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Click here to visit the new home of Politics Daily!The dispute over abortion financing in the health care reform bills has been a sticking point since the very beginning of the legislative debate, and as this long drama finally approaches its denouement, the question of abortion financing once again appears to be the deal breaker -- or game changer. So far, pro-life forces have largely carried the day, arguing with conviction that the Senate bill -- which will be the version of health care reform that will be adopted if the reconciliation process works -- amounts to a huge, multibillion-dollar taxpayer subsidy for abortion. The House ...
Google on Tuesday released the top searches within the United States for 2009; the results are surprising and interesting. The top Google searches for senators show that people are more interested in reading about Democrats than Republicans -- only Chuck Grassley of Iowa at No. 9 made the list for the GOP. And it also shows that people are doing more searches for senators with key roles in legislation than for senators caught up in scandals. No surprise, Ted Kennedy tops the Senate Google searches, as he died this year. Second on the Senate list is Nelson, but the Google people don't tell us ...
With Republican solidarity in the House pulling eleven Democrats over with them to oppose the bloated 10 liberal fantasy trillion dollar bill, I noted that after that completely pyrrhic victory for the Dems and the falling public support, it wasn't out of the question that the GOP could put a serious monkeywrench in the stimulus bill and maybe stop it altogether.And what do I see today? Two Democrats from conservative states going a little, shall we say, "squishy".Think ProgressEarlier today, Sen. Ben Nelson (D-NE) said he is "undecided" on whether to support President Obama's recovery plan. ...
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