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...stakes couldn't be much higher. If you thought health care reform and climate change legislation were tough to get through with a 60-40 advantage in the Senate, the emerging electoral landscape pretty much guarantees that the Dems will lose their filibuster-proof majority in the Senate and see their 41-seat majority in the House significantly narrowed. Of course, with 10 months to go before Election Day, Democrats can at least hope that by then the bitter fight over health care will be a distant memory and the economy will have rebounded. Republicans are betting that both issues...
...Dakota. Dodd, as chairman of the Senate Banking Committee, had unpopular bailouts to contend with and a scandal over allegedly special treatment on his mortgage; Dorgan likely faced a tough battle against a popular GOP governor in a Republican-leaning state that disapproves of his vote for health care reform by a 2-to-1 margin. But there's little doubt that each had also tired of the partisan sniping that has come to dominate Capitol Hill. According to CongressDaily, one of the reasons that Dorgan, who ranked sixth in the Democratic leadership, decided to leave is that...
...Even relations within the parties have gotten testy of late. On Tuesday, 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...
...taped interview with the Globe, Warren reserved her harshest criticism for the bankers who have been fighting “tooth and nail” against regulatory reform...
...called experts led us into this problem and helped craft bailouts that were very helpful to themselves. Now they want to dominate regulatory reform,” she wrote in an e-mail to The Crimson. “I think that’s wrong...