United States Senate Committee on Finance

Last week, during an appearance on MSNBC's "Morning Joe" program, Pawlenty was asked repeatedly whether he welcomed Sen. Olympia Snowe, the lone Republican to vote for the Senate Finance Committee health care bill, in the GOP. At a...

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...to crush any bipartisan support for health care. Maine Sen. Olympia Snowe, a moderate Republican, voted in favor of the Democratic version of the health care bill in the Senate Finance Committee. She was the first and only Republican to support...

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...Mitt Romney. Last week, on MSNBC's "Morning Joe" program, Pawlenty was asked repeatedly whether he welcomed Sen. Olympia Snowe, the lone Republican to vote for the Senate Finance Committee's health-care bill, in the GOP. At a time when...

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...to bring a splash of Republican red to a very blue bill. The spotlight has largely subsided since Sen. Olympia Snowe endorsed the Senate Finance Committee bill last month. But Reid and President Obama continue talking to Snowe and her...

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Republicans sat out the vote. Members of the GOP were all but absent this week as Sen. Barbara Boxer, the California Democrat who chairs the panel, conducted the committee's "mark up," or bill-writing session. Republicans said they didn't...

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...Obama. The report was spearheaded by Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), the ranking member of the Senate Finance Committee, and Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.), the ranking member of the House Committee on Overisght and Government Reform. The...

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...a less robust version. Consider that all but one Republican on the Senate Finance Committee opposed a bill that didn't even include a public option -- it included a system of nonprofit cooperatives instead. "None of the legislative...

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...it in 2008, the estimated cost was $7 billion to $10 billion a year. The six-month wait is in the health care bill the Senate Finance Committee approved last month. To qualify for the pool, patients must be turned down for coverage...

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