Read more legislation stories on Newserhttp://www.newser.com/taggrid/3835/legislation.html2009 - Newseren-usNewser Feed GeneratorTue, 24 Nov 2009 10:22:28 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/74647/zip-it-on-communion-ban-bishop-to-kennedy.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThe bishop who had the nerve to tell a Kennedy not to take communion—because he supports abortion rights—is steamed that he blabbed about it. “I am disappointed that the congressman would make public my pastoral and confidential request,” says Bishop Thomas Tobin of Patrick Kennedy. He also says...http://www.newser.com/story/74647/zip-it-on-communion-ban-bishop-to-kennedy.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagMon, 23 Nov 2009 13:21:42 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/74352/gop-traffic-jam-ploy-is-snarling-senate.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagSenate Democrats are starting to turn on each other like angry drivers stuck in rush-hour traffic thanks to Republican obstructionism, writes EJ Dionne. Republican senators are eating every word they once said against filibusterism and are stalling even legislation that they support in a Machiavellian effort to keep the Democrats...http://www.newser.com/story/74352/gop-traffic-jam-ploy-is-snarling-senate.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThu, 19 Nov 2009 9:43:57 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/74328/reid-optimistic-about-60-votes.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagHarry Reid is “cautiously optimistic” about the success of his frantic attempts to unite the 60 votes of his caucus behind the Senate health care reform bill. “I think we’re together,” he says. But the majority leader was positively voluble about the bill itself, notes the Washington Post : “Of all...http://www.newser.com/story/74328/reid-optimistic-about-60-votes.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWed, 18 Nov 2009 10:00:00 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/74127/stupak-is-the-last-straw-no-more-caving.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagPainting the Stupak-Pitts amendment as a necessary evil—a concession women should make for the “greater good” of health care reform—is ridiculous, Katha Pollitt writes. Women have been consistently sidelined by the “theocrats and male chauvinists” throwing their weight around in the Democratic Party. “Why don't you take one...http://www.newser.com/story/74127/stupak-is-the-last-straw-no-more-caving.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagMon, 16 Nov 2009 11:12:08 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/73980/goldman-to-insurers-health-reform-will-hurt.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagHere's a reason for Goldman Sachs to be even more popular with the public: The investment bank has issued research on private health insurers advising that fighting off reform would best for their bottom line. Goldman takes as the “base” case passage of the bill that exited the Senate Finance...http://www.newser.com/story/73980/goldman-to-insurers-health-reform-will-hurt.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagFri, 13 Nov 2009 9:48:15 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/73878/abortion-activists-mobilize-against-stupak-pitts.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagAbortion rights activists are organizing a massive grassroots effort and targeting lawmakers to ensure the hated Stupak-Pitts Amendment never reaches the president’s desk. The coalition of groups is first meeting with senators and organizing a phone drive and petition to keep the House language out of the Senate's bill. Failing...http://www.newser.com/story/73878/abortion-activists-mobilize-against-stupak-pitts.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThu, 12 Nov 2009 9:30:29 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/73696/senate-dems-say-obama-plans-dont-fix-spending.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagSome Democrats in the Senate are worried that reform legislation under consideration doesn't do enough to rein in out-of-control health care spending. President Obama has promised $2 trillion in savings over the next 10 years, but critics say the proposed changes aren't nearly aggressive enough on the current pay-per-visit system...http://www.newser.com/story/73696/senate-dems-say-obama-plans-dont-fix-spending.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagTue, 10 Nov 2009 13:05:50 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/73477/pelosi-wont-put-final-health-care-bill-online.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThe Weekly Standard is beating up on Nancy Pelosi for backing out of her promise, made to a Standard reporter in September, to put the final House health care bill online 72 hours before it’s voted on. With the vote expected tomorrow, It seems Pelosi and the Standard have different...http://www.newser.com/story/73477/pelosi-wont-put-final-health-care-bill-online.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagFri, 06 Nov 2009 9:49:27 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/73200/beck-rates-health-reform-as-911-attack.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagGlenn Beck's found a new way to frame his opposition to heath care reform, and this one's a doozy: It's a terrorist attack. A decade ago “I could have shouted every single day about Osama bin Laden,” the Fox News commentator said, “and nobody would have been willing to stand...http://www.newser.com/story/73200/beck-rates-health-reform-as-911-attack.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagTue, 03 Nov 2009 8:09:00 CST