Democrats Push Health Care, Environment
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By ANDREW TAYLOR  WASHINGTON - Senate Democrats pressed for budget increases for party priorities such as health, special education and medical research Tuesday as an appropriations panel approved a $152 billion spending bill.
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What might seem a mundane debate over health policy has taken on outsized importance because it is one of the few substantive differences between the two leading Democratic candidates.
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Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton rejoins the health care debate in earnest Monday with a plan to expand coverage. Positions of other presidential candidates:
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House Democrats, emboldened to act on global warming, intend to push automakers at a hearing next week to accept higher fuel-economy standards.
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Democrats in Congress said Wednesday that they were willing to tweak, but not overhaul, a bill that would renew and expand the State Childrenâs Health Insurance Program.
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Some Democratic presidential  contenders took aim at Hillary Clinton&#39;s leadership on health  care on Thursday, questioning whether she could rally the  political support to pass a broad plan for universal coverage.
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Democratic Presidential Candidate Sen. Joseph R. Biden Jr. of Delaware unveiled a health care plan Tuesday that he said would provide health insurance for all children, provide more coverage options for adults and focus on disease prevention and modernizing the nationÃ¢ÂÂs health care system.
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Congressional Democrats are marking "Sunshine Week" with bills to increase public access to government activities and protect whistle-blowers who expose wrongdoing
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In their weekly radio address, Democrats yesterday  called for a new direction in energy policy, away from gas-guzzling automobiles and reliance on foreign oil.
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Health care and financial security, two issues especially important to seniors, top the agenda of an AARP forum Thursday night in Iowa featuring five Democratic presidential candidates.
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A majority of Republicans today joined all Democrats on the panel in supporting a major expansion of the Childrenâs Health Insurance Program.
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The health care debate in this year&#39;s presidential contest has been largely boiled down to an argument over degree: Democrat John F. Kerry proposes an ambitious, costly expansion of health
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Bloomberg - Sept. 18 (Bloomberg) -- Hillary Clinton&#39;s new plan to provide health care for all Americans differs more from her 1993 proposal known as ``Hillarycare&#39;&#39; than it does from ideas offered by her chief Democratic rivals in the 2008 presidential campaign.
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Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton said Thursday that an ounce of prevention is worth billions of dollars to the health care system as she called for far-reaching changes to curb rising costs.
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Bloomberg - June 29 (Bloomberg) -- Democratic presidential hopefuls last night called for higher taxes on wealthy Americans and more federal spending on education, health care and programs to alleviate poverty.
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Most Democrats say "socialized medicine" would be better than the current U.S. health care system, while most Republicans say it would be worse, a poll by the Harvard School of Public Health showed on Thursday.
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For months, Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton has promised a plan to bring health care to every American.