March 11th, 2010
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House Appropriations Committee Chairman David Obey of Wisconsin said yesterday the chambers Democrats will no longer fund private companies projects, which he said amounted last year to about 1,000 earmarks. His Senate counterpart signaled he wont go along with the ban.
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March 11th, 2010
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The one problem is unemployment in Markeys fourth congressional district was 6.1 percent in December compared with the 10 percent U.S. rate at the time.
While Republicans hammer away on joblessness this election year, unemployment is lower than the U.S. average in [...]
March 11th, 2010
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“The health-care system has billions of dollars that should go to patient care and theyre lost each and every year to fraud, to abuse, to massive subsidies that line the pockets of the insurance industry,” he said yesterday at a high school in the St. Louis suburb of St. Charles, Missouri. [...]
March 8th, 2010
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That, in a sometimes darkly joking way, is what the president is telling Democratic House members as he begins an all-out push to coax Congress into passing his proposals despite voters misgivings and Republicans dire warnings.
“He made the case, Listen, we put in a very hard year working on health care reform and the time [...]
March 8th, 2010
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While Obama has brought the effort back from the brink of failure, he still faces hurdles. Republicans are united in opposition, and Democratic lawmakers unhappy with the legislation wont be reassured by polls showing that a majority of Americans oppose it.
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March 8th, 2010
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Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus said yesterday that, while he couldnt rule out the possibility that the tax proposal would be voted on as an amendment to a jobs bill, the “chances are low” because of opposition from lawmakers in both parties.
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March 4th, 2010
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At least thats what some applicants for the No. 2 spot on the Democratic ticket seem to hope. The Democratic Party of Illinois has received more than 70 applications since it began accepting them on its Web site this week. Applicants included a former senior adviser to disgraced ex-Gov. Rod Blagojevich and an out-of-work technician [...]
March 2nd, 2010
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Lincoln, who is considered one of the Senates most vulnerable incumbents, was pressed to address the new Democratic threat hours after Lt. Gov. Bill Halter announced he would challenge her in Arkansas May 18 primary.
The development means that Lincoln could now have two of the partys most formidable campaign forces, the liberal group MoveOn.org, and [...]
March 2nd, 2010
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Ford, in an opinion-page article published on the New York Times Web site last night, accused Democratic “party bosses” of working to “bully me out of the race.” He said he decided to forgo his challenge for the good of the party.
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March 2nd, 2010
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The legislation would spend $81 billion to extend the unemployment benefits, including so-called Cobra subsidies to help the jobless buy health insurance, for the rest of this year. It also would send $25 billion to state governments to help prevent layoffs.
Jobless [...]