Word: democratization
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Congressman Michael E. Capuano, a Somerville Democrat whose U.S. House district includes Cambridge, obtained nomination papers yesterday to run for the U.S. Senate seat left vacant after the death of Edward M. Kennedy. “I believe that the voters of Massachusetts want to continue the progressive ideals that Senator Ted Kennedy fought for during his decades of service,” Capuano said, according to the Boston Globe. “No other candidate being mentioned or already announced more closely mirrors Ted Kennedy’s position on important issues of war and peace...
Former Vermont Governor Howard Dean made an impassioned case for the public option in health care at an incident-free town hall meeting last night while holding the Democratic leadership accountable for not taking full advantage of its majority in both chambers of Congress. “If you have a majority and you don’t use it, you lose it,” he said. “If we can’t deliver health care, we deserve to lose our majority.” Dean emphasized that the public option was non-negotiable...
...know if I would call the month freaky," says Representative Zach Space, laughing. The Ohio Democrat has yet to decide how he'll vote on the legislation. "I love the fact that people are engaging and expressing themselves, but I had a guy sleeping on the sidewalk in front of my office for a week," he says. "It's important that the debate be healthy - one with structure, not destruction - where we debate issues, not urban myths." (See more about health care...
...Meanwhile, in the Senate, where a compromise has not yet been reached, there are some signs that agreement time might be upon us. On Sept. 6, in an interview with CNN, Nebraska Democrat Ben Nelson, a longtime opponent of a public-health-insurance option, said he could support a public plan as a "fail-safe" or "backstop" that would be created only if insurance companies did not reform their business practices over the coming years. Republican Senator Olympia Snowe, a key swing vote from Maine, has also spoken favorably about a triggered fail-safe. (See TIME's health and medicine...
...Montana's Max Baucus, the top Democrat on the Senate Finance Committee, also began circulating a new compromise proposal on Sunday that would include a tax on high-cost, so-called Cadillac insurance plans to help subsidize low-income insurance coverage. Officials who have seen the Baucus plan are refreshingly optimistic, noting that the chairman has moved on some provisions that could make his proposal reconcilable with whatever passes the more liberal House. One key issue is how it deals with government aid to people who do not get health insurance through their employers; those not covered by an expanded...