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Published: 09/15/09

Illegal Immigrants Still an Issue in Senate Health Care Negotiations

By  Patricia Murphy - Politics Daily
Illegal Immigrants Still an Issue in Senate Health Care Negotiations

Despite the Obama administration's assurances that illegal immigrants will not receive health insurance benefits under health care reform, six key senators dealt with the increasingly contentious issue as they worked behind closed doors Monday. The 'gang of six' senators-- three Democrats and three Republicans-- are in the final stages of fashioning a compromise on health care that could get the 60 votes necessary to pass out of the chamber. Sen. Max Baucus (D-Mont.), the chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, said Monday that the group had discussed several specific items in negotiations, ...

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Published: 07/29/09

House Dems Strike Health Care Deal, But Senate 'Not Even Close'

By  Patricia Murphy - Politics Daily
House Dems Strike Health Care Deal, But Senate 'Not Even Close'

Rep. Mike Ross (D-Ark.), the lead health care negotiator for the conservative Blue Dog Democrats, announced Wednesday that five moderate Democratic members of a key committee have struck a deal on health care reform with Democratic leaders. The Blue Dogs had been threatening to derail the bill without concessions from party leaders on the cost and size of the measure. Earlier this week, Ross and his group of Blue Dogs gave a list of 10 items to the chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, Rep. Henry Waxman (D-Calif.), that they wanted to see changed in the existing House ...

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