‘Blue Dog’ Democrats Hold Health-Care verhaul at Bay
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- ‘Blue Dog’ Democrats Hold Health-Care verhaul at Bay
- House Negotiations Heat Up but Lawmakers Pledge To Soldier n
- Dog home with family 10 months after Ike
- Baseball hot dogs apple pie and copayments
‘Blue Dog’ Democrats Hold Health-Care verhaul at Bay
Wall Street Journal
A leader of the fiscally conservative group of representatives said he expects any vote on the House’s health proposal would have to wait likely until after Labor Day. “I think the American people want to take a closer look at this legislation. They want to feel more comfortable with it” Rep. Jim Cooper a Blue Dog from Tennessee said on CBS’s “Face the Nation.
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House Negotiations Heat Up but Lawmakers Pledge To Soldier n
California Healthline
Last Friday negotiations stalled when Waxman told the Blue Dogs that prior conditions — granted through tentative agreements earlier in the week — were off the table. Waxman accused the Blue Dog Democrats of threatening to vote with Republican members of the committee and derail the legislation. ) lead negotiator for the Blue Dogs had pushed for the creation of a new commission that would set Medicare provider rates as well as for language to ensure that Medicare payment rates were not the basis for payments under a new public health plan option. Blue Dogs have criticized regional disparities in payment amounts (Bacon et al.
Dog home with family 10 months after Ike
Houston Chronicle
September’s storm blew down a fence at the home of Joe and Kathy Bauer. They took Daizy and her canine companion Hank to a kennel until they could fix the fence. Joe Bauer found Hank in a wooded area the same day the Blue Lacys slipped away. The family went online handed out fliers and put up yard signs with Daizy’s photo. KHU-TV reports family friends last week noticed a dog wandering in Webster less than 1 mile from the kennel. The Bauers again went searching.
Baseball hot dogs apple pie and copayments
San Francisco Chronicle
tmpl –>Sometimes when you can’t bear to watch yet another Blue Dog pronounce health care reform dead or that climate change legislation is dead or listen to a Republican windbag declare that they are creating. Baseball hot dogs apple pie and copaymentsBaseball hot dogs apple pie and copaymentsSometimes when you can’t bear to watch yet another Blue Dog pronounce health care reform dead or that climate change legislation is dead or listen to a Republican windbag declare that they are creating the President’s Waterloo you do what all sane people do when the going gets tough in the dog days of summer. Time to watch some baseball.
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