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Health Stakes: Pressure Builds on Democrats to Reverse Decades of Failure
By Jill Lawrence - Politics DailyWhite House pressure, union pressure, leadership pressure – no stone is being left unturned this weekend as Democrats move to a final House vote Sunday on the health care overhaul that was central to President Obama's campaign and has consumed much of his first 14 months in office. The procedural obstacle course faced by the 10-year, $940 billion package is a fitting end to the most suspenseful legislative journey of any bill in recent memory. One member at a time, House Democrats were slowly amassing the 216 votes they need to pass a bill that makes major strides toward the long-held ...
That's One Angry Hillary Supporter
By Dave - Politics Daily"The Democratic Party threw us down the tubes?" No, no, no. It's throw under the bus Ms. Christian. And yikes, maybe there is something to those disenchanted Hillary supporters going to McCain. Make sure you stay with the clip to the end. Again, this just underscores that there is no rational reason for Hillary to get out of the race. She's going to the convention and in the worst case, she loses there but gets the airtime and facetime of the national TV spotlight being gracious. It will be her 1976 Reagan moment. Her supporters will definitely support it and who knows, Obama may yet ...
Michigan and Florida: Half!
By Tommy Christopher - Politics DailyUpdate: Clinton campaign official statement at the end of the story. The Democratic National Committee Rules and Bylaws committee has voted to seat the full delegations of Michigan and Florida, with each delegate receiving a half of a vote. 7:07 There are people chanting, "Denver, Denver!" Harold Ickes voted for the Florida measure, but against the Michigan one. They had to ask security to bar the door. Ickes said that the Michigan decision "Hijacked" the votes of 600,000 people, and that the principle of fair representation of the will of the voters meant awarding delegates to ...
Run, DNC!
By David Knowles - Politics DailyThe DNC's Rules and Bylaws Committee met today to try and hammer out a solution to the problem of how to apportion Michigan and Florida's delegates. There were many fireworks, but a compromise seems to be holding for Florida, where Clinton will take away a net gain of 19 delegates. Michigan remains less clear. Clinton's Camp is fighting tooth and nail to seat all of the delegates in her favor, even though Obama's name wasn't even on the Michigan ballot. Carl Levin, and the Michigan state Democratic party had suggested a compromise, giving Clinton a net gain of 10 delegates. The split would ...
HRC Supporters to Demonstrate at DNC Rules Meeting
By Dave - Politics DailyAnd that has Harold Meyerson huffing and puffing: What's particularly outrageous is that the Clinton campaign supported the calendar, and the sanctions against Michigan and Florida, until Clinton won those states and needed to have their delegations seated. Last August, when the DNC Rules Committee voted to strip Florida (and Michigan, if it persisted in clinging to its date) of its delegates, the Clinton delegates on the committee backed those sanctions. All 12 Clinton supporters on the committee supported the penalties. (The only member of the committee to vote against them was an Obama ...
Obama's Magic Number Could Go Up
By Mark Impomeni - Politics DailyLawyers for the Democratic National Committee advised the party today that it may seat half of the disputed Michigan and Florida delegations at the Democratic National Convention in August. The group actually presented two options, seat half the delegates, or seat all of them but give them only half a vote each. The recommendation comes three days before a critical meeting of the Rules and Bylaws Committee for the convention. That committee could decide to accept the recommendation or to seat all or none of the delegates. If it goes along with the party lawyers, the number of delegates needed ...
Obama Camp: Hey, Hey, Ho, Ho, Don't Protest
By Tommy Christopher - Politics DailyOn Saturday, May 31, the Democratic National Committee's Rules and Bylaws Committee will meet to decide what to do about Michigan and Florida. More accurately, they will meet to re-decide what to do with the two wildcat states who moved their primaries up, in defiance of the DNC, whom the DNC and all of the candidates agreed ahead of time would be stripped of their delegates. The Clinton campaign has been lobbying hard to seat the two delegations, since they handily won both "beauty contest" primaries, as the only candidacy on the ballot in one, and a no-campaigning pledge in the other. Barack ...
Clinton Setback on Michigan and Florida
By David Knowles - Politics DailyThe word has come down from DNC lawyers. Despite Hillary Clinton's best attempts, Michigan and Florida will be punished for holding their primaries too early. A memo has been sent to the Rules and Bylaws Committee, which states that, at most, it has the power to seat half of the delegates. The RBC will meet on Saturday to hear what will surely be raucous protest from Hillary Clinton's supporters who want the full delegations sat in their candidate's favor. But for now, anyway, that's not going to happen. From the AP:Democratic National Committee rules require that the two states lose at least ...
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