4 Amendments were voted on and debated:
Hatch Motion to Commit: Return Bill to Finance Cmte. Defeated 41-57
Stabenow Amendment: Protects Medicare Advantage Plans Passed 97-1
Thune Amendment: Eliminates New Entitlement Programs Defeated 51-47 (Needed 60 votes to pass)
Whitehouse Amendment: Surplus Protections on Social Security & CLASS Passed 98-0
House of Commons rejects amendment to protect religious liberty of Churches in Equality Bill in the UK by a vote of 314-170.
Click here to go to beginning of debate in video at Parliamentlive.tv. You will enter exactly on the spot where the debate begins at about 5 hours and 1 minute into the video.
Bill was defeated by a vote of 38-24. The purpose of the bill states: "This bill provides same-sex couples the same opportunity to enter into civil marriages as opposite-sex couples. The bill also provides that no member of the clergy may be compelled to perform any marriage ceremony."
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Independent Senator from Vermont Bernard Sanders announced he would place a hold on the renomination of Ben Bernanke as Federal Reserve chair.
Senate hearing on Fred Bernanke renomination hearing
Commissioner of Bureau of Labor Statistics hears comments and is asked questions by both Democrats and Republicans.
4 Amendments were voted on and debated:
McCain Motion to Commit: Return Bill to Finance Cmte. Defeated 42-58
Bennet Amendment: Guarantee Medicare Benefits Passed 100-0
Murkowski Amendment: Cancer Screening Recommendations Defeated 41-59
Mikulski Amendment: Women's Preventive Health Care Passed 61-39
From the morning...
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House Republicans
vs Democrat Speaker of the House
From CSPAN in the morning...
Till the evening...
From day 3 of Senate health care bill debate. This motion to commit would send bill back to committee.
From Day 3 of Senate health care debate
From The Health Subcommittee of the Energy and Commerce Committee in the House
Witness include
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Connolly
vs Grassley
From the morning...
Into the evening...
Day 1 of debate on the Senate floor over the Senate health care bill.
President Obama Weekly Address
vs Republican Weekly Address
This is from 11/22/2009 or so.
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