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Nov 8 2009 12:00AM http://sayanythingblog.com/index.php North Dakota has a love/hate relationship with it's all-Democrat congressional delegation, including Rep.

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The U.S. House approved a 1,990-page health care reform bill late Saturday night on a 220-to-215 vote.

A spokesperson in Earl Pomeroy's office says the congressman supports the bill with the changes tha4 were made to untie payments to medical providers from Medicare rates and allow negotiations on payment rates.

Some moderate Democrats still are a oereally anguisheda over voting for the energy bill, Rep.

Minot is having a Tea Party Nov. 18. The conservative movement that began sweeping the country early this year has resulted in several "tea party" events across the state, but this will be the first for Minot.

Blue Dog Democrats face a dilemma this weekend: Should they oppose legislation they believe is flawed, or move the bill out of the House in the hopes of it changing in conference? That core question was on the minds of many of the 52 fiscally conservative Democrats after a meeting Tuesday with Douglas Elmendorf, the director of the Congressional ...

Jon Waite, chief actuary at mutual fund and investment tech purveyor SEI Corp.'s institutional group out in Oaks, says the bipartisan pension reform act rolled out by US Reps Earl Pomeroy, D-ND, and Pat Tiberi, R-Ohio, would ease pressure on cash-strapped U.S. employers to bail out pension funds hurt by last year's stock market meltdown.

Far from chastened by off-year election setbacks, congressional Democrats vowed no let-up in the drive to pass controversial health care Wednesday, arguing that the way to regain voter trust was to complete what they started in more prosperous political times.

Democratic leaders in Washington have been fine tuning health care reform legislation in order to get the votes they need for passage.

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Fulfilling pension funding obligations can result in job losses, according to a report released Friday, October 30.

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Congressman Earl Pomeroy of North Dakota, a supposed Blue Dog Democrat fiscal hawk demonstrated his peculiar brand of "hawkishness" this week when he quickly announced his support of Nancy Pelosi's health care bill.

Exuding the type of exuberance over wonky-sounding pensionfund legislation that only a former state insurance commissioner could display, Rep.

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Rep. Earl Pomeroy says he likes the House health care bill now that the so-called public option is no longer tied to Medicare rates.

RedState's Erick Erickson is nothing if not creative. Erickson has, among other things, previously led a campaign to send bags of rock salt to Sen.

House Democrats on Thursday closed in on the votes they need to pass sweeping health care legislation, as party leaders introduced a 1,990-page bill designed to guarantee near-universal medical coverage for the first time in the nation's history.