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The Health Care Bills Side By Side
The NY Times has a helpful comparison of the House and Senate versions of health care reform here.
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TechnoratiHoyer Strikes New Tone with GOP on Healthcare
In his weekly pen and pad session with reporters (basically legislative shop talk), House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer said he is increasing his efforts to reach out Republicans on health care reform.
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VIDEO: Watch our reporters get lawmakers to answer your questions!
Ever wonder what it's like pounding the ornate tiled floors of the U.S. Capitol to get a lawmaker to answer a question he really doesn't want to answer? Watch this 'look behind the scenes' with the Capitol News Connection reporting team as they track down Senators and Representatives to get your questions answered.
The fierce urgency of …not quite yet
There may never be a politically convenient time for President Obama to push comprehensive immigration reform. Sure, he can juggle swine flu, credit cards, health reform, ‘green jobs’, climate change, two wars, Pakistan, Iran, and a Supreme Court nomination all while moonlighting as a car industry mechanic, but throwing the country’s 12 million illegal immigrants into the legislative mix right now? Yes he can, but no he won’t. read more »
Teaming up with Politics.com
This is Day One of a special new collaboration borne of a chance encounter at this year’s Politics Online Conference. Somewhere in the middle of all those tweets about #hashtags, twemes and twibes, we got talking to the folks at www.politics.com about how Ask Your Lawmaker and our reporters at Capitol News Connection could contribute to the debate. Sure, we could have kept talking, texting and planning, but why not just jump right in? read more »
Republican Leadership Shake Up
Possibly the hardest part about covering Congress is getting lawmakers off script. They have teams of staffers around, constantly feeding them “their” policy positions. They also attend weekly caucus meetings, where the leadership lays out the party’s stance and talking points on the week’s agenda.
That’s why retiring lawmakers are great.
Republicans in the House are growing increasingly angry with their leaders, but no members will talk about it on the record (off the record their staffers will, but that does little good for a radio reporter). read more »
