Nancy Pelosi
By | December 10, 2009 | 10:10 am
All year, the biggest fault line in the health care debate has been the public option—a proposed government-run insurance plan that Americans without access to group coverage would be eligible to sign up for. To liberals, it has been the reason for doing health care reform, an innovative tool that will break up private insurers’ monopolies and improve the cost and quality of care for everyone. To the right, it’s just socialism. But on Tuesday... READ MORE»
ALBANY—Bill Owens, who is being sworn in as a member of Congress today, has announced his intention to vote for the health care restructuring bill backed by Nancy Pelosi and Barack Obama. He resisted taking a specific position on the issue throughout his... READ MORE»
ALBANY—Former House speaker Newt Gingrich never mentioned Doug Hoffman's name during a radio appearance this morning, but had a clear message for Republicans in the 23rd Congressional District: "The vote you're going to cast for a third-party candidate is going to guarantee the election of a Democrat. If you think that adding another vote to Nancy Pelosi's majority is a good idea, that keeping Nancy Pelosi as speaker is a good idea, then it's... READ MORE»
ALBANY—David Paterson will headline a fund-raising dinner in St. Lawrence County tonight, and Bill Owens will be... READ MORE»
Every few months for the last year or so, Congressional Republicans—and their various amplifiers in the media—kick up a fuss about Charlie Rangel and the financial and ethical clouds hanging over him, demanding that the Ways and Means ... READ MORE»
The standard talking point from proponents of the public option is that, contrary to the Republican fear-mongering, it is absolutely not a stalking-horse for an eventual shift to a single-payer health care... READ MORE»
ALBANY—Bill Owens has been to two fund-raisers outside his district in the last... READ MORE»
Last weekend, the Obama administration seemed ready to give up on the public option, sending all sorts of signals that the president would sign a health care reform bill with a co-op provision, if that’s what it would take to get a package through the... READ MORE»
About that threat by dozens of members of the Congressional Progressive Caucus to vote against any health care legislation that doesn’t include a “robust” public option, two things can be safely said: No one in the White House or the Democratic congressional leadership is surprised by it, and everyone expects that that the progressives will fold in the... READ MORE»
Very soon, Congressional leaders are expected to announce the creation of a new commission to investigate the real causes of America’s crippling financial disaster.... READ MORE»
Nancy Pelosi is having a $5,000-a-person fund-raiser in Manhattan on June 25, hosted by fashion designer Diane von Furstenberg, according to this invitation, which was forwarded to me by a reader. The price for a private V.I.P. reception with the speaker and the designer is $15,000.... READ MORE»
Sometimes, it takes years until the consequences of a decision to become clear. So it is with two bold moves that Nancy Pelosi made nearly three years ago. In one case, she got her way, and in the other she didn't - both very fortuitous outcomes, for the House Speaker and for her party, as it now turns... READ MORE»
Something funny happened last Friday, when Barack Obama detailed his plans for Afghanistan and Pakistan, which include an increase of 4,000 troops to train Afghan security forces: the most outspokenly anti-war Democrats in Congress kept their mouths shut - or even, as in the case of House ... READ MORE»
Bobby Jindal has been selected to deliver the televised Republican response to Barack Obama's February 24 address to Congress, which means Jindal will now be the subject of a wave of news stories hyping him as a rising national... READ MORE»
