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Pelosi to Unveil Bill With Weaker Public Option

Liberals suck it up as plan tied to Medicare rates lacks votes

Oct 29, 09 7:12 AM CDT
(Newser) - Nancy Pelosi will unveil her long-awaited version of the health care reform bill today, but it won’t include the top item on liberals’ wish list: a public option with rates tied to Medicare. Instead, the bill contains a weaker version of the government-run plan that would let doctors negotiate... More »

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Nancy Pelosi • Senate • Harry Reid • Medicare • House of Representatives • health care reform • public option

'Robust' Public Option May Be Dead in House

But not everyone buys report that Pelosi
lacks the votes

Oct 23, 09 9:10 AM CDT
(Newser) - The public option continues its yo-yo course. On the same day we get news that Harry Reid is leaning toward putting a version into the Senate bill, Mike Allen reports at Politico that Nancy Pelosi doesn't haven't the votes for a "robust" version in the House. Talking Points Memo... More »

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Nancy Pelosi • Senate • Harry Reid • health care reform • public option

 Reid Goes for 
 Broke With Public 
 Option Bill 

Senate majority leader banks on 60 votes, infuriates Baucus

Oct 23, 09 7:46 AM CDT
(Newser) - Harry Reid is preparing to bring a health reform bill that includes a public option to the floor of the Senate, gambling that his 60-member caucus will support the plan if it contains opt-out measures for individual states. The majority leader and other senators met with Barack Obama yesterday to... More »

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Nancy Pelosi • Barack Obama • Charles Schumer • Senate • Harry Reid • Olympia Snowe • Susan Collins • Mary Landrieu • health care reform • Max Baucus • Ben Nelson • public option

Pelosi Fighting for Stronger Public Option

Plan with Medicare-linked option would
cost only $871B

Oct 21, 09 7:07 AM CDT
(Newser) - Nancy Pelosi is on a mission to pass the strongest public option on the table in the House—a plan that would pay doctors the same rates as Medicare—and she's close to having enough votes, she told fellow Dems last night. The plan would cost just $871 billion, according... More »

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Nancy Pelosi • Medicare • House of Representatives • Congressional Budget Office • health care reform • James Clyburn • Blue Dog Democrats • public option

 GOP Takes Down 
 Tweet Linking 
 Pelosi, Hitler 

Link to doctored video from NRCC 'an error,' pulled after DCCC outrage

Oct 14, 09 11:34 AM CDT
(Newser) - Turns out linking a genocidal dictator with the speaker of the House might be a little over the top, as the National Republican Congressional Committee found itself today taking down a tweet with a link to a video comparing Nancy Pelosi to Adolf Hitler. A broadside from the Democratic Congressional... More »

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Nancy Pelosi • Congress • social networking • House of Representatives • Adolf Hitler • John Boehner • NRCC • DCCC • National Republican Congressional Committee • Twitter • Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee • tweet • socialized medicine • Nazi Germany

House, Senate Dems Split on 'Cadillac Tax'

As finance committee votes, caucus divided on how to fund reform

Oct 13, 09 8:14 AM CDT
(Newser) - The Senate Finance Committee is poised to send its bill to the full legislature today, but its provision taxing "Cadillac" insurance plans is raising hackles in the House. Max Baucus and other senators say taxing high-cost plans will raise $200 billion, a quarter of the legislation's price tag, and... More »

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Nancy Pelosi • health care • Barack Obama • Congress • health insurance • Senate Finance Committee • health care reform • congressional Democrats • Max Baucus • taxation

2010 playbook

 GOP Trains Fire on Pelosi 

Republicans go after House speaker despite failures in '06, '08

Oct 12, 09 6:31 AM CDT
(Newser) - Republicans angling to take back the House and Senate in 2010—or at least trim their losses from the last two elections—are making attacks on Nancy Pelosi a central feature of their campaign, and it's already getting ugly. The GOP has been releasing statements mocking "Gen. Pelosi" for... More »

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Nancy Pelosi • Congress • Republican Party • Democratic Party • speaker of the House • House Republicans • House race • Election 2010

Lobbyists Deal Death Blows to Health Care Cost Cuts

Having KO'd most cuts, they're aiming at Cadillac tax and Medicare commission

Oct 11, 09 6:50 AM CDT
(Newser) - Who's winning the health care battle? Lobbyists, says the New York Times, who've succeeded in blocking virtually every avenue for cutting health care costs that has been put on the table. They've killed proposals that would pinch doctors, hospitals, insurers and employees who are the beneficiaries of so-called Cadillac health... More »

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Nancy Pelosi • hospitals • White House • lobbyists • health care reform • Jay Rockefeller • Max Baucus • health insurers • doctors

House Bill Adds Hate-Crime Coverage for Gays

Dems secure victory by attaching measure to defense funding measure

Oct 8, 09 6:33 PM CDT
(AP) - The House voted today to make it a federal crime to assault people because of their sexual orientation, significantly expanding the hate-crimes law enacted in the days after Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination in 1968. With expected passage by the Senate, and President Obama promising to sign the legislation,... More »

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Nancy Pelosi • House of Representatives • sexual orientation • defense policy bill • sexual violence • homosexual • Matthew Shepard • President Obama • hate crimes

Pelosi Eye Roll Hints at Dem Rift on Afghanistan

She doesn't seem to be on the same page as Reid

Oct 8, 09 10:40 AM CDT
(Newser) - It was a little thing. After Tuesday’s powwow with the president on Afghan strategy, Harry Reid emerged from the White House with Nancy Pelosi and announced: “Everyone said that ‘whatever decision you make, we will support it,’” as the House speaker rolled her eyes. Though... More »

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Nancy Pelosi • Congress • troop surge • Harry Reid • House of Representatives • Democratic Party • speaker of the House • Afghanistan war • Obama administration • Senate majority leader • President Obama

ANALYSIS

 Why the Dems Will 
 Hold Congress in 2010 

Incumbency, early preparation make 1994 redux unlikely

Oct 8, 09 7:12 AM CDT
(Newser) - The last time a young Democrat became president, an angry debate over health care preceded a disastrous midterm election, costing the party control of both the House and the Senate. Yet it's too soon to make the easy comparison between 1994 and 2010, writes Wall Street Journal analyst Jerry Seib.... More »

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Nancy Pelosi • Congress • congressional Democrats • House Democrats • House Republicans • incumbents • 2010 election • midterm elections

House Dems Fear Senate,
WH Steamroll on Health Care

Moderates don't want to spend risky votes on legless progressive bill

Oct 6, 09 11:11 AM CDT
(Newser) - House Democrats on both ends of the spectrum are feeling sorry for themselves as they struggle to shape a final health care reform bill. The bill is widely expected—based in no small part on Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s proclamations—to include a public option, a tax on wealthy Americans,... More »

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Nancy Pelosi • Congress • Senate • House of Representatives • legislation • health care reform • Blue Dog Democrats • public option • progressives

analysis

Public Option Lives—If the Left Pushes Hard Enough

Nancy Pelosi still wants it in House-Senate compromise

Sep 25, 09 9:35 AM CDT
(Newser) - As health care reform chugs through the Senate Finance Committee, Mike Madden checks in on the prospects for a public option and finds it's not quite dead yet. A big test comes today when the committee votes on amendments from supporters of the public option, such as Jay Rockefeller. "... More »

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Nancy Pelosi • Congress • Charles Schumer • White House • Senate Finance Committee • health care reform • Jay Rockefeller • Obama administration • public option • progressives

opinion


 Hey, Dems: 
 Stop Whining 
 About Civility 
 and Fight Back! 

Dems could easily win this debate and should fight back instead of complaining

Sep 23, 09 8:11 AM CDT
(Newser) - The Democrats should be trying to land a few blows in the health care debate instead of meekly complaining about a lack of civility from the opposition, Thomas Frank writes in the Wall Street Journal. The right wing has made the issue into a crusade for its vision of liberty,... More »

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Nancy Pelosi • health care • Democrat • health care reform • President Obama • civility

Tearful Pelosi Fears Rhetoric Could Lead to Violence

Speaker tears up while recalling late '70s political violence

Sep 17, 09 2:30 PM CDT
(Newser) - Fighting back tears, Nancy Pelosi said today she fears the inflammatory rhetoric surrounding current political debate could lead to violence, the Hill reports. “I have concerns about some of the language that is being used because I saw…I saw this myself in the late '70s in San Francisco,... More »

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Nancy Pelosi • San Francisco • violence • assassination • Speaker • speaker of the House • rhetoric • Harvey Milk


 Afghanistan Push 
 Meets Resistance 
 —From Democrats 

Levin, Pelosi object to troop buildup; Obama weighs options

Sep 11, 09 9:14 AM CDT
(Newser) - Support for the war in Afghanistan is dwindling among Democrats as President Obama mulls increasing US involvement in the region, the New York Times reports. Ahead of an expected request for more troops from the US commander in the country, the chair of the Senate armed services committee says he’... More »

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Afghanistan • Nancy Pelosi • Congress • troop surge • Carl Levin • Afghan Army • Senate Armed Services Committee • Afghanistan war • Obama administration • President Obama

ANALYSIS

 Pumped-Up Dems 
 Fall Into Line 
 on Health Reform  

Obama's speech changed tone on Hill, but GOP votes still elusive

Sep 11, 09 7:05 AM CDT
(Newser) - After a dispiriting summer for the Democrats, Barack Obama's address has energized the majority party, with progressives to Blue Dogs lining up behind the president. As Politico notes, the greatest change in tone came from Nancy Pelosi and other legislators who had insisted on a public option, many of whom... More »

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Nancy Pelosi • Barack Obama • Charles Rangel • Senate Finance Committee • health care reform • George Voinovich

ANALYSIS

McConnell Keeps Low Profile
in Health Debate

Conservative critics think Minority Leader should be fighting administration harder

Sep 8, 09 10:00 PM CDT
(Newser) - Why haven’t we heard more from Mitch McConnell on health care? The Senate Minority Leader has kept relatively quiet on the administration’s reform efforts, a stance that has irked many conservative activists who feel McConnell is ducking his duties as de facto Republican Party leader, writes Stephanie Mencimer... More »

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Nancy Pelosi • Barack Obama • Republican • Senate • Harry Reid • GOP • Mitch McConnell • health care reform • Grover Norquist • Obama administration • President Obama • Sonia Sotomayor • Randall Terry • Erick Erickson • Red State

Health Care Reform '90%' Done: Reid

But Senate, House leaders not united
on public option

Sep 8, 09 5:35 PM CDT
(Newser) - Harry Reid declared "90% agreement" in the Senate on health care reform today after a meeting with President Obama. Reid and Nancy Pelosi expressed optimism that the president's address to Congress tomorrow will bolster support for reform, the Hill reports. The Senate Majority Leader is confident that the speech... More »

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Nancy Pelosi • health care • Congress • Senate • Harry Reid • health care reform • public option

 Pelosi Lets 
 Rangel Slide...for Now 

Nancy Pelosi is better off doing nothing than punishing Charlie Rangel, aides say

Sep 6, 09 9:28 AM CDT
(Newser) - Stripping ethics-challenged Charlie Rangel of his Ways and Means Committee chairmanship would create more problems for House Speaker Nancy Pelosi than it would solve, reports Politico, citing current and former House aides. Punishing Rangel would mean having to fill his seat—with one of several less-than-stellar replacements—and infuriating the... More »

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Nancy Pelosi • House of Representatives • Charles Rangel • Congressional Black Caucus

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