The Big Texas Distraction
</p> Members in both parties are furiously working every angle they can to influence the situation back home.</p> “We’re using every technique possible,” Rep.
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Daschle on the Offensive
</p> Thune may not have the primary field to himself, however, as Rep.
Put Up Your Dukes
</p> An aide told HOH that Specter got a “pretty big bruise” on his right elbow, but is now doing fine. </p> Then there was ex-Rep.
Congress Set For Busy July
</p> That’s particularly true in the Senate, where Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-Tenn.) has set what he has acknowledged is a very ambitious schedule.
Sen. John Edwards
I’ve tried to do that — with the patients’ bill of rights and legislation to speed up generic drug competition. But it’s never easy. </p> Take prescription drugs.
The Medicare Manager
</p> ROLL CALL: So do you think the bill can actually be signed before the August recess? </p> SCULLY: I think it’s possible. The House and Senate, they’ve got a tax conference to do in July.
Rep. Dennis Kucinich
</p> Although enhanced “Medicare for All” makes economic sense, it has not made political sense to some, due to the power of the private insurance lobby.
Dorgan Seeks Cemetery Funding
</p> Dorgan led a push in fiscal 2002 that netted the cemetery a $1 million gift in the the legislative branch spending bill.
CBC Supports Black Officers In Capitol Police Lawsuit
</p> The class-action discrimination complaint, filed in 2001 by members of the U.S.
On Medicare and Budget Numbers, CBO Is Failing
</p> That conclusion is ridiculous because those assumptions are wrong.
Rep. Richard Gephardt
</p> As president, the first bill I will send to Congress will be a law requiring every employer to offer their employees access to quality health care coverage.
Howard Dean
However, the speaker was not Bill Clinton on the campaign trail in 1992, but Harry Truman addressing Congress on the State of the Union in 1948.
House Seats Slow to Come Open for 2004
</p> Boyd’s district was carried by George W. Bush in 2000, and Toomey’s went for Al Gore. </p> So far, early developments in Pennsylvania’s 15th don’t look good for the Democrats. State Sen.
Kondracke: Bush Needs Broader Health Plan Than Medicare Drug Benefit
President Bush may think he will have secured himself on the health care front for 2004 if he signs a bill providing a Medicare prescription drug benefit to seniors. But he would be wrong.
NCRS Remains On Hold
</p> “The question is whether it becomes a major player or simply another player,” said a Republican strategist.
Bush Makes Good Start on Mideast Peace Negotiations
</p> The danger is that Abbas may lack the stomach for confronting the terrorists.
Taking it to the Beach
</p> Kentucky Rhetorical Derby </p> Not so in Kentucky.
NEW JERSEY: LoBiondo Breaks Pledge, Will Run in 2006
Bill Gormley; LoBiondo won that race 54 percent to 35 percent and easily won the general with 65 percent in a tremendous year for Republicans nationally.
Drug Benefit ‘Only a Beginning Step’
</p> Some other positive features of the Senate bill: </p> • It provides a benefit for low-income seniors who make less than 160 percent of poverty.
Prescription Drug Benefit Is Latest Turn in a ‘Long Road’
John Dingell (D-Mich.), the father of the current Detroit-area Democratic Congressman of the same name, co-sponsored the nation’s first comprehensive health care bill.