For a while, the Energy and Commerce Committee was the last House committee standing on the Hill, and that’s now changed with the passage of the House Tri-Committee out of the committee on a vote of 31-28 today. All the three House committees and the Senate HELP committee were able to pass the health care legislation out of their [...]

Tea partiers are overwhelmed by health care supporters in front of Rep. Bart Gordon’s offices in TN.

The effort by House progressives to stand together and push back against the Blue Dogs was successful. But it ain’t over by a long shot. If you’re with a blog that covers state politics and you’d like to be a a part of the effort, let us know in the form below.

Here’s a round-up of the latest action in Minnesota, Oklahoma, Colorado, Connecticut, Kentucky, Texas, New Mexico, Montana, Maryland and Delaware.

Blue Dog Mike Ross benefits a great deal from the current state of health care in this country. But what about the people who he’s supposed to represent? According to a new report from the Main Street Alliance, the people in Ross’ state of Arkansas aren’t benefitting very much from the way things are.

Yesterday 57 House progressives signed a letter refusing to accept the Blue Dog compromise. And as reported by the AP this morning: there’s a new agreement between House conservatives, moderates (??) and liberals on ways to strengthen the House health care reform bill, including the Public Option 14 down…26 to go. Whip it! Took the [...]

AP is reporting there’s a new agreement between House conservatives, moderates (??) and liberals on ways to strengthen the House health care reform bill. A strong public option will be preserved, AP says.

The only thing that can possibly compete is Obama personally traveling around and selling his health care program, supported by the 12 million member OFA list. We can turn up the heat and stiffen the resolve of progressives (maybe), but if OFA hasn’t been planning for this and seriously motivating and activating its members in a state-by-state grassroots effort to support the most important policy battle of his presidency, it will be nothing short of an epic FAIL.

The House Energy and Commerce Committee is having its mark-up of the Tri-Committee health care bill at 10 a.m. today. This could be the last mark-up for the committee on health care reform–that is, if one of the Blue Dogs doesn’t flip and decide to vote against the final passage of the bill out of the committee. [...]

The upcoming August recess, which begins on July 31st, is when Members of Congress go home to meet their constituents, listen to them, attend local community events, and brag about their legislative accomplishments like cocky roosters in the hopes that their constituents will vote them back into office. These lawmakers also work hard to hold [...]