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Capitol Honor for Last WWI Vet Blocked in Congress
By not in system - AOL NewsWASHINGTON - West Virginia's two Democratic senators blamed House Speaker John Boehner on Thursday after their hopes of having the remains of World War I veteran Frank Buckles honored in the Capitol Rotunda were dashed, at least for now. Sens. Jay Rockefeller and Joe Manchin III both released statements saying the Ohio Republican had blocked the Capitol honor. Asked if that were true, Boehner spokesman Mike Steel said the speaker and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., would seek Defense Department permission for a ceremony for Buckles at Arlington National Cemetery. Buckles died ...
Senators Police Each Other in Discouraging Gun Talk
By Tom Diemer - Politics DailySenate Democrats are promoting a bill to get money flowing for improvements and maintenance at the nation's airports, but they're trying hard to keep their rhetoric grounded in a time when civility is the byword on Capitol Hill. The legislation is an attempt to reauthorize operations for the Federal Aviation Administration and free up $8.1 billion from an development trust fund that's fed by passenger fees and a fuel tax. The measure is expected to go before Senate this week, so the FAA can stay in business without another temporary extension of funding, according to ...
Senate Republicans Grill Point Man on Health Care Law
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WASHINGTON (Nov. 17) -- Republican senators today grilled President Barack Obama's point man on the new health care law, vowing that the next Congress would keep a close eye on the federal agency that oversees coverage for one in three Americans. "You said you would be open and transparent. Many people may be a little skeptical of this comment," Sen. Jim Bunning of Kentucky told Donald Berwick, who as administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services runs an agency with a budget larger than the Pentagon's. Saying Republicans had been "locked out" of writing the health care law, ...
The Majority of US Senators Are Millionaires
By Steven Hoffer - AOL News(Oct. 28) -- Just in case you thought money doesn't equal power ... More than half of the U.S. senators are millionaires and four more fall just 100 grand short of the million-dollar mark, according to a recent Roll Call analysis. The survey, based on a review of Senate financial disclosure forms filed in 2010, also indicated that the majority of senators saw their fortunes grow during the past year. While many of the senators amassed their wealth through common means, Roll Call actually makes a point of highlighting the recent prevalence of increased wealth by inheritance in the Senate. For ...
Are Today's Cars Too Smart for Their Own Good?
By David Knowles - AOL News(March 4) -- Today's cars are technical wonders largely controlled by complex computer systems. But as Toyota struggles to identify the cause of the sudden acceleration problems that are believed to have contributed to the deaths of dozens of people, some are wondering whether all that technology is really such a good thing. This week, Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood addressed a Senate Commerce Committee hearing trying to determine how the government can do a better job identifying safety risks in cars. "We're looking at the possibility of recommending the brake override system in all ...
Rockefeller Proposal Would Hamstring EPA Efforts to Cut Greenhouse Gases
By Tom Diemer - Politics DailyIn a blow to the Obama administration's environmental agenda, Sen. Jay Rockefeller, a West Virginia Democrat, will press for a two-year moratorium on the EPA's power to regulate the greenhouse gases that pour out of coal-fired power plants and factories. The move by Rockefeller, a liberal on most matters, shows just how tough it will be for Obama and his allies to win the fight against global warming, as the cap-and-trade system intended to limit carbon emissions has been bogged down in the Senate. "Today, we took important action to safeguard jobs, the coal industry and the entire economy, ...
Without a Public Option, Is It Really Reform?
By Steve Pendlebury - AOL News(Dec. 15) -- The holiday season rush is on in Washington. President Barack Obama is pushing the Senate to pass a health care reform bill by Christmas. Now it looks like the legislation won't include everything on his wish list. Senate Democrats have decided to drop a proposal to let people buy into Medicare starting at age 55. The concession is intended to win over Joe Lieberman, the Connecticut independent who caucuses with Senate Democrats but has been giving them fits with his threats to filibuster anything resembling a "public option" for health insurance. The Medicare expansion was an ...
The Health Battles That Won't Die: Lieberman, Taxes, Abortion and (Oh, Yeah!) the House
By Patricia Murphy - Politics DailySenate Majority Leader Harry Reid showed just how ugly legislating can get on Monday night, when he called the members of his exhausted, fractured caucus together for an emergency meeting to discuss health reform. Once inside the large room in the Capitol, he gave them a reality check and a choice. First, the reality check: The only people keeping the Democrats from passing health care reform were other Democrats. Sen. Joe Lieberman, an independent who caucuses with the Democrats, had announced the day before that he would filibuster the bill if it contained a Medicare expansion, while a ...
Jay Rockefeller on the Public Option: 'I Will Not Relent'
By Jill Lawrence - Politics DailyJay Rockefeller has waited a long time for this moment. Since 1964, to be exact. So he was unabashedly emotional as the Senate Finance Committee neared completion of its work on health reform. "I feel the way I feel and I am who I am," the West Virginia Democrat said at the end of a teary, post-midnight monologue about his work as a VISTA volunteer 45 years ago. Who is he and how does he feel? The great-grandson and namesake of America's first billionaire, John D. Rockefeller IV is a 6-foot-6, 72-year-old Harvard graduate who studied Japanese in Tokyo and Chinese at Yale. He's also a longtime ...
Baucus Releases Health Care Bill, Without Public Option, Amid Fire From the Left and Right
By Patricia Murphy - Politics DailySen. Max Baucus (D-Mont.) released the details of his health care reform bill Wednesday amid complaints from a senior Democrat that it will be a "big, big tax" on the middle class, as well as a refusal by Republicans to endorse the proposal even though several had negotiated with Baucus on the legislation for months. The Baucus bill, which will be debated and voted on by the Senate Finance Committee next week, is the second and final portion of health care reform to be taken up by the Senate. The Senate Health Committee approved its portion of reforms in July, when all three House committees ...
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