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OPINION

Mar 26, 2010 10:08 AM CDT

Pelosi Is a Speaker 'Without Peer'

Happy birthday to most influential House leader in 200 years: Meyerson

(Newser) - Nancy Pelosi turns 70 today, and it is as fitting an occasion as any to consider perhaps the most influential Speaker of the House since Henry Clay in the early years of the 19^th century, writes Harold Meyerson. Her health care victory means “Pelosi is without peer,” and...

So Who Gets the 22 Pens?

Mar 24, 2010 11:13 AM CDT

So Who Gets the 22 Pens?

The main players, along with some not-so-familiar names

(Newser) - President Obama is keeping one of the 22 pens he used to sign the health care bill and doling out the others. The recipients, as noted by the Washington Post :

The obvious: Joe Biden, Nancy Pelosi, and Harry Reid
Honoraries: Ted Kennedy's wife, Vicki, and Sister Carol Keehan, a Catholic

...

Michael Steele Defends
Fiery Pelosi Page

Mar 23, 2010 1:22 PM CDT

Michael Steele Defends Fiery Pelosi Page

RNC chief calls her 'architect of the demise' of economy

(Newser) - Michael Steele doesn’t think there’s anything wrong with the RNC web site’s current front page , which shows Nancy Pelosi surrounded by flames next to the headline, “FIRE PELOSI.” Asked in a CBS interview if he thought the page was “a little bit extreme,”...

Democrats Are Out of Gas

DAVID BROOKS

Mar 23, 2010 5:39 AM CDT

Democrats Are Out of Gas

Party 'lacks vigor now that welfare state is complete'

(Newser) - The Democrats' passage of health care reform felt like a family reunion where you saw "the whole panoply of what you loved and found annoying about these people" to David Brooks. President Obama and Nancy Pelosi deserve posterity "for sheer resilience," he writes, but as the last...

Health Care Reform
Winners and Losers

OPINION

Mar 22, 2010 1:45 PM CDT

Health Care Reform Winners and Losers

Obama, Pelosi, GOP come out looking good; flip-floppers, not so much

(Newser) - The winners and losers of the health care reform battle will take years to determine, but Chris Cillizza of the Washington Post has some early choices. The winners:

President Obama: "He ran on doing big things and now will have health care to show for that pledge when he

...

Pelosi Is the New Ted Kennedy

Mar 22, 2010 8:30 AM CDT

Pelosi Is the New Ted Kennedy

Kept up fight for comprehensive reform as other Dems wavered

(Newser) - President Obama may be the one history remembers for pulling off the biggest domestic policy reform in decades, but Nancy Pelosi "emerges from this battle as the real powerhouse in Washington," Julian Zelizer writes for CNN . Wielding both a "clear ideological agenda" and the "pragmatic political...

'We Are Still
Capable of
Doing Great
Things': Obama

Mar 21, 2010 11:27 PM CDT

'We Are Still Capable of Doing Great Things': Obama

President calls health reform bill 'a victory for common sense'

(Newser) - President Obama says the health care legislation the House passed tonight is "a victory for the American people" and "a victory for common sense." The bill "will not solve every problem" in the health care system, the president said, but "moves us in the right...

House Passes Health Reform

UPDATED

Mar 21, 2010 9:55 PM CDT

House Passes Health Reform

Historic measure advances after late deal-making

(Newser) - Cheers erupted on the floor of the chamber as the House passed the Senate health care reform bill tonight, 219-212, after a late compromise on abortion funding gave Democrats the votes they needed to advance the historic measure. The vote followed 9½ hours of contentious debate that wrapped up with...

Health Bill
Protesters
Create 'Mass
Hysteria': Frank

Mar 21, 2010 3:06 PM CDT

Health Bill Protesters Create 'Mass Hysteria': Frank

Mass. Democrat invokes witch trials as anti-gay slurs continue

(Newser) - Dueling groups of protesters created a chaotic scene on Capitol Hill today as opponents and advocates of the health reform bill made their voices heard in a scene Rep. Barney Frank called "mass hysteria." A protester who made it into a House office building yelled at Nancy Pelosi,...

House Scraps 'Deem and
Pass' Procedure

Mar 20, 2010 1:50 PM CDT

House Scraps 'Deem and Pass' Procedure

It will hold a standard vote on the Senate bill tomorrow

(Newser) - "Deem and pass" is heading back into legislative obscurity. House leaders today decided not to use the controversial procedure on health care reform. Instead, the chamber will hold a standard vote on the Senate health bill and another on a package of amendments, reports the Washington Post . The final...

Pelosi Rejects Stupak's Abortion Deal

Mar 20, 2010 1:01 PM CDT

Pelosi Rejects Stupak's Abortion Deal

New possibility: Obama might issue executive order

(Newser) - Nancy Pelosi may have lost Bart Stupak's vote today, but she's still got a chance of winning over some in his anti-abortion bloc. Pelosi rejected Stupak's idea of calling a separate vote to require stricter abortion language in the health care bill. Instead, she's holding out the "possibility" that...

Anti-Abortion
Dems, Pelosi
Square Off

216 In Sight

Mar 20, 2010 7:53 AM CDT

Anti-Abortion Dems, Pelosi Square Off

Speaker lacks votes, Stupak says, or she 'wouldn't be talking to me'

(Newser) - As Democrats picked up momentum in their march toward a health reform vote tomorrow, a few familiar anti-abortion reps led by Bart Stupak threatened to trip them up—and a bloc of pro-choice congresswomen warned of mutiny, calling Stupak's proposed language a "non-starter." But Nancy Pelosi is nearing...

'We'll Have the
Votes': Hoyer

HEALTH CARE REFORM

Mar 19, 2010 12:12 PM CDT

'We'll Have the Votes': Hoyer

House majority leader, whip confident about health reform passage

(Newser) - Health care reform legislation will sail through the House of Representatives in Sunday's vote, Steny Hoyer says. “We'll have the votes when the roll is called,” the majority leader tells Politico . Democrats haven’t lined up enough yeas for President Obama’s key domestic agenda, but the majority...

Nate Silver: Bet on
Health Bill to Pass

votes nearly locked up

Mar 19, 2010 7:36 AM CDT

Nate Silver: Bet on Health Bill to Pass

Barring catastrophe, reform should pass

(Newser) - The smart money is on health care reform passing this weekend, writes Nate Silver. It's becoming clear that there are not enough "hard no's"—representatives who will vote against the bill no matter what—to keep Nancy Pelosi from getting her 216 votes. The only task left is...

'This Is
Pelosi's
Moment'

opinion

Mar 18, 2010 2:30 PM CDT

'This Is Pelosi's Moment'

House speaker excels at Washington's 'inside game'

(Newser) - No doubt there's some serious backroom dealing going on right about now in the halls of Congress. And that's perfect for Nancy Pelosi, writes Marc Sandalow. She didn't become Speaker because of her tact but because of her "mastery of the inside game." A West Coast liberal? Remember,...

GOP's Take on 'Deem and Pass' Is Sheer Hypocrisy

OPINION

Mar 17, 2010 2:15 PM CDT

GOP's Take on 'Deem and Pass' Is Sheer Hypocrisy

They used it 35 times, writes Norman Ornstein

(Newser) - Hey, Wall Street Journal editorial board and other Republican “acolytes” and apologists: There is nothing remotely novel or “unconstitutional” about House Democrats using “deem and pass” to push through health care legislation, writes Norman J. Ornstein. You’ve already achieved “a ridiculous level of misinformation and...

GOP Savages
Pelosi Strategy
for Passing
Health Reform

Mar 17, 2010 9:25 AM CDT

GOP Savages Pelosi Strategy for Passing Health Reform

Critics say Democrats' tactic is unconstitutional

(Newser) - The GOP ratcheted up the already intense campaign against the Democrats' push to pass health care reform yesterday, targeting an obscure legislative move Nancy Pelosi said she might use to get a version of the Senate bill through the House. Outraged Minority Leader John Boehner called the "deem and...

GOP Paints Pelosi, Not Obama, as Health Care Villain

election 2010

Mar 17, 2010 8:01 AM CDT

GOP Paints Pelosi, Not Obama, as Health Care Villain

2010 election strategy focuses on unpopular House Speaker

(Newser) - When it comes to this year's House elections, the GOP wants voters thinking about Pelosicare, not Obamacare. Pinning health care reform on the unpopular House Speaker—and casting Democratic incumbents as her minions—is a key part of the Republican strategy for 2010: winning the support of 2008 Obama voters...

Pelosi May Skip Vote on Senate Health Care Bill

Mar 16, 2010 7:16 AM CDT

Pelosi May Skip Vote on Senate Health Care Bill

House could use procedural trick to 'deem' it passed

(Newser) - Nancy Pelosi thinks she can pass the Senate health care bill in the House without forcing members to vote on it. Instead, she’d have lawmakers vote on a package of popular fixes for the Senate bill, and deploy a House rule that allows that vote to be used to...

Pelosi: Health Bill
Horse Trading Is Over

Mar 16, 2010 4:30 AM CDT

Pelosi: Health Bill Horse Trading Is Over

Democratic leaders play hardball ahead of House vote

(Newser) - The store is closed for House Democrats looking for sweeteners to sway them into voting for the health bill, Nancy Pelosi warned yesterday. Pelosi stressed that she won't be making any changes to the final legislation for the sake of holdouts, meaning that there will be no more "Cornhusker...