Politics

Congress Links

By Sunlight Foundation & Participatory Politics Foundation

• Reid promises a vote on the hate crimes bill before the August recess (Senatus).

• Lieberman comes out against a public plan health care (Washington Independent).

• Baucus says there is an 85-90% chance that bipartisan health care reform will happen this year (Reuters).

• Howard Dean speaks out against the co-op health care proposal (Huffington Post).

• CBO scores the Kennedy health care bill, finds huge costs and dubious policies (Ezra Klein).

• When did the White House lose Congress? (Felix Salmon).

• Dems considering big changes to how secret CIA briefings are conducted (Plum Line).

• House debates eliminating life-without-parole for juveniles (Florida Innocence).

• Catching up on Rep. John Murtha’s (D-PA) ethics scandals (TPMMuckracker).

• Congressional Black Caucus calls for more diversity on the Sunday talk shows (The Hill).

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Full post as published by Open Congress on June 16, 2009 (boomark / email).