CBO: Health package costs $940 billion; Hoyer says vote will come on Sunday
By Michael O'Brien and Jared Allen - 03/18/10 09:21 AM ET
Democrats are lauding a CBO report that found their healthcare package will cut the deficit by $130 billion.
House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer hailed the figures from the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office during a meeting with a group of reporters on Thursday morning and said the House would vote on Sunday.
He said House Democrats had crafted a bill that would amount to the largest deficit reduction package in more than 15 years.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ik4f1dRbP8
What was the point of trying to be bi-partisan? To try to tone down the political rhetoric? Epic Failure! These guys are a half a step away from pitchforks and torches. If President Obama had, for whatever incomprehensibly strange reason, asked for my advice I could have given him the wisdom I had learned from being the Student Senate President at my college.
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Senate G.O.P. Leader Finds Weapon in Unity
Stephen Crowley/The New York Times
By CARL HULSE and ADAM NAGOURNEY
Published: March 16, 2010
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/17/us...onnell.html?hp
WASHINGTON — Before the health care fight, before the economic stimulus package, before President Obama even took office, Senator Mitch McConnell, the Republican minority leader, had a strategy for his party: use his extensive knowledge of Senate procedure to slow things down, take advantage of the difficulties Democrats would have in governing and deny Democrats any Republican support on big legislation.
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Less than two weeks after taking home the best actress Oscar for her role in "The Blind Side," Sandra Bullock pulled out of the film's London premiere amid tabloid reports that she is having marital troubles with husband Jesse James, according to People magazine.
"Blind Side" star dishes on Oscar nomination and why she resisted marriage.
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Some time many years ago, I wrote a letter of support for something John McCain did or said - I can't even remember what it was. As a result, apparently, my name made its way onto a list of likely McCain supporters. This morning McCain pulled the trigger and asked my support for the GOP's plan to kill the Democrats Health Care Reform effort. Here is what I wrote back to him:
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Has CNN's poor ratings gone to their heads? CNN says "Erick's a perfect fit for John King". The same Erick Erickson who called Supreme Court Justice David Souter a "goat fucking child molester". Next thing you know CNN will call themselves fair and balanced too. Just another step toward ratings and away from actual journalism from CNN.
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FoxNews and the WSJ have had their homespun typical fascist headlines this week in opposition to health care reform. As the vote draws closer and appears more and more like it will pass we can see the panic in their headlines. This morning we have Pelosi Plan to Pass Health Care Without Traditional Vote Riles Critics (FOX) and ObamaCare and the 'Buzzsaw' of Opposition (WSJ) I'll let you dig them up if you want to see the articles, no links from me. If these outlets want to lead slanted stories, it's certainly their right, but to claim to be actual news rather than opinion is patently false.
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Leaked confidential documents have revealed that senior officials from the former US administration had warned a 9/11 investigation panel against probing
OMAHA, Nebraska (AP) -- Investment guru Warren Buffett offered a bleak prediction for the nation's national security, saying a terrorist attack on American
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Thread Starter: okpfloyd" Leaked confidential documents have revealed that senior officials from the former US administration had warned a 9/11 investigation panel against probing
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