Word: democratically
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Dates: during 2010-2019
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...whopper: if reform passes, the Federal Government will pay all of Nebraska's new Medicaid costs forever. And it's fueling envy and outrage in the other 49 states. Led by South Carolina's Henry McMaster, the attorneys general of 13 states - 12 Republicans and one Democrat - have signed on to a letter contending the Nelson deal is unconstitutional...
...Pelosi, in answering a question about President Obama's unfulfilled promise to open up health reform negotiations to a new level of transparency, took a swipe at the "number of things that [Obama] was for on the campaign trail" that have been left undone. Senator Blanche Lincoln, an Arkansas Democrat, ripped into her colleague Ben Nelson of Nebraska for "horse-trading" his vote on health care and called for the special Medicaid funding provisions he won in return for his support to be removed from the final legislation...
...senior Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee has joined many of her GOP colleagues in saying such transfers need to be suspended. "Guantánamo detainees should not be released to Yemen at this time," Senator Dianne Feinstein said. "It is too unstable." But the White House shows no sign of changing course. "We're confident that any transfers that we're making are being made not only consistent with our national-security interests," a senior Administration official told reporters on Dec. 29, "but also consistent with what we consider to be a fundamental national-security interest in closing...