Posts tagged Senate

House Democratic leaders are refusing to commit to producing a final comprehensive piece of health care legislation to present at the much-anticipated bipartisan summit later this month. In a conference call with reporters on Wednesday a quartet of prominent Democratic lawmakers said that progress was... [+]

With the Senate cap-and-trade bill on ice for the foreseeable future, a key bloc of Democrats is agitating for a Climate Plan B: an existing energy policy bill they say would put the US on the path to a clean energy future. Make that a... [+]

As the Senate vote on health care looms, some liberals are frantically mounting an eleventh-hour effort to kill the bill. Dana Goldstein on the opposition’s last-ditch tactics. With the Senate hurdling toward a Thursday vote on health-care reform—and with passage all but a foregone conclusion—Democratic... [+]

The Senate moved another plodding step closer to final passage of health care reform early Tuesday morning — for this vote, at least the sun was up. The only suspense associated with the vote focused on Sen. Robert Byrd, the 92-year-old Democrat from West Virginia... [+]

The Senate went to work on a Sunday — Hanukkah Sunday, we bet! — and desecrated the grave of the Stillborn Jesus to give hundreds of billions of dollars to themselves and their favorite government programs. The bill okays $447 billion for whatever federal agencies... [+]