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Medicare Bill Fails Because of Nervous Democrats
Yesterday afternoon, the Senate rejected a cloture motion that would have brought Sen. Debbie Stabenow's Medicare Physician Fairness Act of 2009 to the floor. Here at the Gaggle we don't normally write about the daily dramas on the Senate floor. So why is this vote worth analyzing? Because it shows how deeply nervous Senate Democrats are about spending increases.
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Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
Can dyed-in-the-wool southern Democrat Creigh Deeds beat out his slick Republican rival for the Virginia governor's office? Welcome to the first big electoral test of Barack Obama's presidency.
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Motley Crew
Political foes join together to oppose sending more troops to Afghanistan.
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08/21/2009InternationalSame Old Song and Dance
…push him out. Do you wish that Sen . Jim Webb , who was able to get Yettaw released ……released as well? We knew that Senator Webb could not negotiate for her release ……that Gen. Than Shwe spoke to Senator Webb , [but it would be even better …
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08/21/2009InternationalThe Swimmer Speaks
…sentenced to 18 more months of home confinement. On Sunday, Yettaw was freed from seven years of hard labor when U.S. Sen . Jim Webb negotiated for his release; he was deported back to the United States. A quixotic man who didn't have a passport until …
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08/05/2009BlogsWhat Do Members of Congress Do in August?
…Iowa this month as both sides try to pressure him. Harkin is likely to feel some side effects of big ad buys on health care. Jim Webb : The Virginia senator is the chairman of the East Asian and Pacific Subcommittee, so he'll be spending the first two weeks …
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06/13/2009BusinessThe Insurgents: The Secret Battle To Save Capitalism
…Cantwell and her confederates—Carl Levin of Michigan, Byron Dorgan of North Dakota, Dianne Feinstein of California, Jim Webb of Virginia and Vermont's Bernard Sanders—met with Obama and members of his economic team in the White House. "I told …
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05/19/2009BlogsObama Denied $80m to Close Guantanamo By Senate Dems
…80m out of the war funding bill that President Obama had requested to pay for the closure of Guantanamo Bay. Democrats like Jim Webb have become a little skittish about the prospect of imprisoning the 240 detainees in their states and Republicans have been …
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