Word: democratic
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...borrow from Keynes again, in the long term, we'll be dead, and in the short term, the LIBOR rate - that esoteric measure of financial vigor - has been creeping in the wrong direction again. "The public really needs to know what he thinks is important," says a senior Democrat. "There's no prioritization...
...HELP Committee's top Republican, Mike Enzi of Wyoming; and Senators Jay Rockefeller of West Virginia and Orrin Hatch of Utah, the chairman and ranking member, respectively, of the Finance Committee's Subcommittee on Health Care. In recent months Senator Chris Dodd of Connecticut, a top HELP Committee Democrat, was added as Kennedy's understudy as the Massachusetts Democrat sought treatment for brain cancer. Senate Budget Committee Chairman Kent Conrad of North Dakota and his GOP counterpart Judd Gregg of New Hampshire were also added after President Obama included his $634 billion outline for health-care reform...
...Bayh, who along with Nebraska Democrat Ben Nelson and Connecticut independent Joe Lieberman is one of the so-called Gang of 15, a coalition of moderate Democratic Senators, says it's all about the message: everything should circle back to the perilous economy. "Like getting health-care costs under control is important to the economy, and getting the deficit down," he says. "Sustainable sources of energy at reasonable prices is also important to the economy. Dealing with the financial crisis is obviously important to the economy. So what needs to be done is, Obama's got to move...
...getting the moderates on board is not just about selling the plan to the public - it will also involve a fair amount of arm-twisting and horse-trading. On Tuesday afternoon, according to Politico.com, Obama told a gathering of moderate House Democrats not affiliated with the Blue Dogs, "I am a New Democrat," harking back to the centrist moniker coined by Bill Clinton...
...hold their nose to vote for it. And now that they have the country's financial woes laid out before them, next year they are hoping to take out the knives. "At least this way people see the magnitude of the problem," says Representative Allen Boyd, a Florida Democrat and one of the leaders of the Blue Dogs. "You can't solve a problem until you are willing to admit what the problem is and put it in your plan...