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keithhennessey.com - 10/30/2009
Updating the legislative scenarios: Reply hazy, ask again later
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Democrats have made significant legislative progress. Speaker Pelosi and Leader Reid each have a bill to which they are attaching their own names, and those bills roughly represent variants of the committee products within each body. That lends legitimacy to their bills (at least within the ...

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Do They Care?
EconLog: Library of Economics and Liberty — While many people dismiss insights from public choice, what's striking is its casual acceptance in conversation and discussion. Keith Hennessey posted today about the odds on various things happening with the Senate's and House of Representatives' proposed tax increases, aka, health care "reform." Here are two particularly interesting passages. First one: Congressional Democrats appear to believe that enactment of a comprehensive law is critical to their re-election. Most seem to believe that a White House signing ceremony is more important than the contents of the bill that ...

Friday's Daily News
Club for Growth — ... should know about the House health care bill. And don't forget about these 13 tax hikes in the same bill. Naturally, the IBD editorial board calls it the 1,990-page medical monstrosity. Don't be fooled. Kim Strassel says the public option diverts attention from the House health care bill's real faults. How will the health care bill move through Congress? Keith Hennessey provides a great examination. And here's more. George Soros is launching an effort to get free market ideas out of ...

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