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Optimists say the $848 billion package drafted by Senate Majority Leader Harry M. Reid (D-Nev.) contains all the most promising ideas for transforming the health-care system and encouraging doctors and hospitals to work more efficiently. Full Article at The Washington Post
If they crave comfort, Democratic candidates can grab onto this: Political science research finds little historical connection between unemployment and midterm congressional elections. Full Article at Ventura County Star
WASHINGTON - OCTOBER 01: Ranking member U.S. Senate Finance Committee member Chuck Grassley (R-IA) listens during a hearing on Capitol Hill October 1, 2009 in Washington, DC. The committee continued to vote on amendments to healthcare reform legislation. View Photo »
Crist sought to revitalize his U.S. Senate campaign in a visit to the Broward Republican Party.
What most of the people who comment on this story haven't noticed is that the report was done by the Senate Foreign Affairs Committee Democratic majority staff. It was done at the request of its chairman. Guess who is the chairman. Full Article at ChicagoNow
As the Senate begins debate this week on a 10 year, $848 billion health care bill, a few lawmakers are positioned to exert enormous influence over President Obama's top priority as the legislation moves toward its final stages. Full Article at ABC News
WASHINGTON As the Senate begins debate this week on a 10 year, $848 billion health care bill, a few lawmakers are positioned to exert enormous influence over President Obama's top priority as the legislation moves toward its final stages. Full Article at USA Today
WASHINGTON - OCTOBER 01: Sen. Olympia Snowe (R-ME) speaks during a hearing before the U.S. Senate Finance Committee on Capitol Hill October 1, 2009 in Washington, DC. The committee continued to vote on amendments to healthcare reform legislation. View Photo »
Two of the leading candidates for the US Senate from Massachusetts vehemently defended Representative Patrick J. Kennedy of Rhode Island yesterday in his uncommonly public dispute with the Providence bishop, saying the Catholic Church is acting exclusionary
The two defining challenges of our century are managing climate change and overcoming poverty. And if we fail on one we will fail on the other. So the world faces a stark choice at the United Nations climate change conference in Copenhagen. Full Article at Guardian Unlimited
Paul Gigot: This week on "The Journal Editorial Report," a holy war here in America. The domestic Islamic terror threat is real, but are we prepared to fight it? Full Article at Wall Street Journal
The United States Senate is the upper house of the bicameral United States Congress, the lower house being the House of Representatives. The composition and powers of the Senate and the House are established in Article One of the Constitution (which does not use the terms "upper" and "lower"). Full Article
U.S. Senate Budget Chairman Kent Conrad (D-ND) talks to the media after the Senate's "Gang of Six" meeting on healthcare reform on Capitol Hill in Washington, September 15, 2009.
View Photo »U.S. Senate Budget Chairman Kent Conrad (D-ND) arrives at the Senate's "Gang of Six" meeting on health care reform on Capitol Hill in Washington September 15, 2009.
View Photo »U.S. Senate Budget Chairman Kent Conrad (D-ND) talks to the media as he arrives at the Senate's "Gang of Six" meeting on health care reform on Capitol Hill in Washington September 15, 2009.
View Photo »U.S. Senate Budget Chairman Kent Conrad (D-ND) talks to the media as he arrives at the Senate's "Gang of Six" meeting on health care reform on Capitol Hill in Washington September 15, 2009.
View Photo »WASHINGTON - SEPTEMBER 14: U.S. Senate Finance Committee Chairman Sen. Max Baucus (D-MT) speaks to the media after a meeting with the 'Gang of Six' on healthcare reform September 14, 2009 on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC.
View Photo »WASHINGTON - SEPTEMBER 14: U.S. Senate Finance Committee Chairman Sen. Max Baucus (D-MT) speaks to the media after a meeting with the 'Gang of Six' on healthcare reform September 14, 2009 on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC.
View Photo »WASHINGTON - SEPTEMBER 14: U.S. Senate Finance Committee Chairman Sen. Max Baucus (D-MT) (R) comes out from his office after a meeting with the 'Gang of Six' on healthcare reform September 14, 2009 on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC.
View Photo »U.S. Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-MT) speaks to reporters as he leaves the Senate's "Gang of Six" meeting on health care reform on Capitol Hill in Washington, September 14, 2009.
View Photo »US Senate Budget Chairman Democratic Senator from North Dakota Kent Conrad speaks to the media outside the offices of Senate Finance Committee chairman Senator Max Baucus, Democrat from Montana, following a meeting of the so-called 'Gang of Six,' a bipartisan group of senators, to work...
View Photo »U.S. Senate Small Business and Entrepreneurship ranking Republican Olympia Snowe (R-ME) attends the Senate's "Gang of Six" meeting on health care reform on Capitol Hill in Washington, September 14, 2009.
View Photo »WASHINGTON - SEPTEMBER 14: U.S. Senate Finance Committee Chairman Sen. Max Baucus (D-MT) speaks to the media after a meeting with the 'Gang of Six' on healthcare reform September 14, 2009 on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC.
View Photo »US Senate Budget Chairman Democratic Senator from North Dakota Kent Conrad speaks to the media outside the offices of Senate Finance Committee chairman Senator Max Baucus, Democrat from Montana, following a meeting of the so-called 'Gang of Six,' a bipartisan group of senators, to work...
View Photo »US Senate Budget Chairman Democratic Senator from North Dakota Kent Conrad speaks to the media outside the offices of Senate Finance Committee chairman Senator Max Baucus, Democrat from Montana, following a meeting of the so-called 'Gang of Six,' a bipartisan group of senators, to work...
View Photo »U.S. Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-MT) makes his way through a crowd of reporters as he leaves the Senate's "Gang of Six" meeting on health care reform on Capitol Hill in Washington, September 14, 2009.
View Photo »U.S. Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-MT) leaves the Senate's "Gang of Six" meeting on health care reform on Capitol Hill in Washington, September 14, 2009.
View Photo »U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-CA)(L) talks with U.S. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (C) and Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL) on the floor of the House Chamber before a joint session of the U.S. Congress on Capitol Hill in Washington, September 9, 2009.
View Photo »U.S. Senator Al Franken (D-MN) (L) jokes with U.S. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (R) on the floor of the House Chamber before U.S. President Barack Obama's speech about healthcare reform before a joint session of the U.S. Congress on Capitol Hill in Washington, September 9, 2009.
View Photo »U.S. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (L) stands on the floor with Assistant Majortiy Leader US Senator Dick Durbin (R) (D-IL) on the floor before U.S. President Barack Obama spoke about health care reform before a joint session of congress on Capitol Hill in Washington, September 9, 2...
View Photo »US Senate Minority Leader, Senator Mitch McConnell (R-KY) takes questions from the press on the eve of President Barack Obama's address to Congress on health care reform on September 9, 2009 in Washington, DC.
View Photo »WASHINGTON - SEPTEMBER 08: U.S. Senate Finance Committee Chairman Sen. Max Baucus (D-MT) speaks to the media outside his office at Hart Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill September 8, 2009 in Washington, DC.
View Photo »WASHINGTON - SEPTEMBER 08: U.S. Senate Finance Committee Chairman Sen. Max Baucus (D-MT) speaks to the media outside his office at Hart Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill September 8, 2009 in Washington, DC.
View Photo »WASHINGTON - SEPTEMBER 08: U.S. Senate Finance Committee Chairman Sen. Max Baucus (D-MT) speaks to the media outside his office at Hart Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill September 8, 2009 in Washington, DC.
View Photo »WASHINGTON - SEPTEMBER 08: U.S. Senate Finance Committee Chairman Sen. Max Baucus (D-MT) speaks to the media outside his office at Hart Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill September 8, 2009 in Washington, DC.
View Photo »WASHINGTON - SEPTEMBER 08: U.S. Senate Finance Committee Chairman Sen. Max Baucus (D-MT) speaks to the media outside his office at Hart Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill September 8, 2009 in Washington, DC.
View Photo »US Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (R), D-NV, and Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (L) walk out to speak to the press outside the White House in Washington on September 8, 2009 after meeting with US President Barack Obama.
View Photo »U.S. Senate Budget Chairman Kent Conrad (D-ND) arrives at the Senate's "Gang of Six" meeting on health care reform on Capitol Hill in Washington September 15, 2009.
View Photo »Republicans have obstructed the United States Senate's work for thirty-two weeks this year
This is Washington, D.C., and you never really know how things are going to play out, and given the mess that the Justice Department is and how the Senate Ethics Committee has almost never met a scandal it couldn't avoid taking action on. You really can't have any faith that Ensign will eventually pay
We made it clear that in order for him to be seated in the U.S. Senate he needed to appear before the Illinois General Assembly to testify openly, honestly and completely about the nature of his relationship with the former governor, his associates and the circumstances surrounding this appointment ... ...
Mike has proven leadership on issues important to me such as improving education and fighting to protect our cherished civil liberties. Mike's experience in the House coupled with his passion to fight for what is best for Massachusetts makes him the very best candidate to send to the U.S. Senate. I am p...
Security experts raised privacy concerns after a US National Security Agency official revealed that the Agency collaborated with Microsoft during the development stage of Windows 7. The revelation was made in a prepared statement by NSA information assurance director Richard Schaeffer, before the US Sen...
White House is starting to use the Senate in the same way that the Bush administration used China - as a scapegoat for doing too little. You don't get to blame the Senate if you haven't pushed the Senate as hard as you possibly can.
I hope Sen. Hutchison will stay in the United States Senate for the rest of my life.
Just like the original 2,032-page, government-run health care plan from Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reids massive, 2,074-page bill would levy a new 'abortion premium' fee on Americans in the government-run plan
The Senate Finance Committee excise tax is not a tax on 'Cadillac' plans; it's a pick-up truck tax. It taxes plans that are of great utility to millions of working Americans, but it is bad policy based on wrong assumptions ... Health care reform should be paid for by making employers who don't pay, pay....
The placid campaign for US Senate was jolted yesterday by an unusually heated exchange, as Boston Celtics co-owner Stephen G. Pagliuca criticized two of his rivals over health care and both of them immediately fired back, with one directly attacking Pagliuca’s wealth
AARP, the association representing millions of retired Americans, offered a qualified endorsement on Wednesday night of the new health care bill produced by Senate Democratic leaders
This is exactly what sickens the American people with politics. Members of the Senate have been making it clear they opposed funding the transfer of terrorist detainees from Guantanamo Bay to the United States. But, now at the drop of a hat from the Obama Administration, they cave in and expose their tr...
Within Republican circles, the rumors seem to be growing stronger that he's serious about ... the U.S. Senate seat
Some of us, including myself, feel like that would be a better fit because he could use his talents there almost immediately ... You get the sense that he'd be a major player [in the U.S. Senate] from day one.
While governor is the race that most people have associated his name with, there is an important responsibility for the party to find a strong United States Senate challenger
If the Senate agrees to take up the bill, the debate is expected to begin on Nov. 30, after the U.S. Thanksgiving holiday next week, and last for at least three weeks
If Harry Reid truly cares about fighting for the good of the country over the good of Wellpoint, he will immediately dispense with the opt-out and move to reconciliation and allow a majority in the Senate to deliver to Americans what they want and desperately need.
Within Republican circles, the rumors seem to be growing stronger that he's serious about taking a look at the U.S. Senate seat
As state treasurer, as a legislator and in the United States Senate, she's been a leader on issues for Texas
I have been writing letters to members of Congress, the Senate, the Bush administration, the Obama administration, at least two ambassadors in Beijing — Huntsman and Randt — trying hard over time to raise his case and make sure everyone was aware of it
Every election cycle, Republican candidates for Senate state their commitment to bringing judges to the federal bench who will help restore the role of constitutionally limited government in American jurisprudence. Instead, Republican and conservative constituents have been betrayed by their own Senator...
Former Mayor Rudy Giuliani has decided not to run for governor next year - but will run for U.S. Senate instead, sources told the Daily News.
In all honesty, his speech that he gave, which was very good, was more of a national speech, like he was going to run for United States Senate or president again
His longtime adviser recently publicly nixed the idea of Giuliani running for U.S. Senate, which GOP state chairman Ed Cox has suggested. But some Giuliani advisers, and many GOP political watchers, think it's a possibility to consider, especially if he wants to go after the presidency again in 2012.
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