Tag: Tom Carper

Warm Up Your Dialing Fingers

Filed in National by on February 18, 2010 23 Comments

Next week President Obama will convene his bipartisan health care summit. It’s expected that sometime in next few days, the Senate bill + reconciliation sidecar will be introduced. The reconciliation bill is to correct some of the issues that the House had with the Senate bill. We don’t know exactly what’s in it but it’s […]

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Thanks, Tom Carper!

Filed in Delaware, National by on January 16, 2010 7 Comments

The pharmaceutical industry lobbying group PHARMA is threatening to pull its support for the health care reform legislation because of a change in the health care bill. The drug industry is threatening to end its support for President Barack Obama’s health overhaul effort because of a rift with the administration over protecting brand-name biotech drugs […]

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Carper Fights For His Base

Filed in Delaware, National by on December 12, 2009 22 Comments

Earlier this year Carper voted with the Republicans to block an amendment to allow Medicaid and Medicare to negotiate drug prices. It caused quite a stir because Carper railed against the unfairness of hurting the profits of drug companies. Carper is doing it again. Byron Dorgan has filed an amendment to allow drug reimportation from […]

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Carper’s Latest Compromise Plan

Filed in Delaware, National by on December 2, 2009 2 Comments

Harry Reid has a really difficult task, Democrats have decided to lay down all their weapons and craft bills that need 60 votes to even get a vote. Tom Carper is apparently the go-to guy for compromise in the Senate health care debate. Some details of Carper’s latest trial balloon are now emerging – it […]

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Carper on Hardball

Filed in National by on November 27, 2009 0 Comments

This is from a show on 11/25 and Chuck Todd interviews him:

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Tom Carper Never Lets Go the Rightwing Talking Points

Filed in National by on November 25, 2009 63 Comments

Call this post reason #578,091 why Senator Tom Carper is not a progressive. As if a proud member of the DLC could be. Senator Carper tells WHYY:

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Bulo’s 2009 Top 10 MVPs (Most Valuable to the Progressive Cause)

Filed in National by on November 23, 2009 42 Comments

I am El Somnambulo, and I am a listaholic. 2009, IMHO, was a great year for Delaware progressives, maybe the best ever. Both equal rights for same sex couples and open government legislation were signed into law. A governor with a progressive vision began to make his mark on the state. A president began to […]

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Tom Carper’s Chief of Staff Now Lobbies for Wellpoint

Filed in National by on November 18, 2009 20 Comments

You read that right — the nation’s largest insurer has hired Tom Carper’s ex-Chief of Staff as a lobbyist to campaign for their interests on the health care bill:

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Carper Makes His Crappy Idea Even Crappier

Filed in Delaware, National by on November 11, 2009 5 Comments

Here’s the next idea that Carper is floating (trying to get Snowe or Lieberman onboard I suppose) – triggered state co-ops. In states where private insurers fail to offer affordable coverage, Carper said the alternative would permit them to set up a non-profit board, likely appointed by the president, to offer insurance. “That kind of […]

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Senator Carper Tries to Disguise That He is Missing the Point

Filed in National by on November 2, 2009 4 Comments

Sunday’s NJ gave us another one of those missives that seems to be designed to communicate that he is on top of the issues, but, if you look closely, is basically a whole lot of weak handwaving that tries to hide his real work. They key bit here is this:

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Sen. Tom Carper Talks About State-Run Public Options

Filed in National by on October 11, 2009 7 Comments

This video from the Nightly Business Report is not embeddable, but click here and the player should come up for you. There is a transcript, too.

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Carper’s State-Based Public Option Gains Steam

Filed in Delaware, National by on October 7, 2009 17 Comments

Tom Carper’s hybrid state co-op/public option plan is gaining momentum in the Senate right now. If you want to know what to think about the plan look at who’s praising it. A new proposal by Sen. Tom Carper would spell out how to boost competition in the private market by enacting government-run plans at the […]

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Around the Horn Sunday

Filed in National by on October 4, 2009 7 Comments
Around the Horn Sunday

This week’s roundup of local political news from around the Delaware blogosphere.

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