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Given last year's experience, it seems likely that Reid will again move to limit amendments. But doing so is a controversial move that angers Republicans, who have used it as Exhibit A of how Democrats in Congress aren't extending the bipartisan olive branch pushed by President Barack Obama...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: After Jobs Bill, Reid Looks for More Small Victories | 2/24/2010 | See Source »

The House passed one large $154 billion jobs bill in December, and it remains to be seen what they'll make of Reid's version, which will have to be reconciled or passed in pieces by the House before the President can sign it into law. "It is accurate to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: After Jobs Bill, Reid Looks for More Small Victories | 2/24/2010 | See Source »

Leading up to Thursday's health care summit, there has been plenty of chatter about everything from consideration of an excise tax on so-called Cadillac insurance plans to whether President Obama will sit at the table with congressional leaders or speak from a podium. But Democrats and Republicans alike...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Could Abortion Still Sink Health Care Reform? | 2/24/2010 | See Source »

As of this week, no one in the House leadership can answer the question of whether the Nelson language would cause some pro-life Democrats who supported health reform in November to vote against a reconciliation bill. There simply is no way of knowing whether the President's approach would...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Could Abortion Still Sink Health Care Reform? | 2/24/2010 | See Source »

Congress and the President have broad powers to find and fix what ails government. Congress has oversight and investigative authority granted implicitly by the Constitution and explicitly by statute. Pretty much every agency in the executive branch, even top-secret ones, has an inspector general charged with rooting out fraud...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Washington Can't Fix Itself | 2/24/2010 | See Source »

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