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...existing conditions. That would address two problems people now encounter on the individual insurance market, where it is difficult for many to find the coverage they need at a price they can afford. What's more, their bill can boast something no other plan has at this point: bipartisan support. In the Senate, Wyden's Republican co-sponsors include Utah's Bob Bennett, Idaho's Mike Crapo, South Carolina's Lindsey Graham and Lamar Alexander of Tennessee, a member of the GOP Senate leadership...
Before Obama spoke, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi joined a bipartisan gaggle of congressional leaders to denounce the bonuses, which she called "outrageous." Pelosi demanded that "executives at AIG right the wrong they have done to American taxpayers, who are footing the bill for the most expensive government rescue in history. They should renounce the bonuses and refuse the excessive retention pay they previously agreed...
...Chavez polarization that has mired the Americas of late, it was an apt coincidence that Lula had been huddling at the White House a day before the Salvadoran vote with the hemisphere's other alpha moderate, President Barack Obama. Funes had identified himself with the spirit of the pragmatic, bipartisan Lula left in his campaign and met with the Brazilian a number of times. He hit the stump not in the lefty-red attire favored by FMLN leaders (and by Chavez) but in white guayabera shirts. He also assuaged voter fears by convincing his own party to drop its insistence...
...Aside from the political history involved, there is a good reason that the doctrine has never been reinstated. For a policy that trumpets its supposed objectivity, it has drawn conspicuously little bipartisan support. Few Republicans ever have or ever will come out in favor of the doctrine, for it has a highly partisan objective—the muzzling of conservative talk radio...
...talks have been held in parallel to negotiations orchestrated by Senator Edward M. Kennedy, chairman of the Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee, which has principally involved outside groups like insurers, doctors, labor and big business. Aides to the bipartisan group of lawmakers, citing the delicacy of the talks, provided no details of the potential agreement. However, the two main sticking points remain how to pay for a plan that some estimate could cost as much as $1 trillion and how to integrate a public, government-run plan into the private system, two aides say. (Read about Obama...