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Prescriptions: Democrats Heed Dole’s Objection and Kill Television Ad

At the request of former Senator Bob Dole, Democrats are scrapping plans to broadcast a new commercial that touted Republicans like Mr. Dole speaking in support of overhauling the health-care system. Mr. Dole lodged a complaint with the White House ...

From KATHARINE Q. SEELYE, The New York Times,  11 Oct 2009
Related Topics: Bob Dole,  U.S. Republican Party,  U.S. Democratic Party,  U.S. Congress,  Barack Obama

Senate Panel to Debate Public Option

Prescriptions is live-blogging the Senate Finance Committee debate whether to add a government-run 'public option' insurance plan to the health care legislation. When the Senate Finance Committee resumes its health care debate Tuesday, the focus will ...

From KATHARINE Q. SEELYE, The New York Times,  29 Sep 2009
Related Topics: Michelle Obama,  U.S. Democratic Party,  Republican National Committee,  Harry Reid,  White House

Prescriptions: With TV Push, Obama to Raise Health Care Ante

Why would President Obama go on five television shows back to back this coming Sunday morning? That fact in itself has made news. For the first time ever, a president is appearing on five talk shows on a single Sunday, in quick succession — on ABC, ...

From KATHARINE Q. SEELYE, The New York Times,  16 Sep 2009
Related Topics: Barack Obama,  Congressional Budget Office,  White House,  Liberal Democrats,  Jay Leno

Dole, Politics Aside, Pushes for Health Care Plan

When former Senator Bob Dole was the Republican minority leader, he helped deep-six President Bill Clinton’s health care plan. This year, Mr. Dole, 86, who left the Senate in 1996 to run for president, is working behind the scenes to help resurrect one. ...

From KATHARINE Q. SEELYE, The New York Times,  11 Sep 2009
Related Topics: Bob Dole,  Bill Clinton,  U.S. Republican Party,  U.S. Democratic Party,  U.S. Congress

The Caucus: It Was ‘Spontaneous’

Stephen Crowley/The New York Times Rep. Joe Wilson, second from left, and House Minority Whip Roy Blunt, second from right, outside the House chamber on Thursday morning. Mr. Wilson had apologized in a statement last night for what he said was his ...

From KATHARINE Q. SEELYE, The New York Times,  10 Sep 2009
Related Topics: Joe Wilson (politician),  House of Commons,  Barack Obama,  Nancy Pelosi,  U.S. Republican Party

Wilson Calls His Outburst 'Spontaneous'

Representative Joe Wilson, the South Carolina Republican who yelled “You lie” to President Obama last night during a joint session of Congress, said today that his outburst had been spontaneous and was not premeditated. Mr. Wilson had apologized in a ...

From KATHARINE Q. SEELYE, The Caucus,  10 Sep 2009
Related Topics: Joe Wilson (politician),  Barack Obama,  U.S. Republican Party,  U.S. Congress,  U.S. Senate

Prescriptions: History of Presidents and Joint Sessions

AP With Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson, left, and House Speaker Sam Rayburn, far right, President John F. Kennedy addresses a joint session of Congress in May 1961. President Obama’s health-care speech tonight is officially an address to a joint ...

From KATHARINE Q. SEELYE, The New York Times,  9 Sep 2009
Related Topics: Barack Obama,  U.S. Congress,  White House,  Lyndon B. Johnson,  U.S. Democratic Party

Gates Assails News Agency for Publishing Photo of Marine Killed in Afghanistan

A furious Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates has upbraided The Associated Press for its decision to go against the wishes of a young Marine’s family and publish a photograph of him after he was killed in Afghanistan. In a scathing letter to Tom Curley, ...

From KATHARINE Q. SEELYE, The New York Times,  4 Sep 2009
Related Topics: John Bernard

Prescriptions: Obama Faces the New Political Realities of Health Care

I believe the Presiden’t error so far has been ceding his major domestic issue to Congress which is owned lock, stock and barrel by special interests. Health care is a human rights and social justice issue. Why would he leave it in the hands of the ...

From KATHARINE Q. SEELYE, The New York Times,  2 Sep 2009
Related Topics: Barack Obama,  U.S. Republican Party,  U.S. Democratic Party,  U.S. Congress,  Mary Landrieu

Fighting Health Care Change, and Proud of It

SPARTANBURG, S.C. Senator Jim DeMint, the South Carolina Republican who predicted that President Obama’s effort to overhaul the health care system would become his “Waterloo,” is doing his best to make that happen. Taking questions from a friendly ...

From KATHARINE Q. SEELYE, The New York Times,  30 Aug 2009
Related Topics: Jim DeMint,  U.S. Republican Party,  Barack Obama,  U.S. Congress,  U.S. Senate

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