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Click here to visit the new home of Politics Daily!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 bill such as the reviled Nebraska-only Cornhusker kickback, Pelosi is beguiled with a parliamentary gambit that would avoid such an awkward vote. Under a congressional sleight-of-hand called "deem and pass," House approval of fixes in the Senate bill (including rescinding the Cornhusker kickback) would ...
WASHINGTON (March 10) -- Add Chief Justice John G. Roberts to a growing list of critics of President Barack Obama's decision to call out the Supreme Court during his State of the Union address in January. Roberts said in an appearance at the University of Alabama law school that he found it "very troubling" that Obama would scold the members of the court while they sat surrounded by lawmakers who were "cheering and hollering." The president pointedly criticized the high court's recent decision in a major campaign finance case, Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission. While several ...
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