Today in Congress: February 09, 2010
Health Care Reform Bills
- 4,001 views H.R.3590 - Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act Senate Passed Dec 29, 2009
- 3,622 views H.R.3962 - Affordable Health Care for America Act House Passed Nov 16, 2009
- 3,233 views H.R.4173 - Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection... House Passed Jan 20, 2010
- 2,578 views S.773 - Cybersecurity Act of 2009 Introduced Apr 01, 2009
- 1,174 views H.R.4321 - Comprehensive Immigration Reform for Ameri... Introduced Jan 21, 2010
- 820 views S.1733 - Clean Energy Jobs and American Power Act Introduced Feb 02, 2010
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Finding Republican Ideas In A Democratic Health Care Bill February 9, 2010
President Obama is asking Republicans what ideas they have to reform health care, but as Ezra Klein points out, many of their ideas are already in the existing Senate health care bill (H.R.3590).
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The generally moderate Senate Budget Committee Chairman Kent Conrad [D, ND] said the day after the election of Republican Scott Brown to the Senate that he was open to using the controversial "budget reconciliation" process to pass health care reform. The process would allow for the House to pass the Senate's health care bill and then pass improvements to the bill as separate stand-alone measures that wouldn't being subject to Republican filibusters.
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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi [D, CA-8] said on Thursday, Jan. 21 that the House does not have the votes to pass the Senate's health care bill. If they did have the votes, the bill could be signed into law without having to face another vote in the Senate where the Dems no longer hold a filibuster-proof majority. But she added: “We have to get a bill passed — we know that. That’s a predicate that we all subscribe to.”
Latest Votes
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H.J.Res.45 Increasing the statutory limit on the public debt.
On Adoption of the second portion of the divided question
Feb 04, 2010
Ayes 233 Nays 187
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H.R.4532 Social Security Disability Applicants' Access to Professio...
On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass
Feb 04, 2010
Ayes 412 Nays 6
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H.Res.1065 Providing for consideration of the Senate amendment to t...
On Agreeing to the Resolution
Feb 04, 2010
Ayes 217 Nays 212
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