Posts Tagged ‘Olympia Snowe’
LiveBlog for Thursday, October 15, 2009
Thursday, October 15th, 2009
• Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-MD) calls in at 6:05am Pacific to talk about health care reform.
• Sen. Debbie Stabenow (D-Mich) calls in at 6:30am Pacific to talk about health care reform.
• Rep. Bobby Scott (D-VA) calls in at 8:05am Pacific to talk about health care reform.
• The Dow Jones Industrial Average, the best-known barometer of the stock market, closed above 10,000 for the first time in a year yesterday. It’s the most visible sign yet that investors believe the economy is clawing its way back from the worst downturn since the Great Depression.
• Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) said yesterday that the health care reform bill approved by the Finance Committee needs substantial improvements to make coverage more affordable, contain costs, and protect Medicare. Nevertheless, she joined her Maine GOP colleague Sen. Olympia Snowe in saying she may vote for health care reform this year.
• President Obama will visit New Orleans today for the first time since taking office, address rebuilding efforts in the city ravaged by Hurricane Katrina four years ago. During his trip, Obama will visit a charter school and host a town hall meeting to hear residents’ concerns.
Tags: Barack Obama, Bobby Scott, Debbie Stabenow, Dow Jones, Elijah Cummings, Health Care Reform, New Orleans, Olympia Snowe, Susan Collins
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LiveBlog for Wednesday, October 14, 2009
Wednesday, October 14th, 2009
• Rev. Jim Wallis, founder of Sojourners, calls in at 6:30am Pacific to talk about the importance of health care reform.
• Karl Frisch, Senior Fellow at Media Matters for America, calls in at 7:05am Pacific to co-host “Right Wing World.”
• Hal Sparks joins the Mooks in studio in L.A. at 8am Pacific for “Humpdays with Hal.”
• Rep. John Sarbanes (D-MD) calls in at 8:30am Pacific to tell us what’s next in the health care reform process.
• Historic legislation to expand U.S. health care and control costs won its first GOP supporter yesterday and cleared a key Senate hurdle. “When history calls, history calls,” said Maine GOP-er Olympia Snowe, whose declaration of support ended weeks of suspense and provided the only drama of a 14-9 vote in the Senate Finance Committee.
• House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) said yesterday she expects that the House will vote on a health care bill by Thanksgiving and that the House version will have a public plan option.
• Rampant government corruption might derail the fight against the Taliban and Al Qaida in Afghanistan, even if as many as 80,000 additional U.S. troops are sent to the war, Gen. Stanley McChrystal has concluded.
Tags: Afghanistan, Hal Sparks, Health Care Reform, Jim Wallis, John Sarbanes, Karl Frisch, Nancy Pelosi, Olympia Snowe, Stanley McChrystal
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LiveBlog for Tuesday, February 10, 2009
Tuesday, February 10th, 2009
XM Satellite Radio is now carrying all three hours of The Stephanie Miller Show live from 9am to Noon Eastern!!! Now, even if your city or town doesn’t have a Steph affiliate, you can hear her wherever you go. Be sure to check it out on America Left XM167!
• Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA) calls in at 6:30am Pacific to talk about the economy, President Obama’s news conference last night, and how Obama is doing so far.
• Rep. Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) calls in at 7:06am Pacific to talk about President Obama’s news conference last night, Obama’s economic recovery plan, and the other political news of the day.
• President Obama appeared before a national audience last night to make the case for his economic recovery plan, saying this is not your “run-of-the-mill recession.” The president stressed the urgency of passing the $838 billion measure, which his administration and Dem leaders say will help pull the U.S. economy out of its current skid.
• As expected, GOP Sens. Susan Collins, Olympia Snowe, and Arlen Specter yesterday all voted “yes” on a procedural vote to end debate on the economic recovery plan. The total vote was 61-36 in the Senate and it now advances to a final vote on the bill today.
• President Obama was on the road yesterday in Elkhart, Indiana, campaigning for swift passage of the massive recovery plan he argued would create jobs in hard hit places in the American heartland. He’s set to travel to Ft. Myers, Florida today where he is expected to be introduced at a rally by Florida’s GOP Gov. Charlie Crist.
• Alex Rodriguez is now the highest-profile Major League Baseball player to confess to cheating in baseball’s steroids era. He told ESPN yesterday he used banned substances while playing with the Texas Rangers from 2001 to 2003.
Tags: Alex Rodriguez, Arlen Specter, Barack Obama, Chris Van Hollen, Maxine Waters, Olympia Snowe, Susan Collins
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