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		<title>Baucus plan should be called the &#8220;Insurance Industry Profit Protection and Enhancement Act&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.progresspolitics.com/2009/09/baucus-bill-is-the-insurance-industry-profit-protection-and-enhancement-act/</link>
		<comments>http://www.progresspolitics.com/2009/09/baucus-bill-is-the-insurance-industry-profit-protection-and-enhancement-act/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2009 11:20:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jai2</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Senate]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is what whistleblower and former top executive at Cigna, Wendell Potter, said about the health reform plan released by Sen. Baucus.  Potter said during the House Democratic Steering &#38; Policy Cmte. forum yesterday that if the health care reform bill &#8220;fails to create a public insurance option to compete with private insurers, the bill it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Are you Serious Baucus???  Sotomayor really???</title>
		<link>http://www.progresspolitics.com/2009/07/are-you-serious-baucus-sotomayor-really/</link>
		<comments>http://www.progresspolitics.com/2009/07/are-you-serious-baucus-sotomayor-really/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2009 10:29:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jai2</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sen. Max Baucus (D-Mont.) said Thursday he hasn’t made up his mind on whether he will vote to confirm Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor. Baucus this summer has infuriated liberals on and off Capitol Hill by working to strike a deal with Republicans on healthcare reform. A &#8220;no&#8221; vote on Sotomayor would be adding fuel [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bupkis from Baucus</title>
		<link>http://www.progresspolitics.com/2009/07/bupkis-from-baucus/</link>
		<comments>http://www.progresspolitics.com/2009/07/bupkis-from-baucus/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Jul 2009 13:32:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jai2</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Affordable Health Choices Act]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sen. Max Baucus has shown his true colors by successfully proposing a health care bill that eliminates the public option and rewards his insurance industry and GOP buddies.  So even though the American people roundly support a public option, President Obama wants a public option, and the majority of the Democrats in the Senate and the House [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Norm Coleman Finally CONCEDES!!!!!  Congratulations Al Franken!!!</title>
		<link>http://www.progresspolitics.com/2009/06/norm-colman-finally-concedes-congratulations-al-franken/</link>
		<comments>http://www.progresspolitics.com/2009/06/norm-colman-finally-concedes-congratulations-al-franken/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2009 20:04:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jai2</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Political News]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Finally, after the Supreme Court of Minnesota ruled five to zero in favor of Al Franken, Norm Colman has accepted the ruling of the court.  &#8220;I will accept the the court&#8217;s decision.&#8221;  Coleman also said that he would not pursue any additional legal challenges and has already called and congratulated Al Franken on his win of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Senate officially Apologizes to African-Americans for slavery&#8230;..with a Caveat</title>
		<link>http://www.progresspolitics.com/2009/06/senate-apologizes-to-african-americans-for-slaverywith-a-disclaimer/</link>
		<comments>http://www.progresspolitics.com/2009/06/senate-apologizes-to-african-americans-for-slaverywith-a-disclaimer/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Jun 2009 13:14:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The United States Senate officially apologized Thursday for the enslavement and segregation of millions of African-Americans and &#8220;the fundamental injustice, brutality, and inhumanity of slavery and Jim Crow laws.&#8221;  The body passed the resolution sponsored by Sen. Tom Harkin, D-Iowa by way of voice vote.  The resolution now goes to the House of Representatives.  One small [...]]]></description>
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		<title>UPDATE: Credit Card Bill of Rights Vote TODAY!  Senate Passes bill 90-5!!!</title>
		<link>http://www.progresspolitics.com/2009/05/credit-card-bill-of-rights-vote-today-call-your-senator/</link>
		<comments>http://www.progresspolitics.com/2009/05/credit-card-bill-of-rights-vote-today-call-your-senator/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2009 12:49:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jai2</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Credit Card Bill of Rights]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Credit Card Bill of Rights bill is up for vote today by the Senate.  This bill will, among many other things, prevent credit card companies from increasing interest rates four-fold without notice or justification.  Here are a few things to think about while you&#8217;re calling your Senator. - People who have ALWAYS paid their [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Labor Unions target Specter about EFCA</title>
		<link>http://www.progresspolitics.com/2009/05/labor-unions-target-specter-about-efca/</link>
		<comments>http://www.progresspolitics.com/2009/05/labor-unions-target-specter-about-efca/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2009 13:26:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jai2</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Republican]]></category>
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		<title>Specter STRIPPED of ALL His Seniority&#8230;&#8230;.Admitted to the DEmocrat side as a Freshman MEmber!</title>
		<link>http://www.progresspolitics.com/2009/05/specter-stripped-of-all-his-seniorityadmitted-to-the-democrat-side-as-a-freshman-member/</link>
		<comments>http://www.progresspolitics.com/2009/05/specter-stripped-of-all-his-seniorityadmitted-to-the-democrat-side-as-a-freshman-member/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2009 11:53:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>progress</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Democrat]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Political News]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.progresspolitics.com/2009/05/06/specter-stripped-of-all-his-seniorityadmitted-to-the-democrat-side-as-a-freshman-member/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I guess all the trash talking Sen. Arnel Specter has been doing, &#8220;I will not be a loyal Democrat,&#8221; &#8220;I will not back the Employee Free Choice Act,&#8221;  &#8220;I will not be an automatic 60th vote&#8221; &#8220;still time for the Minnesota courts to do justice and declare Norm Coleman the winner,&#8221;  has had an effect [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Happy 60th Mr. President</title>
		<link>http://www.progresspolitics.com/2009/04/happy-60th-mr-president/</link>
		<comments>http://www.progresspolitics.com/2009/04/happy-60th-mr-president/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2009 12:03:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jai2</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Democrat]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Political News]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Most will be celebrating President Barack Obama&#8217;s 100th day in office today but some Democrats believe that the celebration for this milestone began yesterday when Sen. Arlen Specter delivered him a blue iced cake by announcing that he would be switching his party affiliation from Republican to Democrat.  The change will provide Senate democrats with a 60-vote filibuster-proof majority once Al Franken [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The MOST and LEAST bipartisan members of the SENATE</title>
		<link>http://www.progresspolitics.com/2009/04/the-most-and-least-bipartisan-members-of-the-senate/</link>
		<comments>http://www.progresspolitics.com/2009/04/the-most-and-least-bipartisan-members-of-the-senate/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2009 12:30:45 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[POLLS]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Political News]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Who are the hardest and easiest Senators to persuade to cross the aisle?  The Hill asked all 99 Senators who of their colleagues was easiest to support a bipartisan bill and who is least likely to support a bill coming from the other side.  Below are its findings. MOST BIPARTISAN DEMOCRATS 1. Edward Kennedy (Mass.) [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tired of Credit Card Companies hiking up your Interest rates for no reason?  Call your Senator&#8230;..the Credit Cardholders&#8217; Bill of Rights up for a Vote</title>
		<link>http://www.progresspolitics.com/2009/04/tired-of-credit-card-companies-hiking-up-your-interest-rates-for-no-reason-call-your-senatorthe-credit-cardholders-bill-of-rights-up-for-a-vote/</link>
		<comments>http://www.progresspolitics.com/2009/04/tired-of-credit-card-companies-hiking-up-your-interest-rates-for-no-reason-call-your-senatorthe-credit-cardholders-bill-of-rights-up-for-a-vote/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2009 10:58:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jai2</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[House of Repesentatives]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Political News]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you are angry at how the banking industry has responded to the recession and your tax dollar bailout now is the time to act.  Credit card executives are meeting with President Obama today in an effort to try and persuade him not to support the Credit Cardholders&#8217; Bill of Rights currently in route to the Senate.    As thanks to taxpayers [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is the GOP the party of NO alternatives?  Lets examine the GOP counter arguments to the president&#8217;s Budget</title>
		<link>http://www.progresspolitics.com/2009/03/is-the-gop-the-party-of-no-alternatives-lets-examine-the-gop-counter-arguments-to-the-presidents-budget/</link>
		<comments>http://www.progresspolitics.com/2009/03/is-the-gop-the-party-of-no-alternatives-lets-examine-the-gop-counter-arguments-to-the-presidents-budget/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Mar 2009 10:46:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jai2</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Democrat]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is very easy for someone to say that a plan will not work and criticize it excessively.  It is much more difficult to offer sound alternative solutions in the light of such criticism.  Every time I hear the President speak I walk away feeling completely confident of our eventual recovery.  So I pull up my bootstraps [...]]]></description>
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