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| Blog Name: | OpenCongress Gossip Blog |
| Url: | http://www.opencongress.org/blog |
| Language: | English |
| Topics: | Congress, legislation, participatory politics |
| Description: | About Open Congress Gossip Blog The Congress Gossip Blog highlights useful news and blog coverage in order to give you the real story behind what's happening in Congress. Our goal is to add context and color commentary to a Congressional process that is usually arcane and closed-off from the public. To do this, we provide links to timely news reporting and blog posts from around the web, as well as summaries of Congressional action written in plain language. We're here to help clarify the Congressional fray. The Congress Gossip Blog is written primarily by Donny Shaw of the Participatory Politics Foundation, with contributions from other members of PPF, including PPF co-founder Tiffiniy Cheng and Program Director David Moore. As with all written content on Open Congress, the Gossip Blog is non-partisan and seeks to maintain a neutral point of view, though the Blog strongly supports efforts from both sides of the aisle to increase the transparency and accessibility of government. |
| Popularity: | 2 Followers |
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Stupak Abortion Amendment Likely to Fail in the Senate
| Conservative Democrat Sen. Ben Nelson [NE] is planning to introduce an abortion funding amendment modeled after the Stupak amendment that was attached to the House health care amendment. Like the S...more |
Senate Will Continue Health Care Debate Through the Weekend
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When the Senate began debating health care this week, Majority Leader Sen. Harry Reid [D, NV] announced that they would be working nights and weekends until they pass the bill. Sure enough, Reid an...more |
Vitter Holds Bernanke Hostage to Fed Transparency
| Five senators now have “holds” on the confirmation of Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke. The five could seriously slow the confirmation process down, but it’s still probably n...more |
House Passes a Permanent Lower Estate Tax Rate
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The House of Representatives voted today to make permanent the 2010 estate tax level of 45 percent, with the first $3.5 million of taxable assets per estate being tax exempt. Under a bill signed i...more |
Another Public Option Alternative
| Sen. Mary Landrieu [D, LA], one of the key swing votes in the Senate health care debate, has begun passing around her own alternative plan to the public option as written into the bill. The Politic...more |
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