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Carrie Budoff Brown / The Politico:
CBO numbers — House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) just released the first set of Congressional Budget Office numbers to reporters this morning. — The bill would cost $940 billion, and reduce the deficit by $130 billion over the first 10 years and $1.2 trillion in the second 10 years.
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GOP plots Senate health roadblock — Democrats might like to think that health care reform is all but a done deal if it clears the House, but the Senate is where Republicans have been plotting for months to sentence it to a painful procedural death. — Republican aides have been mining …
Ezra Klein:
CBO: Health-care reform bill cuts deficit by $1.3 trillion over 20 years, covers 95% — Washington has spent the past week or so waiting for the Congressional Budget Office to release its preliminary estimate of the Senate bill with the reconciliation fixes.
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Glenn Thrush / The Politico:
Obama's pitch: Fate of presidency on the line — President Barack Obama had exhausted most of his health care reform arguments with members of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus during a White House meeting last Thursday when he made a more personal pitch that resonated with many skeptics in the room.
The Hill:
CBO: Health package costs $940 billion; Hoyer says vote will come on Sunday — 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 …
Fox News:
President Barack Obama Talks to Bret Baier About Health Care Reform Bill — This is a rush transcript of “Special Report With Bret Baier” from March 17, 2010. This copy may not be in its final form and may be updated. — BRET BAIER, “SPECIAL REPORT” HOST: Welcome to Washington.
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Matthew Continetti / Weekly Standard:
Preliminary CBO Numbers Are In (BUMPED & UPDATED, 11:30 a.m.) — House majority leader Steny Hoyer has informed his colleagues of the CBO health bill score. Politico reports: … Keep in mind that the second decade estimate is incredibly speculative. Overall, though, this score may move …
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The Politico:
CBO releases health bill estimates — The Democratic health care bill would cost $940 billion over 10 years and cut the federal deficit over the next two decades — figures that should help ease the worries of fiscal hawks who have been reluctant about supporting the sweeping measure.
Fox News:
Fate of Health Care Bill Rests on Looming Budget Office Estimate — The fate of the Democrats' health care reform effort hinges on a report expected Wednesday morning from the congressional budget scorekeepers — an estimate of what a follow-up bill could cost that already is running into trouble.
Washington Post:
CBO: Health bill would cut $138 billion from deficit in 10 years — Congressional Democrats say the final version of their comprehensive health-care plan — set to be unveiled Thursday and likely to be voted on Sunday — would cut the federal deficit by $138 billion over the next decade and $1.2 trillion 10 years after that.
Dave / Breitbart.tv:
PUZZLING STATEMENT: OBAMA SAYS ‘LOUISIANA PURCHASE’ …
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Jim Hoft / Gateway Pundit:
Obama Says “Louisiana Purchase” …
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ABCNEWS:
Health Care Bill to Cost $940B, Reduce Deficit by $100B in First 10 Years
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Michael O'Brien / The Hill:
Waxman: CBO numbers ‘go a long way’ toward winning undecided votes
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Michael D. Shear / Washington Post:
Obama's plans to travel overseas as health vote nears draw criticism
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The Hill:
Stupak: Health fight has been ‘a living hell’ — Leading a revolt against President Barack Obama's healthcare legislation over abortion has been a “living hell” for Rep. Bart Stupak (D-Mich.). — The telephone lines in his Washington and district offices have been “jammed” …
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Jennifer Rubin / Commentary:
Don't Be Morose! Get Even! — David Brooks says he's out on the ledge, morose, and about to have a “Howard Beale” moment. Just last week he was telling us that Obama was a misunderstood moderate. Now he confesses that Obama is aiding and abetting unlawfulness of the worst kind. He explains:
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Rosalind Helderman / Virginia Politics Blog:
Cuccinelli's office confirms Virginia will sue over health care
Erin McPike / Hotline On Call:
Rules Panel Dem To Vote Against Bill — A key House Dem has begun informing party leaders he plans to vote against health care legislation both on the House floor and in the rules committee, on which he sits. — Rep. Michael Arcuri (D-NY), a sophomore Dem who had a tougher …
Jeremy W. Peters / New York Times:
Steve Levy Plans Switch to G.O.P., Stirring Governor's Race — ALBANY — A governor's race that seemed all but settled is about to be upended again, by a popular Democrat from Long Island who is set to announce that he is switching parties. The move is certain to excite Republican leaders pessimistic …
Las Vegas Now:
I-Team: DOJ Serves Subpoenas in Senator Ensign Investigation — LAS VEGAS — Nevada Senator John Ensign is in the crosshairs of a Department of Justice criminal investigation. — The criminal probe stems from a romantic affair Ensign had with the wife of his key staffer and close friend …
Ted Nesi / Providence Business News:
Five Questions With: The Uncaucus — With the race for mayor of Providence wide open thanks to incumbent David N. Cicilline's decision to run for Congress instead, a group of seven familiar faces from the local technology and design community - Andy Cutler, Owen Johnson, Clay Rockefeller …
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Pew Research Center:
Gloomy Americans Bash Congress, Are Divided on Obama — Health Care Reform - Can't Live With It, or Without It — As the day of reckoning for health care reform approaches, Americans have little to cheer about. Nearly everyone (92%) gives the national economy a negative rating.
Nicholas D. Kristof / New York Times:
Access, Access, Access — First, a question: When in American history did life expectancy improve the most? — Was it the late 1800s, when anesthesia made surgery easier and far more common? Was it the 1930s, when antibacterial medicines became available? Or recent decades, when CAT scans and heart bypasses proliferated?
Wall Street Journal:
Madoff Was Beaten in Prison — Ponzi Schemer Was Assaulted by Another Inmate in December; Officials Deny Incident — The Butner federal prison in July. A man who served time with Bernard Madoff there says the financier gave him investment advice. — Bernard Madoff, who is serving …
Quinnipiac University:
Connecticut Voters Say No To Keno, Highway Tolls, Quinnipiac University Poll Finds; Bysiewicz Only Clear Leader In Gov, A.G. Primaries — By a 70 - 27 percent margin, Connecticut voters oppose allowing keno gambling in restaurants, bars and convenience stores, with strong opposition among …
Rob Hotakainen / Fresno Bee:
Field Poll: Campbell leads GOP Senate field; Boxer fades — WASHINGTON - Former Rep. Tom Campbell has a six-point lead over his closest challenger in the three-way Republican primary to face Democratic Sen. Barbara Boxer, whose popularity has significantly eroded in the past two months, according to a Field Poll released today.
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Washington Times:
Obama surrenders gulf oil to Moscow — The Russians are coming - to drill in our own backyard — The Obama administration is poised to ban offshore oil drilling on the outer continental shelf until 2012 or beyond. Meanwhile, Russia is making a bold strategic leap to begin drilling for oil in the Gulf of Mexico.
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