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NEWS ABOUT: Kent Conrad

Kent Conrad stories: 15 news summaries
HEALTH NEGOTIATIONS

Senate Bill Likely to Come Down to Reid, Dodd, Baucus

Baucus, Dodd the only senators with secure seats at negotiating table

Oct 7, 09 11:27 AM CDT
(Newser) - Every senator worth their salt is salivating for a seat at the table when Harry Reid merges the Senate’s two competing health care bills—but the vast majority will instead have their noses pressed to the glass. Reid hopes to speed things up by keeping the group small, Politico... More »

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Senate • Harry Reid • Olympia Snowe • Chris Dodd • Senate Finance Committee • health care reform • Jay Rockefeller • Max Baucus • Tom Harkin • Kent Conrad • Health, Education, Labor & Pensions

Senate Finance Panel Agrees
at Last—to Fund Abstinence Ed

Conrad, Lincoln, join GOP to pass measure

Sep 30, 09 8:12 AM CDT
(Newser) - On the same day it voted to kill Democrats' hopes for a health bill with a public option, the Senate Finance Committee showed the love to abstinence. Committee Republicans displayed a little nostalgia for the Bush administration, voting to restore $50 million a year in federal funding for abstinence-only education... More »

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sex education • abstinence education • Orrin Hatch • Senate Finance Committee • Max Baucus • Kent Conrad • Blanche Lincoln

Public Option On Its Death Bed

Liberals panic as president, Sebelius, Conrad downplay expectations

Aug 17, 09 9:20 AM CDT
(Newser) - The public option is looking sickly, after a weekend in which Obama and Co. seemed to be backing away from it, and liberals aren’t happy about it, Politico reports. “Public Option, Meet Underside of Bus,” read one Daily Kos headline. Over the weekend, President Obama said the... More »

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Barack Obama • health care reform • Kathleen Sebelius • Kent Conrad • Rachel Maddow • public option

TALK SHOW ROUNDUP



 Sebelius: 
 Public Option 
 Not Essential 

Also, Dem sen. calls Obama's health care pitch a 'wasted effort'

Aug 16, 09 9:57 AM CDT
(Newser) - Liberal lawmakers are demanding that a public option be included in a final health care reform package, but top Obama administration officials seemed to hedge on the subject today, Politico reports. On Face the Nation, Robert Gibbs said “thus far” President Obama sees a government-funded system as the best... More »

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Barack Obama • Arlen Specter • health care reform • Kathleen Sebelius • Kent Conrad • Robert Gibbs • public option

(Newser) - Chris Dodd and Kent Conrad have been cleared of wrongdoing in taking preferred loans from Countrywide Financial, the Hill reports. But the Senate ethics panel gave both Democrats slaps on the wrist. No “credible evidence” of ethics violations emerged, the committee said in a statement, but two “... More »

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Congress • Chris Dodd • home loans • Countrywide Financial • Senate Ethics Committee • Angelo Mozilo • VIPs • Kent Conrad

(Newser) - Democratic Sens. Chris Dodd and Kent Conrad were fully aware they were getting sweetened mortgage deals, the Countrywide Financial exec who handled their loans has told congressional investigators. The testimony from the loan officer to the House Oversight and Senate Ethics committees directly contradicts the senators' assertions that they had... More »

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Chris Dodd • Countrywide Financial • mortgage loans • Senate Ethics Committee • political scandal • Kent Conrad • Robert Feinberg

Policymakers Float Federal Sales Tax Idea

American VAT long rejected as politically impossible policy

May 27, 09 11:10 AM CDT
(Newser) - A federal sales tax has long been seen as politically off-limits, but the massive deficit has some in Washington pushing for it. “It's common to the rest of the world, and we don't have it,” a tax analyst tells the Washington Post. In dire times, “fundamental tax... More »

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health care • Congress • recession • budget deficit • sales tax • Kent Conrad • VAT • value-added tax

(Newser) - Barack Obama’s attempt to slash farm subsidies seems to have died on the vine, the New York Times reports. The $9.7 billion in cuts Obama included in his budget outline were conspicuously absent from the outlines the House and Senate approved Thursday, squashed by farm state lawmakers.... More »

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Barack Obama • agriculture • budget • subsidies • Kent Conrad • Obama administration • farm subsidies

AIG Bonus Tax Is Stalled, Likely to Die in Senate

Lawmakers likely to let special tax die, with the nod from Obama

Mar 24, 09 7:33 AM CDT
(Newser) - With populist outrage cooling and the White House even cooler, the 90% AIG bonus tax that sailed through the House last week is stalled in the Senate, where it's likely to die, reports Bloomberg. Majority Leader Harry Reid said yesterday this week will be devoted to debating national service and... More »

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Congress • taxes • executive compensation • Senate • Harry Reid • Jon Kyl • House of Representatives • AIG • bonuses • Kent Conrad • President Obama

Nine Senators Hold Key to Health Reform

Baucus leads 'Board
of Directors' in tough bipartisan negotiations

Mar 16, 09 10:50 AM CDT
(Newser) - If Barack Obama succeeds in overhauling America's health care system by the end of 2009, he'll have to thank a bipartisan group of nine senators charged with developing a bill that can muster 60 votes. The "Board of Directors"—named by Max Baucus, Obama's go-to figure for health... More »

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health care • Congress • Senate • Ted Kennedy • Orrin Hatch • Chris Dodd • Charles Grassley • health care reform • John D. Rockefeller • Max Baucus • Kent Conrad • Judd Gregg

ANALYSIS

Top Dem Dogs Ready to Retool Obama's Budget

Prez lets lawmakers take the lead—and they have their own ideas

Mar 10, 09 10:00 AM CDT
(Newser) - To clear Congress, President Obama’s budget is going to have to survive committee turf wars and parochial interests—and that’s just the Democrats. The New York Times reports that key committee chairmen in the House and Senate have ideas of their own on health care, energy, and taxes.... More »

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Congress • Henry Waxman • Ted Kennedy • Charles Rangel • Senate Finance Committee • House Ways and Means Committee • House Energy and Commerce Committee • Max Baucus • House Budget Committee • federal budget • Kent Conrad • President Obama

$800B Stimulus Too Much for GOP, Too Little for Dems

Adding to already-enormous debt worries Republicans; excess of caution has other side jumpy

Jan 8, 09 3:14 PM CST
(Newser) - The GOP responded today to Barack Obama’s calls for immediate action on the economy, cautioning that too bold a move could have dire consequences, the Hill reports. “Let’s not use the obvious need as a way to make the problem worse,” said Senate Minority Leader Mitch... More »

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Barack Obama • Congress • Senate • Mitch McConnell • House of Representatives • John Boehner • budget deficit • economic stimulus package • Kent Conrad • President Obama

Stimulus Widens Unemployment Coverage

Part-timers would be eligible; plan expands health-care options

Jan 7, 09 11:02 AM CST
(Newser) - The Obama stimulus plan will include a $7 billion provision intended to force states to extend unemployment insurance to part-time workers, reports the Wall Street Journal. A separate plan subsidizes COBRA payments and allows uninsured workers who get laid off to buy into Medicaid, and all three measures are riling... More »

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health care • Barack Obama • deficit • budget deficit • economic stimulus package • state governments • Kent Conrad

GOP Hesitates on Call for Mortgage Probe

Lawmakers wary of unearthing more Countrywide ties

Jun 17, 08 5:11 PM CDT
(Newser) - GOP lawmakers are leery of investigating mortgage deals Countrywide may have arranged for members of Congress, even though a fellow Republican is leading the charge, Politico reports. More Democratic ties to the troubled lender would give the GOP ammo in a cycle seemingly stacked against it—but the people who... More »

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Democrats • Republican • mortgage • Chris Dodd • Countrywide Financial • congressional Democrats • Kent Conrad • Jeb Hensarling

Countrywide Scandal Extends to Senate

Troubled mortgage lender gave breaks
to Dodd, other VIPs

Jun 13, 08 12:45 PM CDT
(Newser) - Countrywide Financial made sweetheart deals for lawmakers and other high-profile pols who received mortgages from the disgraced lender, a Portfolio exposé reveals. The deals, which appear to violate both company rules and federal law, benefited "Friends of Angelo"—as in CEO Angelo Mozilo—including at least two US... More »

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Chris Dodd • Countrywide Financial • Angelo Mozilo • Donna Shalala • Kent Conrad

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