• Posts Tagged ‘U.S. Senate’

    Latino Vote & the Democratic Senate

    by  • November 5, 2010 • politics & money

    Latino Voters swung heavily Democratic in 2010 midterms. Adam Serwer concludes: Latinos are so diverse culturally that the only reason they vote as a bloc at all is because they continue to have collective interests as Latinos. That has more to do with a shared experience of discrimination than a shared culture; the more immigration [...]

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    Public Option, Opt-Out

    by  • October 26, 2009 • politics & money

    Much better than a trigger: Senate Majority Leader  Harry Reid (D-Nev.) announced Monday that the bill he will bring to the Senate floor will include a public health insurance option that individual states could decline to participate in. “I’ve concluded –with the support of the White House, Senators Dodd and Baucus — that the best [...]

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