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When Democrats campaigned on health care in the 2018 midterms, it helped win them back the House. And now that stanley mug more than 20 of them are running for president, they re starting to stake out their positions on how to overhaul the system.According toCBS News polling in July, health care is a dominant issue among Democrats in early voting state, particularly when it comes to out-of-pocket costs. However, Democratic candidates disagree on the best approach to address the issue.One of the most talked about Democratic proposals would establish a new single-payer government-run insurance program as outlined in Sen. Bernie Sanders Medicare for All Act. Sanders bill would make private insurance supplemental for those who choose to get it, while aiming to provide a basic level of care for all Americans paid for by taxes. A similar bill by the same name has also been introduced in the House. However, other candidates have used the phrase Medicare for All while embracing something different than what Sanders is proposing. And other pieces of legislation and proposals touted by some candidates would stop short of creating a national single-payer health care system.The C stanley uk hoose Medicare Act, for example, establishes public health plans in the individual, small group and large group markets. The Medicare at 50 Act would allow people to buy into the program at age 50 instead of 65, the current age of enrollm stanley uk ent. The State Public Option Act would allow Chfq Laura Ling Names Baby Girl After Bill Clinton
House and Senate leaders have agreed to a compromise surveillance bill that would effectively shield from civil lawsuits the telecommunications companies that helped the government wiretap phone and computer lines after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks without court permission.The House was expected to pass the bill Friday, po stanley cup becher tentially ending stanley cup a monthslong standoff about the rules for government wiretapping inside the United States.House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer of Maryland said the bill balances the needs of our intelligence community with Americans civil liberties and provides critical new oversight and accountability requirements. The issue of legal protection for telecommunications companies that participated in warrantless wiretapping has been the largest sticking point. The Senate passed a bill that immunized them stanley mug from lawsuits, but the House bill was silent on the matter.The White House had threatened to veto any bill that did not shield the companies, which tapped lines at the behest of the president and attorney general but without permission from a special court established for that purpose, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court. On Thursday, White House spokesman Tony Fratto said the bill met the standards sought by Bush and that the president supported it. Warrantless wiretapping went on for almost six years until it was revealed by The New York Times. Some 40 lawsuits have been filed against the companies by
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Rhode Island Governor Gina Raimondo, nominated by President Biden to be commerce secretary, appeared remotely before the Senate Commerce Committee Tuesday to talk about what her priorities would be in the job and was asked about how she d handle some of the controversial issues under her purview.Early in the hearing, Raimondo fielded a question about the 2020 Census, which President Trump has tried to use to affect the way congressional seats are divided among states. Raimondo told senators that she would treat the census differently. Rhode Island Governor Gina M. Raimondo David L. Ryan/The Boston Globe via Getty Images I, like you, believe we need to take the politics out of the census, and we need to rely on the experts, she said. The experts and statisticians at the Census Bureau are top notch, so I, once confirmed, intend to rely on them. And if they advise that more time is necessary, then I m going to follow the lead of their expertise. Mr. Trump tried to exclude undocumented immigrants living in the U.S. from being count stanley uk ed last year, which would likely have affect stanley cup ed the apportionment of congressional seats, but the move was met withlegal challenges, and, in part because of the pandemic, the Census Bureau missed it stanley water bottle s year-end deadline to submit the numbers that that would be used to divide the seats.Raimondo s confirmation Oknn Are Tea Party freshmen just conventional politicians
Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Joe Biden D-Del. is objecting to President Bush s decision to give a recess appointment to Sam Fox as new U.S. ambassador to Belgium. Bush made the appointment on Wednesday.Senate Democrats, especially Sen. John Kerry D-Mass. , the Democratic presidential nominee in 2004, raised concerns about the appointment of Fox, who is a big Republican donor. Fox gave $50,000 to the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, an anti-Kerry group that ran ads against the Massachusetts Democrat.According to the White House, Fox will not take a salary for serving as ambassador, although Democrats complain that the recess appointment may not be legal since Bush had formally withdrawn Fox s nomination shortly before the Foreign Relations Committee voted upon it. Here is Biden s comment today: This is a clear abuse of the Presidentrsquo recess appointment power and contrary to the Framersrsquo; intent.Far from denying Mr. Fox a vote, the Foreign Relations Committee was on the verge of considering his no stanley cup mination, but only an hour before the vote, the President withdrew the nomination, presumably because he thought wersquo;d vote against his nominee.If the Pres stanley isolierkanne ident wants Sam Fox to b vaso stanley e the Ambassador to Belgium, he should rescind the recess appointment and send him back to the Senate, so that we can vote on the nomination.Wersquo;ve been working in good faith on the Presidentrsquo nominees and his recess a
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It took three months and a scolding from Gov. Chris Christie, R-N.J., for Congress to approve $50 billion in emergency funding for the victims of superstorm Sandy. This week, as Oklahoma begins to pick up the pieces following a devastating tornado, lawmakers in Washington are hoping another ugly political fight over emergency relief funds can be avoided. Early Tuesday, there was already speculation on Capitol Hill about potential votes for emergency funding. In a statement, Sen. Tom Coburn, R-Okla., said that as the top Republican on the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, which oversees the Federal Emergency Management Agency FEMA , I can assure Oklahomans that any and all available aid will be delivered without delay. Obama: Full focus is on recovery from Oklahoma tornadoOklahoma tornado: Before and after photos However, stanley tumbler Coburn reportedly said he would insist on any congressionally-funded aid being offset with budg stanley cup et cuts elsewhere. Later in the day, an aide for the senator fended off further questions on the matter, telling reporters it it crass for critics to play disaster aid politics when first stanley cup responders are pulling victims from the rubble. The aide noted that an emergency aid package may not even be necessary, given that FEMA has $11.6 billion in its Disaster Relief Fund. However, FEMA Administrator Craig Fugate told a congressional panel in March that after taking a nearly-$1 billion hit due to Fwge Needless Kowtowing
The Senate overwhelmingly approved energy legislation Tuesday that was embraced by both Republicans and Democrats, but its chance of becoming law depends on hard bargaining in the coming months with House GOP leaders who favor measures more favorable to industry.After finishing most work on the bill late last week, the Senate approved the sweeping legislation 85-12. It includes a proposed $18 billion in energy tax breaks, an expansion of ethanol use and measures aimed at increasing natural gas imports to meet growing demand.CBS News Correspondent Bob Fuss reports that the bipartisan Senate bill stanley water jug stands in stark contrast to the version passed in the House. The Senate requires more ethanol be used in gasoline and proposes $18 billion in tax credits to encourage clean and renewable sources of energy. The bill also requires 10 percent of the stanley cup U.S. s electricity to come from such sources by 2020. The House bill h stanley en mexico as $8 billion in tax credits mostly to oil and gas companies and gives controversial protections from lawsuits to makers of a gasoline additive that has caused environmental damage, Fuss reports.Lawmakers acknowledged that the measure would do little, if anything, in the short run to stem the soaring cost of energy including oil that this week has eclipsed $60 a barrel and gasoline that last week averaged $2.22 a gallon at the pump, according to the Energy Department. We still have many hurdles to overcome, said Sen. Jeff Bing
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John Podesta, the chairman of Hillary Clintonrsquo presidential campaign, says her campaign supports the request of some Electoral College members for an intelligence briefing about possible Russian interference in the presidential election.Electors have a solemn responsibility under the Constitution and we support their efforts to have their questions addressed, Podesta said in a statement Monday.He was responding to an open letter to Director of National Intelligence James Clapper written by 10 electors nine Democrats and one Republican and posted on Medium. The electors wrote about their concern about the U.S. intelligence communityrsquo assertion -- made with high confidence-- that Russia acted covertly to interfere in the presidential campaign with the intent of promoting Donald Trumprsquo candidacy and about Mr. Trumprsquo rejection of the intelligence communityrsquo judgment.John Bolton says claims of Russian hacking could be false flag operationThe CIArsquo judgment on Russian interference in the election ldquo hould distress every American. Never before in the history of our Republic have we seen such an effort to undermine the bedrock of our democracy, Podesta wrote. stanley cup Podesta also said that the Obama administration owes it to the American people to explain what it knows regarding the extent and manner of Russiars stanley water bottle quo interference and t stanley cups h Degj CDC says people fully vaccinated against COVID-19 can shed masks in most indoor settings
Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker addresses the media regarding a letter received from Sen. Mark Miller, D- Monona, on Monday, March 7, 2011 in Madison, Wis. AP-Photo/Wisconsin State Journal, John Hart As the dispute over union rights drags on in Wisconsin, lawmakers from both the left and the right are seeking media attention to prove their side is actively seeking a compromise. stanley cup At the same time, both sides are pointing fingers, calling the other party out for grandstanding in front of the press. Republican Gov. Scott Walker yesterday evening released a series of e-mails to prove he s tried to negotiate over union rights with reasonable Democratic state senators, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel first reported. One of those reasonable senators, however, was quick to denounce the public release of the e-mails, suggesting it undermined their talks. I stanley canada ve never seen negotiations be done successfully in public, said Democratic state Sen. Bob Jauch. I thought they were bargaining in good faith. Jauch is one of two Democratic state senators who in recent days has met with the state Senate Majority Leader and Walker aides. He downplayed the meetings, po stanley portugal inting out they never reached a deal with the Republicans. Meanwhile, Wisconsin Assembly Democratic Leader Peter Barca is slated to meet with Walker this morning and asked Walker to open the me
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