Health care bill nears crucial Senate test vote
Daily Oklahoman
WASHINGTON (AP) — A crucial first vote on President Barack Obama 's ambitious health care overhaul in the Senate looms as a test of Democratic unity and the president's own prestige. Democratic leaders are optimistic of success, but they ne...
On health-care bill, Bond feeling like “mosquito in a nudist colony ...
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Mary Landrieu, one of a handful of Democratic moderates who had been reluctant to join her party in supporting the legislation. Bond called it “the Louisiana Purchase.” Reid spokesman Jim Manley responded that the proposed special payments ...
US Senate gears up for key health vote Saturday
AFP via Yahoo! News
President Barack Obama's health reform faces a landmark first test in the US Senate Saturday as Democratic leaders strive to lock down support for a vote that would allow them to launch a formal floor debate on the proposal.
Ethics committee: No punishment for Burris
The Guardian
Associated Press Writer= WASHINGTON (AP) â The Senate ethics committee on Friday admonished Democratic Sen. Roland Burris for misleading investigators about his maneuvering to get Barack Obama's old Senate seat from the governor who was ous...
Senate Dems make case for health bill
UPI
WASHINGTON, Nov. 21 (UPI) -- A parade of Democratic U.S. senators made the case for a healthcare reform bill in the nation's capital Saturday ahead of a crucial procedural vote.
1st Senate vote looms on health legislation
AP via Yahoo! News
A crucial first Senate vote on President Barack Obama's health care overhaul in a rare Saturday night session looms as a test of Democratic unity and the president's prestige.
Hong Kong's Democratic Fizzle
Wall Street Journal
Hong Kong is rightly viewed as Beijing's laboratory for democracy, so the territory's latest proposal to advance suffrage bears watching. Unfortunately, it's hard to look at Government House's latest plan as anything other than a bit of fiz...
Where’s the poetry, Mr. President?
Boston Globe
Or maybe, like me, you prefer a deeper cut from his oratorical songbook, his address to the 2004 Democratic National Convention in Boston. “The hope of a skinny kid with a funny name who believes that America has a place for him.”
Sun City Democratic Club gives money to local charities
Bluffton Today
Sun City Democratic Club gives money to local charities The club also donated $400 to Community First. Pictured from left are Betty Palcic, Sun City Democratic Club, Luci Mitchell, the Rev. Pearla Harvey (Community First’s director), and Ju...
Reid on Verge of Clearing Senate Health-Bill Hurdle (Update1)
Bloomberg
Nov. 21 (Bloomberg) -- Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is on the verge of victory in the first big test of whether he can keep his Democratic colleagues united behind health-care legislation. With every Senate Republican opposing the legi...
Health Care Bill Faces a Crucial Senate Vote
ABC News
Democratic leaders are optimistic of success, but they need every Democrat and both independents to vote "yes," and two moderates remained uncommitted ahead of the roll call, which is expected around 8 p.m. EST. The vote will determine whet...
Mangano lead down to 222 votes in Nassau exec race
Newsday
... votes as an army of election workers and lawyers at the Board of Election headquarters in Mineola completed the counting of absentee and affidavit ballots cast in the heavily Democratic election districts around Great Neck and Roslyn.
