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House may try to pass Senate health-care bill without voting on it — After laying the groundwork for a decisive vote this week on the Senate's health-care bill, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi suggested Monday that she might attempt to pass the measure without having members vote on it.
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Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
THE IOKIYAR RULE, PROCEDURAL EDITION.... For a while, Republicans were awfully worked up about using the reconciliation process to pass a health-care related budget fix, despite the GOP's repeated use of the same procedure. Now Republicans are headed for the fainting couch over use of the self-executing rule …
Wall Street Journal:
ObamaCare and the ‘Buzzsaw’ of Opposition — The president could have chosen a bipartisan approach. — A little over a year ago, when President Obama first took up health-care reform, Republicans reached out to him in the hopes of working together on solutions that would lower health-care costs for families and small businesses.
Bob Cusack / The Hill:
Stupak: House Dem leaders at least 16 votes short on healthcare reform — Rep. Bart Stupak (D-Mich.) said Monday he thinks House Democratic leaders are not close to having the votes to pass health reform. — In an interview with Fox News' Greta Van Susteren, the anti-abortion rights lawmaker said …
The Huffington Post:
Pelosi: ‘Get The Bill. Go For It.’
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Byron York / Washington Examiner:
Pelosi: ‘Once we kick through this door,’ more reform will follow
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The View From the Speaker's Office
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The Politico:
Pelosi done playing ‘Deal or No Deal’
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Eric Kleefeld / TPMDC:
Bachmann: We're Not Going To Obey Health Care Law — 'We Don't Have To' (VIDEO)
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Mark Tapscott / Washington Examiner:
Pelosi, Slaughter went to court against GOP's self-executing rule in 2005 — You've been hearing a lot this week about the Slaughter Solution, the rule devised by House Rules Committee Chairman Louise Slaughter of New York whereby the House would pass an Obamacare reconcilliation bill via a rule that …
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David Lightman / McClatchy Washington Bureau:
House plan to pass health care raises constitutional questions
Jay Newton-Small / Swampland:
And here we go... Ladies and gentlemen, start your engines.
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Washington Post:
The U.S. quarrel with Israel — PRESIDENT OBAMA'S Middle East diplomacy failed in his first year in part because he chose to engage in an unnecessary and unwinnable public confrontation with Israel over Jewish settlements in the West Bank and Jerusalem. Over the past six months …
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CNN:
Health care proponents launch massive ad campaign — Health Care for America Now is launching a $1.4 million ad campaign Tuesday. — Washington (CNN) - Proponents of health care reform Tuesday are launching a sizable television ad campaign in an effort to sway undecided House Democrats …
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Cincinnati.com:
Arrogant approach to health care — America's robust discussion of health care reform during the past year has been beneficial in many ways, giving the public greater awareness and insight into this complex issue. Unfortunately, the debate has been held pretty much on one-party terms as Democrats …
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Mark Silva / The Swamp:
Clarence Thomas' wife holds TEA Party — Clarence Thomas is an associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court. — Virginia Thomas runs LibertyCentral.org, a new organization committed to becoming the “big tent” for conservatives and promoting the values of the “TEA Party” movement.
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John Byrne / The Raw Story:
Obama agencies invoking secrecy provision more often than under Bush — One day after being sworn into office, President Barack Obama instructed federal agencies to ensure government transparency by complying with the spirit of the Freedom of Information Act law.
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Kucinich in Obama's crosshairs — Air Force One took off from suburban Maryland today at 11:13 a.m. and landed 48 minutes later in Cleveland. — For Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio) — who says he plans to vote no on the president's health-care bill — it must have felt like a much longer flight.
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Jim Hoft / Gateway Pundit:
It Figures... Obama's Rally Prop ‘Natoma Canfield’ Qualifies For Financial Aid; Is Patient At Top US Cancer Center; Won't Lose Home — Obama's Health Care Rally Prop Is In Hospital... Getting Care... Despite No Insurance. — Natoma Canfield is 50 years old. She was diagnosed with cancer 16 years ago.
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The Huffington Post:
Palin Slammed As ‘Wild Alaskan Dingbat’ After Hitting Grayson In Home District — WHAT'S YOUR REACTION? — Sarah Palin, the former governor of Alaska, ventured to the Florida district of Rep. Alan Grayson on Friday, and urged voters to oust the Democratic lawmaker.
David Brooks / New York Times:
The Spirit of Sympathy — Human beings, the philosophers tell us, are social animals. We emerge into the world ready to connect with mom and dad. We go through life jibbering and jabbering with each other, grouping and regrouping. When you get a crowd of people in a room …
Ben Armbruster / Think Progress:
Rove: Obama ‘let a cowboy president...violate a fundamental principle of the Constitution.’ — Today on ABC's Topline, former top aide to President Bush Karl Rove provided one of the more bizarre attacks on the Obama administration regarding the recent U.S.-Israeli diplomatic spat …
Mark Silva / The Swamp:
McCain's Navy, Eric Massa's Navy — Sen. John McCain maintains that the evolving Democratic strategy for passing healthcare legislation will produce a public “reaction... unlike anything... we've ever seen.” — “The majority of the American people want us to start over,” …
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