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...Washington A Full Plate on Capitol Hill Members of Congress returned to a busy legislative session Sept. 8 following their summer recess. Their top priority: health-care reform, an issue lawmakers heard an earful about during raucous town-hall meetings in August. The key items this fall...
...matter where you are economically, you're living in a community - you've got kids in the public school system, and we all know that the public schools need as much support as they can get: parents reading to kids, people going on field trips, people monitoring recess. Those are things that you can do if you have time on your hands that add value to your home base...
...Congress returned to Washington on Sept. 8, House Democrats spent much of the day trading war stories and tending to one another's wounds from the bruising town halls that dominated their August recess. And if they weren't unhappy before, few of the survivors of the summer of discontent are now in a mood to deal with the controversial, politically perilous legislation to reform the nation's health-care system...
...program in the bill as a way to provide enough competition with private plans to keep costs down, but opponents derided it as the first step toward socialized medicine. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi now faces a tough predicament: all three House bills that passed out of committee before the recess include a public plan, and conventional wisdom was that a final version of the bill, which would marry the three together, would include such a plan...
...good choice for consumers to have," he told reporters in his first-floor Capitol Hill offices. "On the other hand, I have said that I hope to move a bill forward that can garner majority support." Even progressives, more than 50 of whom had signed a pledge before the recess not to vote for any bill that did not include a public plan, have shown some willingness to bend on the issue - an indication of how spooked the caucus is by the summer theatrics. "I'm willing to look at the public plan if it means getting [Maine Republican Senator...