Chuck Schumer’s public option amendment lost 13 to 10 in the Senate Finance Committee today, while Jay Rockefeller’s lost 15 to 8. The two bills are almost identical, except that Schumer’s doesn’t tie reimbursement rates to those of Medicare, which made it more palatable to two committee Democrats.
Steve Kornacki explains how this Read More
If you’re among the 65 percent of Americans who like the idea of the public option being included in this health care bill, you’ll be glad to know that New York’s senior senator, Chuck Schumer, is leading the charge today in the Senate Finance Committee today.
The Finance Committee is chaired Read More
On August 6th, ten Midwestern Democratic Senators sent a letter to President Obama that began the hardball phase of creating climate policy as it moves from the House’s Waxman-Markey bill to Senate deliberations in the fall. In this letter, the Senators insist that climate change legislation must protect U.S. manufacturers from unfair foreign competition. They Read More
