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Four Mysteries That Will Shape the Fate of Centrist Democratic Senators in 2012
By Jill Lawrence - Politics DailyAnd then there were five. Two centrist Democratic senators from conservative or moderate states, Kent Conrad of North Dakota and Jim Webb of Virginia, have announced they will retire rather than run for reelection next year. That leaves Claire McCaskill of Missouri, Joe Manchin of West Virginia, Bill Nelson of Florida, Jon Tester of Montana, and Ben Nelson of Nebraska (who just hired a campaign manager and looks ready to run). Are they doomed, along with their party's fragile 53-47 hold on the Senate? Sometimes you really can gauge future elections by what happened in the last go-round. The ...
Congress Delays Vote on Bush Tax Cuts Until After Elections
By Patricia Murphy - Politics DailyWith a potentially bruising election less than six weeks away, Democrats on Capitol Hill came to an impasse Thursday over what to do about the Bush tax cuts. The result was a decision to do nothing, at least until after the elections, when Congress comes back to Washington for a lame duck session. For weeks, Republicans have happily watched from the sidelines as liberal and moderate Democrats have struggled to agree on the best course of action, both politically and on policy grounds, with the Bush-era tax policy that Democrats describe as a "time bomb." All of the tax cuts -- including those ...
Special Provision for North Dakota Bank Removed From Health Bill
By Patricia Murphy - Politics DailyFacing 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 continue to originate and service student loans even though a pending overhaul says that all such loans will originate through the U.S. Department of Education, beginning July 1. The bill stipulated that only North Dakota residents attending North Dakota schools would be eligible for the ...
Steny Hoyer, Kent Conrad, Marsha Blackburn, Tom Coburn on CBS' 'Face the Nation'
By Bruce Drake - Politics DailyCBS'S "FACE THE NATION" FEBRUARY 28, 2010 SPEAKERS: BOB SCHIEFFER, HOST REP. STENY H. HOYER, D-MD. SEN. KENT CONRAD, D-N.D. REP. MARSHA BLACKBURN, R-TENN. SEN. TOM COBURN, R-OKLA. PASCALE BONNEFOY, GLOBAL POST [*] SCHIEFFER: Today on "Face the Nation," yet another natural disaster. This time an earthquake in Chile where hundreds are dead. And what next on health care reform? Is it dead or can something actually be passed into law? We'll get the overnight news and the latest pictures of the devastation in Chile. Then we'll pick up on health care where the Washington summit left off with ...
Pelosi Says Democrats Will Keep Control of the House
By Bruce Drake - Politics DailyHouse Speaker Nancy Pelosi Sunday predicted the Democrats will keep their majority in the House despite some of the rough rides it has been having in the polls and Republican warnings that Democrats will suffer political damage if health care reform legislation is "jammed down the throats of a public" that opposes it. Asked on CNN's State of the Union whether the Democrats will lose seats, as usually happens to the party in control of the White House during midterm elections, Pelosi answered instead, "Let me just say it this way, the Democrats will retain the majority in the House of ...
Senate Passes Sweeping Health Care Reform, but Trouble Lies Ahead
By Patricia Murphy - Politics DailyAfter nearly a year of negotiations, concessions, fits and starts, the U.S. Senate passed sweeping health care reform legislation in an early-morning vote Thursday, by a party-line tally of 60 to 39. The Christmas Eve vote was the first on record for the Senate in nearly a century, and marked the end of a grueling work session for the lawmakers, who had plowed through three working weekends since Thanksgiving, often voting into the early morning hours, to meet Majority Leader Harry Reid's goal of passing a health bill before Christmas. Before senators cast their votes Thursday morning, ...
Democratic Civil Wars Likely as Left Weighs Primary Challenges Over Health
By Jill Lawrence - Politics DailyDemocrats are having fun highlighting the "civil war" within the Republican Party, but their schadenfreude may be short-lived. Conservative and moderate Democrats are failing one liberal litmus test after another, stoking not just frustration on the left but also potential primary challenges. The list of those tests starts with the public option, a proposed government-sponsored health insurance plan that appears to be losing ground on Capitol Hill despite continued popularity in opinion polls. And that's just the beginning. As filing deadlines approach, particularly for later primaries, ...
Health Care Co-ops in the Crossfire
By Patricia Murphy - Politics DailyAs positions in the Senate hardened on health care reform earlier this year, Sen. Max Baucus (D-Mont.) asked Sen. Kent Conrad (D-N.D.) to brainstorm a possible compromise between liberal Democrats and Republicans. Conrad's solution? A "co-op" plan that a moderate could love, with non-profit hybrids. Co-ops would expand insurance coverage to more Americans without creating a government agency, which Republicans oppose, but also would not throw more money at the health insurance industry, which Democrats don't want. ...
Obama's Plan B on Health Care: Co-Ops
By Patricia Murphy - Politics DailyYou heard over the weekend that President Obama and HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius backed off of having a public option in his health care reform package. Then an administration official, who refused to use his name, told The Atlantic that Sebelius "misspoke." The next morning, liberal Democrats like Howard Dean said a bill without a public option is not really reform, while Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-N.Y.) told the AP that "leaving private insurance companies the job of controlling the costs of health care is like making a pyromaniac the fire chief." ...
Congressional Witness: Dodd, Conrad Knew They Got Sweetheart Mortgages, AP Reports
By Patricia Murphy - Politics DailyThe Associated Press has obtained secret congressional testimony in which a former employee of Countrywide Financial's "VIP" program told investigators that Sens. Chris Dodd (D-Conn.) and Kent Conrad (D-N.D.) knew they were getting special treatment on their mortgage applications from the lender.According to transcripts of the testimony of Robert Feinberg to the House Oversight Committee, the two senators were told, "who you know is basically how you're coming in here." Feinberg also said the informal policy in his department was, "You don't say 'no' to the VIP."Both Dodd and Conrad have said ...
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