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We have learned from past efforts, and there is broad recognition that while we must reform and improve the system, a reform plan should build on the way coverage is purchased today — using the efficiency
I work from the driving principle that health care should be a right, not a privilege, a belief that my father shared during his 23 years as a Member of Congress.
Several GOP lawmakers have said Geithner should step down, including Sen. Jim Bunning (Ky.) and Reps. Connie Mack IV (Fla.) and Darrell Issa (Calif.).
Those who can afford outpatient care should not impose the costs associated with inappropriate use of the hospital emergency room for their primary care on responsible Americans who deduct the cost of
Medical decisions should remain in the hands of patients and physicians, not federal bureaucrats. Patients need useful, reliable information about cost and quality to make informed decisions.
Without such details, stakeholders are merely “at the first pitch of a nine-inning game,— said Elizabeth Hall, vice president for public policy at Wellpoint Inc., a health benefits company.
That’s a reasonable strategy, but not one wholly without risk.
Many of us who have worked on Capitol Hill have come to understand that Washington isn’t Washington without Capitol Hill. Capitol Hill isn’t Capitol Hill without Roll Call.
One more benefit to writing HOH: It gives you the chance to refer to yourself in the third person without sounding like Rickey Henderson.
Generals without effective subordinate commanders usually lose.
The government should sue to get the $165 million in AIG bonuses back and would be in a better position if it owned AIG outright rather than simply as a lender and shareholder in AIG, Frank said.
But without those fast-track rules known as reconciliation, the odds of passing either of Obama’s top two priorities diminishes greatly.
House Democratic leaders earlier this month pulled the measure from floor consideration after it became clear that the NRA would punish conservative Democrats who supported it without allowing an amendment
A budget resolution does not include specific line items or program-by-program details and, therefore, is like an appropriation without earmarks.
Over the past 60 years, Congress has been unwilling or unable to counter a president who intends to go to war without its consent.
— One senior Senate Republican aide, who clearly hopes the Era of Outreach will resume, said Obama should have brought in a bipartisan group of Senators to craft the stimulus instead of handing it
Sorry, you’re just going to have to grow up without a father?
But whether Democrat Al Franken or Republican Norm Coleman is ultimately declared the winner in that Senate race without end, Minnesota’s ranking hardly changes at all.
But because the information is the property of Congress, Library of Congress spokesman Matt Raymond said the legislative branch needs to direct the agencies how they should make more information freely
competitive in such a race, House and Senate lawmakers were told on Wednesday.That message came at a joint House and Senate judiciary committee hearing, where lawmakers heard testimony on whether all states should