Norquist Warns Candidates
But despite heavy spending on the race by outside parties, Hoffman ultimately lost the election to Democrat Bill Owens — the first time the district has been represented by a Democrat in more than a century
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Bipartisanship Is Needed on Bank Industry Reform
</p> Legislation shouldn’t make it impossible for financial institutions to operate, especially small community banks.
NRCC Reaches Out After Loss
eventual election of Democrat Bill Owens, and to help avoid another internal disaster.
Baucus: The Man in the Middle
</p> Though bipartisanship eluded him, Baucus set the bar for keeping a health care bill from breaking the bank, and his goal of crafting a bill that costs $900 billion or less was embraced by Obama during
Waxman: Mastered the Art of the Deal
</p> Waxman secured the Energy and Commerce chairmanship by defeating Rep.
Van Hollen: Weds Politics and Policy
The freshman Democrat voted for the final House bill, which included such a provision.
McConnell: Persistent Critic
</p> Thus far, only one Republican Senator, moderate Olympia Snowe (Maine), has voted for a Democratic health care bill.
Reid: The Ultimate Closer
</p> Reid put himself in charge of cobbling together the final Senate bill.
Stupak: Surprise Player Confounds His Leadership
</p> Stupak’s coup was months in the making.
Schumer: Brains and Brawn at Work
If the Senate passes a health care reform bill that includes a public insurance option, Senate Democratic Conference Vice Chairman Charles Schumer (N.Y.) will likely get much of the credit given his tireless
Nelson: Playing Spoiler or Clincher?
When the House inserted anti-abortion language into its health care bill, the immediate question was whether the Senate would follow suit. The spotlight quickly shifted to Sen.
Snowe: Keeps Both Sides Guessing
As the lone GOP vote for the Senate Finance Committee’s health care reform bill, Sen.
Grijalva: Enforcer for House Progressives
Pelosi (D-Calif.) when she was forced by party moderates to abandon the Medicare-based public option, but other Democrats credited his tough early stand as helping to ensure a public option stayed in the bill
Van Hollen: 2010 Will Be Tough, But Not Fatal
</p> “The political fortunes of the entire Caucus are tied together in getting this passed,— said Van Hollen.
Cantor: Colleagues Call Him Dr. No’
—</p> The House’s health care vote was just the latest miscalculation by the GOP whip team.
Pelosi: Effective and All-Powerful
</p> That meant captaining a seemingly endless series of meetings with Caucus groups and individual lawmakers over the summer and into the fall to take and retake the temperature of her disparate Caucus
Hoyer: Voice of the Moderates
</p> With Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), Hoyer spent June and July huddling with the different groups of the Caucus to map their priorities.
History Holds Lessons for Present Reform Fight
</p> There was also Senate Majority Leader Robert Taft (R-Ohio), who denounced the senior Dingell’s universal coverage bill as “the most socialistic measure this Congress has ever had before it— — a theme
Price and Boustany: Doctors Are in the House
—</p> Specifically, Dr. Tom Price (Ga.) and Dr. Charles Boustany (La.) emerged as two authoritative voices on health care reform in the Republican Conference this fall.
Groups Launch Anti-Health Care Reform Ads
</p> “Many of the plans to reform heath care will make this crisis worse,— she says in the commercial.</p> The ads will be airing on Fox News, CNBC and CNN.