Health Care Reform: The Road Ahead

Now that the Senate has voted to vote on health care reform they can finally get to crafting a version of the measure that may actually pass. Even given the close vote in the House on their final measure it would be surprising if they chose not to agree with the version that ultimately comes [...]

Senate health care bill may include public health insurance option

Earlier this month, Mike wrote an article that talked about the decision of Olympia Snowe to support the health care legislation and help it proceed from committee. Consequently, she was the only Republican to vote for the bill that came out of the Senate Finance Committee. In the comments on that article, I speculated that [...]

Olympia Snowe – Making Hard Decisions

On Tuesday Senator Olympia Snowe made a hard decision – she went against her party and voted in favor of the Senate Finance Committee legislation on health care reform. In her comments prior to the vote Snowe said, “…the consequences of inaction dictate the urgency of Congress to take every opportunity to demonstrate its capacity [...]

Does the majority of Americans support the economic stimulus package?

As has been the case for the past several days and weeks, President Obama’s economic stimulus package is still a hot news topic. I was unable to catch his prime-time news conference from the White House last night, but it seemed to be the subject of most news stories this morning. As I was driving [...]

Senate reaches compromise on economic stimulus

At the risk of beating a dead horse to a bloody pulp, here we go again. The House of Representatives passed the economic stimulus package that isn’t and now the United States Senate has reached a compromise on a stimulus package of it’s own. After first ballooning to over $900 billion, the compromise package is [...]