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...failure to enact reform in 1993 resulted in the Republicans regaining control of the House of Representatives for the first time in four decades. The House’s passage of health insurance reform thus marks the farthest that the reform effort has ever come, for which we congratulate Speaker Nancy Pelosi for her pragmatism and extraordinary political acumen...
...only did the speaker demonstrate the savvy that garnered her the speaker’s gavel in the first place by wrangling the votes to pass a bill whose epitaph pundits had been composing since the notorious town hall protests of Congress’ August recess, but she also, as columnist Camille Paglia wrote for Salon, “conclusively demonstrated that a woman can be just as gritty, ruthless and arm-twisting in pursuing her agenda as anyone in the long line of fabled male speakers before...
...Caucus Chairman John Larson told Politico. “Is this news to you that this guy’s one fry short of a Happy Meal?” asked Rep. Anthony Weiner, who is, if anything, to the left of Grayson on health care. To their credit, Speaker of the House Rep. Nancy Pelosi and the White House refused to condemn Grayson, but the damage was already done...
...their premiums.) Not surprisingly, that robust public option faces strong opposition from doctors and hospitals, who complain they are already underpaid by Medicare, as well as from insurance companies, who say they would not be able to compete. So while this version of the public option is House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's preferred one, she acknowledges she has yet to garner enough votes to pass it in the House...
Page has worked at Harvard to mobilize religious people around climate change issues, including helping organize a Climate Convocation at Memorial Church early last month, which featured multi-faith advocacy for environmental causes and key-note speaker William E. McKibben...