Day: August 15, 2009

Online activists prefer Sestak over Specter.

With August dominated by town halls, influential Dems begin laying the groundwork for the fall.

Says opposition means embracing a system better for insurance companies than American people.

The philosopher Daniel Callahan talked about the role that bioethics should play in the current debate on overhauling the health care system.

Dick Armey, a former Republican House leader, resigned from his lobbying firm after drug company clients complained about his opposition to the Obama health plan.

The president accused some insurance companies of trying to undermine his plans for overhauling health care.

The enthusiasm of the Obama campaign has not carried over to efforts to overhaul the health care system.

On the final day of a seven-nation trip, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton reaffirmed her promise to renovate relations with Africa.

Karl Rove and Christopher J. Christie, the Republican candidate for New Jersey governor, say their conversations were casual, but Democrats say they were a violation of federal law.

Citigroup says the federal government cannot review the compensation packages for two traders — one earning $98 million and another $30 million.