Set to unveil a budget in January, the governor has sent a letter to the House speaker seeking to recoup some of the costs of the pending health care legislation.
In the heat of the health care debate, some observers on the right don’t wish Senator Robert C. Byrd, the 92-year-old Democratic senator, well.
Overcoming a final procedural hurdle, Senate Democrats cleared the way Wednesday for Christmas Eve passage of a landmark health-care bill that would provide coverage to more than 30 million people and begin a far-reaching overhaul of Medicare and the private insurance market.
Stange bedfellows Grover Norquist and Jane Hamsher team up to call for Emanuel’s resignation.
President Obama finally meets with some bankers whom he likes.
GOP steps up efforts to persuade House Dems to switch, zeroing in on a second-term Pennsylvanian.
Dems push the health care bill towards Senate passage with early Thursday morning vote.
Dem-GOP duo leading Senate work on financial reform say they’ve ‘made meaningful progress.”
Exhausted senators say they’re eager to go home, but you wouldn’t know it by the number of votes.
Obama has been told disputes over abortion and the tight schedule are likely to delay a final deal.