Included in both the House and Senate health care reform bills each chamber passed last year is a mandate for individuals to buy health insurance .

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WASHINGTON — Legislation extending unemployment insurance for the long-term jobless faces a key test vote in the Senate, its momentum helped by about 60 popular tax breaks for individuals and businesses that expired at the end of last …

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Mary Beth Schneider, writing for the Indy Star, reports that House and Senate leaders are meeting behind closed doors to discuss a solution to the unemployment insurance debacle. The insurance fund has been operating in the red for …

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When Blanche Lincoln (D-AR), Ben Nelson (D-NE), Mary Landrieu (D-LA), Joe Lieberman (I-CT), and the entire Republican Senate caucus stepped up to kill the public option in the Senate, it is important to remember that the health …

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Sen. Jim Bunning holds up unemployment insurance and Cobra extensions on Senate floor: ‘Tough s–t’.

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Though the Senate reached cloture on a jobs bill yesterday afternoon, they still have yet to vote on extending unemployment insurance .

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This morning, Obama released his new health care reform plan. It was a series a changes to the Senate health care bill. One was the addition of a new Health Insurance Rate Authority

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Senator Stabenow went to the Senate floor to urge her colleagues to stop blocking an urgent extension of unemployment insurance for people who are looking for work during this recession. This entry was written by Doc Noob and posted on …

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Virginia’s Democratic-controlled state Senate passed measures Monday that would make it illegal to require individuals to purchase health insurance , a direct challenge to the party’s efforts in Washington to reform health care. …

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