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President Obama: Before and After
... As Nancy Pelosi said, we had to pass the health care reform bill to find out what is in it. Among other things, we are finding out that the Obama Administration deliberately sought to mislead ... Nat'l Ledger; 7/18/2010 |
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US taxpayers soon to taste the bitter fruit of Obamacare
... House Speaker Nancy Pelosi famously said the night of Obamacare’s passage, “We have to pass the bill so that you can find out what is in it.” The emerging picture is frightening. Examiner; July 19, 2010
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ObamaCare’s huge new burden for small business
... we heard one of the most shocking statements ever made by a high-ranking federal official. Nancy Pelosi told an audience, “We have to pass the health care bill to find out what’s in it.” Bangor Daily News; 7/16/2010 |
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Zadroga Act, bill to care for 9/11 responders nears passage in Congress
... The $10.5 billion measure had been held up while lawmakers hashed out how to fund it without adding to the deficit. But House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has agreed to bring it up for a vote ... New York Daily News; July 17, 2010 |
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Rossi: Replace health care plan
... The Rossi letter repeatedly fastens onto House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid. And, as his approval ratings have fallen, a new name has appeared on the list. Seattle Post Intelligencer; 7/16/2010 |
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House Passes Plan to Stop Medicare Cuts to Doctors
The House on Thursday approved a six-month plan to prevent a steep cut in doctors’ fees paid by Medicare, agreeing to a short-term solution that Speaker Nancy Pelosi called “totally inadequate” ... NYT; June 24, 2010 |
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Pelosi Statement on Administration's Regulations Providing Preventive Care Benefits in New Health Plans
Speaker Nancy Pelosi released the following statement today after the Administration issued regulations implementing provisions of the Affordable Care Act that provide for free preventive ... PR Newswire; July 14, 2010 |
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Pelosi Delusion
Nancy Pelosi is seeing things. The Hill, a newspaper covering Congress, reports that she has "seized on new polls that suggest healthcare overhaul's popularity is rising ... WSJ; July 9, 2010 |
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Missouri Lt. Governor Peter Kinder takes on Obamacare
Missouri Lieutenant Governor, Peter Kinder, filed a lawsuit challenging the new health care law forced through Congress by Nancy Pelosi at the insistence of Barack Obama after ongoing opposition ... KC Cons. Ex; July 7, 2010 |
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Pelosi’s Healthcare Town Hall Plan Will Hurt Democrats
Congressional Democrats have spent most of the last year hiding from the voters, refusing to engage them in the town hall meeting format that proved so damaging during last summer’s healthcare debate. USA Today; 7/7/10 |
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Pelosi Statement on Obama Administration's Announcement of Guidelines for New Patient's Bill of Rights
Speaker Nancy Pelosi today issued the following statement on the Obama Administration's implementation of key patient protection provisions in health insurance reform. PR Newswire; June 22, 2010 |
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Healthcare: Democrats up ante
Speaker Nancy Pelosi is doubling down on healthcare reform, betting that it will do Democrats more good than harm in November’s elections. The Hill; July 6, 2010 |
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Coarse discourse: Our talk is raw, but it's our right
...And, caught in a double-barreled verbal assault, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi gets heckled at a luncheon by not one but two factions of protesters. Arizona Republic; July 4, 2010 |
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Pelosi wants docs' fee boost, jobs money combined
The top House Democrat says her chamber won't vote on Senate legislation to reverse a cut in Medicare payments to doctors. Pelosi says the bill — it would reverse a 21 percent cut on Medicare doctor fees ... AP; June 21, 2010 |
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Senate Passes, Pelosi Reject `Doc Fix'
The Senate passed a bill which would fund the 21% increase of physician Medicare reimbursement on Friday, but House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi rejected the bill, making it unlikely to pass. CVN Sports; June 20, 2010 |
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Health-Care Reform Repeal Petition Garners Few Signatures
The discharge petition must be signed by 218 members of Congress in order to force the Speaker Nancy Pelosi to put the matter up for a vote. But the discharge petition introduced by Rep. Steve King ... Huff Post; June 29, 2010 |
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Gray Panthers Oppose Nancy Pelosi on Health Care Bill
The fight for a single payer health care bill is not over, if the Gray Panthers have anything to do with it. In no uncertain terms, they told Nancy Pelosi on May 26 that the "reform" health care law was not ok. OpEd; 6/18/2010 |
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Pelosi Statement on HHS Announcement of $250 Million to Strengthen and Expand Primary Health Care Workforce
Speaker Nancy Pelosi today issued the following statement about the announcement by the Department of Health and Human Services of a $250 million investment in strengthening and ... PR Newswire; June 16, 2010 |
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Pelosi Statement on $250 Checks Being Mailed Today to Close the 'Donut Hole' Prescription Drug Coverage Gap
Speaker Nancy Pelosi released the following statement on a key immediate benefit of health insurance reform for America's seniors. Starting today, one-time, tax-free checks of $250 will be mailed ... PR Newswire; June 10, 2010 |
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Pelosi: Health Reform Will Lower Costs, Strengthen Medicare, Give Seniors More Control Over Their Health Care
Speaker Nancy Pelosi today released the following statement on the benefits of the Affordable Care Act for America's seniors. President Obama held a tele-town hall with seniors in Wheaton, Md. ... PR Newswire; June 8, 2010 |
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Pelosi Statement on HHS Grants to States to Strengthen Health Insurance Premium Rate Reviews
Speaker Nancy Pelosi today issued the following statement in response to Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius announcing the availability of $51 million in Health Insurance Premium ... PR Newswire; 6/7/2010 |
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Health reform hurts small businesses
Before Congress rushed approval of the massive government overhaul of health care, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi infamously said: “(W)e have to pass the bill so that you can find out what is in it.” CNJ; June 2, 2010 |
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Justice Needs More Time
'Frivolous," says Nancy Pelosi. "More to do with politics than with policy," in the words of Kathleen Sebelius. En masse, Democrats claim that the constitutionality of ObamaCare is so elementary ... WSJ; June 3, 2010 |
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With health reform, familiarity is breeding contempt
In closing the deal on health-care reform, Democratic leaders assured wavering legislators that the plan would grow more popular with time as its benefits became clear. Washington Post; May 28, 2010 |
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Dems support Medicare brochure
Top House Democrats on Wednesday said they support a taxpayer-funded brochure outlining the changes in Medicare under the health care overhaul, amid growing Republican cries of propaganda. Politico; May 26, 2010 |
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Pelosi’s Political Skills, Individual Mandates and Studies Galore
Bloggers look at House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s role in the health care overhaul, whether employers may drop health insurance under the new law and if an individual mandate is necessary. Kaiser Health News; May 26, 2010 |
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How They Passed Health Care: The Final Installment
Nancy Pelosi was in the Old Executive Office Building when one of her advisers gave her a message: Obama wanted her next door, in the White House. Martha Coakley was about to lose the election ... Huff Post; May 25, 2010 |
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Pelosi and Health Care: How Impressive Was Her Leadership, Really?
With all the exaggerated superlatives we’ve heard about Speaker Nancy Pelosi, an honest appraisal of her leadership is hard to come by. Just how impressive was her leadership on health care? The Monkey Cage; May 25, 2010 |
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Pelosi Statement on New Report That Health Reform Could Provide Coverage for Millions of Uninsured Young Adults
Speaker Nancy Pelosi released the following statement on a new report released today from the Commonwealth Fund that estimates up to 13.7 million uninsured young adults ... PR-USA Net; Posted May 30, 2010 |
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House Posts Health Care Bill, Leaves Out LGBT-Specific Provisions
... We are deeply disappointed that, after months of lobbying for their inclusion, important measures specifically addressing the needs of LGBT people and people with HIV ... are not a part of this bill. HRC; March 18, 2010 |
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Pelosi Statement on New Report That Health Reform Could Provide Coverage for Millions of Uninsured Young People
Speaker Nancy Pelosi released the following statement on a new report released today from the Commonwealth Fund that estimates up to 13.7 million uninsured young adults could ... PR Newswire; May 21, 2010 |
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Pelosi touts health care reform at Mills College
Below are Speaker Nancy Pelosi's remarks at Mills College's May 15 graduation. Huff Post; May 21, 2010 |
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Pelosi Aide Summons Medical Lobbyists for Talks on ‘Doc Fix’
House Democratic leaders will meet Wednesday evening with White House officials and lobbyists for doctors groups to discuss how to deal with the thorny issue of Medicare reimbursement ... Roll Call; 5/19/2010 |
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Aides become lobbyists in health care rush
From the House floor just before passing the health care bill, Speaker Nancy Pelosi praised her staff for "a remarkable job, dazzling us with their knowledge and their know-how." Examiner; May 19, 2010 |
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Pelosi: Musicians Can Quit Their Jobs and Get Health Care
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) spoke to the Asian American and Pacific Islanders Summit at the Capitol Wednesday. She told them that musicians and other creative folks ... PAtriot Post; May 18, 2010 |
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ObamaCare Cost Hits Trillion-Plus
Who would have thought it? Nancy Pelosi can hit a nail square on its head once in a while. Of course, the House Speaker was shilling madly for passage of what is now called ObamaCare when she said ... DNR; May 17, 2010 |
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'Speaker Nancy Pelosi'
San Francisco Rep. Phil Burton used a high compliment to describe Nancy Pelosi when he talked to his little brother John about the future House speaker 30 years ago. He said she was "operational." SF Gate; May 9, 2010 |
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Why would Nancy Pelosi have said `we have to pass the (health-care reform) bill so you can find out what is in it'?
Even though it happened in mid-March, seething opponents of the health-care reform law continue to bring up that Nancy Pelosi said, "we have to pass the bill so you can find out what is in it," ... Chicago Trib; 5/1/2010 |
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Pelosi takes a victory lap on healthcare reform
Nancy Pelosi took a victory lap for the Democrats’ healthcare win on Tuesday, thanking a key industry group for its support of the sweeping legislation that passed last month. The Hill; April 27, 2010 |
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Pelosi Changes Vote Schedule – Disrupts Republicans' Plans To Attend Tea Party Rally
Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) recessed the House in the late afternoon on Thursday and called for a vote at 7:30 p.m., the time when many Republicans had planned to speak at the Tax Day Tea Party ... CNS News; 4/15/2010 |
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Big impact: The ins and outs of health reform
Whether you're for it or against it, health care reform is the law of the land and individuals, health care providers, insurers and employers will be affected to varying degrees. Pantagraph.com; April 19, 2010 |
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Maybe Nancy Pelosi Was Right: Insurance Company Targeted Breast Cancer Patients
Reuters has a stunner today. The insurance company WellPoint had a policy of targeting its customers with fraud investigations if they were diagnosed with breast cancer, according to federal investigators. TIME; 4/22/2010 |
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Hoyer regrets using 'un-American' in health care op-ed
... Hoyer, whose name is on the op-ed piece along with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, used the term to describe raucous town-hall meetings in which politicians were sometimes shouted down. USA Today; April 22, 2010 |
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Health Reforms Benefits for California
... From Speaker Nancy Pelosi in San Francisco to Rep. Doris Matsui in Sacramento, Congressional leaders are in turn reaching out to their constituents to tell them about the ... California Progress Report; April 5, 2010 |
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The Monster That Ate Congress
When Nancy Pelosi said of ObamaCare that "we have to pass the bill so that you can find out what is in it," she wasn't kidding. Some of the things we're finding out are shocking, horrifying ... WSJ; April 13, 2010 |
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WIRE WATCH: Pelosi, Sebelius on Health Care; Energy Conference Kicks Off; Palin in Vegas
Nancy Pelosi will speak at a noon event in her hometown at The Commonwealth Club of San Francisco on recent passage of a broad overhaul of the U.S. health care system—a bill she was instrumental ... WSJ; April 6, 2010 |
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Pelosi describes effort behind health care reform
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi described pushing through health care reform legislation as a fractious endeavor hampered by partisanship, but one she never doubted would succeed. SF Mercury News; April 6, 2010 |
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BlogTalk: Dr. No, Nancy Pelosi and Fox News
... His remarks, broadcast on KGOU radio in Oklahoma, quickly went out over the blogs. In the meeting, Dr. Coburn also went on to defend Nancy Pelosi, the House Speaker that the right has ... NYT; April 6, 2010 |
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The Hidden Face Of "Fairness"
Well, as Nancy Pelosi promised us, now that the ObamaCare health care finance "reform" bill is passed, we can all see what 's in it. (Understanding what a bill says before it becomes ... .) Wizbang; April 5, 2010 |
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Letter: Obama wrong
President Obama could not have been more wrong when he proclaimed that passage of Obama care was a testament to the "will and determination of the American people." cjon line; April 4, 2010 |
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Health fight did not end; it's just begun
... This bill was passed even though 53 percent of the people do not want it in its present form. According to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, "We need to pass this bill to know what is in it." ... Hattiesburg American; April 4, 2010 |
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Running after happy
I caught myself up in an internal inside-my-head debate on happiness due to a search during HCR week on the web for "Nancy Pelosi, pursuit of happiness". After hearing her remarks on the passing ... Daily Kos; April 4, 2010 |
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GUEST COLUMN: Fears, tears over 'reform' are very real
On Jean Sellmeyer Smith's recent guest column: It's not just health care, but federal intrusion into all areas of our life that has people upset. Many of us feel the federal government has gotten ... the advertiser.com; 4/3/2010 |
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Fallout from the health care bill
... Now fast forward to 2010, and Nancy Pelosi’s assertion that “we have to pass the bill so that you can find out what is in it, away from the fog of the controversy.” As if the controversy was ... Journal Watchdog; April 3, 2010 |
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Yankee Notebook: Tempest in a tea party will pass
A few nights ago Mother and I watched the CNN broadcast of the last-minute speeches and the voting on the health care reform bill before the House of Representatives. ... Times Argus; April 4, 2010 |
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Show America the health reform money
Regardless of your party affiliation, Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid seem to be taking this country and our children and grandchildren down the tubes. ... Sun Sentinel.com; April 4, 2010 |
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New Health Care Law Does Not Help Democrats in Poll
The legislative wrangling over the health care reform bill that became law last week has not translated into improved poll ratings for any of the principal participants. April 2, 2010 |
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The inefficiency of Obamacare
Barack Obama promised a great many things in his presidential campaign. A comprehensive reform of health care was among them, an issue on the national agenda since Teddy Roosevelt's time ... The Triangle; April 2, 2010 |
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Right-wing media complain that Pelosi incited tea partiers with her "big gavel"
Right-wing media figures have criticized House Speaker Nancy Pelosi for carrying a gavel while walking to the Capitol to vote on health care reform, claiming she sought to incite Tea Party members ... Media Matters; 4/2/2010 |
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Michele Bachmann: Nancy Pelosi Was Trying To 'Incite Something' Before Health Care Vote (VIDEO)
Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) accused Speaker Nancy Pelosi this week of trying to "incite something" by choosing to walk through a Tea Party rally being held outside the U.S. Capitol on the day ... Huff Post; April 2, 2010 |
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Chocolate: Nancy Pelosi's Secret Overhaul Weapon
Unless you're a foodie and devotee of health overhaul, you might have missed this little tidbit from Andrea Seabrook's profile of Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi last week ... NPR; April 2, 2010 |
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H R 3590 -- Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act; Roll Call Vote
Linked on April 1, 2010 |
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H.R.3590 -- Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act
Passed by the House of Representatives on March 21, 2010. |
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Pelosi's answered prayer
Nancy Pelosi, who claims to be Catholic, though she would be best described as a lapsed-Catholic due to her pro-Abortion stance, said she prayed to St. Joseph for the passage of Obamacare. American Thinker; 3/31/2010 |
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Above the Law: "Deem and pass" sidesteps democracy
Just when I thought I had heard every ludicrous thing the government of the United States could do, I get slapped upside the head with the “Deem and Pass” rule, also known as the “Slaughter House Rule.” East Texan; 3/31/2010 |
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Like her or not, Pelosi's power undeniable
Anyone who has heard Nancy Pelosi speak knows she is not a great speaker. Her favorite rhetorical device is to seize on a word and club her listeners over the head with it. Great Falls Tribune; March 30, 2010 |
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Celebrating Obamacare With Nancy Pelosi on Palm Sunday
... So it was not surprising that Speaker Nancy Pelosi chose Palm Sunday to celebrate Obamacare's ratification at San Francisco's infamously radical Glide Memorial United Methodist Church ... American Spectator; 3/30/10 |
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Opinion: What's in Health Insurance Reform for You
In a letter to President Barack Obama before he died, Sen. Ted Kennedy wrote that access to health care was "the great unfinished business of our society." It was, until now. AOL News; March 30, 2010 |
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Nancy Pelosi Victory Tour Continues at Commonwealth Club
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's "You like me! You really, really like me" post-health care Bay Area tour continues with an appearance at the Commonwealth Club. We've made some calls, and, guess what? SF Weekly; 3/30/2010 |
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Pelosi Statement on President Obama Signing Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act
Speaker Nancy Pelosi released the following statement this afternoon after President Barack Obama signed the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act into law. PR Newswire; March 30, 2010 |
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More Health Care Pens for Lawmakers
For those keeping count, that’s yet another pen for Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senator Harry Reid. Only this time Mr. Reid was not on hand to collect it. NYT; March 30, 2010 |
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No surge in approval ratings for Democratic leaders after health care bill
Nancy Pelosi: Views on the House speaker tilt negative but are closely divided, with 42 percent approving of the way she is handling her job as speaker and 46 percent disapproving ... Dallas Morning News; March 29, 2010 |
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Pelosi Praises Health Reform During Speech at S.F. Church
Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) on Sunday touted health reform legislation approved last week by Congress during an appearance at the Glide Memorial United Methodist Church in San Francisco. California Healthline; March 29, 2010 |
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On kids’ care, insurance weaseling begins
... When the bill passed last week, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi proclaimed, “We are hearing from families who are so thrilled because no longer will their children be denied coverage because ... Boston Globe; March 30, 2010 |
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Outlook: Why it took a woman to fix health care
Washington Post editor Vince Bzdek was online Monday, March 29, at 11 a.m. ET to discuss his Outlook article titled 'Why did health-care reform pass? Nancy Pelosi was in charge.' Washington Post; March 29, 2010 |
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At the heart of the matter
... And, most critically of all perhaps, the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi (also a Catholic), took all these weapons and turned them into serious firepower. BBC; March 26, 2010 |
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Catholics On Both Sides Protest In Washington
... Meanwhile, abortion opponents marched outside Cathedral of St. Matthew on Sunday, calling on Archbishop Donald Wuerl to excommunicate Nancy Pelosi and deny communion to other politicians ... WJZ; March 28, 2010 |
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Pelosi’s confusing path to pass health care whether you want it or not
Ryan Grim over at The Huffington Post reports on Nancy Pelosi’s recent statements concerning health care, including an acknowledgement that “[n]obody wants to vote for the Senate bill.” Oromo Index; March 28, 2010 |
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Bill Maher Says Nancy Pelosi Has Balls
In his now-legendary blog post titled ‘New Rule: You Can’t Use “There Will Be No Cooperation for the Rest of the Year” as a Threat If There Was No Cooperation in the First Half of the Year’ Bill Maher ... CMR; March 28, 2010 |
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Tweaking The Health Care Plan
We all know that getting the Health Care Bill passed by the House of Representatives was not easy. However, it was a good civics lesson for children. Huffington Post; March 28, 2010 |
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Pelosi basks in health care victory in S.F.
Nancy Pelosi, celebrating the passage of the health insurance overhaul, said in San Francisco on Sunday that she's not worried about Republicans' plans to take over Congress this fall by campaigning for ... SF Gate; 3/29/2010 |
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US-POLITICS Summary
... Nancy Pelosi on Friday formally signed and sent to President Barack Obama the final installment of landmark healthcare overhaul legislation. "This our gift to the American people," said Pelosi ... Wash Post; March 27, 2010 |
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COMMUNITY FORUM: Speaking out on socialized health care
President Obama, Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid are socialists and are destroying our constitutional democracy. But they have spoken and a new law is on the books. I offer this dissenting view. Colorado Springs Gaz; 3/27/2010 |
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Palm Sunday Demonstration at Wash. DC Cathedral Calling on Archbishop Wuerl to Excommunicate Nancy Pelosi
Street theater will include Nancy Pelosi impersonator stabbing baby dolls (abortion) and a man dressed up like Archbishop Wuerl serving her communion while her hands are covered with stage blood. PR Newswire; 3/26/2010 |
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Nancy Pelosi Invokes the Founding Fathers to Justify the Health Care Reform Bill
Leftists have an anomalous disposition towards this country’s history, the Founding Fathers, and the Constitution. Canada Free Press; March 27, 2010 |
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The Pulse: Scrutinizing the Numbers in Caterpillar’s Complaint
... On March 18 the company sent a letter to Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Representative John A. Boehner, the Republican leader, saying mandated changes would cost it “$100 million in the first year alone.” NYT; 3/26/2010 |
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What's Missing From Health Care Reform
Now that Nancy Pelosi has her place in history and perhaps the pool table she wants for her birthday, it's time to sit down and take stock of what we did and didn't do by passing health care reform. Huff Post; March 26, 2010 |
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New Rule: You Can't Use "There Will Be No Cooperation for the Rest of the Year" as a Threat If There Was No Cooperation in the First Half of the Year
Two months ago, conservative Fred Barnes wrote, "The health care bill is dead with not the slightest prospect of resurrection." Well, if it's dead, you just got your ass kicked by a zombie named Nancy Pelosi. Huff Post; 3/26/2010 |
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Lawmakers Recess and Prepare to Defend Health Votes
Members of Congress headed home on Friday for a two-week recess during which they will try to shape public opinion and defend their votes for or against the new health insurance law. NYT; March 26, 2010 |
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Rep. Stupak: Speaker Pelosi had extra health care votes ‘in her pocket’
The health care reform bill would have passed the House without the votes of Rep. Bart Stupak’s pro-life Democrats because House Speaker Nancy Pelosi ... Catholic News Agency; March 26, 2010 |
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Why did health-care reform pass? Nancy Pelosi was in charge.
Congress had tried to hammer together a national health-care initiative for a century, but it wasn't until a woman ascended to a key position of power in Washington that a plan actually passed. Wash Post; March 28, 2010 |
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Former militiaman unapologetic for calls to vandalize offices over health care
... These were the words of Mike Vanderboegh, a 57-year-old former militiaman from Alabama ... -- he calls it "Nancy Pelosi's Intolerable Act" -- to throw bricks through the windows of Democratic ... Wash Post; 3/25/2010 |
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Brave New Health Care World
... And, of course, he was helped by the speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi, who is strong and brave and pure of heart. As opposed to that party hack, whatshername. Hated her. NYT; March 24, 2010 |
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Pelosi on lawsuits challenging new health care law: "So what else is new?"
Nancy Pelosi -- ebullient, elated, energized and enthused hours after President Obama signed the health-care bill Tuesday -- said that Rahm Emanuel, contrary to his tough-guy image, is a "softie." Chicago S-T; 3/24/2010
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After Health Vote, Threats on Democrats
...“What we want to be sure is that people know that these threats have no place in our country,” Speaker Nancy Pelosi said. “We have a legitimate disagreement. ..." NYT; March 24, 2010 |
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The Blind Side: Starring Nancy Pelosi and Barack Obama
As a student and fan of the sport (and profession) of politics, I've got to cheer the Hall of Fame performance of Nancy Pelosi during the last, come-from-behind quarter of this epic health care battle. Huff Post; 3/24/2010 |
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Pelosi: Health Care Bill a Conservative Bill (Time to Go Back Under the Bus, Veal Pen)
Just before the House passed the health care bill, Pelosi sent out a letter that said “An op-ed ... reveals that the current health reform legislation was built" on principles espoused by Republicans. FDL; March 23, 2010 |
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Axelrod, Steele tangle on health care overhaul
A top adviser to President Barack Obama says people will embrace the health care overhaul once they "get familiar with what is is and what it isn't." David Axelrod on Tuesday ... AP; March 24, 2010 |
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Nancy Pelosi's comeback
I was wrong about House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. I thought her to be something of a lightweight when it came to the barroom brawl known as Congress. I had never been too impressed by her... Detroit Freep; March 23, 2010 |
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Love her or hate her, health care reform hero Nancy Pelosi is 'Lyndon Johnson in a skirt'
Those who know Nancy Pelosi best say without her, President Obama wouldn't have been able to pop open the champagne bottle over his momentous health care win. Pelosi loves quoting legendary Tip O'Neill ... NY Daily News; 3/22/10 |
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GOP takes aim at Nancy Pelosi
Nancy Pelosi in flames - that's the image presented at the Republican National Committee's Web-site today. And that's the new midterm election mission for the GOP: "Nancy Pelosi has to be fired,'' ... LA Times; March 23, 2010 |
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Industry interests are not in their "twilight"
The Washington Post's Ezra Klein has an amazing post in which he trumpets what he calls the "Twilight of the Interest Groups" reflected by likely passage of the health care bill (h/t). Salon; March 20, 2010 |
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Nancy Pelosi bets the House on health care
In 2001, running hard to be House Democratic whip, Nancy Pelosi had a blunt message for her caucus: If she won, she was going to lead from the front — and if colleagues didn’t want that style ... Politico; March 22, 2010
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A Health-Care Victory At Last
At long, long last, the health-care reform fight is finally over. We have no idea how Barack Obama's presidency will turn out at the end, but we know this ... American Prospect; March 20, 2010 |
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Nancy Pelosi: The Resurrection of Health Care Reform
After Republican Scott Brown's surprise Senate victory on January 19th, many Democrats believed that health care reform was dead. Democrats were discouraged and demoralized ... Huffington Post; March 22, 2010 |
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Pelosi Accepts Praise As ‘Compliment for All Women’
If there was ever a time for Nancy Pelosi to flash that Cheshire Cat grin, we suppose it would be tonight. On this evening’s World News Tonight, Diane Sawyer read an Economist claim that ... New York; March 22, 2010 |
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Nancy Pelosi: the Iron Lady of American Politics
When the pundits claimed that the Democrats were too fractious to unite behind a single health care bill, one person calmly said it would not only be possible, but that it would happen. SF Gate; March 22, 2010 |
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Vatican Demonstration Calls for Nancy Pelosi´s Excommunication
On Monday afternoon ten members of a group led by Randall Terry, called The Vanguard of St. Catherine of Siena,called for the ex-communication of Nancy Pelosi in a demonstration just outside the Vatican. Catholic Online; 3/22/2010 |
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Poll: Low Favorability Ratings For Pelosi, Reid
Most Americans don't have an opinion about Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid, a new CBS News poll finds, even after more than a year of debate over the health care reform bill that put them squarely in the public eye. CBS; 3/22/2010 |
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On health care, Pelosi kept Democrats thinking big
The landmark health care bill about to be signed into law is as large as it is due in no small part to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's stewardship. Associated Press; March 22, 2010 |
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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on the Health Care Bill
Following is a transcript of Diane Sawyer's interview this afternoon with Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi. The interview took place following Sunday night's passage of the health care reform bill. abc; March 22, 2010 |
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Pelosi Misleads and Deceives: St. Joseph Would Not Approve
Once again, Speaker Nancy Pelosi gets it wrong - and brings more scandal to the Church in the United States. Catholic Online; March 20, 2010 |
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Kaptur to vote for health-care reform
Rep. Marcy Kaptur (D-Ohio), a key holdout on health care because of her concern over abortion language in the Democratic proposal, announced on a Toledo television station this morning that she would vote for. Wash Post; 3/21/2010 |
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Pelosi to use historic gavel to preside over vote
Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-California, will preside over the House health care reform vote Sunday night with a special gavel that’s already a part of congressional history. CNN; March 21, 2010 |
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Frank: 'Mass hysteria' on the Hill
Tea Party protesters disrupted Nancy Pelosi's press stakeout at a House Office Building, yelling "you're a disgrace to your office" and one protester yelled a gay epithet at Rep. Barney Frank ... seattlelepi.com; 3/21/2010 |
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Pelosi: "This great act of patriotism"
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, standing at the pinnacle of her career moments ago as the health care legislation reached final passage, took on the Tea Party argument about American ideals. SF Gate; March 21, 2010 |
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Prominent Pelosi tailor-made for attack ads
Speaker Nancy Pelosi's starring role in the health care reform fight may make her a hero in her own party, but it also guarantees the San Francisco Democrat will be the poster girl for Republican attacks ... SF Gate; March 21, 2010 |
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The Final Health Care Vote and What it Really Means
It's not nearly as momentous as the passage of Medicare in 1965 and won't fundamentally alter how Americans think about social safety nets. Huffington Post; March 21, 2010 |
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Speaker's guests for health care vote
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's office has just issued her guest list for this evening's historic vote, now estimated after 10 p.m. EST.
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Show Time for Health Care
“We have to pass the bill so that you can find out what is in it.” For Nancy Pelosi ... it probably wasn’t the ideal choice of words. New York Times; March 21, 2010 |
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House Clears Path for Final Health Vote
The House on Sunday took the most critical step yet toward adoption of legislation to overhaul the nation’s health care system and guarantee access to medical insurance for tens of millions of Americans ... NYT; 3/21/2010 |
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Health Vote Caps a Journey Back From the Brink
Speaker Nancy Pelosi was at her wits’ end, and she let President Obama know it. Scott Brown, the upstart Republican, had just won his Senate race in Massachusetts, a victory that seemed to doom ... NYT; March 20, 2010 |
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The healthcare bill: 10 things you need to know
1) For people with preexisting health conditions: Insurance companies would no longer be allowed to deny coverage to people based on their past medical history ... Salon; March 19, 2010 |
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Health Care Whip Count Live Updates: Will Reform Bill Have The Votes?
Ahead of this weekend's vote on health care reform, Democratic leaders in the House of Representatives have been engaged in fierce behind-the-scenes lobbying of undecided lawmakers whose support ... Huff Post; March 19, 2010 |
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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi Shoots Down Rep. Bart Stupak's 'Fix'
ABC News' Jonathan Karl reports: Nancy Pelosi was asked about Bart Stupak’s suggestion that there could be another bill to address abortion funding and she said, “I haven’t heard any of that.” ABC; March 19, 2010 |
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Tactics, Luck and Perseverance Kept Health Bill Alive
Speaker Nancy Pelosi was at her wits’ end, and she let President Obama know it. Scott Brown, the upstart Republican, had just won his Senate race in Massachusetts ... New York Times; March 20, 2010 |
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Pelosi Confirms New Medicare Tax on ‘Unearned Income, Whatever Category That Is’
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) revealed that a package of amendments to the Senate-passed health care bill would include a new tax on unearned income. CNSNews; March 19, 2010 |
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Abortion again an issue in health care debate
... and a group of female abortion-rights Democrats came out of an emergency meeting in House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's office Friday evening visibly angry about the request. CNN; March 19, 2010 |
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Boehner: Pelosi's 'Scheme and Plot' Unprecedented in American History
In an exclusive interview with Newsmax.TV Friday afternoon, House Minority Leader John Boehner slammed Nancy Pelosi for trying to “scheme and plot” to pass the most radical healthcare reform bill ... NewsMax; March 19, 2010 |
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Caterpillar Writes Pelosi: Machinery Giant Concerned About Health Care Costs
Hoping to slow down the process of health care reform, the world's largest construction machinery manufacturer sent a letter to House leadership on Thursday, warning that it would be hit hard financially ... Huff Post; 3/19/2010 |
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Saints Preserve Us
On Friday, as Democrats were flopping around madly over the upcoming vote on health care, Speaker Nancy Pelosi noted brightly that it was the feast of St. Joseph the Worker ... NYT; March 19, 2010 |
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On the Verge of Reform
The best chance in decades of fixing this country’s broken health care system has now come down to whether the House’s Democratic majority will approve the already strong Senate version of the bill ... NYT; March 18, 2010 |
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Pelosi Health Care Deeming Plan Stinks Too Much for her House Whip
Do you know how bad is Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s plan to wave her imperial wand and deem the unconstitutional government health care bill “passed?” It’s so bad that even one of her floor whips ... Dakota Voice; March 18, 2010 |
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Cracks appear in abortion front against healthcare reform
Rep. Charlie Wilson (D) of Ohio talks with Nancy Pelosi during a news conference on Capitol Hill Tuesday. Mr. Wilson, an anti-abortion Catholic, has hinted that he is leaning toward supporting the healthcare ... CSM; 3/18/2010 |
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2 from WNC take center stage with Pelosi on health reform
Two Western North Carolinians found themselves in the national spotlight on Thursday as House Speaker Nancy Pelosi made a final push for passage of health care reform legislation. Citizens Times; March 18, 2010 |
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Pelosi says House will pass healthcare overhaul
U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi said on Thursday Democrats will pass President Barack Obama's sweeping healthcare overhaul and make insurance more affordable for Americans. Washington Post; March 18, 2010 |
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Numbers behind healthcare bill cheer Democrats, clear way for vote
Healthcare overhaul will cut the federal deficit by $1.3 trillion over 20 years, top Democrats said on Thursday as they unveiled a preliminary Congressional Budget Office scoring that clears ... LA Times; March 18, 2010 |
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Senate Enters Health Care Endgame
After staying relatively quiet for more than a week at Nancy Pelosi’s request, Senate Democrats re-engaged in the health care debate Wednesday as the push for an overhaul began to reach a critical stage ... Roll Call; 3/18/2010 |
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US senator under fire for health care kamikaze jibe
Graham, in a radio interview in his home state of South Carolina, lashed out at Nancy Pelosi over her efforts to bring Democrats in line to approve health care reform, a top priority for President Obama. AFP; March 18, 2010 |
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Stephen Lynch calls health care vote plan ‘disingenuous’
Even one of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s floor whips, U.S. Rep. Stephen Lynch, says a proposed parliamentary move to pass health-care reform would be “disingenuous” and harm the credibility of Congress. Boston Herald; 3/18/2010 |
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Pelosi: CBO score will be 'helpful' in winning votes
Speaker Nancy Pelosi thinks the estimates from the Congressional Budget Office will be a powerful tool in her bid to win over wavering Democrats. Politico; March 17, 2010 |
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Pelosi's moment
Hard to say if House Speaker Nancy Pelosi blundered in suggesting the "deem to be passed" rule for health care. It fuels populist tea party distrust of government, and makes voters question why ... SF Gate; March 17, 2010 |
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Cuccinelli tells Pelosi Democratic approach may be unconstitutional
AG Ken Cuccinelli says the method congressional Democrats are considering to push through health-care reform may be unconstitutional. In a letter to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi ... Daily Progress; March 17, 2010 |
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Pelosi's Time
This is Nancy Pelosi's moment. There is no way for the public to know what is going on behind closed doors at the Capitol this week, or whether enough votes will emerge to enact health care reform. SF Gate; March 18, 2010 |
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House Democrats' tactic for health-care bill is debated
An obscure parliamentary maneuver favored by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) suddenly ignited Tuesday as the latest tinder in the year-long partisan strife over reshaping the nation's health-care system ... WP; 3/17/2010 |
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Obama Targets Insurers in Reform Push
As Speaker of House Nancy Pelosi (D.-Calif.) rounds up support on health care reform on Capitol Hill, President Obama is hitting the road to garner popular support for the legislation. Insurance Networking News; March 16, 2010 |
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Bruno Pelosi and Harry the Horrible
For a health care plan that the American people overwhelming want despite the “obstructionist” role of conservatives, it is amazing just how much work Pelosi and Reid have to do in order to secure votes. DC; March 16, 2010 |
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Rushing health reform could be a death wish
Yet, now Nancy Pelosi is considering ways to allow House members to pass the Senate bill without actually voting for it so that vulnerable Democrats can deny responsibility ... Washington Post; March 17, 2010 |
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The Early Returns: Nancy Pelosi Never Stops Whipping
Nancy Pelosi: "I never stop whipping. There's no beginning, there's no middle, and there's no end. My life is a constant whip operation." [The Hill] ... NY Observer; March 16, 2010 |
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Pelosi Calls All Female Democratic Members Into Meeting
Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) is asking all female Democratic Members to attend a hastily called meeting Wednesday morning but isn’t saying what the meeting is about. ... Roll Call; March 16, 2010 |
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Democrats Consider New Moves for Health Bill
... He sidestepped numerous questions about whether Mr. Obama wanted an explicit, separate vote on the Senate bill and deferred to Speaker Nancy Pelosi of California. ... NYT; March 16, 2010 |
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Speaker Nancy Pelosi: "This is the most important thing we will do in our lifetimes."
In an on-the-record roundtable with bloggers and journalists this morning, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi was extremely confident that health reform will pass and pass quickly: ... HCAN Now!; March 15, 2010 |
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Nancy Pelosi Public Option Ad Hits Her In DC and San Francisco
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said on Friday that the final health care bill will not include a public option, claiming that the blame belongs to the upper chamber because "they don't have the votes." Huff Post; March 15, 2010 |
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Direct loans and health-care reform: two great tastes that go great together
One other point of interest from the meeting with Nancy Pelosi: In accordance with the reconciliation instructions that were in the 2010 budget, which included both education and health care sections. WP; 3/15/2010 |
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Democrats Grind Out Health Care, A Vote At A Time
... To pass the health care overhaul, Nancy Pelosi has to persuade at least 216 of her 253-member caucus to support the version of health care legislation that the Senate approved last December. ... NPR; March 15, 2010 |
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Reed to Pelosi: Push Off Health Care Vote
The only declared candidate for the 29th Congressional District seat is calling on House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to delay the vote on health care reform until the House of Representatives is full again. WENY; March 15, 2010 |
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Obama stumps as House brass grasp for votes
... Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., acknowledged in Washington she has not yet secured the 216 votes needed to pass the legislation. "When we bring the bill to the floor, then we will have the votes," she said. USA Today; 3/15/2010 |
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CBO: House Health Insurance Reform Bills Stay within Obama’s $900 Billion Spending Limit
... Nancy Pelosi has been working for several weeks to negotiate disputes over th final shape of the healthcare reform package while slicing billions of dollars from each of the three $1.2 trillion bills ... ABN; 10/17/09 |
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Graham: Pelosi Has Dems 'All Liquored Up On Sake,' On A 'Suicide Run' (AUDIO)
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) said on a radio show today that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has Democrats on a "suicide run" by using reconciliation to pass fixes to health care reform. TPM; March 15, 2010 |
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Nancy Pelosi's strategy for passing health-care reform
"My biggest fight has been between those who wanted to do something incremental and those who wanted to do something comprehensive," Nancy Pelosi said in a meeting with reporters this morning. Wash Post; March 15, 2010 |
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Once More With Feeling: Advocates Press Nancy Pelosi On Including A Healthcare Public Option
It’s been declared dead before, only to be resurrected — and Democracy for America (DFA) hopes to pull that rabbit out of a hat one more time. The Democratid Daily; March 14, 2010 |
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Open Thread
For general discussion and debate. Possible talking point: Does she or doesn't she? Nancy Pelosi said Saturday she's confident the House will pass health care legislation and dismissed ... Newsbusters; March 14, 2010
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Farr Retains Hope for Public Option
It could be a "make-or-break" week for the now year-long debate that has drawn plenty of contention across the country; already, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is telling her members that it's going to be a long week. KION; 3/14/10 |
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Pelosi Signals Goal of Passing Health Measure Before Obama Trip
Nancy Pelosi signaled that she will seek passage this week of legislation overhauling the health-care system after President Barack Obama delayed the start of his trip to Asia until March 21. Business Week; March 14, 2010 |
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James Clyburn: We Don't Have The Votes To Pass Health Care, But We Will
Perhaps the most critical lawmaker at this juncture of heath care reform is Rep. James Clyburn (D-S.C.), the man entrusted by Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Ill.) to produce the votes for the bill's passage. Huff Post; March 14, 2010 |
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Americans can't trust what Rep. Pelosi says
Folks, it is way past time to get a grip on reality. I read a news report that quotes Nancy Pelosi as saying at the 2010 Legislative Conference for National Association of Counties that the ... The Tennessean; March 14, 2010 |
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The End of an Illusion
... Since early March, Obama has begun to sound more like the bold figure who won the hearts of voters during the campaign. The showdown is expected late next week. Nancy Pelosi seldom schedules a vote ... Huff Post; March 14, 2010 |
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U.S. at crossroads with Obamacare
It now seems likely that the politicking and vote-buying will continue this week until House Speaker Nancy Pelosi determines whether she has the votes to push through the House the version of health ... Desert Dispatc; 3/14/2010 |
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President Pushes Congress To Meet Health Care Deadline
It's been nearly a year since the Obama administration called on congress to pass healthcare reform. Fast Forward to 2010 and congress is facing another deadline for passing some kind of bill and the KSFY; March 14, 2010 |
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Pelosi Touts Health Care in Home District
San Francisco Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi spent time in her home district this weekend. KCBS reports the House Speaker spent much of her time touting healthcare reform, and refuting charges ... KCBS; March 14, 2010 |
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Health Bill Update: Pelosi Counting Votes, Scott Brown Lambastes Dems
News outlets reported that Democrats seeking to pass a health bill next week got a boost from a Cabinet official, a key senator and the Catholic Health Assn, while newly-elected Sen. Scott Brown ... Kaiser Health News; 3/13/2010 |
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Final push...Reid's wife recovering...Anger with Israel
Democrats appear poised to push through health care reform legislation. Speaker Nancy Pelosi says party differences over elements of the proposal won't keep Democrats from voting for it. 9&10 News; March 12, 2010 |
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Sunday Breakfast Menu, March 14
Good Sunday morning. The heat is on. Speaker Nancy Pelosi has pledged to deliver a complete health care bill to Mr. Obama’s desk in 10 days. And with this deadline in mind, White House officials ... NYT; March 13, 2010 |
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6 Ill. Dems in U.S. House not sold on health plan
Nancy Pelosi and the OWhite House are hunting for 216 Democratic votes for President Obama's health care bill, but six Illinois Democrats are not at "yes" yet, with Rep. Luis Gutierrez emerging as a "no" ... Ch. Sun-Times; 3/14/2010 |
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The 'Public Option': Democrats' Scam Becomes More Transparent
A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about what seemed to be a glaring (and quite typical) scam perpetrated by Congressional Democrats: all year long, they insisted that the White House and ... Common Dreams; March 12, 2010 |
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President Obama, Speaker Nancy Pelosi remain confident health care reform bill will be passed
A sudden burst of optimism at the White House and Congress left Democratic leaders convinced Friday passage of health care reform has hit the homestretch. NY Daily news; March 13, 2010 |
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Nancy Pelosi Will Not Include Public Option In Final Bill
Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said on Thursday that she would not include a public option in a health care reconciliation package that the House will send to the Senate. Huffington Post; March 12, 2010 |
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Reconciliation Ensures Affordability, Says Pelosi
Nancy Pelosi says on Friday that using reconciliation to pass healthcare would ensure insurance affordability for members of the middle class, and would improve the quality of the bill in general. TRNS; March 12, 2010 |
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Pelosi: Health Care Reform to Be Historic
Nancy Pelosi forecast final passage of sweeping health care legislation in days. The prospect of a party-line vote on such far-reaching legislation assures that the issue will reverberate into ... Citrus Daily; March 12, 2010 |
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Laura Ingraham on Health Care: ‘If Nancy Pelosi Had the Votes, They Would Have Already Voted on This’
That’s what she told me this morning on GMA. Donna Brazile argues Democrats will get the votes, “at the end of the day the speaker will go out there, she will talk to her caucus ..." ABC; March 12, 2010 |
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Pelosi Predicts a Health Bill Within 10 Days
Speaker Nancy Pelosi mobilized House Democrats on Friday for a final effort to pass an overhaul of health care, predicting approval in the next 10 days with help from President Obama ... NYT; March 12, 2010 |
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'No' Votes Adding Up to Trouble for Pelosi
A new survey of Democrats could mean a big political headache for Nancy Pelosi. The Hill rounds up 25 in the House who are expected to vote "no" on health care reform. Newser; March 11, 2010 |
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Pelosi goes over health bill, leaves March 18 vote possibility open
Speaker Nancy Pelosi and her caucus discussed President Barack Obama’s proposed changes to the Senate healthcare bill on Thursday as she aimed for a vote as early as next week. The Hill; March 11, 2010 |
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Health Care Endgame: Obama, Dems Duel Over Deadline
It's crunch time for health care reform. The White House wants to see the health care bill passed in the House next week, but the speaker of the House is making no promises. ABC; March 11, 2010 |
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Nancy Pelosi: Health-Care Reform Endgame
In the past year, Speaker Nancy Pelosi has pushed a $787 billion stimulus package, a $154 billion jobs program, and funding for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan through the House ... Business Week; March 11, 2010 |
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The day bipartisanship died
...Nancy Pelosi kept pressing the White House to stop dealing with the Republicans. “It’s never going to happen,” a Democratic official quoted her as saying. ... Washington Post; March 10, 2010 |
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Can Nancy Pelosi Get the Votes?
Are there enough votes in the House to pass the Senate's health-care bill? As of today, it's clear there aren't. House Democratic leaders have brushed aside White House calls to bring the bill forward by 3-18. WSJ; 3/11/10 |
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Top Democrat Contradicts Pelosi on Abortion, White House on March 18 Vote Date
... Steny Hoyer, the Maryland lawmaker who is the second highest ranking Democrat in the House, contradicted Nancy Pelosi on the seriousness of the abortion funding debate and the White House on ... Life News; March 9, 2010 |
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Pelosi to Rahm: Cool it with the deadlines
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi told White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel to stop assigning deadlines to Congress for finishing the health care reform bill. Politico; March 9, 2010 |
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How to vote for healthcare reform and win reelection
... "To cave to pressure from Nancy Pelosi and the Democratic leadership would potentially seal their fates." The NRCC has launched a new "Code Red" project ... Salon; March 4, 2010 |
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Pelosi: Pass Health Reform So You Can Find Out What’s In It
It has been said well and famously that politicians only really commit a gaffe when they tell the truth without meaning to. Add House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to the list. USN; March 9, 2010 |
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Nancy Pelosi: "A bill can be bipartisan without bipartisan votes."
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said Sunday that Republicans have left their mark on the healthcare bill and should accept that the bill will go forward. reason.com; March 1, 2010 |
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Four Empty House Seats Mean Pelosi Only Needs 216 Votes to Pass Health Care
Most of the time, the magic number for passing significant legislation in the House is 218--a simple majority of the lower chambers' 435 members. TPMDC; March 1, 2010 |
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Pelosi puts two issues aside to press forward on healthcare reform
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) has put the lid on two of the more contentious issues that last week were threatening to divert critical attention away from healthcare’s home stretch. The Hill; March 8, 2010 |
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Pelosi Signals OK for Use of Reconciliation
Nancy Pelosi on Monday promoted the reconciliation process as a legal means to pass the stalled health care legislation, signaling a growing willingness among Democrats to bypass an ... Courthouse News; March 8, 2010 |
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Nancy Pelosi Talks Process
On ABC's This Week Sunday morning, the House speaker lays out a process. Time.com; February 28, 2010 |
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'Saturday Night Live' mocks Obama healthcare woes
... and the "SNL" writing is improving, too. Check out this opening with Armisen's Obama talking healthcare legislation and the how it might affect the careers of Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid. Baltimiore Sun; March 7, 2010 |
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Healthcare overhaul comes down to Pelosi and Obama
Reporting from Washington — The fate of healthcare legislation turns on the endgame skills of two Democrats who bring vastly different assets to the task: President Obama and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. LA Times; 3/8/2010 |
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Fake Nancy Pelosi
In the spirit of Fake Steve Jobs, the National Republican Congressional Committee is out with a fundraising email from "Fake Nancy Pelosi." Politico; March 2, 2010 |
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Cantor says current health-care bill won’t pass
Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi doesn't have the votes needed to pass a health-care bill in the House of Representatives, Rep. Eric Cantor, R-7th, said yesterday. Richmond Times-Dispatch; March 6, 2010 |
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Nancy Pelosi: 'We Will Pass the Bill'
Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Thursday put a confident face on the furious efforts inside the Capitol to convince 217 Democrats in the House of Representatives to vote for the health care ... Politics Daily; March 4, 2010 |
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Bart Stupak Abortion Claims Debunked: Health Bill Would NOT Force Federal Spending On Abortion
... House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) has repeatedly asserted that there is "no federally funded abortion" in the bill. ...Huffington Post; March 5, 2010 |
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Healthcare reform: 'Fixes' to bills are first major hurdle
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of Calif. gestures during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, March 4. She says flatly, "We will pass the bill." CSM; March 5, 2010 |
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Woolsey: Progressives Can Support Obama's Plan
It's still an open question whether House Speaker Nancy Pelosi will get the health care votes she needs from the liberal wing of House Democrats, but the co-chairwoman of the House Progressive Caucus ... Atlantic; 3/4/2010 |
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Pelosi annoyed on abortion
Nancy Pelosi got exasperated when asked at her weekly news conference about the unwillingness of some Democrats – including Rep. Bart Stupak – to support the health bill because of abortion language. Politico; March 4, 2010
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Democrats and Republicans trade barbs over health care’s cost to seniors
... Democrats have attacked Rep. Paul Ryan’s budget proposal as the end of Medicare “as we know it.” House Speaker Nancy Pelosi flung the charge at Ryan in a speech on Friday. The DC; February 9, 2010 |
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Pelosi Aide: Health Care May Be Put Off Until Easter
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's top health policy aide laid out a way forward today and said reform should be close to finished by Easter recess. Huffington Post; February 9, 2010 |
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Democrats quietly working to resuscitate healthcare overhaul
... Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid (D-Nev.) particularly want to give members time to recover from the shock of Republican Scott Brown's victory in the Massachusetts Senate race two weeks ago. LA Times; January 30, 2010 |
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Obama, Pelosi & the health bill yo-yo
... Nancy Pelosi, meanwhile, said yesterday, in a letter e-mailed to constituents, that “Congress will pass health insurance reform no matter what barriers stand in our way. ..." True/Slant; January 30, 2010 |
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Democrats Ask, Can Health Care Bill Be Saved?
... The House speaker, Nancy Pelosi, rejected continued pressure from the administration simply to pass the Senate bill and send it to Mr. Obama for his signature. NYT; February 5, 2010 |
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Antitrust Bill Will Pass in US House Says Speaker; Another Bill Is Introduced
Nancy Pelosi predicted passage next week of legislation that would remove the antitrust exemption enjoyed by health and medical liability insurers. In a routine legislative briefing, she said ... Insurance News West; Feb. 5, 2010 |
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Bill Would Apply Antitrust Laws To Insurance
... "For 65 years, the insurance industry has had a unique — well, they and Major League Baseball — but the insurance industry has had an exemption from antitrust legislation ..." said Nancy Pelosi. NPR; Feb. 8, 2010 |
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Obama invites Republicans to summit on health care
... Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) pledged that the House and the Senate "will continue to work between now and February 25th to find a common approach between the House and the Senate on these solutions." Wash Post; February 8, 2010 |
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Democrats Criticize GOP Representative's Budget Plan
... Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and other Democrats are attacking a budget plan by Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wisc.) that calls for shifting future Medicaid and Medicare beneficiaries into private insurance ... Ca. Healthline; 2/8/10 |
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Cantor: Time for a Pelosi Health-Care Summit
Still, Cantor says he is “doubtful” that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D., Calif.) will “go along with any of this.” “Speaker Pelosi controls the gates to the House floor ... National Review; February 8, 2010 |
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Pelosi vow for all-out health war
Despite polls showing adamant voter opposition to Democratic health-care legislation, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said yesterday she's determined to jam a bill through Congress. New York Post; January 29, 2010
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Nancy Pelosi's New Plan
After President Obama's light-on-details nod in his State of the Union to passing health care reform, Nancy Pelosi said unequivocally today that Congress will pass health care reform this year. Politics Daily; Jan. 28, 2010 |
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Senate Dem: Health care bill 'on life support'
... House Speaker Nancy Pelosi acknowledged in her weekly news conference that plenty of work remained if the House was to agree to changes to the Senate bill. "We will go through the gate. ..." Yahoo News; January 29, 2010 |
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Nancy Pelosi floats two-track health reform
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Wednesday floated the idea of a two-track plan for health care reform — with Congress pursuing easier-to-pass incremental changes now and comprehensive reform later. Politico; Jan. 27, 2010
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Nancy Pelosi Says She Has The Votes To Pass Health Care
Offering Democrats a potential means to revive their top domestic priority, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi flatly predicted Wednesday afternoon that she could muster enough votes ... Huffington Post; January 27, 2010 |
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Pelosi: No Healthcare Bill Not A Possibility
U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said on Wednesday she thought Democrats in Congress would still produce healthcare legislation despite recent difficulties, saying no bill was not an option. KGMI; January 27, 2010 |
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Pelosi: Health care's not dead
No event is safe from the politics of the State of the Union, not even one whose point was to honor Special Olympics athletes and gather support for the Eunice Kennedy Shriver Act. MSNBC; January 27, 2010 |
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Should Pelosi oppose the health care bill?
There are some good reasons, I suppose, to support the Obama insurance bill. It's a start, anyway -- and you could argue that once it gets up and running, the flaws will become obvious and we can fix ... SFBG; December 17, 2009 |
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Pelosi: ‘We Will Pass Health Insurance Reform’
Nancy Pelosi, predicted on Friday that Democrats would succeed in winning passage of major health care legislation this year, and she described the bill as a core component of her party’s effort ... NYT; February 5, 2010 |
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Which way through the minefield?
Democrats have precious few options left to pass health care reform — and one of their top choices is drawing fire from some of their biggest supporters, complicating an already tough situation. ... Politico; Jan. 26, 2010 |
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Dems Laud Obama's Speech As Health Care Breakthrough--But To What Avail?
Democrats in both the House and Senate and beyond hailed President Obama's State of the Union address tonight as a major step forward on health care reform. TPMDC; January 26, 2010 |
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Pelosi again says House doesn't have votes to pass Senate health bill
Responding to pressure from some Democrats on the other side of the Capitol, Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) on Tuesday once again said there are not enough votes in the House to pass the Senate healthcare bill. The Hill; 1/26/10 |
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US House unlikely to pass Senate health bill-Pelosi
U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi said on Thursday she does not think the Senate's version of healthcare reform has enough support in the House to pass without changes. Reuters; January 21, 2010 |
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Decision Looms on Advancing Health Care Bill
... “The idea that at any given time the Senate would have 60 votes was not what we would call the most ironclad assumption,” the House speaker, Nancy Pelosi, said at a news conference on Thursday. NYT; January 25, 2010 |
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Healthcare reform on the ground, bleeding
... So now Pelosi is talking about two possibilities for moving forward on healthcare reform in the House, though it's not clear that either will work, or that either would produce the more progressive ... Salon; Jan. 22, 2010 |
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Dodd: Time to put off healthcare "for a month, six weeks"
... On Thursday, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said she and other members of the leadership are "not in a big rush" now. And on Friday, the Associated Press reports, Sen. Chris Dodd, D-Conn. ... Salon; January 22, 2010 |
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Pelosi: House can't pass Senate healthcare bill
.... Now, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi appears to rule out, for now, what might have been the best chance for getting healthcare reform passed anytime soon. Thanks to Brown's victory ... Salon; January 21, 2010 |
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Futile Concessions
Over the years, I've put myself on lots of right-wing mailing lists, which must have been why the American Center for Law and Justice called this weekend to inform me that the Senate's health-care ... American Prospect; 1/26/2010 |
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Health reform uncertain
... House Speaker Nancy Pelosi says she doesn’t have the votes needed in the House to pass the Senate bill, and many Democrats aren’t ready yet to let the overhaul proposal die. Denver Daily News; January 25, 2010 |
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Nancy Pelosi listens to Congressman Adam Smith
Nancy Pelosi (D-San Francisco) has told us that there are not enough votes to pass the Senate version of government health care. In fact, she said she is "way short". Examiner; January 24, 2010 |
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Health care: Pelosi's next move?
President Obama's advisors vowed over the weekend to continue pushing for health-care reform. Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi has said that Democrats don't have enough votes to pass the ... The Week; January 25, 2010 |
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Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi work to save health care reform
Struggling to salvage health reform, Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi have begun considering a list of changes to the Senate bill in hopes of making it acceptable to liberal House members ... Politico; January 23, 2010 |
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Pelosi And Reid Team Up For Potential Party Suicide Pact
It appears that Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid are both currently on board with the reconciliation sidecar strategy to fix the Senate bill. This could be a good thing. ... FDL; January 23, 2010 |
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Stayin’ Alive: Reid, Pelosi struggle to save health care reform
The surprise election of the dauntingly attractive Scott Brown to fill the Massachusetts Senate seat left by the late Ted Kennedy has left Democratic Congressional leaders struggling to find ways ... The Daily Caller; Jan. 23, 2010 |
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Obama Hunkers Down as Health Care Falters
... House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of Calif. speaks during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Jan. 21, 2010. ... AP; January 23, 2010 |
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'Brave' Congressman Announces Opposition to Senate Health Bill...After Pelosi Drops It
... It is about local Democrat Congressman Zack Space suddenly displaying a profile in no courage by announcing yesterday his opposition to the Senate health care bill...after Nancy Pelosi announces ... News Busters; 1/22/10 |
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Chill Out: Pelosi hasn't given up on health reform
People are getting way too worked up about Nancy Pelosi's announcement that she doesn't have the votes to pass the Senate's health reform bill right now. "In every meeting that we have had, ... " Majikthise; Jan. 22, 2010 |
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Democrats' agenda hits the wall, analysts say
... The historic win in the solidly Democratic state has put the brakes on President Obama's and congressional Democrats' key legislative initiatives: health care reform, climate change ... CNN; January 22, 2010 |
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After ObamaCare
... They argue for ObamaCare as is, perhaps with sidecar amendments that address liberal objections. But Nancy Pelosi didn't declare on Thursday that "I don't see the votes for it at this time" ... WSJ; January 23, 2010 |
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Week 29: After Mass. Election, Healthcare Reform Is Anybody's Guess
... When asked at a press conference whether bipartisanship was even possible, given the current political climate, Nancy Pelosi said Republicans "are always welcome at the table," ... Medpage Today; January 22, 2010 |
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Nancy Pelosi should wake up to the people's will
Regarding the Jan. 20 article "For health-care reform, picture gets much more complicated": Has there ever been a politician as arrogant as House Speaker Nancy Pelosi? ... Washington Post; January 22, 2010 |
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Obama health plan in doubt as Dems reject fast fix
... "We have to get a bill passed," said House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., because her party would have no excuse for failing to revamp health care when it controls Congress and the White House. AP; Jan. 21, 2010 |
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Pelosi: There Aren't Enough Votes To Pass The Senate Bill
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi just told reporters that she does not believe she has enough votes in the House to pass the Senate health care reform bill as-is -- at least not yet. TPMDC; January 21, 2010 |
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Newt: GOP would be "clever" to work with Pelosi
Newt Gingrich thinks exultant Republicans might meander into a post-Brown partisan trap if they aren't careful. I spoke with Gingrich for a my story today about the huge burden on Nancy Pelosi ... Politico; January 21, 2010 |
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Nancy Pelosi Under Pressure To Salvage Health Care Agenda
Scott Brown's stunning upset victory in Massachusetts has reshuffled the Senate, but its immediate consequences have fallen hardest on House Speaker Nancy Pelosi ... Huffington Post; January 21, 2010 |
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Obama and Pelosi Ignoring Public’s Message, Boehner Says
The House Republican leader, John A. Boehner, on Thursday said the House speaker, Nancy Pelosi, and President Obama were ignoring the message inherent in the Massachusetts election results ... NYT; January 21, 2010 |
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Pelosi: House lacks votes for Senate health bill
Nancy Pelosi says she lacks the votes to push the Senate's sweeping health overhaul bill through the House of Representatives, a potentially devastating blow to President Obama's signature issue. Wash Post; January 21, 2010 |
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Doesn't Have the Votes Yet: What Nancy Pelosi Really Said
In the 2010, ultraquick news cycle, Pelosi’s “I don't see the votes for it at this time" comment got the pretty standard treatment: high-ranking Democrat says something about health care ... Newsweek; January 21, 2010 |
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Pelosi: House Will Not Adopt Senate Bill
The House speaker, Nancy Pelosi of California, said on Thursday that Democrats remained committed to passing far-reaching health care legislation, but she said that the House ... NYT; January 21, 2010 |
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Gillibrand After Mass.: Pass Health Care
Sen. Gillibrand is not adopting the let-it-die stance on health care that some of her colleagues are as they read the lesson book from the Massachusetts election. She sounds more like Nancy Pelosi ... MotP; Jan. 20, 2010 |
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Pelosi: keep Mass. voters in mind on health care
Washington Post video; Posted on January 24, 2010 |
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Pelosi's Fantasia
Last night, Nancy Pelosi continued to express optimism that health care reform was on track. "We will get the job done," she said as she left her office just before midnight. "I am confident of that. ..." WSJ; January 20, 2010 |
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Democrats vow there will be a health care bill
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi told reporters Tuesday that there will be health care legislation, even if a Republican wins the U.S. Senate seat in a special election in Massachusetts ... Washington Post; January 19, 2010 |
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Pelosi says Congress will pass health overhaul
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi says that Congress will soon produce a health overhaul bill, regardless of who wins the Massachusetts special Senate election. Washington Post; January 19, 2010 |
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'Cadillac' tax deal in the works
"Unions tentatively struck a deal Tuesday to exempt collectively bargained healthcare plans from a tax on high-cost plans expected to be used to help raise revenue for the ... " CongressDaily reports. The Medical News; Jan. 18, 2010 |
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Health Care Bill May Be Ready For Cost Estimate This Week
... The issues expected to be hashed out in conference by a group that includes Sen. Harry Reid, D-Nev., the Senate majority leader, and Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., are compromises ... National Underwriter; January 18, 2010 |
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Congress Continues to Work on Health Deal
Rep. Joe Courtney, D-Conn., says Nancy Pelosi told members to expect something they can sink their teeth into by the caucus meeting on Tuesday. That's the latest word on negotiations on the ... Farm Futures; Posted 1/24/10 |
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Pelosi: Mass. Election Won’t Stop Health Bill
With Democrats increasingly anxious about the special election in Massachusetts on Tuesday and what it will mean for their big health care legislation, the House speaker, Nancy Pelosi ... NYT; January 18, 2010 |
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Let’s make a deal…with other people’s money
President Obama, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid,and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi are buying votes in Congress to pass a Health Care “Deform” bill that the majority of the American people do not want. The North Star Nat'l; 1/17/10 |
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What Are Democrats Planning for Health Care Reform if They Lose the Massachusetts Senate Race?
Congressional Democrats and White House officials negotiating health care reform are paying close attention to the Massachusetts Senate race, where Republican candidate Scott Brown has said he will be ... ABC News; Jan. 16, 2010 |
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Murphy in final push for health care bill
U.S. Rep. Chris Murphy, D-5th District, said Friday he is pushing Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi to include a provision in the health care reform bill compromise. This provision would require members ... Bristol Press; 1/15/2010 |
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Hollow promises from Pelosi, Hoyer on health care bill
It's maddening that Democrats are acting in secret to seal a final health care reform deal. And it's infuriating to see how smug House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and other Democrats are as a vote approaches. Kansas City Star; 1/15/2010 |
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Pelosi: It's not about Massachusetts
Nancy Pelosi denied Friday that the marathon negotiating sessions at the White House — including last night's, which extended until nearly 2 a.m. — were prompted by increasing fears among Democrats ... Politico; January 15, 2010 |
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The Democrats Need to Find Some Spine and Pass This Bill
In the 1998 midterms, Democrats actually gained seats. A rare thing for the president's party to pick up congressional seats in a second midterm election. Huffington Post; January 20, 2010 |
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House Leadership Scrambles To Contain Fallout, Right Course On Health Care
It is now evident to House leadership that their plan to amend the Senate health care bill and toss it back over to the upper chamber for final passage has been scuttled. TPMDC; January 20, 2010 |
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Labor backs down, agrees to healthcare deal
... Still, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced Thursday that the final product of the closed-door negotiations over the bill will be posted online for 72 hours before the House votes on it. Salon; January 14, 2010 |
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, 4:50 pm Final Health Care Bill to Be Available Online
Nancy Pelosi and Steny H. Hoyer said on Thursday that the final version of major health care legislation will be posted on the Internet for 72 hours before the House votes on the measure. NYT; January 14, 2010 |
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Obama pledges campaign for health-care bill and Democrats
With unemployment hovering in the double digits and House Democrats eager to move on to the politically crucial task of job creation, President Obama pledged Thursday to publicly champion ... Washington Post; Jan. 14. 2010 |
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Obama on Pelosi: She's tough
Having just caved to Nancy Pelosi and unions on the Cadillac tax, President Obama loaded on the praise. At a pep rally for Democrats in the Capitol, Obama said, "I hope you don't mind me singling out ..." SF Gate; 1/14/10 |
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Democrats Move Closer to Health Bill After Tax Dispute Settled
“We’re on the brink of passing important legislation providing health care for all Americans,” House Speaker Nancy Pelosi told reporters today after President Barack Obama addressed Democratic lawmakers. Bloomberg; Jan. 14, 2010 |
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Obama Appeals to Caucus to End Dispute on Health Care (Update1)
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid were among 11 lawmakers who met with Obama and White House aides yesterday to try to reconcile two versions of legislation ... Bloomberg; January 14, 2010 |
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Democrats optimistic on healthcare bill prospect
Nancy Pelosi said on Tuesday she was sure Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives and Senate would produce a final healthcare reform plan that would hold insurers accountable and make medical ... Reuters; Jan. 13. 2010 |
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Support Grows for U.S. Health Exchange
... alks over the final bill picked up steam Tuesday as the House got back in session after the holiday break. Mr. Obama plans to meet Wednesday with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid ... WSJ; 1/13/10 |
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Rangel: 'We've Got A Problem On Both Sides Of The Capitol'
Nancy Pelosi pushed the House health care position forward on Tuesday night, insisting that a national health insurance exchange is "essential" and that a surtax on the wealthy is still ... Huff Post; January 12, 2010 |
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| Comments House, Senate remain divided over key issues in health bill
... Late Tuesday, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) acknowledged the president's desire for a tax on high-cost policies, which many economists believe will help drive down skyrocketing health care costs. Wash Post; 1/12/10 |
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Government health insurance option appears doomed
... Nancy Pelosi and other senior Democrats told President Obama in recent meetings they want the legislation to strip the insurance industry of a long-standing exemption from federal antitrust laws ... AP; January 9, 2010 |
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CNN Student News Transcript: January 12, 2010
REP. NANCY PELOSI, (D) CALIFORNIA, HOUSE SPEAKER: All the Senate thinks theirs is fair; we think ours is. We'll see which mirror cracks. CNN; January 12, 2010 |
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Harry Reid Fights to Keep Health Care Talks Secret
As Harry Reid and Pelosi work behind closed doors to mash together 4,765 pages to form America’s new health care regime, one last antagonist has emerged to fight their efforts: C-SPAN. Health Care News; January 11, 2010 |
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Can the Dems Bridge Their Health Care 'Cadillac' Tax Divide?
With the House set to return to Washington this week, Speaker Nancy Pelosi finds herself walking a narrow line on President Obama's top domestic priority. She had only two votes to spare when the House ... Time; Jan. 11, 2010 |
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The Treatment
... Speaker Nancy Pelosi and her allies, both on and off Capitol Hill, have made clear this is one of their top priorities for the coming negotiations over how to merge the two pieces of legislation. TNR; 1/12/2010 |
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House Democrats Press Conference on Health Care
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was joined by Rep. Charles Rangel (D-NY), Rep. Henry Waxman (D-CA) and others outside the White House after meeting with the president to discuss ... C-SPAN; January 6, 2010 |
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For Dems, may be now or never on health care
... No one has stated the health care calculus more bluntly, or faces the risks more starkly, than Nancy Pelosi, who faces the possibility of double-digit election losses among House Democrats in November. SF Gate; 1/11/2010 |
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Public option appears doomed
... Nancy Pelosi ... told President Barack Obama in recent meetings they want the legislation to strip the insurance industry of a long-standing exemption from federal antitrust laws, officials said. Salon; January 9, 2010 |
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A Higher Price Tag Enters Negotiations
... The demands include insistence by Nancy Pelosi ... that the bill provide more generous subsidies to help lower-income people buy private health insurance — an added cost of tens of billions of dollars. NYT; 1/10/2010 |
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Pelosi keeps public — and her own — options open in San Francisco talk
Nancy Pelosi rallied the faithful in San Francisco Saturday afternoon, drawing the loudest applause ... with an assertion that passage of the health reform bill will happen soon. True/Slant; January 10, 2010 |
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Quest for power
... Does our Constitution allow Speaker Nancy Pelosi to jail citizens for not purchasing medical insurance? The Spokesman-Review; January 9, 2010 |
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Pelosi optimistic about final healthcare plan
Nancy Pelosi said on Tuesday she was sure Democrats in the House and Senate would produce a final healthcare reform plan that would hold insurers accountable and make medical coverage affordable. Canada.com; 1/6/10 |
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Foxx & Other House Republicans Press Pelosi for More Healthcare Debate Coverage
Congresswoman Virginia Foxx joined three other House Republicans in writing a letter to Nancy Pelosi this week asking her to invite C-SPAN to cover the remainder of the healthcare debate. Go Blue Ridge; January 9, 2010 |
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Kinder challenges Nixon to end his silence on health care, asks Nixon to "speak out against the tax increases"
... A federal healthcare takeover and mandate thrust upon us by President Obama, Senator Majority Leader Reid and Speaker Nancy Pelosi is on the brink of being passed into law ... Kansas City Star; January 8, 2010 |
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Comparing the House and Senate Health Care Bills
... In a conference call Thursday among Democratic legislators, many House Democrats urged Speaker Nancy Pelosi not to accept the Senate’s tax on “Cadillac” health plans, and she in turn promised that ... NYT; January 8, 2010 |
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Pelosi speaks about latest health care obstacles
Nancy Pelosi was back in San Francisco talking about the president's model for health care reform and it's in trouble. The mayo Clinic says it will no longer accept Medicare patients ... ABC News; January 8, 2010 |
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Three Health Reform Sticking Points That Worry House Democrats
Before leaving the White House ... on Wednesday, Nancy Pelosi said at a briefing that there was "so much area of agreement" between the House and Senate healthcare reform bills. Media Health Leaders; January 8, 2010 |
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Deadly cold...Health care talks continue
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and four Democratic committee chairmen have met with President Barack Obama to try to resolve differences in the health care reform bills passed by the House and Senate. 9&10 Sports; January 7, 2010 |
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Congress has nearly finished health-care bill, Pelosi says
The House and Senate are "very close" to completing historic legislation revamping the nation's health-care system, Nancy Pelosi said yesterday after she and other Democratic leaders met with President Obama. W-S J; 1/7/10 |
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Sestak: Heck, Pelosi isn’t even transparent to her own caucus!
Here’s a good capper to the explosion of criticism this week to the decision to hide the ObamaCare negotiations in secrecy, and this one comes from Nancy Pelosi’s own caucus. Hot Air; January 7, 2010 |
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Lies, Half-truths and Contradictions: Obama said health care talks would be on C-SPAN...but they're not
We're dusting off the Lies, Half-truths and Contradictions hammer to pound President Obama for breaking a campaign promise to televise the health care bill talks on C-SPAN. We want to watch Pelosi and ... SF Gate; Jan. 7, 2010 |
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Reps going wild over Pelosi spat with White House
... Pelosi has already caved on the public option and is in no mood to swallow the Cadillac tax too. House liberals and unions view it as a direct attack on expensive union health plans ... SF Gate; January 7, 2010
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Abortion Foe Defies Party on Health Care Bill
... After his younger son committed suicide in 2000, using the congressman’s gun, Mr. Stupak soon resumed his predawn commute to Washington and his solid voting record with the NRA. NYT; January 6, 2010 |
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Abortion stops planned at Democratic offices
An influential conservative women's organization is planning a press tour in three Rust Belt states next week in an effort to urge a dozen-plus House Democrats to continue supporting the prohibition ... CNN; January 7, 2010 |
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Governor deals blow to health care reform
... In Washington, Schwarzenegger's remarks were characterized as a devastating blow to reform, an apparent withdrawal of his support on the same day Nancy Pelosi met with President Obama ... SF Gate; January 8, 2010 |
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Labor, elected leaders seek affordable health care
... In a letter Thursday, more than 750 religious leaders, elected officials and health care administrators from across the country said the House version of the health care bill covers more uninsured. AP; Jan. 7, 2010 |
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Pelosi Wants Excise Tax Stripped From Senate Health Care Bill
After an afternoon meeting with House leaders and health care principals yesterday, Speaker Nancy Pelosi spoke in vague terms about what reform must accomplish: Affordability, accountability, and accessibility. TPM; 1/6/10 |
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Video of Nancy Pelosi 'Zing' re. Obama
Washington Post/AP; Posted on January 7, 2010 |
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Nearing Negotiations — Reconciling Key Differences between House and Senate Reform Measures
With Republicans unanimously opposed to the Democrats' health care reform, the challenge of melding the House and Senate reform bills has fallen to Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid. To broker a deal ... NE Journal of Medicine; 1/6/10 |
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The Early Word: Back to the Table
... When House leaders meet in Nancy Pelosi’s office this afternoon, they’ll be looking for a way to reconcile the two chambers’ health care bills without repeating the drawn-out wrangling ... NYT; January 5, 2010 |
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Obama, congressional leaders plot final health care strategy
President Obama will convene a meeting with the top four Democrats in the House and Senate -- Nancy Pelosi and Steny Hoyer will be at the White House while Harry Reid (Nev.) and Dick Durbin ... Washington Post; Jan. 5, 2010 |
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Democrats holding final intraparty talks on health-care reform
... Talking to reporters Tuesday, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) suggested that a public option is not the only way to guarantee competition and affordable premiums. Washington Post; January 6, 2010 |
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Nancy Pelosi takes swipe at President Obama's campaign promises
Nancy Pelosi, piqued with White House pressure to accept the Senate health reform bill, threw a rare rhetorical elbow Tuesday at President Barack Obama, questioning his commitment to his 2008 campaign promises. Politico; 1/5/10
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Democratic Leaders Plan Secret Health Reform Deliberations
Despite their claims to the contrary, the way that Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid have handled the healthcare bill has been anything but transparent. And, if the left-wing blogosphere is to be believed ... USN; January 4, 2010 |
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Return This Holiday Gift
...But Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi were reading off last year’s wish list. If they were listening now, they would hear, “More job opportunities and a better economy, please.” Hartford Business Journal; January 4, 2010 |
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Briefing: National Health Care Reform
... A possible measure proposed by the Senate (outside of the bill) and endorsed by Nancy Pelosi would create at least two nationwide insurances plans run by private companies. ... Worcester Business Journal; Jan. 4, 2010 |
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LETTER: Health bill will fill insurers' pockets
... We can only hope that Speaker Nancy Pelosi and her minions in the House have a spine and keep the public option. Short of that, health-care reform will be yet another giveaway ... South Coast Today; January 2, 2010 |
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Heat Rises on Nebraska's Nelson
... The attorneys general sent a letter to Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi on Wednesday asking them to remove the Nebraska provision and warning of potential legal action if they do not. WSJ; January 2, 2010 |
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Attorney General Sends Letter To Pelosi And Reid On Provision In Health
AG McCollum joined several Attorneys General yesterday in sending a letter to Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid regarding their concerns about the provision in the health care legislation ... WCTV Tallahassee; December 31, 2009 |
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Competing Health Care Bills Face Difficult Merger
After months of marathon hearings, partisan bickering and fiery floor debate, Democrats in both the House and the Senate have passed expansive health care reform bills. Now comes the hard part. Wash Independent; Dec. 30, 2009 |
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APNewsBreak: 13 AGs threaten suit over health care
... Republican SC AG Henry McMaster and a dozen of his counterparts are sending a letter Wednesday night to Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid objecting to Nebraska getting a break on Medicaid payments. Forbers; December 30, 2009 |
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Otter vows to fight proposed health care legislation
... Otter sent letters to Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid today, arguing the proposal sacrifices "fiscal responsibility, sound judgment and constitutionality for political expediency." Idaho-Press Tribune; Dec. 30, 2009 |
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13 GOP AGs threaten health bill suit
... In a letter sent to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid on Wednesday, South Carolina Attorney General Henry McMaster said he had “grave concerns” ... Politico; December 31, 2009 |
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In Health Bill for Everyone, Provisions for a Few
Early versions of the Senate’s far-reaching health care bill said that small businesses with fewer than 50 workers would not be penalized if they failed to provide insurance. NYT; January 3, 2009 |
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Ten Things to Watch in the Health-Care Reform Conference
It's not just about abortion and the public option. Every decision Congress faces while merging the Senate and House health bills will give it the opportunity to make reform better. American Prospect; December 29, 2009 |
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Cantwell’s “Basic Health Plan”: A Better Exchange, But Not A Public Option
Sen. Maria Cantwell has an amendment which would have states create a “basic health plan” for individuals making less than 200% of the FPL, but more than 133% (the new cut off for Medicaid eligibility). FDL; October 1, 2009 |
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The Conference Issues: A Partial List
Paul Waldman’s piece about the differences to be worked out in the House-Senate conference committee on health care is a pretty nice recitation of the issues we’ve been discussing for several weeks. FDL; December 29, 2009 |
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No, Many Blue Dogs Won’t Be Flipping To Yes On The Health Care Bill
Nancy Pelosi has been intimating that she could pick up some votes for the health care bill from conservative Democrats and Blue Dogs when it comes out of conference. I don’t see how the dynamics ... have changed. FDL; 12/29/09 |
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Kill the Bill or Support Passage?
The progressive community is split over the $871 billion healthcare reform bill that passed the Senate last week. Some have lambasted the Senate for removing language that would have created ... Democracy Now!; December 29, 2009 |
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Palin rewrites history on "death panels"
"Though Nancy Pelosi and friends have tried to call 'death panels' the 'lie of the year,' this type of rationing – what the CBO calls 'reduc[ed] access to care' and 'diminish[ed] quality of care' ... Salon; December 23, 2009 |
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Reactions to healthcare bill pour in
... House Speaker Nancy Pelosi: Today’s vote in the United States Senate brings us closer to providing quality, affordable health insurance to every American. Salon; December 24, 2009 |
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What's next for health care reform?
... Chances are, the final bill will look more like the Senate version. Amanda thinks that many observers are underestimating Speaker Nancy Pelosi ... Majikthise; December 28, 2009 |
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The Tyranny of the Majority Party
Alexis de Tocqueville never met Harry Reid. Had he encountered the Senate Democratic leader—or President Barack Obama or House Speaker Nancy Pelosi—de Tocqueville might have learned about a new twist ... WSJ; Dec. 28, 2009 |
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NewsReal Sunday: Oops, Democrats Admitting Abortion Will Be Taxpayer Funded
... Well, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi and Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius have unwittingly let the cat of truth slip out of their bag of lies. David Horowitz Newsreal; December 27, 2009 |
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President's health care philosophy takes elitism to new level
... Or Nancy Pelosi railing against Ford executives for traveling to Washington aboard corporate jets while at the same time complaining that her jet, provided at taxpayer expense, is too small. Newark Advocate; 12/27/09 |
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Not about insurance profits
Trial lawyers' profits. Section 2531 of the Pelosicare bill states, " ... a state is not eligible for the incentive payments if that state puts a law on the books that limits attorneys' fees or imposes caps on damages." TDN; 12/27/09 |
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Health care conferees still face a lot of work
In the House, Nancy Pelosi unveiled a bill, then unleashed a furious lobbying effort -- joined by the president -- and weathered an uprising over abortion in the tense hours before the final roll call. PPG; Dec. 27, 2009
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Pelosi, Hoyer Joint Statement on Senate Moving Forward with Health Insurance Reform Legislation
Nancy Pelosi and House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer issued the following joint statement on news that the Senate will move forward with historic health insurance reform legislation ... Big News Biz; December 27, 2009 |
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Both Parties to Highlight Bill in Bid to Win Over 2010 Voters
... "It is very hard to merchandise health care until you have a bill," Nancy Pelosi told reporters recently. "But when we have a bill and the discussion is...about what is in the bill for people ..." WSJ; December 28, 2009 |
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Democrats should heed Daley's steer-to-the-center advice
... Nancy Pelosi's inner circle is made up of long-standing veterans of gerrymandered House districts, virtually immune from Election Day challenge, just as she is. Washington Post; December 27, 2009 |
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Health care reform bill pleases no one except Obama
... It appears that no one is happy with this bill, except the president's echo chamber -- in this case, Harry Reid, Robert Gibbs and Nancy Pelosi. Examiner; December 25, 2009 |
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Lieberman Blocks Everything From Showers to Pancakes
Things turn dark at the end of video when a fake Pelosi hires a hit man to beat Lieberman up with a baseball bat. (No one gets hurt, not even the faux Lieberman.) Media Bistro/Fishbowl DC; December 24, 2009 |
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Fragile Health Care Agreement Fraying? Whispers, But Not Yet
"It's time that we draw the line on this weak bill and ask the Senate to go back to the drawing board," wrote Slaughter (D-NY). She is influential in the legislative food chain and has the ear of Pelosi. TPMDC; December 23, 2009 |
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Stupak: My party’s trying to bribe me to vote for ObamaCare
... After watching the Senate’s health-care debate, Rep. Bart Stupak (D., Mich.) tells NRO that he has one message for President Obama and House speaker Nancy Pelosi: “You don’t buy me off.” Hot Air; December 23, 2009 |
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Palin responds to 'lie of the year' charge
... Though Nancy Pelosi and friends have tried to call “death panels” the “lie of the year,” this type of rationing — what the CBO calls “reduc[ed] access to care” Politico; December 23, 2009 |
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Schwarzenegger Presses U.S. for More Aid for Needy California
... In a letter to Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Tuesday, Mr. Schwarzenegger focused much of his attention on recouping some of the costs of the pending health care overhaul. NYT; December 24, 2009 |
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Sestak: Health-care reform bill still lacking key elements
Following a 60-40 vote along party lines in the Senate to end debate on a contentious health-care reform bill, U.S. Rep. Joseph Sestak, D-7, of Edgmont, sent a letter to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi ... Daily Times; 12/22/09 |
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House Dems: We won't roll over
... But House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and her leadership team seem to have their sights set on lower-profile - but no-less important differences, like boosting affordability credits in the final bill ... Politico; Dec. 22, 2009 |
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Gov. wants changes in health care bill
California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger sent a letter to Nancy Pelosi, D-San Francisco, and other members of the California Congressional delegation today laying out his concerns with the health care bill ... SF Gate; Dec. 22, 2009 |
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Pelosi takes on Palin over 'death panel' claim
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's (D-Calif.) called out former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin (R) for having made the "lie of the year" for claiming the healthcare bill would set up "death panels." The Hill; December 22, 2009 |
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Trumka: Senate Bill As Is Will Die In The House
... "So that is another line they are going to have to deal with. Speaker [Nancy] Pelosi I think will adequately represent everybody involved. And I think that is a better model for a bill." Huffington Post; December 17, 2009 |
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Republicans increasingly are becoming congressional players
Democrats realize that they have a huge sales job. "It is very hard," Nancy Pelosi said of the effort, "because there has been a mischaracterization campaign going on for a long time." Miami Herald; Dec. 17, 2009 |
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Pelosi to Senate: We’re Waiting. . . .
... Ms. Pelosi, speaking to reporters on Wednesday, said House Democrats could live without a government-run insurance plan, or public option, like the one in their bill — if the Senate has a better idea. NYT; December 17, 2009 |
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Compulsory Private Health Insurance: Just Another Bailout for the Financial Industry?
Dr. Benjamin Rush, a signer of the Declaration of Independence, is quoted as warning two centuries ago: “Unless we put medical freedom into the Constitution, the time will come when medicine ..." FCJ; December 24, 2009 |
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Public option: Is Pelosi listening?
Nancy Pelosi lives, breathes, eats and sleeps to elect more Democrats to the House. That's why she's so wimpy on tough issues, why she won't (so far) oppose the troop surge in Afghanistan ... SFBG; December 14, 2009 |
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Do medical malpractice caps fit?
... Dr. Luis Cespedes is correct in the concern he expresses on this page about House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's push for a provision in the health-care bill to encourage states to repeal malpractice caps. Desert Sun; De. 13, 2009 |
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Senate Passes Spending Bill Amid Debate on Raising Debt Limit
... Top Democrats in the House and Senate, including Speaker Nancy Pelosi, are strongly opposed to the idea of an independent commission, arguing that the concept relinquishes too much Congressional authority. NYT; Dec. 13, 2009 |
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House Democrats making plans for final health care bill
Nancy Pelosi restated that the goal is to get a final bill to the president's desk before his State of the Union address in late January or early February, but she admitted the timeline could slip ... CNN; Dec. 23, 2009 |
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Speaker Pelosi: We would do 'almost anything' to pass healthcare this year
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) laid out a scenario Thursday in which the massive overhaul of the nation's health system could pass by the end of the year. The Hill; December 10, 2009 |
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Pelosi backs expansion of Medicare in Senate plan
President Barack Obama's bid to overhaul the U.S. healthcare system appeared to get a boost on Thursday when the top Democrat in the House signaled interest in a Senate Democratic compromise. Reuters; December 10, 2009 |
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An Unconstitutional Mandate
When Nancy Pelosi was asked where the Constitution authorized Congress to order Americans to buy health insurance, she dismissed the question by saying, “Are you serious? Are you serious?” National Review; December 10, 2009 |
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Pelosi Abandons Public Option, Grijalva Says He’ll Vote “No”
In a press conference today, Nancy Pelosi said that a bill without a public option is now possible in the House. But Raul Grijalva, co-chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus ... FDL; December 10, 2009 |
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H.R.3792: Ryan White Extension Act
To amend title XXVI of the Public Health Service Act to revise and extend the program for providing life-saving care for those with HIV/AIDS. Linked on December 23, 2009 |
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Pelosi backs Medicare buy-in plan in Senate health-care deal
Nancy Pelosi endorsed a proposal Thursday that would allow people in late middle age to buy insurance through Medicare, helping to sustain an idea that sprang unexpectedly from the Senate this week. Washington Post; Dec. 11, 2009 |
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Cheating the gospel and the Church
... Here are some recent examples: Michael Sean Winters rails against Nancy Pelosi, telling all that she is "not pro-life." He sets himself up as judge and executioner ... Washington Post; December 8, 2009 |
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Revealed: No Robo-Patients in the Public Option
... Neither bill, however, would require or even encourage the implantation of microchips. The chain e-mail prompted aides to the House speaker, Nancy Pelosi, to issue a “mythbuster” fact sheet. NYT; December 7, 2009 |
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Murphy, Democrats making things worse
There has been lots of talk lately about Congressman Chris Murphy's affirmative vote for Nancy Pelosi and Barack Obama's health care sham as if it were a good thing for the people of Connecticut. Danbury NewsTimes; 12/4/09 |
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A lawmaker's response to a constituent
...As to your concerns over the health care bill you gave no specific concerns other than stating that Nancy Pelosi would have individuals go to jail for not acquiring insurance. Do you really believe this? Fosters; 12/5/09 |
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Pelosi Invokes Truman's Struggles For Universal Health Care
Speaking at the Orange County Democratic Party's Harry S. Truman Awards Dinner, Nancy Pelosi discussed how the late president's opponents denounced his universal health care proposals as "socialism" ... TPM; Dec. 5, 2009 |
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In glitzy shadows, a health reform foe lurks
N EARLY November, thousands of protesters descended on Capitol Hill to hear Representative Michele Bachmann decry House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s “takeover’’ of health care. Boston Globe; December 6, 2009 |
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David Lazarus: They Win
Senator Joe Lieberman almost single handedly killed off the most recent public option proposals. So, does it come as a surprise that he’s received more ... RaceWire; December 18, 2009 |
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Don't just swallow it
... We do not hear that Nancy Pelosi's best pals, Gap clothing heiress Elizabeth Fisher and Getty oil billionaire Ann Getty Earhart, paused their largess. In 2008 Getty gave more than $100,000 to various ... Salon; Dec. 1, 2009 |
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Big Fat Story -- Ka Ching
Health care benefits (in dollars) to congresspeople. The Daily Beast; Linked on December 8, 2009 |
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Overall health care bill trumps anti-abortion amendment, rep says
U.S. Rep. Mazie Hirono was not among 40 progressives who sent a letter last month to Speaker Nancy Pelosi threatening to vote against health care reform if a controversial anti-abortion amendment ... The Garden Island; 12/2/09 |
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Settling in for a Long Debate
... One of the most potentially divisive issues the Senate will debate is coverage of abortion services. In the House, Nancy Pelosi reluctantly allowed a vote on an amendment ... New England Journal of Medicine; 12/2/09 |
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Eshoo bill huge boon for Silicon Valley biotech
Buried in the giant health care bills in Congress is a multibillion-dollar bonanza for Silicon Valley's biotechnology industry, sponsored by Rep. Anna Eshoo, D-Palo Alto. ... A scathing report ... SF Chron; December 6, 2009
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Left resentful
... Liberals were miffed when Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) rejected the notion that left-leaning lawmakers were going to vote against healthcare reform. At the time, she said ... The Hill; December 1, 2009 |
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Healthcare reform: Is this bill better than nothing?
... Dr. John Geyman ... makes the case in a Tikkun article ... that whatever bill this Congress is able to pass will probably set the cause of single payer health care back because it ... The Bloomington Alternative; 11/29/09 |
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Pelosi Learns to Live With Anger on Her Left
... Liberal Democratic Rep. Jan Schakowsky ... quickly found herself explaining what’s become the most contentious legislative trade-off Nancy Pelosi has made in her three years as Speaker of the House. CQ; November 26, 2009 |
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Yeti crabs kill vampires dead
... Did you notice? How even Nancy Pelosi was forced to throw feminists and activists under the bus to allow the nauseating, Catholic-supported Stupak amendment into the bill, just to get it passed? ... SF Gate; Nov. 27, 2009 |
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Insurance-Reform Bills Big on Change
Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., had a lot to be proud of at the end of October when the House released a new and improved bill to reform health care and health-care coverage. The 10-year $894 billion package ... Jackson Free Press; 11/25/09 |
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Pagliuca ad ruffles feathers in Senate race
... "It’s unfortunate that Steve Pagliuca would choose to run a misleading negative ad that misrepresents Martha Coakley's position on health care," Zaroulis said. The ad shows a ... clip of Nancy Pelosi ... Boston.com; 11/25/09 |
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Obama Backs Senate on Health Bills’ Disparities
... Mr. Orszag declined to say whether the White House had told the Nancy Pelosi that to win Mr. Obama’s signature, any final bill must include the provisions for a Cadillac tax and a Medicare commission. NYT; November 25, 2009 |
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Carl Leubsdorf: Saluting the leadership of Pelosi, Reid
Like many previous congressional leaders, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid are better known as inside congressional players than as compelling national leaders. Dallas Morning News; November 24, 2009 |
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Triggering a Victory on Health Bill
... Few would have predicted a couple of months ago that Nancy Pelosi would craft limits on government-financed abortions that liberal Democrats would accept to get a bill through the House. WSJ; November 25, 2009 |
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We need health care solutions, not partisan rants
... Pelosi, Reid and Obama haven't created this monster on their own. They've had ample assistance from every person who has allowed their intellect and independence to be subverted by ... Balt Sun; November 23, 2009 |
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Psst: The House's Health Bill Is Cheaper
... When House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., introduced her "blended" bill, CBO calculated that it would reduce the deficit by $104 billion over 10 years. Slate; November 23, 2009 |
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Sarah Palin, Health Care Reform, And Childless By Choice
Nancy Pelosi went to the JFK School of Government at Harvard to explain the health care reform process, and when she was asked about how it came to be that the Stupak-Pitts amendment was put to a vote, she explained the reasoning. RH Reality Check; |
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Democrats hold line, but cracks show
Reid will face bruising negotiations with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi who is intent on keeping intact major provisions of her far more left-leaning bill. ... Politico; November 22, 2009 |
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Nancy Pelosi, Feminist Nightmare
The House Speaker pushed the Stupak amendment through—then moved to block the woman bidding for Ted Kennedy's Senate seat. Amy Siskind on how the most powerful woman in politics betrays the sisterhood. Daily Beast; 11/20/09 |
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Medicare Physician Payment Reform Act of 2009
To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to reform the Medicare SGR payment system for physicians and to reinstitute and update the Pay-As-You-Go requirement of budget neutrality ... Open Congress; Linked on 11/22/09 |
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House Passes Bill To Stop Reduction In Medicare Payments To Doctors
... After the legislation was passed, Nancy Pelosi said it will "improve the way Medicare pays physicians and in doing so, guarantee that America's seniors will continue to have access ... " RTT News; November 20, 2009 |
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Stupak Like a Fox
... It seemed as if the reproductive-rights establishment had been blindsided by Nancy Pelosi's last-minute deal to placate the conservative Democrats in Congress and the USCoCB. Newsweek; November 19, 2009 |
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Stupak Is as Stupak Does
... Nancy Pelosi might reasonably be ex-pected to take the heat for Stupak. She's the one who ... brokered the cynical deal with conservative Democrats and the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops. Newsweek; Nov. 14, 2009 |
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Comparing the House and the Senate Health Care Proposals
Senate Democrats unveiled sweeping legislation Wednesday to overhaul the nation’s health care system. Earlier this month the House passed its own version. The proposals are broadly similar but differ ... NYT; November 19, 2009 |
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The Senate vs. the House on healthcare reform
... To garner much-needed support from anti-abortion Democrats, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) allowed them to attach the infamous Stupak-Pitts amendment to her chamber's version of the bill. Salon; 11/20/09 |
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House Republicans Tar Moderate Democrats With Liberal Healthcare Votes
Showing new signs of life after the embarrassing debacle in New York's 23rd Congressional District, Rep. Pete Sessions and the GOP are already pounding some senior Democrats whose vote in favor of Pelosicare ... USN; 11/19/09 |
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Pelosi: Abortion Issue Won't Sink Health Care Bill
Nancy Pelosi on Thursday predicted that she can corral enough moderate Democrats to guarantee passage of health care overhaul legislation — even if it doesn't contain a controversial House proposal ... NPR; November 19, 2009 |
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Pelosi Gives High Praise To Senate Abortion Language
During her weekly press conference, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) lauded abortion language in the Senate’s health care bill on Thursday. The Senate bill ... Talk Radio News Service; November 19, 2009 |
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Pelosi Statement on House Passage of Medicare Physician Payment Reform Act
Nancy Pelosi issued the following statement today on legislation that would permanently reform the broken Medicare physician payment system. The Medicare Physician Payment Reform Act ... PR Newswire; November 19, 2009 |
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Pelosi: Democrat 'threw me under the bus'
California Dem. Xavier Becerra has learned a lesson about calling out Nancy Pelosi. Don’t. In the run-up to this month’s House vote on health care reform, Becerra suggested to the ... Politico; November 17, 2009 |
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Pelosi’s Healthcare Vision: Government Mandate or Jail
Failing to purchase “acceptable health insurance coverage” could result in a fine punishable “up to $250,000 and/or imprisonment of up to five years.” Those are direct quotes from a letter of ... Big Gov't ; Linked on 11/20/09 |
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Taking a hit on health care? Why, that’s women’s work
WOMEN MUST always fight to make sure they are not thrown under the political bus. The latest example is health care reform. First, women were on the losing end of the Stupak-Pitts Amendment ... Boston Globe; November 19, 2009 |
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Pelosi NOT to be burned in effigy at VA Teabagger rally
In honor of "Teabagger" being named a runner-up for the New Oxford American Dictionary 2009 Word of the Year (OK, so was "tramp stamp"), we pass on word that t-baggers in Virginia have canceled ... SF Gate; Nov. 17, 2009 |
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Blue Dogs Make Sleepy Watch Dogs
When the so-called fiscally conservative "Blue Dog" Democrats folded on the health care reform bill, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi skated to victory and even declared, "That was easy." No wonder. WSJ; November 17, 2009 |
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Fact check: Health care poll results more mixed than certain
For the second day in a row House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's office has sent out "fact sheets" touting the results of separate public opinion polls on health care. USA Today; November 17, 2009 |
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Pelosi ridiculed in new children's book
Ayn Rand is back! A new conservative children's book -- party affiliation is inherited, after all -- titled, "Help! Mom! The radicals are ruining my country!" takes aim at Nancy Pelosi ... SF Gate; November 17, 2009 |
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Bill would cause increase in Medicare premiums
Seniors would pay $49 billion in higher premiums over the next decade as a result of legislation headed for a House vote that raises fees for doctors treating Medicare patients, according to an estimate by ... AP; November 17, 2009 |
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WaPo: Nancy Pelosi’s $300,000,000,000 deception
The WaPo editorial board finally catches up to the big three-card Monte that Nancy Pelosi conducted in passing her ObamaCare bill over week ago. Last week, Byron York reported that Pelosi hid almost $300 b ... Hot Air; 11/16/09 |
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Nancy Pelosi: Abortion Debate Not Over; Afghanistan Vote Harder Than Health Care
Nancy Pelosi was the guest speaker Friday night at Harvard's Institute of Politics, where David Gergen quizzed her about everything from the war in Afghanistan to health care reform. Politics Daily; November 16, 2009 |
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Tea Party Group Cancels Plan To Burn Perriello And Pelosi In Effigy
The plan by the Danville TEA Party Patriots to burn Rep. Tom Perriello (D-VA) and Speaker Nancy Pelosi in effigy -- a sort of Tea-Party Burning Man -- has been called off, Greg Sargent reports ... TPM; November 16, 2009 |
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Tea Party Group Reconsiders Burning Pelosi in Effigy
As part of a protest next Saturday, the "TEA Party Patriots" of Danville, Virginia had been planning to burn in effigy House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and a local freshman Democratic congressman, Rep. Tom Perriello. CBS; 11/16/09 |
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Estrich: Love her or hate her, Pelosi good at her job
You've got to hand it to Nancy Pelosi. Love her or hate her - and there are probably more people in the second category than the first - you can't deny the enormity of her accomplishment. Online Athens; November 15, 2009 |
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Pelosi exhibits leadership, protects colleagues
If there's one thing the recent health care vote proves, it's that Nancy Pelosi is the most focused House speaker since Tip O'Neill.
Willie's World ... SF Gate; November 15, 2009 |
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In Princeton, Pelosi hails public option as entrepreneurial engine
A week to the day after Congress passed a health care reform bill that she personally maneuvered through the lower house halls of power, U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi ... PolitikerNJ Blog; November 15, 2009 |
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TEA Baggers to burn Pelosi
The Danville, VA TEA baggers are planning to burn an effigy of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi at a rally next weekend. According to the Richmond Times-Dispatch ... True/Slant; November 14, 2009 |
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Speaker Pelosi endorses Capuano for Senate
Nancy Pelosi will endorse Congressman Mike Capuano in his candidacy to replace Edward Kennedy as the next senator from Massachusetts. Pelosi formally endorsed Capuano Friday, Nov. 13, in Boston. Somerville Journal; 11/14/09 |
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Pelosi says she read all of the health bill
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said Friday that she had read the entirety of the healthcare legislation passed last weekend. Pelosi told an audience Friday evening at Harvard University ... The Hill; November 14, 2009 |
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Pelosi, Holt stump in New Jersey for health care reform
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Rep. Rush Holt toured a Princeton hospital today while stumping for health care reform legislation now before Congress. Star-Ledger; November 14, 2009 |
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Wink Hartman responds to the passage of health-care legislation
Wink Hartman, Republican candidate for U.S. Congress, issued the following statement regarding the passage of Nancy Pelosi’s health-care legislation. The Kansan.com; November 13, 2009 |
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Send a Coat Hanger to an Anti-Choice Democrat
Blue America is teaming up with Working Assets, the folks behind CREDO Mobile and CREDO Action in a project we think you'll like. We're urging you to sign a petition to Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid ... Huff Post; 11/13/09 |
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Pelosi, Emanuel Tough As Nails
The skills that Nancy Pelosi and Rahm Emanuel displayed working from their respective ends of Pennsylvania Avenue to get the health care reform package through the House last Saturday night were ... Nat'l Journal; 11/14/09 |
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Most Impressive Democrat of the Week
... But this week, that honor goes to Nancy Pelosi. Pelosi, late last Saturday, got what can only be described as a "truly historic" vote this week in the House when she passed a healthcare reform bill. Huff Post; 11/13/09 |
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Pelosi: Health bill would limit abortion access
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Friday that she agrees with critics who say an amendment included in the health care bill passed by the House would additionally limit access to abortion. AP; November 14, 2009 |
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Danville TEA Party group to burn Perriello, Pelosi in effigy
Members of the Danville TEA Party reportedly plan to burn Rep. Tom Perriello and Nancy Pelosi in effigy Nov. 21. Perriello was one of four Virginia Democrats who voted in favor of ... Richmond Times Dispatch; Nov. 13, 2009 |
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Pelosi Caves to the Right to Get Health-Care Bill: Ann Woolner
Single-focus, litmus-test social conservatives took a hit last week after they chased a moderate Republican out of a special U.S. House election in upstate New York and backed a right-wing independent instead. Bloomberg; 11/12/09 |
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Democrats don't like the House health care bill and we shouldn't either: Kevin O'Brien
... I refer not to the Republicans' efforts to stop Pelosi from ramming through the House of Reps a bill that, if it becomes law, inevitably will result in a government takeover of health care ... Cleveland Plain Dealer; 11/12/09 |
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President Obama announces job summit
... John Boehner panned the event saying a similar event organized by Nancy Pelosi was a a PR stunt ... ABC; November 12,2009 |
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Anti-abortion deal in health care bill is outrageous
I am a Democrat and a supporter of President Obama. However, I am appalled at the anti-abortion insert in the bill and Nancy Pelosi's back-door dealing. Chicago Tribune; November 12, 2009 |
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In House, Many Spoke With One Voice: Lobbyists’
... Statements by more than a dozen lawmakers were ghostwritten, in whole or in part, by Washington lobbyists working for Genentech, one of the world’s largest biotechnology companies. NYT; November 14, 2009 |
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The Effects and Dangers of Constitutional Contempt
... Pelosi’s press spokesman Nadeam Elshami replied to CNSNews.com about its question regarding constitutional authority mandating that individual Americans buy health insurance. ... Dakota Voice; November 12, 2009 |
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Miller calls health care bill 'terrible' legislation
Here is the weekly newsletter from U.S. Rep. Jeff Miller, R-Chumuckla:
Last Saturday, in the dark of night, reprentatives passed the largest expansion to the fed. gov't since the New Deal. The Nancy Pelosi ... PNJ; 11/12/09 |
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Pelosi to Back Capuano in Massachusetts Senate Race
Speaker Nancy Pelosi will endorse Representative Michael Capuano’s Senate bid in Massachusetts in Boston on Friday, Mr. Capuano’s campaign has announced. NYT; November 12, 2009 |
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Heroines in the News: Margarita Vargas, Kimberly Munley, & Nancy Pelosi
Sgt. Kimberly Munley is the brave police woman who particpated with Sgt. Todd to disable the alleged shooter Major Nidal Hasan at Fort Hood. She confronted him while he was in the midst of a deadly shooting rampage. AC; 11/11/2009 |
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THE INFLUENCE GAME: Bishops shape health care bill
The call came in from Rome, just as House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and her top lieutenants were scrambling to round up scarce votes to pass their sweeping health overhaul. ... AP; November 11, 2009 |
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Shuler: Pelosi the "most misunderstood person" in D.C.
Rep. Heath Shuler (D-N.C.) has bucked Nancy Pelosi on nearly every vote — including health care — and is said to dwell deep in the Pelosi doghouse. ... Politico; November 11, 2009 |
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Sen. Lincoln Against Banning Federal Funding of Abortion in Health Bill
... Pelosi says she is against the ban on federal money being used for most abortions. She went on says some people are using the subject as a distraction. "Lets not be distracted ... " 5 News; November 11, 2009 |
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Obama triumph ahead
Much of the political chatter about healthcare reform in the past week has been of the glass-half-empty variety. Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) had to make too many deals. The Hill; November 11, 2009 |
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. . . And a Buried Tort Bomb
.. Buried in Speaker Nancy Pelosi's 1,990-page bill is a provision that provides "incentive payments" to each state that develops an "alternative medical liability law" that encourages ... WSJ; November 12, 2009 |
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Pelosi plays whack-a-mole on health care
The story so far: House Speaker Nancy Pelosi does everything in her power to get health care reform passed by keeping her Democratic caucus together. She keeps liberals by insisting on a public option. CNN; Nov. 11, 2009 |
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The Man Who Made Pelosi Cry 'Uncle'
Not many folks in Washington have made Nancy Pelosi cry "uncle." Bart Stupak is one of the few. For months, the Michigan Democrat has been threatening to bring down any health-care bill ... WSJ; November 9, 2009 |
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Health care protests
Kurt Schrader does not represent Oregon’s 5th District. Voting with Nancy Pelosi 97.9 percent of the time, he instead represents the agenda of the socialist wing of the Democratic party. ... Oregon City News; November 10, 2009 |
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Pelosi’s Cynical Politics: Cutting the Voters Out of the Healthcare Debate
... No, not the actual votes from members Democrats were worried might go south on them—though House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer had good reason to be concerned about that ... USN; November 10, 2009 |
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Will abortion sink health reform?
... Pro-choice lawmakers are vowing to strip the Stupak amendment language from the bill, says John McCormack in The Weekly Standard. But if House Speaker Nancy Pelosi does so, she'll almost certainly lose votes .. TWS; 11/10/09 |
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Personally and politically, Pelosi won big on health care
Love her or hate her, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is at the peak of her political power, and she seems to be reveling in the high drama of the moment. Miami Herald; November 10, 2009 |
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Pelosicare Not Liberal Enough For Kucinich
Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s healthcare bill, which squeaked to passage in the House Saturday night, wasn’t liberal enough for one of the House’s most liberal members. Newsmax.com; November 10, 2009 |
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The Left's Stupak Stupification
This shouldn't be that hard to figure out. Really. But the left's carrying on about Nancy Pelosi's weekend deal with anti-abortion Democrats as if she was channeling the spirit of George W. Bush. CBS News; November 10, 2009 |
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ReprintPrint Email Font Resize Pelosi standing ovation from SF health providers
Speaker Nancy Pelosi received a standing ovation from San Francisco health providers in her first appearance on home turf since the narrow passage of the House health care bill. SJ Mercury News; November 10, 2009 |
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Pelosi, Returning Home, Gets Ovation on Health Care
Nancy Pelosi received a standing ovation during a speech to health care professionals in San Francisco on Tuesday evening, according to KCBS radio — her first public appearance at home since ... Roll Call; November 10, 2009 |
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The “Stupak Amendment” goes farther in restricting a women’s right to choose than Republicans passed during the entire Bush presidency!
As Members of Congress we believe that women should have access to a full range of reproductive health care. Progressive Change Committee; Linked on November 11, 2009 |
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Greens urge defeat of the Democrats' "insurance industry life-support" bill in the US Senate and call for a rally of efforts to enact Single-Payer/Medicare For All
... "Rep. Pelosi stripped the provision for state-based Single-Payer from the House bill and Democrats weakened the public option to satisfy the insurance lobby." ... Green Party of the United States; November 10, 2009 |
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How the Stupak Amendment Radically Undermines Women's Rights
... The Stupak amendment mandates that no federal funds can be used to pay for an abortion or "cover any part of any health plan" that includes coverage of an abortion ... AlterNet; November 10, 2009 |
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Bishops shape health care bill
... They don't spend a dime on what is legally defined as lobbying, but lawmakers and insiders recognize that the bishops' voices matter ... . Representatives for the bishops were in Nancy Pelosi's office ... Salon; 11/11/09 |
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When veterans die -- from lack of health insurance
Two Harvard researchers chose today to release a study showing that 1.5 million American veterans have no health insurance, and more than 2,200 die every year because of it. Salon; November 11, 2009 |
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Still Waiting for Health Care
The House of Representatives debate on the health insurance "reform" is over with the Democrats failing the people and the Republicans disgracing themselves as having left their minds back ... Common Dreams; November 11, 2009 |
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The Stupak Stupor
We know that the House healthcare reform bill passed after an eleventh-hour compromise (you might say betrayal) on abortion access. We know the compromise, the Stupak-Pitts amendment, is bad. The Nation; 11/10/09 |
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The Ban on Abortion Coverage
When the House narrowly passed the health care reform bill on Saturday night, it came with a steep price for women’s reproductive rights. Under pressure from anti-abortion Democrats and the USCCB ... NYT; November 9, 2009 |
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Health care bill reignites abortion debate
... Anti-abortion Democrats extracted a heavy price from ardently pro-choice House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, holding the mammoth $1.1 trillion health care legislation - a lifelong dream of party liberals. SF Gate; 11/10/09 |
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Lynn Woolsey Asks: "Who Elected These Bishops?"
... Woolsey goes further, pointing out that the church's actions call into question their tax exemption: The IRS is less restrictive about church involvement in efforts to influence legislation ... Calitics; November 10, 2009 |
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Pro-choice Dems fire back
Some 41 pro-choice House Democrats have signed on to a letter headed to Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s desk that states their intention to vote against a conference committee report if the Stupak-Pitts ... MSNBC; November 9, 2009 |
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NARAL and Planned Parenthood: Ineffectiveness Anti-Choice Democrats Can Rely On
... If the insurance companies offering plans on the exchange are not allowed to turn down any customers, it means no basic insurance plan on the exchange could cover abortion. Huffington Post; November 7, 2009 |
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House Health Care Bill: A Death Sentence For My Fellow Breast Cancer Survivors
There was much celebration on Capitol Hill today with the announcement of the new House health care bill. For myself, as a three time breast cancer survivor, there was tremendous sadness and disappointment in the Speaker. HP; 10/29/09 |
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Pelosi discusses health care bill on Seattle tour
U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Monday that while she opposes an anti-abortion amendment to the House version of the health care bill, it was necessary for the measure to pass. AP; October 29, 2009 |
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Abortion Is the New Public Option
... In order to wrangle up enough support for her historic health-care-reform bill on Saturday, Nancy Pelosi was forced to allow a vote on an anti-abortion amendment ... New York Magazine; November 9, 2009 |
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In Pelosi's House, 64 Democrats Sell Women Out
The first female Speaker of the House makes history by passing a health care bill that not only doesn't have a robust public option, but also sells out women's civil rights. Huffington Post; November 8, 2009 |
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Nancy Pelosi delivers
Do you remember how, earlier this year, there were lots of stories about how hopeless Nancy Pelosi was as Speaker, how everything was going to be a failure, etc., etc.? NYT; November 8, 2009 |
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Tears, tempers fly in Nancy Pelosi's campaign
One by one, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi had leaned on her rank-and-file Democrats for months to cast off personal prerogatives for the sake of a history-making health care bill. Politico; November 9, 2009 |
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The Lords of Entitlement
Speaker Nancy Pelosi defied policy logic and public opinion late Saturday night, ramming through the House a nearly 2,000-page health-care leviathan that counts as the biggest expansion of the federal ... WSJ; November 9, 2009 |
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Lame-duck leader in under a year? C'mon, Democrats
... They suggest a rejection for Obama’s and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s agenda. That is nonsense, but the perception seems to be otherwise. Boston Globe; November 9, 2009 |
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If Anything, the Senate’s Task Is Trickier
Don’t tell the House speaker, Nancy Pelosi, but that was supposed to be the easy part. NYT; November 8, 2009 |
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Opponents of House Health Reform Bill Received 15 Percent More in Health Industry Contributions Than Supporters
The U.S. House of Rep. narrowly passed its version of a landmark health insurance reform bill Saturday night. Opponents of the measure have received an average of 15 percent more from health industry ... CfRP; Nov. 8, 2009 |
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Paranoia Strikes Deep
Last Thursday there was a rally outside the U.S. Capitol to protest pending health care legislation, featuring the kinds of things we’ve grown accustomed to ... NYT; November 9, 2009 |
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Senate Likely To Need 60 Votes To Insert Stupak Amendment Into Health Care Bill
Aides in the Senate leadership expect a version of the Stupak amendment to be debated in the Senate, but only as an amendment, not embedded into the bill being merged by Harry Reid. Fire Dog Lake; November 9, 2009 |
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House Passes Landmark Healthcare Bill with Amendment Backed by Anti-Abortion Lawmakers
The bill has been described as the biggest overhaul of the country’s healthcare system since the Medicare and Medicaid Act of 1965. Among those who voted no was Ohio Democrat Dennis Kucinich ... Democracy Now! Nov. 9, 2009 |
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For healthcare bill, Pelosi had to leave Left Coast behind
The House speaker built a majority one compromise at a time, yielding on liberal touchstones including abortion. LA Times; November 9, 2009 |
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House Passes Health Care Bill
We discuss the House of Representatives' passage of landmark health care overhaul legislation on Saturday night. Forum; November 9, 2009 |
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Krugman: The Defining Moment
... Nancy Pelosi unveiled the legislation that she will send to the House floor, where it will almost surely pass. It’s not a perfect bill, by a long shot, but it’s a much stronger bill ... NYT; October 29, 2009 |
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Some Vaguely Heretical Thoughts on Health-Care Reform
... The Pelosi bill, in particular, wouldn’t do much, if anything, to address the overall escalation in health-care costs, much of which is rooted in the nature of insurance ... New Yorker; November 4, 2009 |
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Why Dems Are Winning the Health Care Fight—But Losing the War
On the House floor this evening, the health care debate wears on toward a vote. Nancy Pelosi says she has the numbers she needs in her own party to pass the legislation, and we’ll know soon ... Mother Jones; November 7, 2009 |
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House Passes Health Care Reform
The Democrats' health care reform bill passed the House on Saturday night by a vote of 220-215. Rep. Joseph Cao (R-La.), who represents a district that voted 75% for President Barack Obama ... Mother Jones; November 7, 2009 |
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House Passes Health Reform, But Without Reproductive Rights
... The reform plan shepherded through the Nancy Pelosi, is indeed flawed, as even the speaker acknowledges. But it dramatically expands options for the tens of millions of Americans who do not now have ... The Nation; 11/8/09 |
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House passes healthcare reform bill
The House of Representatives took a historic step on Saturday night, passing the Democrats' healthcare reform bill and bringing supporters closer to passing the first major overhaul ... Salon; November 7, 2009 |
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Dems ask Pelosi for autographs
There's no way to predict what the final vote on the health care bill will be, but the body language of Democrats in the chamber today suggests they are, for whatever reasons, breathing a little easier. Politico; November 7, 2009 |
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GOP leaders rally hundreds in protest of health care bill at Capitol
Foes of the House Democrats' health care bill rallied outside the Capitol Saturday afternoon, hours before what many of them anticipated will be a setback for their position -- approval of Pelosi's bill. CNN; November 7, 2009 |
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Pelosi: Obama visit inspired Democrats
House Democratic leaders say President Barack Obama, who made a quick trip to Capitol Hill, inspired their party to pass health care legislation. Houston Chronicle; November 7, 2009 |
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Massachusetts Official Refutes Latest GOP Health Care Attacks
... As Speaker Nancy Pelosi's office noted in a press release of its own, only people "truly capable" of purchasing health insurance ... would face fees for not buying it. Huffington Post; November 7, 2009 |
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Democrats claim big victory on health care
President Obama and Nancy Pelosi achieved a stupendous - but still incomplete - victory Saturday, winning House passage of the biggest expansion of health care coverage since Medicare ... SF Gate; November 8, 2009 |
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House passes health care reform bill; Vote garners only one Republican
... "Oh, what a night!" declared House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who was forced to make major concessions to conservatives, including adding a controversial abortion restriction. New York Daily News; November 8, 2009 |
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Health vote could slip to next week
... Nancy Pelosi, in remarks today, hinted at a delay with this comment: "Within the next few days, the House will vote on the most comprehensive health care legislation in our history." MSNBC; November 6, 2009 |
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Weiner: Giving Up Single-Payer Was 'Real Politics'
Rep. Anthony Weiner says he’s not giving up on a single-payer health care system forever, but stopping the push for it now was the only pragmatic choice. Mouth of the Potomac; November 6, 2009 |
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What the Pelosi Health-Care Bill Really Says
The health bill that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is bringing to a vote (H.R. 3962) is 1,990 pages. Here are some of the details you need to know. WSJ; November 7, 2009 |
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Pelosi's Suicide Pact
... The voters be damned: That seems to be Speaker Nancy Pelosi's attitude in the wake of big Democratic losses on Tuesday. WSJ; November 5, 2009 |
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Pelosi Faces Competing Pressures on Health Care
As House Democratic leaders were assembling their health care bill last month, Speaker Nancy Pelosi left Washington on a political fund-raising tour. New York Times; November 6, 2009 |
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Anti-abortion activists arrested at Pelosi's suite
U.S. Capitol Police have arrested a dozen anti-abortion activists outside House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's office after a massive protest against the Democrats' health care bill. AP; November 6, 2009 |
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No Health Care Bill is Better Than a Bad Bill
The new House bill for health care reform (HR 3962), unveiled by Speaker Nancy Pelosi on October 29th, will not fundamentally reform U.S. health care. Huffington Post; November 5, 2009 |
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Pelosi is Forcing Moderate Democrats to Walk the Healthcare Plank
The Democrats' efforts to enact a bill that would fundamentally change the American healthcare system are continuing despite considerable evidence that the electorate is turning against it. USN; November 5, 2009 |
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One Catholic Priest and Eleven Other Pro-Lifers Arrested for Tearing Up Nancy Pelosi's 'Health Care' Bill Outside Her Office
The following was released today by Randall Terry: On Thursday afternoon, November 5, 2009, 12 pro-lifers were arrested inside or outside in the hall at Nancy Pelosi's office, #235 Cannon office building. Reuters; Nov. 6, 2009 |
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The Public Option Fight Continues--But How Exactly Does Reform Work?
After weeks of waiting and wondering, leaders in both chambers of Congress have announced their intentions with respect to the public option. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is rounding up the votes for a bill ... TPM; Nov. 4, 2009 |
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Speaker Pelosi Says Hepatitis B Prevention at Core of Healthcare Reform
In her first public appearance since the health care reform bill rollout last Thursday, Nancy Pelosi addressed the need for community-based health care reform in a press conference at the Chinese Hospital ... AsianWeek; 11/4/09 |
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House Haggles Over Abortion in Health Care Bill
... Nancy Pelosi, a supporter of abortion rights, has little choice but to heed the concerns of members of her caucus who oppose abortion. As many as 40 House Democrats, a potentially decisive bloc ... NYT; November 4, 2009 |
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Health Care PASSES: The Scene In The House When It Happened
... The normally stoic Pelosi had tears streaming down her cheek. Rep. Rosa DeLauro (D-Conn.) bent over and vigorously pumped her fist. Arms were thrown in the air; hugs all around. ... Huffington Post; November 7, 2009 |
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Pelosi: Single-Payer Amendment Breaks Obama's Health Care Promise
An amendment to allow states to pursue single-payer health care without incurring insurance-industry lawsuits was stripped from the House bill, Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said Thursday ... Huff Post; November 5, 2009 |
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Pelosi Unveils Historic Health Care Reform Bill, Touts Public Option
Some progressives, like Rep. Dennis Kucinich, a proponent of a single-payer system, said the bill Pelosi made public Thursday does not go far enough and provides too many concessions ... Truthout; October 29, 2009 |
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Blue Dog Dems and Healthcare Reform
Many have criticized Reid’s and Nancy Pelosi’s handling of health care reform. As the argument goes, we have a Democrat-controlled Congress so forget the Republicans and pass ... FCJ; November 5, 2009 |
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Protesters arrested in Pelosi's office
Federal police on Tuesday arrested 12 supporters of a single-payer health care system who entered House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's San Francisco offices and refused to leave until they talked to the congresswoman. SF Gate; 11/3/09 |
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Health Care Progress Report: November 2
... Nancy Pelosi last week introduced her health care reform bill. The bill represents the combined work of three different House committees that passed slightly different versions of health care reform. CBS; November 2, 2009 |
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RAW DATA: GOP List of New 'Bureaucracies' in House Health Care Bill
The following is a list of the "new federal bureaucracies" that the House Republican Conference claims are created in House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's health care reform bill. Fox News; November 2, 2009 |
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House GOP Aim To Fight Pelosi Bill With Women
... GOP leaders said today their goal is to make passage of the bill offered by Speaker Nancy Pelosi last week "as difficult as possible to vote for," and plan to use women to fight it. TPM; November 2, 2009 |
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House Harder on Drug Makers Than Senate
... The House bill would exact a much higher cost on the drug industry — about $140 billion over 10 years, Nadeam Elshami, a spokesman for Speaker Nancy Pelosi, said Monday. NYT; November 2, 2009 |
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GOP plans Pelosi "house call" Thursday
House conservatives, led by Michele Bachmann and Pete Hoekstra are calling on their ranks to flood the Capitol complex on Thursday to stop Nancy Pelosi from passing the Democratic health care bill. Politico; November 2, 2009 |
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Opt-out option is just blackmail
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi recently declared that "the public option" for health care reform should be called "the consumer option" or "the competitive option." Times Union; November 1, 2009 |
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The Worst Bill Ever
Speaker Nancy Pelosi has reportedly told fellow Democrats that she's prepared to lose seats in 2010 if that's what it takes to pass ObamaCare, and little wonder. WSJ; November 1, 2009 |
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The public option: No need to invite the public
When House Speaker Nancy Pelosi unveiled her 1,990-page health insurance industry reform plan on Thursday, with its public option provisions ... North Star National; November 1, 2009 |
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To Bend the Health Care Debate, Curve the Numbers
... Nancy Pelosi wanted a more “robust” public plan with payment rates tied to Medicare. But she could not muster the votes, largely because of opposition from lawmakers in states where Medicare rates are lowest. NYT; 11/1/09 |
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Weekly remarks: John Boehner says health costs will soar; Obama sees economy rebounding
... And it won’t come cheap. Speaker Pelosi’s healthcare bill will raise the cost of Americans’ health insurance premiums ... LA Times; October 31, 2009 |
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The Pelosi-Reid train wreck
Nancy Pelosi unveiled a 2,000-page health-care bill Thursday -- complete with a "public option" -- cobbled together from competing versions passed by separate committees. New York Post; October 31, 2009 |
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The House's health reform bill
The following editorial appeared in Friday's Washington Post: The fundamental aims of the health care bill unveiled Thursday by Nancy Pelosi are laudable. But the legislation ...Salt Lake Tribune; October 30, 2009 |
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Nancy Pelosi Fights for Health Care Reform
She has raised 100s of millions of dollars for Democrats over the years, so it goes without saying ... ABC News; October 31, 2009 |
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After all the fuss, govt health plan to cover few
After all the noise over Democrats' push for a government insurance plan to compete with private carriers, coverage numbers are finally in: Two percent. AP; October 31, 2009
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Another enormous step toward health overhaul
Nancy Pelosi describes features of the House health care bill at a rally ... The House bill would offer a government-run plan while the Senate version would allow states to opt out of a public option. OregonLive; 10/31/09 |
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Reader questions on House healthcare bill
Reporting from Washington - Some reader questions on the national healthcare debate, focusing on the House bill unveiled Thursday by Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-San Francisco). LA Times; November 1, 2009 |
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Path clears for House to OK compromise health bill
... But moderates' concerns that those lower rates would hurt hospitals and other providers in their districts prevailed, even though Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., had backed the Medicare-based version. AP; October 30, 2009 |
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In Congress, a call to review internal cybersecurity policies
... Nancy Pelosi and John A. Boehner (R-Ohio) said they had asked the chief administrative officer of the House to report back to them on the policies and procedures for handling sensitive data ... Wash Post; October 31, 2009 |
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Rep. Miller: No amendments likely as healthcare reform bill moves forward
... Pelosi essentially decides whether to allow amendments. Technically the decision is up to the House Rules Committee, but the Speaker controls the committee through appointments. The Hill; October 30, 2009 |
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An Open Letter to Nancy Pelosi and Robert Gibbs
Dear Speaker Pelosi and Mr. Gibbs: On Oct. 20, Politico published my column in which I explained how the individual mandate in the health care bill is unconstitutional ... Fox "News"; October 30, 2009 (Answer: Elastic Clause) |
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Nancy Pelosi at the Chinese Hospital in San Francisco
CNN video; Sunday, November 1, 2009 |
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CBO Says House Health Care Bill Is Deficit Reducer In Near And Long Term
The CBO has weighed in with a preliminary cost estimate of the House's health care bill--and there are almost certainly some very happy people in House leadership. TPM; October 29, 2009 |
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Rally has a lot of salt, but little pep
As Speaker Nancy Pelosi led her House Democrats down the Capitol steps Thursday morning for a health-care pep rally, the sound system began to crank out ... Wash Post; October 30, 2009 |
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Statement from 60 Plus Association President Jim Martin on Speaker Nancy Pelosi's New Health Care Proposal
... "Speaker Pelosi, I challenge you to tell the truth to our Greatest Generation, and be honest about the cuts to Medicare." Reuters; October 29, 2009
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Taking a hard-bound look at first lady's fashionableness
... 50 percent for Sarah Palin, according to recent Gallup polling, and the same for Nancy Pelosi -- the well-coifed and well-dressed first lady has become even more popular ... Wash Post; October 30, 2009 |
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Is House healthcare plan the cure?
The centerpiece of a healthcare plan rolled out by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is a government-run insurance program, or public option, that would compete with private insurance. Miami Herald; October 29, 2009 |
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The Defining Moment
... And on Thursday, Nancy Pelosi, the speaker of the House, unveiled the legislation that she will send to the House floor, where it will almost surely pass. It’s not a perfect bill, by a long shot ... NYT; October 29, 2009 |
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Pelosi's Bill Good For Domestic Violence Victims, Less So For Cancer Patients
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's 1990-page health care reform bill has plenty of nuggets for supporters and detractors to debate. It forces chain restaurants to list calorie counts on menus and ... Air America; October 29, 2009 |
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Sitting in for health
They came, they sat, they didn't get arrested so they went away. Supporters of a nationalized or "single payer" health care system marched Wednesday morning in front of the San Francisco offices ... SF Gate; 10/28/09 |
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Direct Action for Single Payer
More than two dozen protesters blocked the entrances to the San Francisco office of Blue Shield of California early this morning, marking the building with crime tape and charging the health insurance industry ... 10/28/09 |
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Drum roll ... House health care bill to be unveiled tomorrow
Speaker Pelosi couldn't get the votes the robust public option she prefers, but she's ready to roll out a health care bill. ABC George Stephanopoulus; October 28, 2009 |
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U.S. House Democrats close in on healthcare bill
... That is a blow to House liberals, including Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who wanted a version with lower rates pegged to Medicare, the health plan for the elderly. Pelosi failed to find the 218 votes needed ... Reuters; Oct. 28, 2009 |
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Democrats ready with tempered public option, aides say
... The proposal would be a blow to Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who has argued for a more "robust" public option, one that ties reimbursement rates for providers and hospitals to Medicare rates plus a 5 percent increase. CNN; 10/28/09 |
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Pelosi to unveil House version of health care bill
Nancy Pelosi plans to unveil revised health care-overhaul legislation Thursday that would include a stronger government-operated insurance option than the one that the Senate plans to consider. Miami Herald; Oct. 28, 2009 |
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Politics of health care: Republicans vs. AARP
... AARP’s executive vice president, Nancy LeaMond, appeared with Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., at an Oct. 23 news conference where Pelosi proposed closing gaps in Medicare drug coverage ... CQ Politics; October 28, 2009 |
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Obama To DSCC/DCCC: 'Across The Board' Dems Have Helped Move Country In A New Direction
... First of all, I don't think people quite understand, Nancy Pelosi is not simply the first woman Speaker of the House -- I think she's going to go down as one of the greatest Speakers of all time. TPM Live Wire; Oct. 27, 2009 |
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Mich. Democrat: Pelosi 'not happy with me'
Rep. Bart Stupak said Speaker Pelosi is not pleased with his effort to change abortion-related provisions in the healthcare bill being crafted by the House. The Hill; October 27, 2009 |
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Anti-Abortion Activist Calls for Burning Effigies of Pelosi, Reid
... And he's starting with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid. CBS News; October 27, 2009 |
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Uptick in support for public option
... Obama, Pelosi and Reid are killing the Dem party, and it's all about ego and greed. Obie is too thin-skinned to play the game. MSNBC; October 27, 2009 |
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Pelosi: Obama Administration Takes Bold Steps to Transition to a Clean Energy Future
Nancy Pelosi released the following statement on a new series of Administration clean energy announcements, made possible by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act ... Oh Please, Reuters; October 27, 2009 |
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Lieberman Steps Up
The WSJ lauds former faux small "d" democrat Joe Lieberman for standing up to Harry Reid and opposing the public option. Well, fortunately universal care keeps you optimally undiseased, Joe. WSJ; October 28, 2009 |
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Boehner: Pelosi And I Don't Discuss 'Things Of Great Substance'
... Asked by anchor Neil Cavuto about his relationship with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Boehner said they have a "decent relationship," but they don't talk about the important stuff. TPM Live Wire; October 27, 2009 |
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Will anti-abortion House Dems block bill?
one of the denizens of the Ensign-Coburn C Street house -- says he's part of a group of 40 conservative members in the House majority who might vote against Nancy Pelosi's health reform package ... Politico; October 27, 2009 |
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Pelosi Tries to Change the Name of the Public Option
Everyone thought the public option was off life support when Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) announced yesterday that a government-run health insurance plan would be in the Senate bill. CBS News; October 27, 2009 |
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Nancy Pelosi joins Wasserman Schultz to talk health care in Sunrise
Nancy Pelosi and U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, D-Weston, said seniors will be much better off under plans to reform the nation’s health care system. Sun Sentinel; October 26, 2009 |
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Pelosi: Health care 'public option' needs new name
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi says a government-sponsored public option for health care lives. But it may be going by a different name. AP; October 26, 2009 |
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Health Care Progress Report: October 26
... The House of Representatives is also on the verge of completing step two. Three different health care bills have passed out of committee, and Nancy Pelosi may bring a unified bill to the floor this week. CBS News; 10/26/09 |
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64 days left in 2009
The healthcare reform debate has defied conventional wisdom, to say the least. Even though it’s less than a week before Halloween and neither the House nor the Senate has passed healthcare reform bills ... The Hill; Oct. 26, 2009 |
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For Reid and Pelosi, Still a Long Way to Go
Don’t get overexcited just yet. There’s still a long way to go. In the Great Health Care Debate of 2009, brief flashes of news, like Monday’s announcement by Harry Reid of Nevada ... NYT; October 26, 2009 |
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Bring Bill HR 847: the James Zadroga 9/11 Health and Compensation Act to the Floor for a Vote by Thanksgiving 2009
We are are calling on all Americans to urge Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi, to immediately commit to a firm date for bill HR 847: the James Zadroga 9/11 Health and Compensation Act of 2009 ... Nassau FD Rant; 10/29/09 |
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Pelosi Disputes Reports She'll Drop Public Option
The debate to fix the health care ills of the nation took a subtle turn Friday, with Nancy Pelosi disputing reports that she will drop the strongest public option in favor of a weaker one ... Truthout; October 25, 2009 |
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Moore: Public option would lead to government-run health care
This year Congress will pass some manner of health care reform bill. This has been a hot-button issue for months and the greatest area of contention is the public option. Daily Toreador; October 26, 2009 |
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House Health Bill in Neutral
Health care reform remains idling at a crossroads in the House after a stop-and-go week that ended on stop when Democratic leaders failed to gather enough support for a liberal version of a public ... Roll Call; 10/26/09 |
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Healthcare Hoax from Hell
...Chairman Henry Waxman told Weiner that Pelosi would allow a floor vote if he skipped a committee vote. Weiner agreed. Weiner may have been lied to. OpEdNews; October 28, 2009 |
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Pelosi to Unveil Public Option Measure Without Safeguards to Contain Rates
... But Pelosi has reportedly dropped an effort to establish reimbursement rates to providers based on Medicare rates. ... NYT; October 29, 2009 |
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Pelosi Unveils House Health Care Bill
The House speaker, Nancy Pelosi of California, on Thursday unveiled an $894 billion health care package that would provide insurance to up to 36 million people by broadly expanding Medicaid ... NYT; October 29, 2009 |
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Pelosi Backs Off Having Set Rates for Public Option
Under pressure from moderate-to-conservative members of the House Democratic caucus, Speaker Nancy Pelosi has decided to propose a government-run insurance plan that would negotiate rates ... NYT; October 28, 2009 |
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Senate’s Leader Vows to Pursue a Public Option on Health Care
... The government plan would negotiate payment rates with doctors, hospitals and other health care providers. Some Democrats, including Nancy Pelosi, have said payments should be pegged to Medicare rates ... NYT; 10/26/09 |
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The Tide Is Turning on Healthcare Reform
... As if to confirm Business Week's analysis, in mid-September Steve Elmendorf, a lobbyist for UnitedHealth, sent out invitations to a fundraiser for Nancy Pelosi. That same day Pelosi ... The Nation; October 23, 2009 |
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Guerrillas in the Midst
Rachel Maddow Show captures Billionaires for Wealthcare at a healthcare insurance industry mutual back-slapping event. Rachel Maddow Show; Linked on October 25, 2009 |
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Minnesota Democrats want nonprofits to be part of health care legislation
Minnesota Democratic Reps. Betty McCollum, Jim Oberstar, Keith Ellison and Tim Walz joined about 40 of their colleagues today in a letter to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi asking that nonprofit employers ... MinnPost; October 23, 2009 |
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Small Business Faces Sharp Rise in Costs of Health Care
... The House speaker, Nancy Pelosi of California, said the sharp rise in premiums for small businesses offered the latest evidence that Congress must act swiftly on health care legislation. NYT; October 24, 2009 |
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New life for the public option
... Harry M. Reid (D-Nev.) and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) are still scratching for the votes to pass bills with a public option included. Washington Post; October 25, 2009 |
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House Dems: Health Reform Bill Would Close Medicare "Doughnut Hole"
"House Speaker Nancy Pelosi made another bid to solidify support for Democrats’ ambitious health care plans Friday, pledging to move aggressively to close the “doughnut hole” in Medicare drug coverage. KHN; 10/24/09 |
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States 'opting out' is a healthcare option
Letting states decline a government insurance plan could help unify congressional Democrats, says House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. LA Times; October 24, 2009 |
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Patients _ and patience _ in health care end game
... In a closed-door meeting of feisty House Democrats this past week, Nancy Pelosi, served notice that in these final days before the Senate and House present comprehensive bills to overhaul ... AP; October 24, 2009 |
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Congressman Says He Now Has ‘About 40 Likeminded Democrats’ Who Will Vote to Kill Health Bill if He Doesn’t Get Floor Vote on Pro-Life Amendment
Bart Stupak (D.-Mich.) told CNSNews.com yesterday that he has organized a group of “about 40 likeminded Democrats” who will vote to kill the health-care bill if Nancy Pelosi does not allow a floor vote ... CNS News; 10/23/09 |
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House Leaders Woo Centrists to Back Public Plan
Pelosi Opens the Door to a Compromise on Payment Rates for Doctors and Hospitals, a Key Issue in Health-Care Legislation. WSJ; October 24, 2009 |
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House health care bill over $1 trillion for decade
... "The bill will be paid for over 10 years. It will reduce costs but also will not add a dime to the deficit" in future years, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., said at a news conference. AP; October 23, 2009 |
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Nancy Pelosi's Perfect Answer to a Perfectly Ridiculous Question
“Madam Speaker, where specifically does the Constitution grant Congress the authority to enact an individual health insurance mandate?” The Moderate Voice; October 23, 2009 (BTW, the answer is "In the elastic clause.") |
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Pelosi Intensifies Pressure for Public Health Plan
Nancy Pelosi stepped up the pressure on House Democrats on Friday to support her preferred version of legislation that would require the federal government to sell health insurance ... NYT; October 23, 2009 |
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LI Dems stand with Pelosi on public option
Today, Nancy Pelosi called a command performance for her Democratic caucus, asking each member to say if he or she could support a House health-care overhaul bill that included a "robust" public option. Newsday; 10/23/09 |
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FACTBOX: U.S. lawmakers weigh options on public health plan
... Here are some of the proposals for a public option being debated among lawmakers: * A "robust" public option favored by House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi and many liberal Democrats. Reuters; October 23, 2009 |
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Pelosi’s Office: We Got No Problem With Obama’s Public Option Leadership
In recent days there’s been a geyser of leaks from senior Senate Dem aides complaining that if only Pres. Obama would show more leadership on the public option, ... Nancy Pelosi, however, strongly disagrees. Who Runs; 10/22/09 |
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Pelosi Says Antitrust Repeal Will Be in Health Care Overhaul
Nancy Pelosi said for the first time Thursday that the health care legislation she expects to bring to the floor next month will include a provision stripping the health insurance industry of ... CQ Politics; Oct. 22, 2009 |
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Lawmakers warm to the public option
... Pelosi [is] close to corralling the 218 votes needed to move forward with comprehensive legislation that would include a version of the public option prized by liberals as a fundamental pillar of reform. WP; October 23, 2009 |
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The Public Option is dead as a Doornail
President Obama, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, and a parade of House and Senate Democrats should get academy awards for their play act on the public heath care option. American Chronicle; October 22, 2009 |
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Broadside: Pelosi plays her hand
If you watch closely, you can see the promised health care reform bill moving closer every day. And often Nancy Pelosi is the one doing the pushing. NECN; October 22, 2009 |
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Pelosi: House Firm in Backing Public Option
While Senate Democrats continue to hem and haw about whether they will include a government-run insurance plan in their health care legislation, Nancy Pelosi says there are no such doubts on her side ... NYT; October 22, 2009 |
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Public Option On Table For Nancy Pelosi And Harry Reid?
Nancy Pelosi is apparently getting her message across and the public option is back on the table.Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is signaling that he has enough votes to get the public option ... Wise Politics; Oct. 22, 2009 |
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Speaker Pelosi, Maj. Whip Clyburn And Economists Address Media Following Forum
Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, Majority Whip James Clyburn and economist Mark Zandi talk to members of the media in the Capitol Wednesday following an economic forum on creating more jobs in the U.S. TRN; Oct. 21, 2009 |
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Pelosi Applauds President Obama's New Small Business Lending Initiatives
Nancy Pelosi issued the following statement today on President Obama's announcement in Landover, Md. of a package of initiatives that will increase credit to small businesses. Reuters; October 21, 2009 |
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Pelosi Still On Hunt For 218 Robust Public Option Votes
A day after she began a full whip effort for a health care bill with a robust public option, Nancy Pelosi continues discussions with members in the hopes of reaching consensus before Thanksgiving. TPMDC; October 22, 2009 |
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Pelosi Pushes Ahead With Calls for Government-Run Health Plan
If a government-run health insurance plan winds up in the trash bin when all the debate in Congress is over, it won't be due to any lack of effort on Nancy Pelosi's part. FoxNews; October 20, 2009 |
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Poll: Pelosi's Approval Rating Plunges in California
Only 34 percent of Californians approve of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's, D-Calif., job performance, down 14 points from March, according to a new poll. NewsMax; October 20, 2009 |
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Pelosi Plays on Rookie Loyalty
Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) was wrapping up a leadership meeting last week when she turned the conversation to a politically vulnerable Democratic freshman. Roll Call; October 20, 2009 |
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Healthcare Update: The Debate Over the Public Option
Pelosi said the House will push for the strongest public option possible to take into negotiations with the Senate on a healthcare overhaul, while a key House committee laid the groundwork to ... Rotor News; Linked on 10/22/09 |
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Pelosi Remarks at Press Availability with Easter Seals on Benefits of Health Reform for Children
Pelosi Remarks at Press Availability with Easter Seals on Benefits of Health Reform for Children. Reuters; October 20, 2009
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Pelosi And Hoyer Meet With Young Girls With Pre-Existing Conditions
Nancy Pelosi, Steny Hoyer, Mark Schauer, and Jim Williams, the CEO of Easter Seals, a non-profit that helps disabled youth, held a briefing today to talk about the importance of health care reform ... TRN; October 20, 2009 |
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U.S. House healthcare bill under $900 billion-Pelosi
Nancy Pelosi said on Tuesday new estimates showed a healthcare overhaul drafted by Democrats would reduce the U.S. budget deficit over 10 years and cost less than $900 billion. Reuters; October 20, 2009 |
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U.S. public health option gathers steam
... Nancy Pelosi said on Tuesday new estimates from the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office showed each of the three House proposals would reduce the U.S. budget deficit over 10 years ... Reuters; October 20, 2009 |
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Pelosi Aims to Squeeze Skeptics on Public Option With Cheaper Bill Than Senate
The House health care bill is getting cheaper, but Democrats aren't boasting just yet. Because when they ultimately break silence the hope is to present conservative Democrats in both chambers with ... TPMDC; Oct. 19, 2009 |
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Health care reform bill delay is likely
... What did House Speaker Nancy Pelosi say this week about timing? "We are right on track, and I am hopeful that we will have a bill by Thanksgiving. Others say Christmas. Certainly this year." FREEP; October 19, 2009 |
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Pelosi has tough words for insurers as she pushes public plan
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., is joining liberal Democrats in the House on warning insurers that health care reform could mean lower profit, more fees and new competition from government. The Medical News; October 19, 2009 |
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Congress: Harry and Nancy
The New York Times takes a look at Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi as they work to pass health-care bills through their respective chambers. “As she pulls together a health care bill, Speaker Nancy Pelosi ... MSNBC; Oct. 19, 2009 |
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Health-care cure or anomaly?
DANVILLE, Pa. - President Obama's and Nancy Pelosi's people have made the pilgrimage to this little town in middle-of-nowhere north-central Pennsylvania to see the Geisinger Health System. P. Inquirer; October 18, 2009 |
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Pelosi’s promise on health care reform and Indians
... Nancy Pelosi has vowed to protect the rights of Native Americans in her quest to reform health care. In a letter to the National Congress of American Indians dated Oct. 13, Pelosi promised to exempt ... ICT; Oct. 19, 2009 |
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Health Care Poses Stiff Tests for Top Democrats
As she pulls together a health care bill, Speaker Nancy Pelosi has been exceedingly direct, lawmakers say, asking them explicitly what it will take to win their vote. NYT; October 18, 2009 |
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House Democrats paring cost of health care bill
A spokesman for Nancy Pelosi said Friday that preliminary numbers from congressional budget umpires indicate that the bill will come in under Obama's target of $900 billion over 10 years. AP; October 17, 2009 |
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House liberals see new score as bolstering cause on healthcare
... As part of an effort to nail down where members stand on the public option, Nancy Pelosi asked the Congressional Budget Office for cost estimates on several variations on the public option. The Hill; October 17, 2009 |
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House bill would expand health coverage, repeal anti-trust exemption
House leaders are closing in on an $871 billion health-care package that would raise taxes on the nation's richest families and repeal the insurance industry's anti-trust exemption, Nancy Pelosi said Thursday. WP; 10/22/09 |
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Obama in San Francisco: `Let me talk to you --- Nancy Pelosi is tough’
In a visit to San Francisco Thursday night, President Barack Obama praised Nancy Pelosi for her “steely determination” and said her toughness is one of the main reasons why Congress will pass a health-care bill. McClatchy; 10/16/09 |
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'Grab a Mop' Obama Tells Health Care Reform Critics
Obama spoke at a fundraiser attended by Nancy Pelosi. ABC News; October 16, 2009 |
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Lawmakers Continue to Debate Public Option
... That can hardly be called reform.Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi says, ''The need for a public option is very clear and as I have said our House bill will have a public option. 12 CBS/Fox Affiliate; October 16, 2009 |
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Herbert, GOP boss assail Rep. Matheson's record
... Nonetheless, Herbert said, Matheson's support for Democratic leaders such as Pelosi is harmful. "If we send someone back who says, 'My first vote is going to be for Nancy Pelosi to be speaker ...' Salt Lake Tribune; 10/17/09 |
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CBO: House Drafts of Health Bill Within Obama's Spending Limit
... Nancy Pelosi has been working for weeks to smooth over disputes about the final shape of the package while slicing billions of dollars from the approximately $1.2 trillion bill three House panels approved in July. WP; 10/17/09 |
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Look at Health Care Plans in House, Senate
Health care legislation is taking shape in both the House and Senate. Details are being negotiated and any final bill would have to meld proposals from both chambers. NYT; October 18, 2009 |
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Pelosi: Case growing for government to sell insurance in competition with private market
Nancy Pelosi said Thursday that the case is growing stronger for allowing the government to sell health insurance in competition with private companies, contending recent attacks from the industry ... Breaking News; 10/15/09 |
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Mandate For Disaster
Nancy Pelosi threw down the gauntlet today: Pelosi came closer than any member of the Democratic leadership has thus far to suggesting that the individual mandate should be conditional on the inclusion ... Hullabaloo; 10/15/09 |
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My Conference Call with Nancy Pelosi
This morning, I was lucky enough to participate in a BlogHer conference call with Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi. The topic was health care reform and Speaker Pelosi had plenty to say. Diane Spencer; October 15, 2009 |
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My Take - Seven health care solutions
... The tea parties and level of grassroots opposition to H.R. 3200 might have stalled the progress on health care reform, but the current perceived level of complacency could lead to ... Pelosi ... Holland Sentinel; 10/15/09 |
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Healthcare Legislation Will Allow Students To Remain On Parents' Plans
Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi announced this week that under the House's new healthcare legislation, young adults will be able to remain on their parents' insurance plans through age 26. CityTownInfo.com; October 15, 2009 |
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White House Might Accept Snowe Public-Option Plan
... The comments came as Nancy Pelosi said she favors a “robust” public option because “I want to send our conferees to the table” for House-Senate negotiations “with the most muscle” ... Bloomberg; October 15, 2009 |
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Pelosi Joins Fellow Democrats in Tough Talk for Health Insurers
Nancy Pelosi warned insurance companies on Thursday that health-care reform could cost the industry dearly through new fees, fewer regulatory protections and fresh competition from the federal government. Wash Post; 10/15/09 |
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Baucus: All Senate Dems will support health bill
... House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., mounted a strong defense of a public plan at a news conference, contending that recent attacks from the health insurance industry should dispel any doubts about the need for it. AP; 10/15/09 |
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Another Public Option (but Probably Not for You)
... Nancy Pelosi has submitted three versions of the public option to the Congressional Budget Office for cost analysis, and she is awaiting the results. Ms. Pelosi ... made a case for the public option. NYT; October 15, 2009 |
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Skelton opposes House health care plans
... His comments came on the same day that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said the case is growing stronger for allowing the government to sell health insurance in competition with private companies. Kansas City.com; October 15, 2009 |
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Balloon fallout...Pelosi's promise...Aussie terrorism trial
Nancy Pelosi says recent attacks by the health insurance industry on the idea of a public option should dispel any doubts that it's needed. She says the House bill will have a public option. 9&10 News; October 15, 2009 |
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Democrats seek public plan option
... In the House ... Nancy Pelosi pledged Thursday to move ahead with a "robust" public option, which would establish a government-run national insurance program that is strongly favored by liberals. Wash Times; Oct. 16, 2009 |
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The S-Word and Dr. Kevorkian's Accountant
Tell me where it hurts, Mr. President.What's killing you, Barack, is what's killing us all: an evil germ called "Medical Loss Ratio." "Medical Loss Ratio" [MLR] is the fancy term used by health insurance ... TO; 10/15/09 |
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H.R. 1016: Veterans Health Care Budget Reform and Transparency Act of 2009
A bill to amend title 38, United States Code, to provide advance appropriations authority for certain accounts of the Department of Veterans Affairs, and for other purposes. GovTrack; Posted on October 15, 2009 |
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Pelosi Remarks on Veterans Health Care Budget Reform and Transparency Act of 2009
Nancy Pelosi and Democratic and Republican Members of Congress joined representatives from Veterans Service Organizations for a photo opportunity on the Veterans Health Care Budget Reform and ... Reuters; 10/14/09 |
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Hoyer: No Health Care until Christmas or maybe even 2010
Hmmm. I could have sworn Nancy Pelosi had the votes for this thing back in July. Then last week they were almost to 218. True/Slant; October 14, 2009 |
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Pelosi seeks centrist support for liberal public-option healthcare proposal
Speaker Nancy Pelosi is seeking to modify the House healthcare legislation to bring centrists around to the more liberal government-run insurance option, hoping that will give her the strongest negotiating ... The Hill; 10/14/09 |
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Pelosi: Health Care Fight Is Insurers Vs. Middle Class
Nancy Pelosi has started making her final argument for a robust public insurance option in a health care overhaul, framing the debate over the provision as a fight between insurance companies and ... Roll Call; Oct. 15, 2009 |
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Pelosi pledges again House will pass health care bill with public option
As the Senate Finance Committee passed its health care bill out of committee without a public option Tuesday, Nancy Pelosi stood on the other side of the Capitol insisting again that the House ... CNN Politics; Oct. 13, 2009 |
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Where things stand with health care overhaul
... Nancy Pelosi and other Democratic leaders have been working for weeks to combine bills approved by three committees over the summer. Pelosi has been struggling to satisfy the concerns of moderate ... AP; October 13, 2009 |
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Pelosi Touts Legislation To Insure Young Americans
During a press conference Tuesday, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) touted U.S. Rep. Kathy Dahlkemper’s (D-PA) Young Adult Health Care Coverage Act as one way to insure young Americans. Talkers; October 13, 2009 |
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Pelosi: Senate Finance Committee Vote a Critical Step Toward Passage of Health Insurance Reform
Speaker Nancy Pelosi issued the following statement today after the Senate Finance Committee voted to pass the committee's health insurance reform proposal. Reuters; October 13, 2009 |
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Insurers' Health Reform Attack Draws Fire
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., will be merging the bill with a companion measure from the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, with the goal of a sweeping yet affordable bill. CBS; October 12, 2009
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Pelosi Backs Extension Of Parental Health Benefits For Kids To Age 27
A new provision being rolled into the unified House health care bill would allow young adults to stay on their parents' health care plans until they turn 27, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi told reporters Tuesday. Huff Post; 10/13/09 |
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Why We're Breaking With the Blue Dogs on the Public Option
Throughout the congressional health care debate, considerable attention has focused on the Blue Dog Coalition - a group of House Democrats committed to fiscal responsibility and budget discipline. Huff Post; Oct. 13, 2009 |
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Democrats Fire Back at Insurance Industry Analysis of Health Legislation
... Then, last week Nancy Pelosi said that Democrats in her caucus were considering a tax on insurers’ “windfall” profits. Insurers often note that their profit margins are slimmer than many other industries. NYT; 10/12/09 |
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Congress Is Split on Effort to Tax Costly Health Plans
... But House Democrats, led by Nancy Pelosi and Charles B. Rangel ... oppose the idea, as do labor unions and businesses. Ms. Pelosi last week floated the idea of taxing insurers’ “windfall profits” ... NYT; Oct. 12, 2009 |
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Pelosi Hedges on Public Option
Is the public option for health care still alive? Nancy Pelosi tells reporters it is (sort of), but House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer may not agree. CNN; September 8, 2009 |
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New Bill Would Raise Rates, Says Insurance Group
... Industry officials said they intend to circulate the report prepared by PricewaterhouseCoopers on Capitol Hill and promote it in new advertisements. That could complicate Democratic hopes ... Wash Post; Oct. 12, 2009 |
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"Read the bill!" -- but slowly
... Responding to pressure on the speed-reading issue, Speaker Nancy Pelosi has promised to have healthcare legislation online at least 72 hours before a vote. ... Salon; October 9, 2009 |
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Pelosi Record Means Public Option Viable, Asserts Ex-White House Aide and Aging Committee Director Robert Weiner
Nancy Pelosi's record of passing all the bills she has brought forward -- despite opponents'caricature of her as inept -- mean that the health public option remains viable ... Reuters; October 9, 2009 |
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Pelosi reaches her defining moment
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's heady days of adoration as the elegant grandmother who broke the marble ceiling two years ago are over. SF Gate; October 11, 2009 |
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Analysts size up health bill in final stretch
"We are coming around the curve," said House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, using a horse-racing analogy.Democrats are aided by a growing chorus of GOP voices from outside Washington urging action. SF Gate; October 12, 2009 |
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Health-plan stocks drop as Pelosi hints at windfall tax
WellPoint Inc., Humana Inc. and other companies that provide health plans sold off Thursday after Nancy Pelosi floated the idea of imposing a windfall tax on insurers to pay for extending health coverage ... Market Watch; 10/8/09 |
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Democrats are considering additional tax on insurers
Nancy Pelosi said Thursday that House Democrats were considering a "windfall profits tax" on insurance companies to help pay for legislation that would provide coverage to most of the uninsured ... SJ Merc; October 8, 2009 |
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Pelosi Claims She’s Not Aware of Senate Plan to Pass Health Care Through Unrelated House Bill
Nancy Pelosi said she was not aware of a previously reported plan by Harry Reid to attach a final Senate health care bill to an already-passed House bill in order to push the measure through Congress. CNS News; October 9, 2009 |
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Public Option Still Alive - Believe It
Opponents' caricatures have become commonplace - the Republican National Committee video puts House Speaker Nancy Pelosi side by side with James Bond's villainess, Miss Galore. Truthout; October 9, 2009 |
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Pelosi criticizes Baucus health bill
Speaker Nancy Pelosi is not among those praising Sen. Max Baucus (D-Mont.) for bringing his healthcare bill in well under President Barack Obama’s $900 billion limit. The Hill; October 9, 2009 |
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Health Industry Concerned About Reform Measures
... The insurance industry leaders spoke out on the same day House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said that "the votes are there" in her chamber to authorize a government-sponsored insurance progra. Wash Post; 10/9/09 |
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New Math Boosts Health Plan
... In the House, Democrats tried Wednesday to smooth over their differences on the public insurance plan, with Nancy Pelosi presenting three new versions of the plan that include changes ... WSJ; October 8, 2009 |
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Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, head to White House for meeting
The House and Senate’s top Democrats will get more face time President Barack Obama today – hoping to get their party on the same page regarding a strategy in Afghanistan and health care reform. Politico; October 7, 2009
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Pelosi: Democrats consider windfall tax on insurance
Democrats are looking at the possibility of a windfall profits tax on insurance companies as part of healthcare reform, House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi said on Thursday. Reuters; October 8, 2009 |
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Pelosi to send several healthcare bill versions
Nancy Pelosi said on Thursday she would send several versions of a healthcare reform bill to the Congressional Budget Office, including one with a government-run public insurance option. Reuters; October 8, 2009 |
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“Sick for Profit”: Robert Greenwald Documentary Exposes Salaries, Claim Denials of Healthcare Profiteers
Sick for Profit, a documentary by Robert Greenwald, contrasts the salaries of insurance company CEOs with the experiences of policyholders denied medical claims. We play an excerpt. Democracy Now! October 8, 2009 |
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Pelosi Remarks at the International Campaign for Tibet's 'Light of Truth' Awards Ceremony
Speaker Nancy Pelosi delivered remarks today at the International Campaign for Tibet's (ICT) "Light of Truth" awards ceremony in the Sidney Harman Hall. The "Light of Truth" Award is presented to ... PR Newswire; October 7, 2009 |
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PETITION TO SENATE MAJORITY LEADER HARRY REID
"Any Democratic senators who support a Republican attempt to block a vote on health care reform should be stripped of their leadership titles." Progressive Change Campaign Committee; October 8, 2009 |
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Nancy vs. liberals on details of public option
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi were meeting late Wednesday night to iron out possible details of the public option negotiated from the three bills that have passed various committees. Politico; October 7, 2009 |
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Democrats vow to ban domestic violence as 'pre-existing condition'
... "Think of this," House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said. "You've survived domestic violence, and now you are discriminated [against] in the insurance market because you have a pre-existing condition." CNN; October 6, 2009 |
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Majority Of House Dems Oppose Tax On 'Cadillac' Health Plans
Wall Street Journal; October 6, 2009 |
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Pelosi Congratulates UCSF's Elizabeth Blackburn for Receiving Nobel Prize in Medicine
Nancy Pelosi issued the following statement congratulating molecular biologist Elizabeth H. Blackburn of UCSF, who today was named to receive the 2009 Nobel Prize in Medicine. Pharma Industry News; October 5, 2009 |
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Glenn Beck Isn't Blocking Health Care Reform
The old and new carny acts of the right aren't undermining the energy legislation or frustrating financial reform. To focus on who and what is standing in the way -- follow the money. Huff Post; October 7, 2009 |
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Polling for a public option
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The public option holds on for dear life
... But the public option [is] still in the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pension bill. It still headlines the House bills, and Speaker Nancy Pelosi says she's still committed to it. Latest poll: 65% for. Salon; 9/28/09 |
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Sen. Jay Rockefeller on health care
MSNBC; linked on October 5, 2009 |
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House leaders set to wrestle with taxes to pay for healthcare
Nancy Pelosi and fellow House Democratic leaders next week are expected to wade into the treacherous waters of how to pay for the House healthcare bill as they continue to negotiate the shape of the bill behind ... The Hill; 10/3/09 |
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Pelosi Says House Will Hold Firm To Public Insurance Option
Despite the failure of two attempts to ensure that a "public option" alternative to private insurance would be part of a Senate health reform bill, the House is committed to including a version in its reform package. RTT; 10/1/09 |
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Finance Committee Finishes Its Work
... The spotlight now shifts to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who will have to make some very big decisions on how to meld the total of five versions of the legislation ... Time; Oct. 2, 2009
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Government care v. car wash
Rachel Maddow interviews Heather Sherpa; Linked on October 5, 2009 |
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Health-Care Bill Fuels Debate on Public Access to Legislation
... Democrats blocked the GOP effort in the Senate, casting it as a Republican attempt to slow the health-care legislation. But Nancy Pelosi has pledged to post the final bill online 72 hours before the last vote. WP; 10/1/09 |
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Leading Democrat vows 'public option' in US health bill
The Democratic speaker of the US House of Representatives vowed Thursday that lawmakers would approve a health care overhaul bill that includes a controversial government-run "public option" insurance plan. AFP; Oct. 1, 2009 |
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Progressives Push Pelosi On Public Option
... In her weekly press briefing Thursday morning, Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said she still personally supports the "robust" option but did not commit to its inclusion in the final bill. Huff Post; October 1, 2009 |
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The National Review: Pelosi & Co. Talk Abortion
It is quite interesting that Tuesday's New York Times features an article by David D. Kirkpatrick titled "Abortion Fight Complicates Debate on Health Care." NPR; September 30, 2009 |
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Congressman: Pelosi should go after Grayson for remark
A Republican congressman on Thursday urged House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) to organize a vote to reprimand Rep. Alan Grayson (D-Fla.) similar to action taken against Rep. Joe Wilson (R-S.C.). September 30, 2009 |
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Moderate Dems seek bill without abortion funding
In the House, U.S. Rep. Bart Stupak, a Menominee Democrat and abortion rights opponent, has told Speaker Nancy Pelosi he is one of some 40 moderate members of her own party ready to try to block ... DFP; September 30, 2009 |
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Senators nix 'public option' in health care
... The public-option, however, remains an essential element to any legislation ultimately adopted, in the eyes of some of the Senate's Democratic leaders as well as House Speaker Nancy Pelosi ... The Swamp; 9/29/09 |
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House Dems bide time on health care
... House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Majority Leader Steny Hoyer reiterated that the bills will be introduced "when ready." ... msnbc; September 29, 2009 |
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House Leadership Commits To Health Care Bill In October, But Not Specifics
Though he did not rule out the possibility of a final floor vote before November, Hoyer said that he and Nancy Pelosi are in "lockstep" agreement that the House will have all the time it needs to bring ... Huff Post; 9/29/09 |
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Senate finance committee votes down public option
The Senate Finance Committee has voted 15-8 against including a public option in their healthcare reform bill. ... Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) has stated that the house cannot pass a healthcare bill ... WHIO News; Sept. 29, 2009 |
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GOP, Democrats trade charges on health plan
... “Hundreds of billions in new taxes, all of it passed right back to the consumer,” the announcer says over images of a laughing Obama, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi ... boston.com; September 28, 2009 |
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"MediCare for All" Becomes No Care at All
People from Nancy Pelosi to daily bloggers are screaming "MediCare-for-All" as the answer to our health care crisis. Is MediCare the solution for us all? The answer is clear: no. Huffington Post; September 27, 2009 |
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Progressives Press Pelosi To Persevere With the Public Option, Dump The Blue Dogs
I'm happy to see that despite what must be enormous pressure, the House progressive caucus is standing firm on the public option. Not only that, they're pushing Nancy Pelosi to dump the Blue Dogs. Crooks and Liars; 9/22/09 |
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Alan Grayson on the GOP health care 'plan'
It's a very simple plan. Here it is. The Republican health care plan for America: Don't get sick. That's right, don't get sick. If you have insurance, don't get sick. Crooks and Liars; September 30, 2009 |
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Pelosi: House Dems consider insurance tax to fund health care
House Democratic leaders are discussing adding a tax on insurers as a way to reduce the overall price tag of their health care bill. CNN; September 25, 2009 |
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Senate Panel Rejects Bid to Add Drug Discount
... Nancy Pelosi affirmed her support for creating a government insurance plan to compete with private insurers. A public plan would increase competition, lower costs and “save enormous amounts of money” ... NYT; 9/25/09 |
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Senate panel rejects gov't-run insurance option
... Baucus, Conrad and Lincoln joined all Republicans to defeat the proposal on a vote of 13-10. AP; September 29, 2009
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Wilson to Dems: You "mislead"!
Joe Wilson, wallowing in his new found millions, is lending a bit of his unlikely bad-boy appeal to the National Republican Congressional Committee, popping out a fundraising letter blasting Pelosi ... Politico; 9/25/09 |
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Pelosi Stands Against a Trigger
... House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Thursday shot down a healthcare compromise that has been viewed as the best chance for getting a bipartisan bill through the Senate. Politics Plus; September 25, 2009 |
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Speaker Pelosi Is Right About the Trigger
Hill Tube has a video up of Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) talking about the obunlic option “trigger” at yesterday’s news conference. The video does not appear to be embeddable, but ... Heritage Foundation; September 25, 2009 |
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House Democrats considering insurance tax
House Democrats are considering an insurance tax to help pay for their health care overhaul plan, even though such a funding scheme is bitterly opposed by labor unions that are among the party's most loyal ... AP; 9/25/09 |
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Pelosi Says Leaders Consider Tax on ‘Cadillac’ Plans
Nancy Pelosi said Democratic leaders are considering following a Senate panel’s lead and taxing the most-expensive health-insurance plans to help pay for legislation to overhaul the medical-care system. Bloomberg; Sept. 25, 2009 |
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House Weighs 'Cadillac-Plan' Tax
Nancy Pelosi said Friday that House Democrats are weighing a proposal to tax generous health-insurance plans, a step that risks conflict with unions but would help pay for the House's version ... WSJ; September 26, 2009 |
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As Senate Panel Debates Public Option, Groups Take Direct Action to Promote Single Payer
As debate continues over healthcare reform on Capitol Hill, we hear from two groups taking action to call for a single-payer system: Mad As Hell Doctors, who have been driving across the country ... Dem Now! September 29, 2009 |
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Pelosi: House Democrats still drafting final health-care bill
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Thursday House Democrats need further negotiations before bringing a final version of a health care bill to debate before the full chamber. CNN; September 24, 2009 |
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Pelosi Rejects Public Option 'Trigger'
She was wrong, wrong, wrong on the issues of impeachment and investigations ... That said, on the issue of healthcare reform, she's been solid. Griper News; September 24, 2009 |
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Pelosi tries to herd conflicted caucus
It’s Whac-A-Mole time for Speaker Nancy Pelosi. The second one faction retreats, another surfaces with contradictory complaints. Politico; September 24, 2009 |
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Pelosi, Dems ignoring public sentiment on healthcare
Despite the public outcry over President Obama's government-run healthcare plan, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is insistent on pushing through a government health insurance program that works like Medicare. OneNewsHour; 9/24/09 |
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Pelosi: 'Trigger Is An Excuse For Not Doing Anything'
Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) is not ready to accept a trigger option in place of a public option, she said today at a press conference. TPM; September 24, 2009 |
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House Leaders Eye Medicare Tweak To Woo Rural Democrats
... The inclusion of a public option remains one of the most divisive issues for House Democrats as House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., seeks to push health legislation through the House in early October. NASDAQ; 9/24/09 |
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Pelosi Presses for a Public Option
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi stepped up her push for a publicly run health plan that has divided congressional Democrats, saying it could "save enormous amounts of money." WSJ; September 25, 2009 |
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Pelosi backs away from deal with Blue Dogs
Speaker Pelosi is backing away from a deal she cut with centrists to advance health reform, said a source familiar with talks. The Hill; September 22, 2009 |
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Pelosi "hopes" to have a bill next week
Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) told House Democrats on Wednesday that she hopes to have the final version of the House health care bill by the end of next week, people present said afterward. Politico; September 23, 2009 |
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Pelosi in Philly: Keep the public option
Nancy Pelosi said during a visit to Thomas Jefferson University Hospital today that a government-run insurance program must be in the final version of health-care reform, even as other Democratic leaders ... Ph. Inquirer; 9/21/09 |
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Nancy Pelosi Talks Healthcare In Philadelphia
Nancy Pelosi brought the national healthcare debate to Philadelphia on Monday and hinted that a reform bill will be passed within the next few weeks. CBS 3; September 21, 2009 |
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Pelosi to discuss health care at Philly hospital
U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is coming to a Philadelphia hospital to discuss health insurance. Delaware County Daily Times; September 21, 2009 |
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Democrats squabble over who will pay health-care bill
President Barack Obama caught at least one top Democrat by surprise when he told Congress its health care bill should cost less than $900 billion — House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. Politico: September 20, 2009 |
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Curb Your Enthusiasm: Live From Capitol Hill
Rhetoric is just fine until someone gets hurt. This seemed to be the message of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi when asked Thursday about anti-Obama vitriol surrounding health care reform: Huffington Post; September 19, 2009 |
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Congress: Dems building consensus
Joe Wilson said: "[H]e disagrees with Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) that the nation could take a violent turn if the GOP doesn’t tone down its rhetoric in the health care debate." msnbc: September 18, 2009 |
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Nancy Pelosi Warns Of Violence Over Heated Rhetoric, Chokes Up
Nancy Pelosi's eyes watered Thursday as she called for the rhetorical heat to be turned down across the country, and warned that such words can lead to violence ... Huffington Post; September 17, 2009 |
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Pelosi likens healthcare protests to anti-gay rhetoric
The House speaker says some of the language being used reminds her of 1970s San Francisco, when anger led to assassinations. A Republican colleague denounces her comparison. LA Times; September 18, 2009 |
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Key Senator Says He Will Alter Health Proposal
... A similar concern was expressed by health policy experts at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities ... “Subsidies in the Baucus health reform plan would fall short of what is needed for many people ..." NYT; Sept. 21, 2009 |
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Big Insurance: Sick of It
MoveOn.org September 22, 2009 rally site links and sign-up. |
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Health reform's 'gang of 6' reaps political cash
... California is home to some of the House's top leaders, including Pelosi and committee chairs, including Rep. Pete Stark, D-Fremont, and Rep. Henry Waxman, D-Los Angeles. ... SF Gate; September 20, 2009 |
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Baucus and the Threshold
... The insurance industry, of course, loves the Baucus plan. Need we say more? So this plan has to change. What matters now is the direction in which it changes. NYT; September 17, 2009 |
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Workers Chant “Bullshit” About Baucus Bill At AFL-CIO Convention
Any Democrat who thinks that voting for a health care bill with mandates, fines and no public option is a good idea might want to take a look at what happened at the AFL-CIO convention yesterday: FDL; September 17, 2009 |
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We've Seen This Trigger Before
After a summer of politics marked by esoteric phrases like "co-ops" and "insurance exchanges," the newest kernel of ubiquitous arcana is the term "trigger mechanism." Creator's Syndicate/David Sirota; September 11, 2009 |
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Baucuscare: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly
Sen. Max Baucus' health care reform proposal doesn't have any friends on the right or left, and most of the support it does have comes from industry, and industry-backed House Blue Dogs. TPM; September 17, 2009 |
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We're #37
YouTube; Linked on September 17, 2009 |
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Senate health care plan a 'building block'
Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus stood alone Wednesday, delivering his long-awaited health care plan without one Republican at his side and a chilly welcome from House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. SF Gate; Sept. 17, 2009
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Pelosi Cool to Senate Health Care Bill
Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) was lukewarm about Senator Max Baucus' health care proposal today. The speaker showed little enthusiasm for the specifics of the Senate Finance bill and voiced concern that the plan ... CBS; Sept. 17, 2009 |
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Listener Questions on Health Care
Julie Robner answers listener questions about the health care bills. NPR; September 17, 2009 |
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Pelosi hoping for changes to the Baucus proposal
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) welcomed some elements of the health bill unveiled in the Senate on Wednesday, but said she hoped changes would be made to the final package. The Hill; September 16, 2009 |
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Pelosi Still Wants Public Option, but Drops Insistence
Nancy Pelosi released a statement Wednesday about the Baucus health-care proposal. Notably, while she says she still believes a public option is “the best way” to lower costs, she seems to have dropped ... NYT; Sept. 16, 2009 |
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Pelosi chokes up
... Pelosi also vowed in no uncertain terms that "a public option will be in the bill that passes the House," throwing down the gauntlet to Senate moderates who oppose a government-run option ... SF Gate; September 17, 2009 |
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Senators Deny Insurance Company Money Sways Them
As politicos left the Sunday morning talkshows this week, I asked about money in politics, specifically, from insurance and finance ... Snowe: “Nothing to do with the contributions I receive” Washington Stakeout; 9/15/09 |
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Less health! More wealth!
Billionaires for Wealthcare; Linked on September 15, 2009 |
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Billionaires for Wealthcare
Billionaires For Wealthcare; Linked on September 15, 2009 |
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Lawrence O’Donnell: Nancy Pelosi Telling Her Troops They’re Going To Have To Go Forward Without A Public Option
... Jed Lewison also says that while nobody fought harder for the public option than Nancy Pelosi, now she is "telling her troops they’re going to have to go forward without it." Firedoglake; September 13, 2009
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Private health insurance lobbyist throws fundraiser for Nancy Pelosi: Report
One day after Nancy Pelosi softened her stance on a public health option, a lobbyist for one of the country's most prominent private health insurers announced a fundraiser ... The Raw Story; September 14, 2009 |
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Does Pelosi's Softening Rhetoric Spell Doom for the Public Option?
If there's a sign that one faction is winning the tug-of-war between House progressives and conservative Senate Democrats over the public option, it may be coming from the Speaker's office. TPMDC; September 14, 2009 |
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Rachel Maddow: Pulling the trigger on the public option
Maddow and David Sirota expose the 'trigger' for the meaningless diversion that it really is. The Rachel Maddow Show: Linked on September 14, 2009 |
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Where the White House is placing its healthcare bets
... The Democratic base is being represented by Nancy Pelosi and House Dems, who have reported out a bill that includes a public option, want Medicare and Medicaid to have negotiating power, and ... Salon; Sept. 10, 2009 |
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UnitedHealth Purchases Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s Retreat from the Public Option
Kudos to David Sirota for uncovering and reporting this story about House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s corruption and the legalized bribery that controls her and the positions she takes. From the Left; Linked on 9/12/09 |
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Thousands of downtown DC protesters blast Obama
... Others yelled "You lie, you lie!" and "Pelosi has to go," referring to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif. AP; September 12, 2009 |
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Key Democrat sees 'some form' of public option
... The mechanism also might satisfy some liberal Democrats who previously described a public option as a necessity. Nancy Pelosi had argued that a bill wouldn't pass the House without ... CNN; Sept. 11, 2009 |
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AP Top News at 5:26 p.m. EDT
Democratic congressional leaders predicted passage of health care legislation within a few months despite undimmed Republican opposition, claiming momentum ... AP; September 10, 2009 |
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US Rep Pelosi Signals Flexibility On Public Option
U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., signaled flexibility Thursday on the need for a government-run insurance option as part of health-care reform. At a press conference ... EasyBourse.com; Sept. 10, 2009 |
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Five People Who Made Nancy Pelosi's S--t List Last Night
Joe (YOU LIE!!!!) Wilson may be getting all of the attention in Washington today, but who will ever forget that death glare that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi shot Wilson moments after ... Newsweek; September 10, 2009 |
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Pelosi’s ‘Immoral’ Insurers May Gain in Obama Plan
The U.S. health-care overhaul proposed in Congress will do more than impose greater controls on private insurers. It will also swell their profits. Bloomberg; September 11, 2009 |
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Lobbyist registration form of Steven Elmendorf
... LOBBYING ACTIVITY. Select as many codes as necessary to reflect the general issue areas in which the registrant engaged in lobbying on behalf of the client during the reporting period: Health Issues. Linked on 9/11/09 |
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Dems predict health accord
... "I'm confident the president will sign a bill this year," House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said. ... AP; September 11, 2009 |
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Democratic leaders in Congress soften on public option
... Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid ... said they would support any provision that increases competition and accessibility for health insurance –whether or not it is the public option ... CNN; Sept. 11, 2009 |
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EXCLUSIVE: UnitedHealth Lobbyist Announces Pelosi Fundraiser As She Begins Backing Off Pub Option
Nancy Pelosi for the first time yesterday suggested she may be backing off her support of the public option. According to CNN, Pelosi and Harry Reid "said they would support ... increases [in] competition." Open Left; 9/11/09 |
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Baucus’s last health chief? Also a Wellpoint lobbyist.
Last week, I noted that the key Baucus healthcare staffer is a former insurance executive. Now, Liz Fowler’s stint at Wellpoint is getting some more attention, as her electronic fingerprints ... Little Sis; 9/9/10 |
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Obama Urges Lawmakers to Pass Healthcare Bill, But What Will Reform Really Look like?
... Speaker Pelosi has assured Anthony Weiner, a Republic-–pardon me, a Democrat from Brooklyn, that his motion to substitute single payer for the administration’s bill will come to a vote. Dem Now! September 10, 2009 |
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"A Robust Public Option Is Essential”–Progressive Caucus Co-Chair Rep. Grijalva Draws a Line in the Sand on Healthcare Reform
In a televised address, Obama called on Congress last night to take quick action and pass an overhaul of the nation’s healthcare system. Obama defended proposals for a government-run ... Dem Now!; Sept. 10, 2009 |
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Obama Will Emphasize ‘Security,’ Not ‘Public Option,’ in Speech
The public option has been seen as something of a litmus test among many members of Congress. Liberal Democrats like Nancy Pelosi have vowed that no legislation will pass without a government-run ... NYT; 9/9/09 |
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SF Mayor on Pelosi: 'I Don't Think She Wants to See This Thing Blow Up'
... Speaking to ABC News by phone SF Mayor Gavin Newsom said that he thinks [Pelosi] will bring both liberal and moderate House Dems together on around the idea of a public option with a trigger. ABC; 9/9/09 |
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Can Pelosi Win Over Wary Dems on Health Care?
As Congress returned to Washington on Sept. 8, House Democrats spent much of the day trading war stories and tending to one another's wounds from the bruising town halls that dominated their August recess. Time; 9/9/09 |
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Congress: Room for compromise
The Hill and Roll Call noticed, as we did, that congressional liberals, including -- Nancy Pelosi, Steny Hoyer and Jim Clyburn -- showed some room for compromise on the public option. msnbc; September 9, 2009 |
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Father-to-be Newsom's quick D.C. trip
... But when House Speaker Nancy Pelosi called Tuesday night inviting Newsom to attend President Obama's health care speech to Congress, he apparently couldn't say no. SF Gate; September 9, 2009 |
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Why Pelosi Will Be the One to Watch During Obama's Health-Care Speech
Obama’s highly anticipated speech to Congress won’t be must-see TV just because of what he’ll say to lawmakers tonight. Equally, if not more important is the reception he’ll get from Congress ... Newsweek; Sept. 9, 2009 |
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INSTANT VIEW: Obama says time to move on healthcare
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama told Congress on Wednesday "the time for bickering is over" and called for quick action on a comprehensive healthcare overhaul ... Reuters; September 9, 2009 |
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Robert Reich on the Public Option
YouTube; Linked on September 9, 2009 |
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Congress: Back to work
... "Obama’s relationship Pelosi, strained by differences over healthcare, will be tested by their talks on Tuesday in advance of his Wednesday night speech to a joint session of Congress." msnbc; Sept. 8, 2009 |
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Moving away from public option
Washington tea leaves are growing clearer by the hour that the White House is backing off the public option, despite all the remonstrations of Nancy Pelosi that no health care bill can pass without one ... SF Gate; 9/8/09 |
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Why Are These Health Care Fixes Ignored?
Obama and Nancy Pelosi must not be hearing the American people, who seem to be speaking with clarity and passion at town halls and in the polls. Despite concerns about cost, a great number are ... Forbes; Sept. 8, 2009 |
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Hoyer: could back health bill without public option
... Hoyer's comments came a week after the top House Democrat, Speaker Nancy Pelosi, said real change would require a public option, which Republicans, insurance companies and some centrist Democrats oppose. Reuters; 9/8/09 |
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Hoyer: Public option not a deal-breaker
Nancy Pelosi has said repeatedly that she believes the House can't pass a health care reform bill without a robust public option -- but her number two, Steny Hoyer, suggested that wasn't the case ... Politico; 9/8/09 |
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Pelosi: Public option 'essential' for House passage of health care bill
Dem. congressional leaders said today that Pres. Obama did not give them a preview of his big health care speech tomorrow -- but HNancy Pelosi made clear that Obama needs to strongly endorse ... USA Today; 9/8/09 |
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Hoyer Says Public Plan Could Be Dropped
... House majority leader, Steny H. Hoyer seemed again to contradict Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who has said that health care legislation can not pass the House without the so-called public option ... NYT; September 8, 2009 |
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A Bipartisan Plan to Wreck the System
The health-care address President Obama should really give to Congress.
Wall Street Journal; September 8, 2009 |
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Obama Speech Aims To Reenergize Effort
... Obama discussed his address at length with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and Senate Majority Leader Harry M. Reid (D-Nev.) at the White House on Tuesday. ... Wash Post; September 8, 2009 |
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Ahead of Obama Speech, Health Reform Debate Renewed in Congress
...The package would cost an estimated $900 billion over 10 years, and it would mandate most Americans have health insurance or face heavy fines ... News Hour; September 8, 2009 |
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Tell Obama: The public option is not optional.
If we don't make a stand now for a public option, the Obama administration may hedge on its plan for health care reform. CREDO; Linked on September 8, 2009 |
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White House Overwhelmed with Requests for Obama to Meet with "Mad as Hell Doctors" about Single Payer
The "Mad As Hell Doctors" from Oregon are making themselves heard at the Obama Administration with an email campaign that threatened to shut down the White House inbox. PRWeb; September 3, 2009 |
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MoveOn & R.E.M. Video: We Can't Afford to Wait
With the news that some in the White House are considering a "trigger"—a delay tactic designed to kill the public option—it's more important than ever to get the word out ... MoveOn.org & R.E.M.; Linked on 9/8/09 |
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Patience
I am on Nancy Pelosi’s side. I fervently support – actually, have been Secretary of the Board forever – of the San Francisco Interfaith Council, and I desperately want healthcare for all. But patience ... Red Room; 9/7/09 |
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Ohio Dem tangles with district over health care
... One of 52 fiscally conservative "Blue Dog" Democrats, Space has been struggling to convince his district of his moderate work on health care. He has tried to maintain a healthy distance from Nancy Pelosi. AP; 9/7/09 |
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Griffith: Pelosi should debate in a 'rational way'
Democratic leaders should undertake debates on issues in a more "rational way," one recalcitrant centrist Democrat suggested over the weekend. The Hill; September 6, 2009 |
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Nancy Pelosi: No Option, No Bill
Is this really going to come down to a standoff at the OK Corral? Probably, and if so, does President Obama really want to be standing in the middle? ... HealthCare 09; September 4, 2009 |
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Speaker Nancy Pelosi: Public Option Best Way to Control Costs, Promote Competition
Speaker Nancy Pelosi released the following statement on health insurance reform legislation pending before Congress ... One Penny Sheet; Linked on September 8, 2009 |
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Pistol Packin’ Pelosi? finger on healthcare trigger
Nancy Pelosi has put the insurance industry on notice that if congressional Democrats are forced to compromise on a government-run health insurance plan ... get ready for some major fire power. Reuters; 9/3/09 |
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White House's new health care pitch and Pelosi's statement
... “Any real change requires the inclusion of a strong public option to promote competition and bring down costs. If a vigorous public option is not included, it would be a major victory ..." Politico; 9/4/09 |
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First Thoughts: Stuck in the middle
... And on the other hand, the left is demanding it. Yesterday, the House Progressive Caucus, the Congressional Black Caucus, MoveOn, and Nancy Pelosi all released statements calling for its inclusion. msnbc; 9/4/09 |
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Friday Talking Points [92] -- The End Of Silly Season
... Also winning the coveted MIDOTW award is Nancy Pelosi. Politico is reporting that Pelosi may be the public option's best champion on the Hill right now. Headline "Nancy Pelosi: No public option, no bill." Huff Post; 9/4/09 |
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Health care lobbying: Political power machine
The fight over health care overhaul is on track to be the most expensive issue ever to hit the hallways of Congress. CNN; September 8, 2009 |
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Obama's Mistakes in Health Care Reform
... My greatest disappointment is the strategies he is now following in his proposals for health care reform – they could not be worse. I am really concerned ... this may make Obama a one-term president. Counterpunch; 9/7/09 |
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Who's Blocking Health Care Reform Now?
In less than a year, Democrats have transformed themselves from the party of change to the party of excuses. Republican birthers and teapartyers, blue dog Democrats ... Black Agenda; September 2, 2009 |
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Why We Need Government-Run Universal Socialized Health Insurance
YouTube video, linked on September 7, 2009 |
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How Washington is Screwing Up Health Care Reform – and Why It May Take a Revolt to Fix It
Let's start with the obvious: America has not only the worst but the dumbest health care system in the developed world. It's become a black leprosy eating away at the American experiment ... Rolling Stone; September 5, 2009 |
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Pelosi & Congressional Black Caucus Urge Obama Not to Go Soft
From the AFL-CIO to Health Care for America Now to MoveOn.org, President Obama is coming under more and more pressure from progressives on the issue of health-care reform. ABC News; September 3, 2009 |
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It's Time for Obama To Change Course
(4) End Nancy Pelosi's tenure as de facto Prime Minister. The White House's decision to permit Congress to do the bulk of the policymaking - while the President stays on the sidelines ... RealClearProgress; 9/3/09 |
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Triggering a health care deal
Purely coincidentally, my item in today's column on Nancy Pelosi's reaction to Sen. Olympia Snowe's public option "trigger" idea, coincided with sudden media attention ... SF Gate; September 3, 2009 |
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Pelosi Steps Away from Public Option, Slightly
... But today she acknowledged aggressive talks to substitute a "trigger" mechanism that would hold the public option in abeyance for several years so Congress could evaluate ... Fox 'News'; September 3, 2009 |
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Pelosi is a top Republican target in health care fight
The personal attacks on Nancy Pelosi may have hit a low point in August, when Fox News host Glenn Beck joked about adding poison to the House speaker's glass of wine. McClatchey Newspaper; September 3, 2009 |
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Fickle Finger of Fight -- the Rachel Maddow Show
Maddow discusses a fight in California in which anit-reformer (with Medicare) gets tip of finger bitten off and history of Medicare passage. msnbc; September 3, 2009 |
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Fox Pushes Bogus Conspiracy Theory That Nancy ‘Music Czar’ Pelosi Is Banning Patriotic Muzak
Yesterday the right-wing site The New Ledger published a report about House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s (D-CA) “problem” with “patriotic music”. Think Progress; September 2, 2009 |
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Pelosi talks health care at city summit
Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi insists health care reform will include a public option to compete with private insurance coverage. ABC News; September 2, 2009 |
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Obama addresses Joint Session of Congress on Wednesday on health reform
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and Speaker Nancy Pelosi sent the following letter today to President Obama inviting him to address a Joint Session of Congress on Wednesday, September 9, 2009. Chicago Sun Times; 9/2/09 |
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Obama must take the reins of health care reform
Up to this point, Obama’s fellow Democrats — ineptly led by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi — have botched opportunities to provide Americans with simple-to-understand measures that could improve health care. KCS; 9/2/09 |
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Nancy Pelosi: No public option, no bill
As the White House signals that it is willing to move forward on a health reform plan without a public option, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) sent a strong message Thursday evening: not so fast. Politico; 9/4/09 |
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San Francisco Joins National Coordinated Rallies in Support of Healthcare Reform
As Congress wraps up its summer recess, healthcare reform rallies are being held across the nation to call on Congress to pass HR 3200, the Affordable Health Choices Act. FCJ; September 3, 2009 |
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Obama to spend another $2.7 bln to fight H1N1
... n a letter to House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Tuesday, President Barack Obama said there was still uncertainty about the potential severity of any new outbreak. Reuters; September 3, 2009 |
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SCENARIOS: Obama, Democrats face choices in health overhaul
... But liberal Democrats, who see a new government plan as central to reform, dislike the compromise. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi at a news conference in San Francisco on Wednesday ... Reuters; September 3, 2009 |
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Hoyer maintains support for public option
... Last month, Hoyer seemed to contradict House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on the essential ingredients of a health care overhaul package ... AP; September 2, 2009 |
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Dem split on the public option casts doubt on reform of healthcare
... Nancy Pelosi has pledged to include a government-run insurance option in the House bill that will be voted on next month. This reassures liberals but will make it difficult ... to pass. The Hill; 8/31/09 |
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Health Care Deadlock, Explained
... “Both parties understand that the current system is broken,” Nancy Pelosi told reporters Monday. “But what we can’t seem to agree upon is how to best keep it broken ..." From The Onion, reprinted in Harpers; 8/19/09 |
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Bill Maher and Jay Leno opine on American reactions to the public option.
It's up to the public to inform themselves. But, people don't. So, you wind up with [the government] you deserve. – Jay Leno; Real Time with Bill Maher; Linked on August 31, 2009 |
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Joe the Plumber: Nancy Pelosi 'un-American'
Once again, Joe Wurzelbacher has nothing intelligent to add to the discourse -- and yet he gets press time. Don't expect Pelosi Watch to put him on the front page ... Politico; August 28, 2009 |
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RNC "survey" featured in Pelosi's $100k pitch
An RNC "survey" intended to raise cash for the GOP is now the centerpiece of Nancy Pelosi's pitch to create a $100,000 battle fund to fight Republican "smears." Politico; August 28, 2009 |
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Pizarro: Pelosi finds her way to San Jose
Having Nancy Pelosi, the Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, appear at Wednesday's San Jose Rotary Club meeting was about as big as it gets. SJ Mercury News; August 26, 2009 |
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Nancy Pelosi asks for $100K to fight 'smears'
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has launched an urgent effort to raise $100,000 by Monday to help combat what she calls GOP "smears" about health care reform. Politico; August 28, 2009 |
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Business group temporarily suspends health ads
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce said Thursday it is temporarily suspending its television ads that attack the Democratic health care effort, ... since Sen. Edward M. Kennedy's death. AP; August 27, 2009 |
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Has Obama lost the trust of progressives, as Krugman says?
Paul Krugman has an excellent column today arguing that progressives have backlashed so intensely over the prospect of Obama's dropping the public option because ... they no longer trust the President. Salon; 8/21/09 |
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Why the Gang of Six is deciding healthcare for 300 million of us
... At an Iowa town meeting last Tuesday Grassley called the president and Speaker Nancy Pelosi "intellectually dishonest" for claiming the opposite. Salon; August 23, 2009 |
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Pelosi, Hoyer and Daschle do a Three Stooges bit on healthcare
... Why can’t they get their story straight, even within the leadership? Yesterday, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi made clear that any bill missing a public option is intolerable ... Salon; August 21, 2009 |
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Democratic Lawmakers Defend Public Option
... House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and others defended the public insurance plan, saying it is essential to keep the private health insurance companies honest. Democracy Now!; August 18, 2009 |
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Blue Dogs Fill Their Bowls with Cash
Whether the subject is health care reform, climate change, or pay-as-you-go budgeting rules, almost everyone, it seems, suddenly wants to talk with the Blue Dogs. Center for Public Integrity; July 22, 2009 |
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Democrats: Honor Kennedy with health care overhaul
... But outside experts warned that Kennedy's death from brain cancer, though sure to renew Democratic passion for the plan, did little to alter the political realities ... AFP; August 26, 2009 |
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America has lost a great patriot (Speaker Nancy Pelosi)
Today, with the passing of Senator Edward M. Kennedy, the American people have lost a great patriot, and the Kennedy family has lost a beloved patriarch. Official statement; August 26, 2009 |
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Americans pay tribute to Kennedy
Nancy Pelosi said Kennedy had “an unparalleled ability to effect change.” She added, “No one has done more than Senator Kennedy to educate our children, care for our seniors, and ..." CSM; Linked on 8/27/09 |
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Hedrick's rant at Baird health care forum goes viral
David Hedrick has become an instant conservative media celebrity after attacking U.S. Rep. Brian Baird and Rep. Nancy Pelosi at Baird's Aug. 18 health care town hall in Ridgefield. Columbian.com; August 26, 2009 |
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Pelosi Touts Health Care Reform
Health care was one of the topics discussed by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi during a visit to San Jose today. KCBS; August 26, 2009 |
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'Tea party' protesters greet Speaker Nancy Pelosi at San Jose speech
There were skeptics inside, anti-Obama signs outside and pointed questions all around about health care reform. When Nancy Pelosi visited the local Rotary Club on Wednesday ... SJ Merc; August 26, 2009 |
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The Republican Death Panel
... "You gonna drink your wine?...Drink it. Drink it. Drink it...By the way, I put poison in your....(laughs) Nooo." - Glenn Beck joking about poisoning Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi; Huffington Post; August 25, 2009 |
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Gingrey: Obamas, Pelosi should be on public option
Rep. Phil Gingrey said today that the Obama family, Nancy Pelosi and other prominent supporters of health care reform should be some of the first people on the proposed government-run insurance plan. Chattanooga Tx; 8/25/09 |
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Warning: Co-op Kool Aid Is Bad for Your Health
I’m beginning to think that the Kool-Aid being served at meetings of the Senate Finance Committee’s soon-to-be infamous Gang of Six is coming from either fantasy land or the health insurance industry. Common Dreams; 8/22/09 |
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This Isn’t Reform, It’s Robbery
Capitalists, as my friend Father Michael Doyle says, should never be allowed near a health care system. They hold sick children hostage as they force parents to bankrupt themselves ... Truthdig; August 24, 2009 |
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All the President’s Zombies
The debate over the “public option” in health care has been dismaying in many ways. Perhaps the most depressing aspect for progressives, however, has been the extent to which opponents ... NYT; August 24, 2009 |
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T.R. Reid: Looking Overseas For 'Healing Of America'
T.R. Reid points out in his new book, all the developed countries except the U.S. have decided that every human being has a basic right to health care. Fresh Air, NPR; August 24, 2009 |
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Health care plan tests Pelosi's leadership
... Selling the plan has proven to be a tough balancing act, and a test of Pelosi's leadership. How she steers the process could help define her legacy. AP; August 23, 2009 |
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Boycott Whole Foods
Linked on August 22, 2009. |
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Pelosi: No Health Care Bill Without Public Option
... Nancy Pelosi reminded everyone yesterday why it's important to still be watching what the House will do as well, especially if the Senate passes a version of the health care bill that does not include ... CBS; 8/21/09 |
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House Democrats Tussle Over Public Plan
Steny Hoyer suggested on Friday that a public insurance option might have to be discarded to ensure health care legislation is approved, a day after Nancy Pelosi said the House would not pass a package ... NYT; 8/21/09 |
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Pelosi: Health bill must have public option to pass House
Nancy Pelosi sent a clear message Thursday to congressional negotiators on the health-care bill — dropping the public option would destroy any chance for comprehensive reform. CNN Political Ticker; August 20, 2009 |
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Left flexes muscles on healthcare reform
... Heading into the August recess, having just quelled a rebellion by centrist Blue Dog Democrats, Nancy Pelosi was clearly banking that liberals wouldn’t dare take down a healthcare bill. The Hill; August 20, 2009 |
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Pelosi: No bill without public option
Foreshadowing a House-Senate showdown, Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Thursday there is "no way" the House can pass a health care bill without a government-run insurance option. Politico; August 20, 2009 |
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Pelosi: House health bill needs public plan
A health overhaul bill that doesn't include a new public insurance plan won't pass the House, Speaker Nancy Pelosi said at a Thursday press conference. Chico Enterprise-Record; August 20, 2009 |
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Pelosi Says She Can’t Pass Bill Without Public Option
Nancy Pelosi said she won’t be able to pass health-care legislation in her chamber if the measure doesn’t include a government-run insurance plan to compete with private insurers. Bloomberg; August 20, 2009 |
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We will not shout our way to consensus
Nancy Pelosi was plainly wrong to attack the protesters as ``un-American.'' The White House strategy of dismissing them has long since been proved unwise. ... Miami Herald; August 19, 2009 |
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Bring on the co-op!
... they must be great! If Nancy Pelosi is against them, sign me up. Examiner; August 19, 2009 |
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Sen. Grassley Calls Obama, Pelosi 'Intellectually Dishonest'
One of the leading Senate Republicans working on the bipartisan healthcare reform bill has labeled President Barack Obama and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi “intellectually dishonest” NewsMax; August 19, 2009 |
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Obama health care pitch to 1,000 rabbis, 140,000 other clergy in mega conference calls
... The Republican National Committee is calling this outreach to the "religious left." House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is meeting with religious leaders in San Francisco tomorrow. Chicago Sun Times; August 19, 2009 |
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Sanford Bishop at town hall meeting: His vote not Pelosi's, Obama's, but people of second district
U.S. Rep. Sanford Bishop told more than 530 people at a town hall meeting he had not made up his mind on how he would vote on health care reform legislation. Ledger-Enquirer; August 19, 2009 |
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Why Are The Drug and Health Insurance Companies Smiling?
An important objective of meaningful health care reform is cost control. Pres. Obama’s sweetheart deal with the drug companies to provide meaningful competition ... FCJ; August 21, 2009 |
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The Obstacles to Real Health Care Reform: Private Insurers and Big PhRMA
In almost the same breath on August 17, the White House effectively dropped a real public option (that likely never existed) while Obama was telling the Veterans of Foreign Wars ... FCJ; August 21, 2009 |
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Pelosi pushes public option for health care
With the battle over health care reform heating up over the issue of a public insurance option, Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Thursday that the House must pass an overhaul that includes a public option. SF Gate; 08/21/09 |
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Setting the Record Straight
It seems like a new lie about health insurance reform crops up each day. These lies create fear and anger – and we're seeing the results around the country. Linked on August 19, 2009 |
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The Whole Foods Alternative to ObamaCare
Rather than increase gov't spending and control, we need to address the root causes of poor health. This begins with the realization that every American adult is responsible for his or her own health. WSJ; August 11, 2009 |
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Barney Frank Unleashed At Town Hall
We may have a new benchmark for raucousness at congressional town hall meetings. NPR; August 19, 2009 |
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Republican Senator Jim DeMint on Stopping Health Care Reform
... Well, you wouldn't know it, judging from the harsh comments out of the president's more liberal backers today, including ... Nancy Pelosi just saying the public option is still the best option ... FOX; August 18, 2009 |
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House liberals harden line
... But there's probably only one member whose vote on what emerges from conference matters: Nancy Pelosi, a strong leader whose record of getting the votes she wants ... is pretty well proven. Politico; August 18, 2009 |
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Grassley Calls Obama and Pelosi ‘Intellectually Dishonest’
Senator Charles E. Grassley, Republican of Iowa, called President Obama and Speaker Nancy Pelosi “intellectually dishonest” on Tuesday, saying that Democrats were using the flap over end-of-life consultations ... NYT; 8/18/09 |
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Keep Off the Astroturf
... “We call it ‘Astroturf,’ ” Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi said of the protesters at town-hall meetings. “It’s not really a grass-roots movement.” ... Is this Astroturf? NYT: August 18, 2009 |
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Public Option Called Essential
... Nancy Pelosi said that the [public option plan will be included in whatever bill is voted on in the House. "There is strong support in the House for a public option," she said ... Washington Post; August 18, 2009 |
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Health Care as a Civil Right
... If Nancy Pelosi can't break Rahm Emanuel's promise to Big Pharma's Billy Tauzin this year, she can try to break it in the future. ... Nothing in Washington is ever set in stone. Newsweek; August 15, 2009 |
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Joe The Plumber Says He Would ‘Beat The Livin’ Tar’ Out Of Pelosi
This past weekend, at the right wing’s RightOnline blogger conference in Pittsburgh — sponsored by Americans for Prosperity — Alternet’s Adele Stan reported that Joe “the Plumber” Wurzelbacher ... Think Progress; 8/17/09 |
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Pelosi strongly supports public option
Right on cue, Nancy Pelosi, a vocal backer of the public option, offered this statement in support of government-sponsored health coverage ... Politico; August 17, 2009 |
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"Un-American" charge improperly cited?
... Pelosi and Hoyer wrote "These disruptions are occurring because opponents are afraid not just of differing views -- but of the facts themselves. Drowning out opposing views is simply un-American."KCS; 8/17/09 |
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Pelosi: 'Strong support' for public option in House
As President Obama seemed to signal that a public insurance plan would not be a make-or-break issue for his health care proposal, Nancy Pelosi said Monday there is still "strong support" ... CNN; August 17, 2009 |
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House Dem: Pelosi's Insurance Comments "Misguided"
Democrats are increasingly taking aim at the insurance industry, but one Democrat reportedly says Nancy Pelosi went too far when she referred to the industry as "villains." CBS; August 14, 2009 |
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Pelosi praised the 'disruptors' back in '06
Speaker Nancy Pelosi was once a fan of angry protesters at public events — when her party was in the minority. Politico; August 14, 2009 |
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Lawmaker predicts no health overhaul this year
A Pennsylvania lawmaker who is a close ally of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi says it's looking unlikely that Congress will pass health care overhaul legislation this year. AP; August 14, 2009 |
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Nix the Nazi talk: Rush ought to be ashamed
... Limbaugh's excuse? He's fighting back at Nancy Pelosi, who said of hecklers at a town hall meeting: "They're carrying swastikas and symbols like that to a town meeting on health care." Chicago Sun Times; 8/13/09 |
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Nancy Pelosi Un-American on Single Payer
Nancy Pelosi last week claimed that “drowning out opposing views is simply un-American.” If that’s true, then Nancy Pelosi, is un-American. She taken single payer off the table. Single Payer Action; 8/13/09
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Dick Armey obfuscates in defense of health insurance profits
Calls Nancy Pelosi a rabble rouser. Rachel Maddow on MSNBC; August 17, 2009 |
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60 Members of Congress Say “No Public Plan, No Conference”
Today in Politico, a "House leadership official" says that liberals will get a kabuki vote on a public plan when the health care bill goes through the House the first time ... FDL; August 17, 2009 |
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White House appears ready to drop 'public option'
Bowing to Republican pressure, President Barack Obama's administration signaled on Sunday it is ready to abandon the idea of giving Americans the option of government-run insurance ... SF Gate; August 16, 2009 |
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Top Five Health Care Reform Lies
Lie number 6: The current plan will not force you to pay out of pocket to get private insurance or pay a tax if you are not otherwise covered and make more than 300% of the poverty level. FCJ; August 15, 2009 |
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“You Do Not Cut Deals with the System that Has to Be Replaced”
Ralph Nader on Secret White House Agreements with the Drug Industry;
The Obama administration admitted last week it promised to oppose proposals to let the government negotiate ... Democracy Now! August 14, 2009 |
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Pay or die
Our for-profit health system is one big death panel. ... SF Chronicle; August 14, 2009 |
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Vocal foes rally outside health care town hall as Obama denies 'death panel'
One man carried a sign that read "Obama Pelosi = Mein Kampf," a reference to Adolf Hitler's anti-Semitic political treatise. New York Daily News; Augusgt 12, 2009 |
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Town hall torment
... The conduct and claims are ridiculous. Just as bad are the responses. Speaker Nancy Pelosi has called health insurers "almost immoral" and "villains" last week. SF Chronicle; August 11, 2009 |
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S.F. provides Pelosi shelter from D.C. storm
Nancy Pelosi barnstormed through her home turf of San Francisco on Monday, touting the city as a crucible of innovation and a home for model social programs ... SF Gate; August 11, 2009 |
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Debate heats up on healthcare for illegal immigrants
House Speaker Pelosi has said that they would not be covered under overhaul proposals, but activists say medical care should not be denied to the sick, no matter their status. Los Angeles Times; August 11, 2009 |
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Morning Fix: Republicans Go After Democratic Base in N.J.
National Republicans are going up with television and radio ads targeting two pillars of the Democratic base -- Hispanics and environmentally-minded voters ... Washington Post; August 11, 2009 |
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Town halls draw tough crowds for some politicians
An American institution, the once-revered town hall meeting, has become a central front in the health care battles of 2009. It's gotten there through a combustible mix of partisanship, technology ... USAT; August 11, 2009 |
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'Un-American' attacks can't derail health care debate
Americans have been waiting for nearly a century for quality, affordable health care. Health coverage for all was on the national agenda as early as 1912 ... USA Today; August 10, 2009 |
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Pelosi, Hoyer call disruption of town hall meetings 'un-American'
Nancy Pelosi and Steny Hoyer, insisting at the start of a long and politically heated summer congressional recess that health care reform can be achieved this fall ... Baltimore Sun; August 10, 2009 |
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Pelosi/Hoyer: Town hall distruptions 'un-American'
Is calling the protesters at your event "un-American" the best political path? Nancy Pelosi and Steny Hoyer think so, with their op-ed in this morning's USA Today ... Politico; August 10, 2009 |
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Pelosi and Hoyer Try to Shush the Shouters
The two top Democrats, Nancy Pelosi and Steny Hoyer, have escalated the war of words over health care reform, calling some of the behavior ... at town hall events across the country “un-American.” NYT; August 10, 2009 |
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What Is In This Healthcare Bill Anyway?
White House spokesperson Robert Gibbs was right to compare the recent mob scenes outside health care town hall meetings across the country to the Brooks Brothers Brigade ... News Junkie Post; August 10, 2009 |
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An Unhealthy Debate
... Congressional Democrats lash out at what House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) described as "villainous" health insurers making "immoral profits." Washington Post; August 9, 2009 |
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Universal Healthcare: A Necessary Headache
In belated response to Stephen Jones and Rebecca Bowe’s incisive article in the San Francisco Bay Guardian about the push for universal healthcare, I feel like I should weigh in. FCJ; August 10, 2009 |
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Health Care: A Right, Not a Privilege
Unfortunately, health care in the United States is a privilege, not a right. Opponents of health care insurance reform prefer the status quo. FCJ; August 7, 2009 |
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Transcript: Newt Gingrich and Howard Dean
... LIMBAUGH: There are far more similarities between Nancy Pelosi and Adolf Hitler than between these people showing up at town halls to protest a Hitler-like policy. ... ABC Transcript; August 9, 2009 |
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A deal with bad side effects
One of the more unsettling revelations about the health care reform talks in Washington was that the Obama admin. quietly made a deal with the pharmaceutical industry to cap its cost savings ... SF Gate; August 10, 2009 |
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Democrats Find Rallying Points on Health Reform, but Splinters Remain
Democrats leave town for the August recess with frayed nerves and fragile agreements on health-care reform, and a new bogeyman to fire up their constituents: the insurance industry. Washington Post; August 3, 2009 |
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As recess begins, the heat is on
Before rank-and-file House Democrats bolted for summer break last week, Speaker Nancy Pelosi gave them each a three-by-eight-inch pocket card and told them never to leave home without it. Reuters; August 3, 2009 |
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MoveOn copies Club for Growth; Pelosi to vist SF General
... Pelosi will hold a roundtable tomorrow, Tuesday, at San Francisco General Hospital at 10 a.m. followed by a news conference at 10:30. SF Gate; August 3, 2009 |
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Pelosi to fight for health care bill during recess
As tourists in flip-flops snapped photos of the sign above her Capitol office last week, Nancy Pelosi spent 14-hour days mediating a sprawling health care bill among the warring factions of her 256 Democrats. SF Gate; 8/2/09 |
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Pelosi Agrees to Allow a Vote on Single-Payer
After angering the liberal wing of her party over compromises made to conservative Democrats, Nancy Pelosi has decided to allow a floor vote later this year on a plan creating a single-payer ... AllGov; August 2, 2009 |
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Senate Putting a Chill on Health Care Reform? Pelosi thinks so
Nancy Pelosi thinks so. Pelosi, speaking to a group of reporters in her office, was asked about the slow pace of the Senate Finance Committee ... Washington Examiner; August 2, 2009 |
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Pelosi lashes out against insurance companies
Nancy Pelosi on Thursday ramped up her criticism of insurance companies, accusing them of unethical behavior and working to kill a plan to create a new government-run health plan. Reuters; July 31, 2009 |
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Pelosi Outlines August Plan Of Attack
Nancy Pelosi outlined a doubled-edged message for selling health care reform in August: one part pro-consumer and the second, attacking the health insurance industry ... Huffington Post; August 1, 2009 |
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Pelosi To Allow Floor Vote On Single-Payer Healthcare Plan
Nancy Pelosi said she would allow a floor vote later this year on a single-payer option for healthcare reform after Rep. Anthony Weiner, D-NY, agreed to remove an amendment he proposed ... The Public Record; 7/31/09 |
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For Pelosi, Recess Means Selling Health Plan
Nancy Pelosi eturned home to San Francisco this weekend carrying a red, white and blue pocket card that will help guide her through the August recess. The card lists talking points ... Washington Post; August 2, 2009 |
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Pelosi's pocketful of miracles
Nancy Pelosi, whatever her other capacities, demonstrated last month that she is a master of haiku. Regarding the health care bill, she crafted the following haiku ... Pittsburgh Tribune; August 2, 2009 |
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Pelosi Faults McConnell for Parroting ‘Immoral’ Health Insurers
Nancy Pelosi accused Republican Senate Leader Mitch McConnell of parroting falsehoods about the Democrats’ health-care plans fed by an “immoral” insurance industry bent on protecting ... Bloomberg; August 1, 2009 |
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Pelosi’s Secret Weapon in Health Care Debate: Chocolate
The House speaker, Nancy Pelosi of California, unveiled her party’s battle plan on Friday for selling major health care legislation during the August recess. NYT; July 31, 2009 |
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Pelosi doesn't gaurantee Blue Dog provisions
Nancy Pelosi indicated Friday that some of the most hard-fought provisions of the healthcare bill, including parts meant to appease conservative Democrats, could change by the time ... The Hill; July 31, 2009 |
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Pelosi’s new tack on healthcare - target big insurance
With public support for healthcare reform losing steam, House Democrats head home for the August break with a new theme: Hold insurance companies accountable. CSM; July 31, 2009 |
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Key House committee passes health care bill
A key House committee passed comprehensive health care reform legislation Friday, moving President Obama's domestic priority one step closer to congressional approval. CNN; July 31, 2009 |
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Nancy Pelosi outlines August plan of attack
Nancy Pelosi outlined a doubled-edged message for selling health care reform in August: one part pro-consumer and the second, attacking the health insurance industry with the same passion ... Politico; July 31, 2009 |
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Pelosi bites hand that feeds her?
Over the past few days, with the healthcare reform debate raging in Congress, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has lit into the U.S. insurance industry. Reuters; July 31, 2009 |
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Pelosi agrees to key aspect of health care deal
Nancy Pelosi signed off Thursday on a key component of a health care deal reached with conservative Democrats earlier in the week, potentially paving the way for a new consensus ... CNN; July 30, 2009 |
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Some Dems Feel Betrayed by Health Deal
Nancy Pelosi spent half of Wednesday finalizing a deal with the Blue Dogs - and the other half quelling a brewing rebellion among progressives who think conservatives have hijacked ... CBS News; July 30, 2009 |
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Pelosi health care talking points for August
Nancy Pelosi issued health care talking points this morning for members sure to face a month-long barrage of questions, fueled by hourly barrages from the GOP under the general headline "Chaos." SF Gate; 7/30/09 |
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Pelosi Defends Health Care Deal as Work Resumes
As the House Energy and Commerce Committee resumed its markup Thursday of a health care overhaul, Speaker Nancy Pelosi defended the deal struck with some of the panel’s conservative Democrats. CQ Politics; 7/30/09 |
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Pelosi’s biggest healthcare task: holding her party together
The massive healthcare overhaul has made managing the Democratic Party a much tougher assignment. Nancy Pelosi is facing a revolt on both ends of her caucus this week. CSM; July 30, 2009 |
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Tobey Maguire Asks Nancy Pelosi For More Vegetarian School Lunches
It looks like Spiderman is taking on his toughest battle yet: getting schools to serve more lunches with fruits, vegetables, and low-fat vegetarian meals. Ecorazzi; July 29, 2009 |
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Waiting for white smoke from Pelosi's office
Seven hours of negotiations took place yesterday in House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's office, with Pelosi, Rep. Henry Waxman and White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel trying to rein in seven Blue Dogs. SF Gate; July 29, 2009 |
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“Where’s Nancy?”; Pelosi Silent While CA Health Care Crumbles
AIDS Healthcare Foundation ... is criticizing Pelosi today for her silence as Gov. Schwarzenegger cuts more than $243 million from Health and Human Services ... Business Wire; July 29, 2009 |
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The Pelosi Jobs Tax
Even many Democrats are revolting against Pelosi’s 5.4% income surtax to finance ObamaCare, but another tax in her House bill isn’t getting enough attention. To wit, the up to 10-percentage point payroll tax. WSJ; 7/30/09 |
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No floor vote in House on health care until Sept.
Democrats say the full House won't vote on sweeping health care legislation until September. AP; July 29, 2009 |
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Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid -- we need leadership on healthcare
Now, as we look back over the last three years, what is the tough legislation that Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi have guided through Congress? Nothing. Daily Kos; July 28, 2009 |
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The House Gets a Dose Of Its Own Medicine
They held the tutorial in the Capitol basement. The leadership had set aside five hours, from 4 to 9 p.m. Monday, with one break for procedural votes upstairs. Washington Post; July 29, 2009 |
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Rowdy protesters overrun health care meetings
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi sent her chamber home for the summer recess with a list of talking points to respond to constituents' questions about pending health care legislation. SF Gate; August 6, 2009 |
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Obama's day: The China card and sports
... Political and economic challenges remain, though Speaker Nancy Pelosi vows to bring a health care bill to the floor. Pelosi, by the way, doesn't care about popularity. USA Today; July 27, 2009
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Can Pelosi Deliver on Health?
As the health care debate rages on Capitol Hill, it also rages among our Readers Who Comment, who are as fully engaged in this subject as they were on the presidential election or the war in Iraq. USA Today; 7/27/09 |
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Pelosi’s Arrogance of Power
Confronted with her epically low poll numbers, Nancy Pelosi has declared herself unconcerned. As Politico’s analysis makes clear, Pelosi has no need to be concerned ... PoliGazette; July 27, 2009 |
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Pelosi says moving closer on U.S. healthcare revamp
Nancy Pelosi said on Monday lawmakers were "moving closer" to an agreement on healthcare reform but would not predict if a vote was possible before the monthlong August recess. Reuters; July 27, 2009 |
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Key Lawmakers Restart Health-Care Talks
As her caucus entered a marathon discussion, Nancy Pelosi told reporters that House Dems are wary of voting on the controversial legislation until they see what the Senate will consider. Wash Post; 7/27/09 |
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Senators Progress as House Delays Again on Health Bill
“We’re on schedule either to do it now or to do it whenever,” said Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who had hoped to win approval in the full House by the end of this week. NYT; July 27, 2009 |
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Wider Employer-Provided Coverage Projected Under House Plan
The Congressional Budget Office, answering questions by Republican critics of the health care legislation proposed by House Democrats, said on Sunday that the bill would drive 9 million people ... NYT; July 27, 2009 |
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AP sources: Senate group omits employer mandate
After weeks of secretive talks, a bipartisan group in the Senate edged closer Monday to a health care compromise that omits two key Democratic priorities ... AP; July 27, 2009 |
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Commentary: Health care debate must include farmers
... "It is really historic. It's transformation. It's momentous," Pelosi said. The best part of the bill is an amendment by Rep. Kucinich that would allow states to experiment ... McClatchey; July 24, 2009
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Pelosi: When I take health care bill to the floor, 'it will win'
In a wide-ranging interview set to air Sunday on CNN’s State of the Union, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi predicted success in her chamber on health care reform legislation. CNN Political Ticker; July 25, 2009 |
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Friday Funny: Nancy Pelosi’s Math
Sometimes a joke can actually be a real event. Note the number of jobs that Speaker Pelosi says the stimulus bill would save. How many people live in the US? Chicago Daily Observer; July 24, 2009 |
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Washington Sketch: Pelosi, Video, Lobbyists, More
Post columnist Dana Milbank serves as the capital's foremost critic of political theater in his Washington Sketch columns, videos and blog posts. Washington Post; July 24, 2009 |
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UPDATE 1-US's Waxman: Medicare rates offer to conservatives
"This proposal, worked through by the Speaker and members who participated, would address that matter by solving the disparities within Medicare for all regions of the country," Rep. Waxman said. Reuters; 7/24/09 |
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Pelosi-Hoyer tension on health care vote? UPDATED
The health care debate has sprouted an oldie-but-goodie storyline -- rising tensions between House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and her No. 2, Steny Hoyer over legislative tactics. Politico; July 24, 2009 |
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The 'new' new tax on the rich
... But House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., this week began pushing for the surtax to apply only to singles making more than $500,000 and couples making more than $1 million. CNN; July 26, 2009 |
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Is The White House Better Off Without A Plan On Health Care?
Nancy Pelosi has said she's not afraid of August--"It's a month"--but it may be better for her, and for Obama, that opponents of reform don't have anything from the Finance Committee to dissect. The Atlantic; 7/24/09 |
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U.S. Senate to miss healthcare August deadline
... But Obama's ultimate goal is to sign a final bill by the end of the year, and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said she was "more confident than ever" that Congress would meet that timetable. ... Reuters; July 23, 2009 |
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Pelosi and Blue Dog Democrats fail to agree on health care plan
While President Obama pitched his health care reform plans in Ohio, Nancy Pelosi and the Blue Dog Democrats failed to reach agreement on the bill's details and announced that they would not make Obama's deadline. Digital Journal; July 23, 2009 |
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Pelosi Puts Onus on Industry
Nancy Pelosi said Thursday that she doesn't feel bound by the $235 billion in deals that the White House and the Senate Finance Committee cut with hospital and pharmaceutical companies ... Wash Post; July 24, 2009 |
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Pelosi: Congress Should Work Through Recess
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-California) on Wednesday said she's open to keeping the House in session through the August recess to pass its health care overhaul. Truthout.org; July 22, 2009 |
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Pelosi claims votes to pass health care
Speaker Nancy Pelosi says Democrats have the votes to pass health care legislation in the House, even though negotiations are under way to make changes in the bill to satisfy some of its critics. Wash Post; 7/22/09 |
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Democrats Aligned with Abortion-Rights Opponents Receive Money From Them
... Tuesday evening, five centrist Democrats wrote to Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) with a compromise that would allow insurers to continue to decide ... Open Secrets; July 22, 2009 |
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Leading Blue Dog Democrat: Pelosi Does Not Have the Votes for Health Care Reform
Nancy Pelosi today insisted everything is smooth sailing with the House bill that would require every American to have health insurance or pay a fine; create a government run health plan ... ABC News; July 22, 2009 |
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Pelosi Says Health Care Bill Is Still on Track
The House speaker, Nancy Pelosi, said Wednesday that Democrats remained on track to reach a deal on major health care legislation. But she acknowledged ... NYT; July 22, 2009 |
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Nancy Pelosi on Health-Care Reform
Earlier today, in an interview with three reporters, Speaker Nancy Pelosi said health-care reform would pass the House and that it would include a public plan. Washington Post; July 22, 2009 |
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Obama shifts focus in health care debate
The president echoed arguments that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-San Francisco, made Wednesday as she showcased men and women who bought insurance but were bankrupted by major illnesses. SF Gate; July 23, 2009 |
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Bitter medicine
... Henry Waxman (D-LA, who chairs the House Energy and Commerce Committee, received a total of $1.4 million [from the health industry], while Nancy Pelosi (D-SF) received $1.2 million. SFBG; July 22, 2009 |
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Healthcare 101
... What is missing in this discussion is the concept of a single-payer healthcare solution, such as HR 676, which would expand Medicare to all Americans without sacrificing quality of care. FCJ; July 23, 2009 |
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Healthcare Reform: Blue Dog Dems Corrupted by Big Pharma Contributions?
Whether the subject is health care reform, climate change, or pay-as-you-go budgeting rules, almost everyone, it seems, suddenly wants to talk with the Blue Dogs. Center for Public Integrity; July 23, 2009 |
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Democrats divided on health care overhaul
"No one wants to tell the speaker that she's moving too fast and they damn sure don't want to tell the president," Rep. Charles Rangel, D-N.Y., a key committee chairman, told ... AP: July 21, 2009 |
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Obama to hit airwaves as health care plan wanes
A scathing assessment of the House legislation by the Congressional Budget Office has fueled public skepticism ... SF Gate; July 22, 2009 |
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Pelosi weighs limiting new surtax to million-dollar households
An aide to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi confirms to CNN that, in attempt to quell a revolt among conservative Democrats, she is considering changing ... CNN Political Ticker; July 20, 2009 |
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Republican National Committee puts pressure on moderate Democrats on health care
... Steele lumped Obama into what he called a health care “cabal” with the less-popular Democratic leaders of the House and Senate, Speak Pelosi and Majority Leader Reid ... Politico; July 20, 2009 |
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Why not single payer?
In a Q-and-A recently posted on the Web site Crooks & Liars, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi responded to one of the questions by saying, "For 30 years I have supported a single-payer plan ..." Baltimore Sun; 7/20/09 |
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Pelosi open to healthcare surcharge change
U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi says she's rethinking a surcharge on the wealthy to pay for healthcare to include only families making $1 million or more. UPI; July 20, 2009 |
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Smelling blood, Steele and RNC escalate assault on Obama's healthcare plan
Any time in modern American politics that you hear a member of one party praise a member of another party -- turncoat Arlen Specter asid ... LA Times; July 20???, 2009 |
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Democrats May Limit Tax Increase for Health Plan
The House speaker, Nancy Pelosi, suggested revising the tax-raising provisions, one of the most contentious parts of the House bill, which would impose a surtax on high-income households. NYT; July 20, 2009 |
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Healthcare reform: More raw deal than New Deal
... Unfortunately, the Obama admin. and Congress appear intent on giving us a version of pay-or-play, which, ... from the point of view of advocates ... is the worst strategic option for healthcare. Salon; 7/21/09 |
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Pelosi Proposes Millionaire's Tax
Who will pay for nationalized health care? Politico reports that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi wants it to be the millionaires. The Daily Beast; July 20, 2009 |
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Obama's team weighs in on healthcare overhaul
"This is the legislative process," Pelosi said. "As the bill takes shape, people say, 'OK.' ... They say, 'Here are some suggestions. We have to go to the next step.' ... " LA Times; july 18, 2009 |
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Q&A: House Speaker Nancy Pelosi tackles healthcare overhaul questions
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, the San Francisco Democrat, is trying to rally her caucus behind complex legislation to overhaul the nation’s healthcare system, President Obama’s top domestic priority. LA Times; Linked on 7/20/09 |
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Examiner Opposes Health Care for All, Per Usual
Determined to bring American health care down to the level of that in Canada and England, President Obama and Speaker Nancy Pelosi are going to cram it down the throats of the public ... Examiner; July 19, 2009 |
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Dallas Morning news LTTE
Now that the Democrats are pushing this great health care bill, are Nancy Pelosi and her cohorts going to sign up for it so that it will provide these great benefits for them and their families? DMN; July 18, 2009 |
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Pelosi's official YouTube channel
Linked on July 20, 2009. |
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White House Moves To Calm Health Care Bill Fears
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi didn't seem too thrilled with the idea, either, at her news conference Friday. NPR; July 18, 2009 |
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House Dems: Health Care Bill Will Pass
... "Over 100,00 people will have health insurance who didn't have it before," said Speaker Nancy Pelosi. Real Clear Politics; July 17, 2009 |
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House Democratic leaders pledge healthcare progress
"Congress has made historic progress on health insurance reform that will put patients and doctors back in charge," House Speaker Nancy Pelosi told a news conference ... Reuters; July 17, 2009 |
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Obama to Congress: Don't lose heart on health care
... Given the complexities, as well as fresh calls for delay in the Senate, Nancy Pelosi ... opened the door to pushing off a vote past the early August timeline she and Obama laid out weeks ago. AP; July 17, 2009 |
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Is Closing Military Bases a Model for Controlling Medicare Costs?
... Peter Orszag, who runs the Office of Management and Budget, today sent Nancy Pelosi a piece of legislation that would create a new council to make recommendations on Medicare payment rates ... WSJ; July 17, 2009 |
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ObamaCare Breaks the Bank
... House speaker Nancy Pelosi said earlier this week: “I believe that all of the cost of the health care reform bill can come from squeezing more saving out of the system.” WSJ; July 17, 2009 |
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Single Payer Advocates Protest Sebelius' San Francisco Appearance
Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius was guest speaker at Nancy Pelosi's $500-per-plate “Ultimate Women’s Power Lunch" on June 22 ... Indy Bay; June 24, 2009 |
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Bill Moyers: Donna Smith on Single Payer
Guest Donna Smith, of the California Nurses Association, discusses single payer health care and how Sen. Max Baucus is compromised by being the 3rd largest recipient of $ from the HC industry. Linked on 5/24/09 |
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Pelosi Pledges Continued Support In HIV/AIDS Fight
Nancy Pelosi said Wednesday that the government's commitment to fighting AIDS remains strong, despite a lower sense of public urgency about the issue. RTT News; May 13, 2009 |
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Obama says House looks to back healthcare in July
... Pelosi, speaking before Obama, vowed healthcare legislation would be on the floor of the House by the end of July. Reuters; May 15, 2009 |
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$1.5 Billion Request for Flu-Fighting Money Aimed at Long-Term Needs
...The letter sent by President Obama to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Tuesday is being considered as part of this year's war funding supplemental. ... Fox News; April 30, 2009 |
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Pelosi announces health center funding at Hollywood clinic
Nancy Pelosi visited a struggling Hollywood health clinic Monday to put a positive spin on the federal government's massive spending plan, days after protesters decried government largess. ... Miami Herald; April 21, 2009 |
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Pelosi visits UCSF's stem cell lab
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi paid a visit a stem cell lab at the University of California San Francisco on Friday. abc; April 17, 2009 |
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Democrats Consider Bypassing G.O.P. on Health Care Plan
With solid majorities in both houses of Congress, Democrats are tempted to use their political muscle to speed passage of health care legislation with minimal concessions to the Republican minority. NYT; 4/22/09 |
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Pelosi rebuts critics of stem cell research
Nancy Pelosi forcefully responded to conservative critics of government funding for programs like stem cell research Friday, saying that under Bush, "We've had a situation where it's faith or science." SF Chron; 4/18/09 |
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Pelosi says Congress must enact ambitious health care, energy bills this year
The passage of the Obama administration's $3.5 trillion budget this week means Congress must enact health care reform and an energy bill capping emissions this year, Nancy Pelosi said Friday. SJ Merc; April 3, 2009 |
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Obama health care road show coming to state
President Obama's road show on health care reform is coming to California on Monday. SF Chron; April 5, 2009 |
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Baucus, Pelosi clash on health care
Nancy Pelosi says she's still committed to using a procedural trick to fast-track health care reforms this year — despite opposition from Sen. Max Baucus ... Politico; March 26, 2009 |
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Pelosi: Obama Scraps Idea of Billing Veterans’ Private Insurance for Treating Service-Related Injuries
Nancy Pelosi announced on Wednesday that Pres. Obama is shelving a controversial proposal that would have forced the private health insurance of veterans to pay for their service-related injuries. CNS; 3/18/09 |
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Obama dropping vets insurance proposal
... News of the change of heart originally came from Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, who disclosed the decision to reporters while meeting with a group of veterans on Capitol Hill. CNN; March 18, 2009 |
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A Start on Health Care Reform
President Obama has shown both courage and sound judgment pressing for quick action on comprehensive health care reform, even in the midst of the country’s deep economic crisis. NYT; March 7, 2009 |
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Sick in the Head: Why America won't get the health-care system it needs
When Congress is in session, John Conyers holds a regular public meeting at the Rayburn House Office Building, where, if you happen to be interested in health policy ... Harper's Magazine; February 2009 |
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As Obama Hosts Summit on Healthcare, Marginalized Advocates Ask Why Single Payer Is Ignored
Obama hosted a White House summit on reforming healthcare. While PObama said every idea must be considered, creating a single-payer national health insurance program appears to have already been rejected. Dem Now; 3/6/09 |
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Obama Says He Is Open to Altering Health Plan
Obama vowed Thursday to end a decades-long stalemate on overhauling the health care system, and he indicated for the first time that he was open to compromise on details ... NYT; March 5, 2009 |
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Health Care Summit: Quick Takes
Obama held a White House summit on health care yesterday with ... “150 participants, including members of Congress, doctors and leaders of labor unions,... insurance companies and consumer organizations.” NYT; 3/6/09 |
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Speaker Pelosi: "I Know That We Can Get This Job Done"
... Pelosi today, speaking at the Maria Leavey Media Breakfast, said definitively that Obama's transformative agenda on health care, energy, and education would get through the House this year. Huff Post; March 3, 2009 |
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Healthcare for the Middle Class
... The "appeal" of this push, she said, will not be that 48 million people don't have health care insurance. "What is important to the bigger population," she explained, "is their own health care." MJ; 3/3/2009 |
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Pelosi's Switch on the Dem's Pitch for Health Care
On Tuesday morning, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi met with a bunch of journalists and bloggers from assorted progressive media outlets. MJ; March 3, 2009 |
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Obama's promised health care overhaul delayed
... Congressional Democrats put on a brave face. Nancy Pelosi said ... there was "no question" Daschle would have been a "great leader" in the effort. "But the effort is one that will happen." Reuters; February 6, 2009 |
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Pelosi conference covers new economic legislation
In a weekly press conference today, Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) discussed the State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) legislation and said that, “This is the day we have worked for ... Talk Radio News Service; 2/4/09 |
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Blogger: Daschle 'Took One For The Team'
U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi says Tom Daschle would have done a great job bringing healthcare and insurance to all Americans. Keloland Television; February 4, 2009 |
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Teen battling cancer gets inauguration tickets
... Pelosi pitched in with a pair of inaugural tickets so James and his mom could witness Obama's swearing-in on the steps of the U.S. Capitol, capping an emotionally charged two months ... SF Chron; January 18, 2009 |
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Amy Goodman’s New Column: “Nothing to Fear but No Health Care”
Fifty million Americans are without health insurance, and 25 million are “underinsured.” Democracy Now! January 14, 2009 |
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Insurers make pitch for health coverage mandate
The health insurance industry said Wednesday it will support a national health care overhaul that requires them to accept all customers, but a mandate requiring that everyone buy coverage. Yahoo News; November 19, 2008 |
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Kaiser Daily Health Policy Report
Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) is committed to passing in the next session of Congress legislation that would require physicians nationwide to adopt health information technologies ... Kaisernetwork; October 29, 2008 |
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5,000 Doctors Challenge Private-Insurance System
Noting that the nation's private-insurance-based model is failing by denying needed medical care to millions, wasting resources and driving up costs, the doctors say ... Kansas City Info Line; October 8, 2008 |
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Pelosi: Reauthorization of Ryan White CARE Act Fails to Provide Adequate Funding
Official press release; Office of Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi; September 28, 2006 |
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DNC Delegate Support Surges for Guaranteed Health Care Plank
More than 400 delegates to the Democratic National Convention have already signed a statement calling for “guaranteed health care for all” to be included in the national party’s 2008 platform ... Common Dreams; 8/8/08 |
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Broad Tobacco Regulation Bill Clears House
Legislation to give the U.S. Food and Drug Administration broad authority to regulate cigarettes and other forms of tobacco cleared the U.S. House of Representatives on Wednesday. NYT; July 30, 2008 |
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Governor needs to work with Pelosi to save Medi-Cal
If Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger wants to save health care coverage for poor and disabled Californians, he should get House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on the phone - and soon. SJ Merc News; July 20, 2008 |
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Pelosi, Clinton, Murray Respond To Potential Federal Rule That Could Limit Birth Control Access
Several Democratic lawmakers on Wednesday responded to a proposed regulation being developed by the Bush administration that would effectively allow abortion to be redefined ... Medical News; July 18, 2008 |
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PEPFAR Passes in Senate, Pelosi Reacts to HHS Proposal
Pelosi Speaks Out on Bush Proposal that Would Limit Women's Access to Birth Control ... Pelosi issued a ... statement in opposition to the ... proposal to redefine some forms of contraception. RH Reality Check; 7/17/08 |
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Pelosi signs Medicare bill
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi signed a Medicare bill on Thursday, a day after it passed the Senate. 49 News; Posted on July 12, 2008 |
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Pelosi Vows To Override President Bush's Medicare Bill Veto
George W. Bush is planning to veto the Medicare bill passed earlier this week by the Senate by a veto-proof margin. If the president takes that action, Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) vows to override ... AHN; July 11, 2008 |
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Employers use federal law to deny benefits
Dying of cancer, Thomas Amschwand did everything he was told to make sure his wife would collect on the life insurance policy he had through his employer. AP; July 5, 2008 |
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Newsom, Ammiano discuss HR676 impact to SFHAP, SB840
Mayor Gavin Newsom and Supervisor Tom Ammiano discuss H.R. 676 in SF City Hall. FCJ (YouTube); June 19, 2008 |
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Community Unites to Tell Health Insurance Industy: Health Care Yes, Insurance Companies No!
The June 19 demonstration will be a part of a national day of protest in which citizens and activists in a number of US cities will speak out against our broken health care system and demand its repair. FCJ; June 16, 2008 |
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Scientists Tell Pelosi: No More Ab-only Funding
Dear Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi and Senator Harry Reid, As a group of leading scientists who have recently conducted research on adolescents ... we are writing ... RH Reality Check; November 28, 2007 |
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Ending The Stigmatization Of HIV
The Senate re-authorization of the president's admirable and successful initiative to tackle the HIV/AIDS epidemic in Africa has now included the removal of the Jesse Helms ban on travel ... Atlantic.com; March 10, 2008 |
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House Approves Bill on Mental Health Parity
After more than a decade of struggle, the House on Wednesday passed a bill requiring most group health plans to provide more generous coverage for treatment of mental illnesses. NY Times; March 6, 2008 |
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Melissa on ERISA, Part Two: Boring But Important Details
Background info on why ERISA (a federal law) preempts local attempts to mandate employer-provided health care -- and thus why ERISA needs to be amended. Madame Speaker. Sweet Melissa; December 30, 2007 |
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Melissa on ERISA, Part One: Magic 8 Ball Says "Revise Law"
... We need to stop the legal wrangling and either come up with a new funding mechanism or have Madame Speaker lead a charge to amend ERISA. Sweet Melissa; December 30, 2007 |
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"SiCKO": Michael Moore's Prescription for Change
Michael Moore screened his new film, "Sicko",ť on Father's Day at a special New York event honoring Sept. 11 first responders. Moore spoke of their heroism and recognized their role in the film. Common Dreams; June 21, 2007. |
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Bush says he will veto newest stem cell bill
President Bush, who last July vetoed a bill permitting federal funding of embryonic stem cell research, threatened to veto the current one ... SF Gate; June 8, 2007. |
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Seniors demand healthcare for all, call on Pelosi to support universal health care bill
Seniors and universal healthcare advocacy groups held a rally Thursday at the federal building in SF to call on Speaker Nancy Pelosi to start hearings on the National Health Insurance Act (HR 676). FCJ; December 15, 2007
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Pelosi protests cut in federal AIDS money to San Francisco
Speaker Nancy Pelosi contends that the Department of Health and Human Services miscalculated how much federal AIDS care money the city of San Francisco should get. AP;May 23, 2007. |
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Pelosi not satisfied with Ryan White Care Act reauthorization
Nancy Pelosi released the following statement today in opposition to H.R. 6143, the reauthorization to the Ryan White CARE Act. Press Release; September 2006. |
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