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Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), long the most powerful advocate for a public insurance option in a sweeping health care overhaul, on Thursday signaled she could live without one in a final package.
Democratic negotiating group “agreed to as much as we could agree to without having a CBO score.
Before I came to the Senate, I was a small-business man. My wife and I owned three shoe stores.
no further decisions could be made on a potential compromise without that information.
“I think there are just really two contrasting visions— on how to stimulate job creation, Cantor said.
“The millions and millions of people who will be without a homeland are considered a threat to national security.— “Where do we put these people? Who pays for it?
And so, all of the different ideas and things that were on the table — in order to move to something that was more final, we couldn’t get to without CBO scores.— Similarly, Sen.
“There’s nothing that can’t wait for you to pull over,— Brady said.
In their quest to secure a filibuster-proof 60 votes for the overhaul, Democrats said Nelson’s support was appearing unattainable — with or without the inclusion of his abortion provisions — given
“I think the sky’s the limit for Sen. Thune in terms of what he wants to do,— National Republican Senatorial Committee Chairman John Cornyn (Texas) said.
“If they want to go down that path, I think they are in some sense saying they don’t think voters are as smart as they really are,— Vitter media consultant John Brabender said.
“If I said that, I’d just feel like I’ve jinxed it,— said a more cautious Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D-W.Va.), a leading liberal in the group.
“For those who have made a decision to be supportive, I think he was persuasive,— said Nelson, who noted he was trying to be “diplomatic— in his statements about the president’s talk.
“But the folks who have been looking for work without any luck for months and, in some cases, years, can’t wait any longer.
“He wants to know how you get there from here,— Wyden said. “I think he shows considerable tact in this. He lets you know where he stands, but you never feel there’s pushiness.
— Zeese said he’s not coordinating with unions or the White House, but he said the chamber has definitely upset both.
But he said the Senate needs to go first, and he thinks it will.
“I assure you, there is extraordinary skepticism that any discussions like this can actually produce results,— Obama said. “I’m well aware of that. I don’t mind skepticism.
[IMGCAP(1)]With the Congressman’s blessing, I went to Kabul on my time and dime, in an unarmored “soft-skinned— vehicle, locally attired in a Peran Tumban, without a flak jacket and armed with nothing
“I think most Americans would say, I’ll take earmarks or I’ll take stimulus rather than a new tax,’— the aide said. “If I were a moderate Democratic, I’d be running from Obey.