With Health-Care Bill, Baucus May Define His Career and His Party
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on May 24th, 2009 4:31 am by HL
With Health-Care Bill, Baucus May Define His Career and His Party
Max Baucus, chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, may be President Obama’s most critical ally on health-care reform. But which version of the independent-minded Montanan will preside as the debate intensifies this summer?
Pelosi, Like Clinton, Plays Down Human Rights Before China Trip
BEIJING, May 24 — For the second time this year, a top U.S. official visiting China has declined in advance to publicly discuss Beijing’s human rights record, a shift in practice that comes almost exactly two decades after the Tiananmen Square massacre.
U.S. Presses Israel to End Expansion of Settlements; Bush Pact Complicates Issue
The Obama administration is pressing the Israeli government to halt the expansion of Jewish settlements in Palestinian areas, U.S. and Israeli officials said, seeking a visible symbol of progress on peace that might inspire Arab states to consider normalizing relations with Jerusalem. The…
