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...didn't much matter what Bill Clinton had to say to Senate Democrats when he made his unusual appearance at their weekly caucus lunch Nov. 10 on Capitol Hill. Yes, he talked policy and economic imperatives and all that. But the former President was really there, at Senate majority leader Harry Reid's invitation, as the ghost of 1994 - a reminder of what happened the last time lawmakers took up the cause of health care reform and didn't finish the job. That failure not only dealt a near crippling blow to a young Democratic presidency but also cost...
What reform could dramatically remake America and become law by Christmas? Not health care. While a health care bill crawls through the Senate, bills of equal significance are speeding through the Banking and Finance committees of both chambers of Congress and will share the spotlight this week on Capitol Hill. And because of the odd politics of finance, and an aggressive behind-the-scenes push by the Obama Administration, real financial reforms have a better chance of becoming law by the end of the year than an overhaul of health care...
...Democrats on Capitol Hill spent some of the aftermath congratulating themselves on their historic achievement, but they knew as well as anyone that it was far too early to really celebrate. Obama's speech, after all, was strikingly partisan, lambasting the GOP for doing nothing more than "saying no, stopping progress, gumming up the works." That change in tone from his fruitless attempts at outreach 10 months before in the run-up to the stimulus vote made it clear that Democrats are now resigned to going it alone both in the House and the Senate. Majority leader Harry Reid...
...Interned on Capitol Hill with the House Republican Policy Committee while attending law school. After graduating in 1989, began work as a prosecutor in Virginia Beach...
Last spring when he had just started as Treasury Secretary, Tim Geithner came across as timid, uncertain and a little small in front of the TV cameras and on Capitol Hill. Flash forward to his appearance Thursday morning before the House Financial Services Committee and Geithner was hardly recognizable: he interrupted the members, rolled his eyes, shot questions back, spoke over them and even ignored the chairman himself as he pounded the gavel...