Earlier I posted my initial take on the Finance Committee’s rejection today of two amendments that would have added a public option plan to their bill. Basically, I said that health care reform is at a critical juncture – either the Finance Commi...

Rep. Joe Wilson (R-S.C.) angrily shouted “you lie!” in response to President Obama’s statement during his Wednesday address to Congress that claims of illegal immigrants being covered by the proposed health care reforms were “false.”

The bill Congress passed earlier this year to protect consumers from “unfair and deceptive” practices by credit card companies (H.R.627) isn’t scheduled to go into effect until February. But the rule for implementing the bill has already been...

As soon as Senate Democrats released their health care reform bill, Republicans began calling it out on its length. It’s “longer than Russian novelist Leo Tolstoy’s War and Peace,” said Sen. Orrin Hatch last week at a press conference set up by...

When the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force issued recommendations last week that women start screening for breast cancer at age 50, not 40, and that women above 50 get screening less frequently, congressional Republicans were quick to use it to...

After 23 hours of debate, the Senate on Saturday evening voted to begin a formal debate of the Democrats’ health care reform bill. The vote, which was on a motion to end a Republican filibuster of bringing the bill to the floor, was approved with no...

The NYTimes reports: Senate Democrats said they had clinched the votes needed on Saturday to propel major health care legislation to the floor for weeks of full debate, as the majority party’s two last holdouts said that they would not block...