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Proposal To Limit Drugmakers' Use Of Prescription Info Fades
Wed, 16 Dec 2009 16:40:58 -0500
A Senate amendment to the health overhaul bill would have banned the collection of prescription data for marketing by drugmakers. But the measure faded before it was even brought up for debate.
GOP Tries To Stall Health Care Debate
Wed, 16 Dec 2009 16:00:00 -0500
As Democrats rush to finish a health care bill by Christmas, Republicans are reaching into a bag of parliamentary tricks to slam on the brakes. For more than three hours Wednesday, they forced the Senate clerk to read a single-payer amendment — all 767 pages of it — until it was withdrawn by its sponsor, Independent Bernie Sanders. Republican Tom Coburn, who demanded the reading, said he was only trying to follow regular order, but an aide to the minority leader put out a different message on Twitter: We're trying to kill the bill.
Reading Of Sanders Amendment Stalls Senate Health Debate
Wed, 16 Dec 2009 13:56:29 -0500
Senate Republicans have brought action on health overhaul to a halt by requiring that the full text of a 767-page amendment be read aloud. Sen. Jim DeMint of South Carolina says the Republicans will do what it takes to slow the debate, if the Democrats won't.
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Proposal To Limit Drugmakers' Use Of Prescription Info Fades
Wed, 16 Dec 2009 16:40:58 -0500
A Senate amendment to the health overhaul bill would have banned the collection of prescription data for marketing by drugmakers. But the measure faded before it was even brought up for debate.
GOP Tries To Stall Health Care Debate
Wed, 16 Dec 2009 16:00:00 -0500
As Democrats rush to finish a health care bill by Christmas, Republicans are reaching into a bag of parliamentary tricks to slam on the brakes. For more than three hours Wednesday, they forced the Senate clerk to read a single-payer amendment — all 767 pages of it — until it was withdrawn by its sponsor, Independent Bernie Sanders. Republican Tom Coburn, who demanded the reading, said he was only trying to follow regular order, but an aide to the minority leader put out a different message on Twitter: We're trying to kill the bill.
Reading Of Sanders Amendment Stalls Senate Health Debate
Wed, 16 Dec 2009 13:56:29 -0500
Senate Republicans have brought action on health overhaul to a halt by requiring that the full text of a 767-page amendment be read aloud. Sen. Jim DeMint of South Carolina says the Republicans will do what it takes to slow the debate, if the Democrats won't.
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