Robert Reich, Robert Reich's Blog. December 18, 2009. Harry Reid will do anything to get sixty votes -- which means Lieberman, Nelson, and Snowe can use extortion on behalf of Big Insurance, Big Pharma, the AMA, and abortion foes.
Darcy Burner, AlterNet. December 16, 2009. Thanks to Joe Lieberman, the Senate health-care bill -- now with no public option or Medicare buy-in -- leaves progressives no choice but to kill it.
Daniela Perdomo, AlterNet AlterNet: Reproductive Justice and Gender. December 7, 2009. Nelson threatens to filibuster the bill if it's not included -- Harry Reid is going to owe some favors.
Adele M. Stan, AlterNet. November 23, 2009. Harry Reid may have gotten the Senate to move his health-care bill forward, but a handful of conservative Democrats could still keep the bill from getting a final vote.
AlterNet Staff, AlterNet AlterNet: Politics. November 20, 2009. Anticipating GOP push-back on the Senate health-care bill's public option, PCCC marshals a show of support
Adele Stan, AlterNet AlterNet: Reproductive Justice and Gender. November 19, 2009. Women's rights advocates have been holding their collective breath as the Senate hammered out its bill. So far, so good.
Robert B. Reich, Robert Reich's Blog. November 17, 2009. Nobody said this would be easy. But passing the health reform that America deserves involves a little political muscle.
Maggie Mahar, Health Beat. November 6, 2009. The health care bills wending through Congress are getting a bad rap. And the major culprit is the Congressional Budget Office, and its chief, Doug Elmendorf.
Adele Stan, AlterNet. October 30, 2009. Majority Leader Harry Reid has said the Senate bill will have a public option, but now it's time to walk the walk.
Adele Stan, AlterNet AlterNet: Health and Wellness. October 27, 2009. Former Democratic vice presidential candidate Joe Lieberman said he might join a Republican filibuster to stop a final vote on health-care reform.
Bill Scher, Campaign for America's Future AlterNet: Politics. October 27, 2009. The inclusion of the public option in Senate health-care legislation is a win for progressives. Now it's time to do the same for climate change and financial reform.
Mike Lux, Open Left. October 27, 2009. In the coming weeks we will have an all-out public war with the insurance industry. It will decide whether we pass comprehensive reform or once again fall short at the bitter end.
Adele Stan, AlterNet AlterNet: Politics. October 26, 2009. In a striking announcement, the Senate majority leader says he has the votes to stop a filibuster against a public option; gives up on Snowe.
Adam Green, Open Left AlterNet: Politics. October 26, 2009. Rumors abound that the White House "is not lifting a finger" to help Harry Reid win a public option in the Senate health-care reform bill.
Adele Stan, AlterNet AlterNet: Politics. October 22, 2009. Naysayers declared it impossible, but ABC News reports that Harry Reid thinks he has the votes to get a public option to the Senate floor.
Adele Stan, AlterNet AlterNet: Politics. October 21, 2009. New polling shows rising public support for a public insurance plan, as the Progressive Change Campaign Committee turns up the heat on Harry Reid with a TV ad.
Steve Benen, Washington Monthly AlterNet: PEEK. October 14, 2009. It's pretty unusual for a Senate Majority Leader to testify as a witness at a committee hearing, so I was glad to see Harry Reid (D-Nev.) make an exception today on a key issue.
Agence France Presse August 6, 2009. By an easy 68-31 margin, lawmakers lifted the 55-year-old appeals court judge to the bench that serves as the final arbiter of the U.S. Constitution.
Steve Benen, Washington Monthly AlterNet: Politics. July 24, 2009. The president responds to Harry Reid's announcement that the Senate will not take up health reform until after the August recess.
Adele Stan, AlterNet AlterNet: Politics. July 17, 2009. The Senate voted to close debate on the Matthew Shepard Hate Crimes Prevention Act, but a veto threat still looms.
Steve Benen, AlterNet: PEEK. July 3, 2009. There have been plenty of Senate Majority Leaders in history who members feared and wouldn't dare cross. Reid isn't one of them.
