Topic: U.S. Democratic Party
With time and tempers short, everyone's playing hardball in the drive to pass — or stop — President Barack Obama's massive health care legislation by the weekend. Business groups are spending $1 million a day to depict the bill as a job killer in television ...
Bill Clinton predicted Tuesday that President Barack Obama's historic health care overhaul will become law, even as top Democrats hunted for the elusive votes to pass the sweeping measure. "I just want it to pass, and I think it will," the former president told reporters during a rare visit to the Congress for closed-door talks with Senate Democrats, billed ...
The Senate on Tuesday easily killed a move by conservative Republicans to temporarily ban senators from earmarking spending bills with back-home projects like roads, water projects and grants to local governments. Fifteen Republicans joined with most Democrats in rejecting the moratorium on earmarks by a 68-29 vote. It's a ...
