The dust is settling, somewhat, after the Super Senate Tuesday and the subsequent runoff elections. The stage is set for a mid-term election battle in November that will determine the shape of power in Congress. Yes, we still have some primaries to go, such as in my home state of Oklahoma, but Tom Coburn...
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Frankly, I am tired of hearing and writing about the debate over health care reform. I can’t even begin to count the articles Mike and I have written about the subject and the debate isn’t over yet. All this week, President Obama has been traveling around the country, touting the need for reform and...
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Over the past several months, there has been countless articles written about the debate over health care reform. Since the House and the Senate passed their respective versions of reform, the debate has grown over how they will reconcile those versions into a bill that President Obama can sign into law. Mike and I...
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Have I mentioned lately that I don’t understand how Congress works? If I haven’t, consider it mentioned. More and more, I despise the political shenanigans that go on in Washington, D.C. This may sound like a broken record, but bear with me for a moment and let me explain. The latest and greatest legislation...
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As I was doing some of my daily reading and browsing through different blogs and news stories, I was suddenly struck with a thought. Correct me if I am wrong, but when President Obama was voted into office, he had something that a lot of sitting President’s have only been able to dream of....
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Well now, isn’t this a bit of a surprise? When Senator Ted Kennedy passed away last year, it was a given fact that a Democrat would appointed to fill his US Senate seat until a special election could be called. I felt that was as it should be, since Kennedy was a Democrat and...
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It has been several days, Christmas Eve to be exact, since I wrote about the passage of the health care reform bill in the Senate. That was the day it passed 60-39, on it’s way to a conference committee, to be reconciled with the version that was passed earlier by the House. In that...
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In the every changing, mixed up world of health care reform and politics, I seriously doubt Nebraska Senator Ben Nelson saw this one coming. For weeks, he was courted by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, in an effort to gain his support for the health care reform legislation the Senate Democrats were trying to...
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In what some are declaring an historic vote and after 24 consecutive days of debate, the United States Senate has voted 60-39 to pass their version of health care reform. It will now go to be reconciled with the version passed earlier this year by the House of Representatives. That process could take until...
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After Nebraska Senator Ben Nelson came around and agreed to cast his vote for the health care reform legislation that has been crafted by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, the conclusion of the matter is foregone. Barring some unforeseen collapse by the Democrats, this bill will pass the Senate and go to be reconciled...
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