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David M. Drucker / Roll Call:
Ruling Kills an Option for Moving Health Bill — The Senate Parliamentarian has ruled that President Barack Obama must sign Congress' original health care reform bill before the Senate can act on a companion reconciliation package, senior GOP sources said Thursday.
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Senate parliamentarian rules that bill must pass before reconciliation can be used
Senate parliamentarian rules that bill must pass before reconciliation can be used
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Dem Rep. Lynn Woolsey: House May Pass Senate Bill Without Recorded Vote
Dem Rep. Lynn Woolsey: House May Pass Senate Bill Without Recorded Vote
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Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Senate parliamentarian raises bar for passing healthcare reform
Senate parliamentarian raises bar for passing healthcare reform
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Washington Post:
Democrats move toward grouping health reform with student-aid bill
Democrats move toward grouping health reform with student-aid bill
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Greg Sargent / The Plum Line:
Bernie Sanders: I'm Prepared To Introduce Public Option Amendment
Bernie Sanders: I'm Prepared To Introduce Public Option Amendment
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Washington Post:
If Democrats ignore health-care polls, midterms will be costly — In “The March of Folly,” Barbara Tuchman asked, “Why do holders of high office so often act contrary to the way reason points and enlightened self-interest suggests?” Her assessment of self-deception …
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Mike Allen / The Politico:
POTUS lists charities getting Nobel largesse — Caddell/Schoen: Dems are deceiving themselves — Nagourney to L.A. — Patrick Kennedy may run again — Safire column returns — WE SPRING AHEAD at 2 a.m. Sunday. Daylight Savings Time history for your kids. — BIRTHDAYS: Jake Tapper is 4-1 (hat tip: Alice)
Glenn Thrush / Glenn Thrush's Blog:
Reid's wife, daughter seriously injured in car accident UPDATE — Harry Reid's wife, Landra, suffered a broken neck, back and nose and his daughter, Lana, also sustained serious injuries in a chain-reaction car accident in Fairfax, Va. on Thursday according to Reid's spokesman.
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Associated Press:
Reid's Wife and Daughter Injured in Car Accident — WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's wife and daughter were hospitalized Thursday — the wife with a broken back and neck — after their minivan was rear-ended by a tractor-trailer truck on an interstate highway in suburban Virginia, authorities said.
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New York Times:
Report Details How Lehman Hid Its Woes as It Collapsed — By MICHAEL J. de la MERCED and ANDREW ROSS SORKIN — It is the Wall Street equivalent of a coroner's report — a 2,200-page document that lays out, in new and startling detail, how Lehman Brothers used accounting sleight of hand …
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Yves Smith / naked capitalism:
NY Fed Under Geithner Implicated in Lehman Accounting Fraud Allegation — Quite a few observers, including this blogger, have been stunned and frustrated at the refusal to investigate what was almost certain accounting fraud at Lehman. Despite the bankruptcy administrator's effort to blame …
Peter Baker / New York Times:
Obama Social Secretary Ran Into Sharp Elbows — WASHINGTON — Long before the State Dinner party crashers and the tension with her White House colleagues and the strain in her relationship with the first lady, Desirée Rogers began to understand she was in trouble when David Axelrod summoned …
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Peter Nicholas / Los Angeles Times:
Senators give Obama a bipartisan plan on immigration — The president is encouraged, but healthcare politics could jeopardize the proposal. — Clarissa Martinez de Castro of the National Council of La Raza speaks to reporters outside the White House after meeting with President Obama to on immigration reform.
New York Times:
Top Obama Priorities Collide as Student Loan Legislation May Be Attached to Health Care — WASHINGTON — Democratic Congressional leaders struck a tentative agreement on Thursday that breathes new life into President Obama's proposed overhaul of federal student loan programs.
Howell Raines / Washington Post:
Why don't honest journalists take on Roger Ailes and Fox News? — One question has tugged at my professional conscience throughout the year-long congressional debate over health-care reform, and it has nothing to do with the public option, portability or medical malpractice.
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Alex Seitz-Wald / Think Progress:
Beck: Fox News executive told me ‘you are the key’ …
Beck: Fox News executive told me ‘you are the key’ …
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Mike Faher / The Tribune Democrat, Johnstown, PA:
GOP chooses Burns for special election in 12th — LATROBE — Tim Burns, a Johnstown native making his first political run, will be the Republican candidate seeking to serve the remainder of the late John Murtha's unfinished term. — Burns, who now lives in the Washington County community of Eighty Four …
Lauren Mattia / GLAADBlog.org:
Johnny Weir Deemed “Not Family Friendly” Enough to Perform in Stars on Ice Tour — GLAAD has learned from a source that wishes to remain anonymous that sponsors of the Stars on Ice Tour, which include Smuckers and IMG Entertainment, have refused to allow 3-time US National Champion and 2 …
BBC:
Rove ‘proud’ of US waterboarding — A senior advisor to former US President George W Bush has defended tough interrogation techniques, saying their use helped prevent terrorist attacks. — In a BBC interview, Karl Rove, who was known as “Bush's brain”, said he “was proud we used techniques that broke the will of these terrorists”.
Vince Lattanzio / NBC Philadelphia:
NJ Terror Suspect Worked at Nuclear Power Plants — Former classmate says he had a heated exchange with Mobley during a tour in Iraq — The South Jersey man who Yemini officials are calling a terrorist with links to al-Qaeda previously worked at three local nuclear power plants.
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Ben Smith / The Politico:
Tea parties stir evangelicals' fears — The rise of a new conservative grass-roots fueled by a secular revulsion at government spending is stirring fears among leaders of the old conservative grass-roots, the evangelical Christian right. — A reeling economy and the Obama administration's …
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Health Reform Myths — Health reform is back from the dead. Many Democrats have realized that their electoral prospects will be better if they can point to a real accomplishment. Polling on reform — which was never as negative as portrayed — shows signs of improving.
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Hamil R. Harris / Washington Post:
Rev. Jeremiah Wright discusses Obama controversy, history of his church — President Obama's former pastor Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr. on Wednesday compared the president to a son who was being treated unfairly and said it had been hard weathering the media storm after Obama became …
Michael Walsh / Big Journalism:
Wired Magazine, Conde Nast Scoop Breitbart, the ‘Bigs’ — HUD next O'Keefe Video Sting Target — Credit where credit is due: Wired Magazine's Noah Shachtman and Conde Nast have a scoop on their hands. In the course of researching his new and largely fair piece on Andrew Breitbart and the …
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