reckless speculation, developed. Tragically, li...
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If we get our act together as a nation and start addressing the major environmental problems of our time – global warming and our dependence on fossil fuels – we can create millions of good paying jobs
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With the unemployment rate still climbing and millions of people looking for work, we have a responsibility to ensure that companies do not use the temporary guest-worker programme to replace American workers with cheaper labour from overseas
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At a time when health care costs are soaring, I find it extremely distressing that the pharmaceutical industry is leading the pack and has raised prices for brand-name drugs by about 9 percent in the last year ... In Vermont and throughout this country, significant numbers of people, including many seni...
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The overwhelming majority of the American people want a public option. And I think if you break it down even further, over 80% of Democrats and this is going to be a Democratic bill want a public option
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Obviously, in Washington, there is going to be an extensive debate about what our goals are in Afghanistan and what our exit strategy is. It’s clearly a very complicated issue, and we need a serious national discussion about what the best course of action will be
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The American people are outraged that the same people on Wall Street who helped cause this major recession are going right back to their greedy and irresponsible ways. I applaud the Obama administration for taking an important step forward in trying to control the obscene compensation packages of the to...
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The American people are outraged that the same people on Wall Street who helped cause this major recession are going right back to their greedy and irresponsible ways. I applaud the Obama administration for taking an important step forward in trying to control the obscene compensation packages of the to...
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In the midst of the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression and at a time when long-term unemployment is extremely high, we cannot turn our backs on jobless Americans by letting their unemployment insurance expire
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