News on U.S. Senate

Health Care Prospects in THE SENATE (VERY BAD): Yahoo!

2010-11-03T03:14:08Z

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Who Is Olympia Snowe?

2010-11-03T00:18:23Z

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Democrats TRY TO Regroup After Latest Setback: Yahoo!

2010-11-03T00:12:59Z

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Health Care Parody of "The Night Before Christmas" on Senate Floor

2010-11-03T00:12:53Z

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Current Health Insurance Reform Issues

2010-10-06T00:10:07Z

No sooner had President Obama signed the last piece of the health care reform package on March 30 than he hit the road, traveling to a number of states to sell the public on the new health care law of the land. On their Easter/Passover recess break, many members of Congress were engaged in their own hearts and minds campaign on health reform back in their home districts. A new Gallup poll, however, seems to show that Democratic supporters of the bill have the tougher selling job. The poll sho...

North Korea hearing falls prey to US health fight

2010-06-26T03:21:25Z

The US Senate fight over President Barack Obama's health care overhaul claimed a foreign policy casualty Wednesday, with Republican tactics forcing the cancellation of a hearing on North Korea.

The Senate Armed Servi...

GOP win in Massachusetts Senate race seen hampering U.S. health reform legislation

2010-11-02T12:43:21Z

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Democrats seek back footing after epic Mass. loss

2010-06-25T18:52:53Z

Obama, Democrats seek to regain footing after GOP claims Kennedy's Senate seat in Mass.

Republicans are rejoicing and Democrats reeling in the wake of Scott Brown's stunning victory over Martha ...

Affluent investors turn bearish on tax, reform worries

2010-04-16T08:01:45Z

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Affluent investors turned bearish in December as their attention moved from the economy to concerns over health reform and fears the wealthy may be asked to pay more taxes.

The Spectrem Group's affluent investor confidence index, which measures sentiment in households with more than $500,000 in investable assets, fell 5 points ...

Reid never relaxed about billÕs passage in Senate

2010-06-25T19:08:30Z

His errant ÔnoÕ vote reflects worries as colleagues cast ÔayesÕ

WASHINGTON Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid could not sleep.

It was the night before the final Senate vote on the health care bill. The heavy lifting of assembling 60 votes was done. Only a simple majority was needed.

But that fact did not give the Nevada Democrat any peace.

He woke at ...

Senate moves up healthcare passage by hour

2010-06-25T19:11:40Z

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Senate agreed on Wednesday to move up by one hour its vote on final passage of a sweeping healthcare overhaul to 7 a.m. EST (1200 GMT) on Thursday.

The move came as senators, anxious to hurry out of town for the Christmas holiday, tried to beat a winter storm developing in the Midwest and West.

US lawmakers would achieve many of the goals championed by the late senator Edward Kennedy, his widow said Saturday.

The "liberal lion" of the Senate, who died in August after losing a battle to brain cancer, believed that "this year the stars -- and competing interests -- were finally aligned to allow our nation to...

Obama rallies Democratic troops on health care

2010-06-25T19:28:41Z

President Barack Obama encouraged fellow Democrats in the US Senate on Sunday to overcome their divisions and pass sweeping health care reform legislation, in a rare closed-door meeting on Capitol Hill.

The president urged lawmakers to "continue ...

Senate opens work on healthcare bill

2010-06-25T19:33:54Z

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Senate began work on a sweeping healthcare overhaul on Monday, with senators on both sides pouncing on findings in a nonpartisan budget report on insurance premiums to bolster their arguments.

With the debate expected to last up to three weeks, Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid w...

Government-run health care? No thanks

2010-10-05T12:49:01Z

The United States Senate has voted to move the health care bill to the Senate floor to begin debate before the actual vote. This follows the House of Representatives which adopted their view of health care reform by the narrowest of margins, 210-205, after having just hours to read and absorb a 2,000-page bill, and the vote took place on Saturday night. So much for President Obama?s campaign promises of ?transparency in government.? Both these actions follow a summer of discussion, town hall ...

Senators begin debating health care reform

2010-06-25T19:34:59Z

The US Senate was on Monday to begin debating a massive health care reform bill that is a key priority for President Barack Obama but faces stiff Republican opposition and is plagued by divisions in Democratic ranks.

Debate is to begin Monday morning on the measure to overhaul the US health care system, at an estimat...

Democrats expect healthcare overhaul to pass

2010-06-25T19:34:45Z

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Leading Democrats on Sunday said they expect Congress to pass a major healthcare reform backed by President Barack Obama, but supporters may have to accept legislation that falls short on some issues.

The U.S. Senate on Monday is set to begin debate on the sweeping overhaul of the $2.5 ...

US senators to begin fractious health care debate

2010-06-25T19:35:06Z

The US Senate was set Monday to begin debate on a massive health care reform bill that is a key priority for President Barack Obama but faces stiff Republican opposition and is plagued by divisions in Democratic ranks.

Debate is to begin Monday morning on the measure to overhaul the US health care system, at an estim...

How the Senate Health Care Bill Will Affect You

2010-10-22T13:22:15Z

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Saturday's Senate Vote on Health Care Reform

2010-10-22T13:21:59Z

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Despite House approval, health care reform faces tough battle

2010-09-21T14:57:38Z

Narrow passage of a sweeping health care bill by the House of Representatives portends a continuing difficult fight for President Obama and fellow Democrats to get a bill through the Senate and into law.

The House voted 220-215 late Saturday, with 39 Democrats opposed and one Republican in favor, to approve what would be the biggest expansion of health care coverage since Medicare was created more than 40 years ago.

The Affordable Health Care for America Act, or H.R. 3962, restr...

FACTBOX-Reaction to U.S. House healthcare vote

2010-10-22T14:26:26Z

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FACTBOX-Next steps for U.S. healthcare bill in Congress

2010-10-22T14:25:07Z

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How Rep. Jim Cooper became a fighter-and a target-in the health care wars

2010-10-26T23:24:33Z

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Reid says healthcare bill to include public option

2010-06-25T20:08:41Z

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid said on Monday the Senate's sweeping healthcare reform bill would include a government-run insurance plan that lets states opt out of participation if they choose.

Reid said he would send the bill, which combines two pending Senate measures, to the <...

Leading Democrat vows 'public option' in US health bill

2010-06-25T20:27:28Z

The Democratic speaker of the US House of Representatives vowed Thursday that lawmakers would approve a health care overhaul bill that includes a controversial government-run "public option" insurance plan.

The measure, fiercely opposed by minority Republicans, would compete with private insurance companies.

"We do...

Aetna CEO sees support lacking for public plan

2010-06-25T20:41:10Z

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Support is lacking, particularly in the U.S. Senate, for a government-run health plan that would compete in the private marketplace, the chief executive of health insurer Aetna Inc &lt;AET.N&gt; said on Tuesday.

Democrats as well as IN WASHINGTON: When the chips are on the table and time nears to make a deal, Senate majority leader rarely tips his hand

WASHINGTON A tried-and-true lesson in deal-making is a simple one: Dont show your hand.

Keeping the cards close to the vest can be a strategy for playing poker, buying a car or, it turns out, running the U.S. Senate.

Small-State U.S. Senators on the Take Eviscerate Health Care

2010-10-22T07:34:29Z

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Senate Power Brokers Moving on Health Reform

2010-10-23T19:14:07Z

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2010-10-23T19:13:12Z

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Alaska Senate

2010-12-22T15:04:04Z

In this Friday, Dec. 17, 2010 picture, Alaska Republican U.S. Senate candidate Joe Miller, right, confers with his lawyer, Thomas Van Flein, before the Alaska Supreme Court convened in

Tax Cuts

2010-12-04T15:00:31Z

Sen. Al Franken, D-Minn., speaks and Sens. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, left, and Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., listen as Democrats held a news conference following two votes on tax cuts during a rare Saturday session of the Republican Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., walks back to his office with his Deputy Chief of Staff Rohit Kumar, center right, following two votes on tax cuts during a rare Saturday session of the U.S. Senate on Capitol Hill in

Nevada Politics

2010-12-01T15:03:32Z

FILE - This Oct. 7, 2010 file photo shows Sen. John Ensign, R-Nev. taking part in a hearing of the Senate Commerce Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington. Ensign says he...

Seeds Of Hunger

2010-11-06T10:31:58Z

This Friday, Oct. 22, 2010 picture shows wheat prices on an electronic display above the trading floor of the Chicago Board of Trade. Such prices for wheat futures have risen sharply again in 2010. U.S. Senate investigators cited market speculators as a major cause for even sharper price rises in 2007-2008, when people rioted worldwide over rising bread prices. Future wheat s...