Senate GOP Intent on Repealing the ACA Individual Mandate in Tax Overhaul
Nov 14, 2017 To generate revenue to make up for massive corporate and individual tax cuts, Senate Republicans want to repeal the Affordable Care Act requirement that most Americans have health insurance.
GOP Suspends Rules as Finance Committee Approves Nominees Without Democrats
Feb 2, 2017 Democrats also boycotted Wednesday's committee vote on EPA nominee Scott Pruitt.
The Trans-Pacific Partnership and the Death of the Republic
Apr 26, 2015 On April 22, the Senate Finance Committee approved a bill to fast-track the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), a massive trade agreement that would override our republican form of government and hand judicial and legislative authority to a foreign three-person panel of corporate lawyers.
Obama, Facing Old Messes, Tells GOP to ‘Grab a Mop’
Oct 21, 2009 Certain members of the Republican Party need to stop knocking the current administration's attempts to clean up the messes caused by the previous one and "grab a mop," President Barack Obama said during a Democratic National Party fundraiser in New York on Tuesday night.
Health Care Reform Insurance Companies Can Believe In
Oct 20, 2009 It’s now clear that health care “reform” is a bonanza for the insurance companies But these acquisitive businesses want even more Their efforts to increase their profits are at the center of the clandestine Senate and House negotiations currently shaping the health bill.
Snowe Helps Baucus Bill Pass Committee Hurdle
Oct 13, 2009 Maine's Olympia Snowe explained her vote for health care reform by saying "when history calls, history calls." It called, she answered, and now the Senate Finance Committee's Baucus bill, which would force Americans to buy health insurance without offering a public option, is off to get married to the more progressive Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee bill.Max Baucus' health care bill has passed the Senate Finance Committee, with the help of lone wolf Sen. Olympia Snowe.Making Tragedy Out of Farce
Oct 1, 2009 The Senate Finance Committee's health care debate has given Michael Moore hours of footage for his next cinematic assault on the system.The Public Option Only Looks Dead
Oct 1, 2009 The strangest aspect of the debate over a public option for health coverage is that the centrists who oppose it should actually love it.
Baucus & Co. Shoot Down Public Option Amendment
Sep 29, 2009 Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus and his merry band of legislators on Tuesday nixed an amendment proposing that a government-backed "public option" be included in Baucus' contested health care reform plan, using the argument that the public option addition would further diminish the bill's chances of passing.
Obama’s Choice: Is It Really Such a Tough Call?
Sep 9, 2009 Sure, being POTUS is tough sometimes, and you're bound to royally tick off a large percentage of your constituency no matter what you do. But in the case of health care reform, President Obama, you have one Lee Stranahan to help you break this one down."Uninsured father" Lee Stranahan steps in to help President Obama get to the bottom line fast about health care reform.
