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The CBO estimated this week that the Senate health care reform bill would reduce the deficit by $ 132 billion over the first 10 years.

A progressive Catholic advocacy organization announced Wednesday that a group of Catholic nuns is supporting the Senate health care reform bill backed by President Obama.

Not exact matches

The fate of health care reform in the Senate is uncertain, with members of both parties saying major changes need to be made to the House version of the bill before the Senate can vote.

Now that the health care bill has been defeated, Senate leaders hope to move on to tax reform and to passing a spending bill in order to avoid a government shutdown at the end of September.

The answer is the reason this bill should never have been passed» the reason that all of us must urge our senators to stop this kind of health - care reform in the Senate.

The U.S. Senate will postpone its vote on the health care reform bill — originally scheduled for this week — while Sen. John McCain recovers from surgery to remove a blood clot from over this left eye.

At 2 p.m., de Blasio delivers remarks at a health care rally where Cuomo will be making an announcement in support of Obamacare and against the U.S. Senate's reform bill, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai — Stern Auditorium, 1468 Madison Ave., Manhattan.

With two Republican senators all but locked in against it and Trump exerting pressure on them to pass it, U.S. Senate leaders can not lose another vote on the health care reform bill they plan to unveil today.

As part of the campaign, they have released a minute long video that features excerpts from several of Gillibrand's senate floor speeches where she advocates for changes in the Health Care reform bill to provide more protections for women's reproductive rights, more coverage for pregnant women, and funding for women's health clHealth Care reform bill to provide more protections for women's reproductive rights, more coverage for pregnant women, and funding for women's health clhealth clinics.

Once the Senate votes on its own bill, the two bills will be reconciled into final health care reform legislation.

[The new charge, they said, would actually be listed on county property tax bills as the «Faso - Collins federal tax» — named after New York GOP Reps. John Faso, of Columbia County, and Chris Collins, of Erie County, whose plan for the cost shifts were included in both the Senate and House versions of federal health care reform bills.]

WASHINGTON — A gargantuan tax cut for property taxpayers across upstate New York came one small step closer to reality Thursday as Senate Republicans revealed a health care reform bill that includes a provision that bars the state from charging upstate counties for a share of the cost of Medicaid.

WASHINGTON (CNN)- As a health care reform bill sponsored by Senate Finance Chairman Max Baucus got a cool reception from Republicans and some Democrats on Capitol Hill Wednesday, President Obama quietly held a White House meeting with two Senate sponsors of a rival health care proposal.

Composed of 58 Democrats and two Independents who caucus with the Democrats, the Senate Democratic Caucus potentially has the 60 votes necessary to break a Republican filibuster of the health care reform bill crafted by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid.

New York (CNNMoney.com)- The health care bill that faces a crucial test vote in the Senate on Saturday is proof that getting reform passed and getting it right are two very different things.

On two key Democratic legislative agenda items, a jobs bill and a comprehensive health care reform bill, Sen. Jon Kyl, R - Arizona, suggested Sunday that Senate Republicans may not support measures backed by leading Democrats on Capitol Hill.

Washington (CNN)- To debate or not to debate the Senate's health care reform bill; that is the question.

White House spokesman Bill Burton said Obama «thanked members of the Senate for their hard work so far and encouraged them to continue forward on this historic opportunity» to pass health care reform legislation.

I mean, will having another Democrat in the House really change the fact that, as of now, Speaker Pelosi is bringing a weak health care reform bill to the House floor and that Majority Leader Reid is bringing an even weaker one to the Senate floor.

(CNN)- The House squeaked out its version of health care reform and now President Obama is putting pressure on the Senate to do the same so he can sign a bill before the end of the year.

And with the lack of Republican support for the stimulus bill, the relatively small (partisan) margin by which the House passed Waxman - Markey, the then - upcoming challenges of health care and financial regulatory reform dominating the legislative calendar, and concerns voiced about climate legislation by moderate Senate Democrats, success in the Senate was always a long - shot.

The bill died in the Senate in 2010, a victim of Tea Party - inspired Republican obstructionism and Obama's decision to spend his political capital to push health - care reform.

Rather than press forward with a climate bill in the Senate last summer, after the House had passed landmark legislation to curb carbon pollution, the administration repeated many of the same mistakes it made in pushing for health care reform.

There's a point - by - point breakdown over at CP which is worth reading, but the gist is basically that the Obama administration, the Senate, and (I'd add...) those of us in the green community, can hopefully learn from the opposition to health care reform and develop a new way of framing the climate bill so as to avoid getting bogged down in public shouting matches and disinformation campaigns.

Though overshadowed — for the moment — by the vociferous health care reform proceedings, you can bet that the going will get tough for the Senate energy reform and climate bill in no time.