Politics

Health Care Reform Before The Holidays?

By Sunlight Foundation & Participatory Politics Foundation

Photo, right: Sens. Lieberman & Collins w/ Alan Greenspan yesterday before committee testimony (via Daylife).

Friday “Congress Links” ::

• The hottest Congressional “viral” video on the Web right now is a loaded exchange between Sens. Lieberman & Franken — what a world, right? Watch the clip everyone is watching & wowing over: E-Klein WaPo.
• Memeorandum rounds up the analysis of the back-and-forth (was it political or parliamentary, to what extent of each?) – everyone from RedState to FireDogLake to The Awl, lots of buzz…
• The must-read Brian Beutler does the diligent journalistic legwork every day in a gratifyingly readable & accessible style: No Room For Error If Senate To Pass Health Care Before Christmas (TPM-DC).
• Former Sec. of Labor Robert Reich: Slouching Toward Health Care Reform (HuffPo). Ben Smith says SEIU President Andy Stern says, “Pass the Bill”: Politico .
• “Senate invokes cloture on defense bill in wee hours of the morning” (The Hill). Also, Politico calls the vote “poisonous”, bold).
• Sen. Feingold takes a strategic stand to advance the cause of health care reform (Politico).

More Congress Links to come this afternoon…for now, for handy reference, here again are the Senate and House versions of the health care reform bill, and previous OC Blog coverage of the debate over healthcare.

Full post as published by Open Congress on December 18, 2009 (boomark / email).