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Medical News Today (Free subscription) | yesterday
The inclusion of funding for abstinence-only sex education programs in the Senate health reform bill has "thrown advocates on both sides of the sex education debate for a loop," CQ Weekly reports. In September, Democratic Sens. Kent Conrad (N.D.) and Blanche Lincoln (Ark.) joined a coalition of 10 Republicans -- led by Sen. Orrin Hatch (Utah) -- to add language to the Senate...
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Midknight Review (Free subscription) | 30/11/2009
Public option - government-run health insurance plan to compete with private companies : An issue that unites Republicans and divides Democrats on ideological grounds inevitably was bound to haunt the Senate Democratic leadership. Supporters of public option: Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), Tom Carper (D-Del.) Opponents: Ben Nelson (D-Neb.) and Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.); Republican liberal Olympia Snowe...
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Political Ticker (Free subscription) | 30/11/2009
... spot, as the 14 senators' photos and names scroll across the screen. Lawmakers targeted include Democratic Sens. Blanche Lincoln, Mark Pryor, Thomas Carper, Evan Bayh, Mary Landrieu, Jon Tester, Max Baucus, Ben Nelson, Kent Conrad, Byron Dorgan, Jim Webb and Mark Warner, Independent Sen. Joe Lieberman and Republican Sen. Olympia Snowe.
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El Campeador's Weblog (Free subscription) | 30/11/2009
Public option: An issue that unites Republicans and divides Democrats on ideological grounds inevitably was bound to haunt the Senate Democratic leadership. The notion of creating a government-run health insurance plan to compete with private companies is seen as vital by liberal Democrats but centrists range from skeptical to deeply antagonistic, even though states could opt out.The best hope...
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First Read (Free subscription) | 24/11/2009
From NBC's Mark MurrayThe liberal-leaning group Health Care for American Now (HCAN) is up with a new TV ad in Arkansas that thanks Democratic Sens. Blanche Lincoln and Mark Pryor for "standing up to the insurance industry" and voting to proceed on debating the Senate health-care bill. But HCAN is also airing a TV ad in Nebraska blasting GOP Sen. Mike Johanns for voting to block...