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On last weekend's Fox News Sunday, Lieberman, chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, announced that he was launching an investigation into whether the Fort Hood massacre suspect was in fact a terrorist. The Sunday before, on CBS's Face the Nation, Lieberman said he would...
Lieberman is by no means the only Democrat who is not happy with the public option, though he may be the only one who comes from a relatively liberal state. Blanche Lincoln of Arkansas, Ben Nelson of Nebraska and Mary Landrieu of Louisiana, for example, all have strong reservations about...
But as difficult and close as the health care vote turned out to be in the House - requiring a last-minute deal by Speaker Nancy Pelosi to appease antiabortion Democrats and secure her 5-vote margin - things get exponentially more complicated in the Senate. There the ideological balance among Democrats...
It is hard to overestimate the complexity of Reid's task. His first challenge, which is expected to come as soon as he can obtain cost estimates for his bill from the Congressional Budget Office (CBO), will be to get the legislation onto the floor, with a normally routine procedural...
In addition to all these public battles, Reid is waging private ones as well, according to sources on and off Capitol Hill. He has complained to colleagues that the White House has pressured him to lean on the CBO to speed its cost estimates of the measure - something that could...