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Immigration Reform Revived in Bipartisan Bill
By Tom Diemer
Two influential senators, a Democrat and Republican, have revived immigration reform with the blessing of the White House. Sens. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) and Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) want to require U.S. citizens and legal immigrants to carry tamper-proof biometric Social Security cards that ...
Don't Give the Roberts Court the Chance to Kill Health Reform
By Walter Shapiro
Searching for health care votes with the desperation of...well...a family without medical insurance trying to pay a hospital bill, Nancy Pelosi must find the temptation nearly irresistible. With skittish House Democrats reluctant to ratify the heavy-handed compromises in the Senate health care ...
Democrats' Momentum Building for Sunday Health Vote
By Patricia Murphy
After months of debate, delays and intraparty disarray, Democrats in Washington seemed to gain crucial momentum toward passing a health care reform bill by week's end. But legislative booby traps and fickle election-year politics mean that significant hurdles await the bill in the Senate, even if it ...
Abortion Language in Health Bill Pits Catholic Against Catholic
By David Gibson
Democratic leaders and faith-based supporters of health care reform on Thursday stepped up their campaign to convince the public -- and perhaps a few pro-life House members whose votes are critical to passage -- that the legislation does not fund abortions and in fact would reduce abortions. "I ...
It's the Priests vs. the Nuns -- Again
By Melinda Henneberger
On the issue of health care reform, it's the priests vs. the nuns, with a coalition of the Catholic sisters who lead 60 different religious orders backing the proposed law, and the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops opposing it. Both camps are strongly anti-abortion, mind you, yet read the reform ...
Special Provision for North Dakota Bank Removed From Health Bill
By Patricia MurphyFacing a barrage of questions, Sen. Kent Conrad (D-N.D.) Thursday sought the removal of a special provision he had written into the package of fixes to the Senate health care bill that would have applied only to the Bank of North Dakota. The provision would have allowed the Bank of North Dakota to ...
Obama's Job Approval Rating Reaches Lowest Point of His Presidency
By Bruce Drake
President Obama is suffering the lowest job approval rating since he was elected, with more disapproving of his performance than approving, while the public regard for Congress has also worsened, according to a Gallup poll conducted March 15-17. Forty-eight percent disapprove of the job Obama is ...
Obama Signs Jobs Bill, Seeks More Cooperation With GOP
By Tom Diemer
President Barack Obama said Thursday he hoped that Republican support this week for a near $18 billion jobs bill would lead to further bipartisan cooperation as the country tries to dig itself out of what he called "the great recession that we've gone through." "This isn't a game we're playing ...
Obama Postpones Asian Trip to Focus on Health Care
By Patricia Murphy
White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs announced Thursday that President Obama has again postponed his planned trip to Indonesia and Australia to continue his push to pass health care reform. As Speaker Nancy Pelosi has struggled to secure the 216 votes needed to pass the bill in the House, the ...
Biden Leaves 'Em Laughing at Media Dinner
By Tom Diemer
As President Obama played host to the Irish prime minster at the White House on Wednesday night, his Irish-American vice president, Joe Biden, found himself at the Washington Convention Center entertaining media types at a formal dinner. "Go figure," Biden told the Radio and Television ...
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