http://www.yourstreet.com/news/senate-finance-committee YourStreet collects the latest local news and information from around the web. Find out what's going on in your town. en-us The Senate Finance Committee will perpetrate a huge fraud on the US public today. Chairman Max Baucus promises to hold a final vote on his health-care overhaul -- most of whose costs he has hidden with budgetary gimmicks. The widely reported numb... http://www.yourstreet.com/news/6746817/max-s-budget-gimmick-magic Tue, 13 Oct 2009 01:20:08 -0700 WASHINGTON -- An important health care vote is on tap today in the Senate Finance Committee which is expected to approve the $829 billion package. Democrats hold a 13-to 10 advantage and Chairman Max Baucus is confident, even though two Democrats on... http://www.yourstreet.com/news/6747310/important-senate-health-care-vote-today Tue, 13 Oct 2009 01:18:08 -0700 WASHINGTON - The Senate Finance Committee will hold a landmark vote on health-care legislation today that is expected to underscore the deep partisan divisions that have emerged and hardened during five months of debate. http://www.yourstreet.com/news/6745465/health-vote-set-splits-persist Mon, 12 Oct 2009 23:01:08 -0700 WASHINGTON - The Senate Finance Committee will hold a landmark vote on health-care legislation today that is expected to underscore the deep partisan divisions that have emerged and hardened during five months of debate. http://www.yourstreet.com/news/6745487/health-vote-set-splits-persist Mon, 12 Oct 2009 23:01:08 -0700 I've reviewed the current form of the your Senate Finance Committee bill, which is basically a good compromise, but has significant watered-down defects as it's about to go to vote. http://www.yourstreet.com/news/6740911/dr-paul-toffel-an-open-letter-to-senator-max-baucus-save-your-health-ca Mon, 12 Oct 2009 20:38:08 -0700 Iowa Sen. Charles Grassley plans to oppose health care legislation in the Senate Finance Committee today, arguing that the bill hits consumers and small businesses too hard while not guarding against politically sensitive side effects. http://www.yourstreet.com/news/6750143/grassley-opposes-health-bill Mon, 12 Oct 2009 20:29:08 -0700 WASHINGTON — The Senate Finance Committee will hold a landmark vote on health care reform legislation today that is expected to underscore the deep partisan divisions that have emerged and hardened over five months of debate. http://www.yourstreet.com/news/6743927/senate-finance-committee-to-vote-on-health-care-reform-bill Mon, 12 Oct 2009 20:15:08 -0700 Most of the news stories on the preliminary assessment by the Congressional Budget Office of the preliminary version of the Senate Finance Committee’s health care legislation (the Baucus bill) verged on the ecstatic. It meets President Barack... http://www.yourstreet.com/news/6747869/a-prognosis-compromised-by-optimism Mon, 12 Oct 2009 13:52:08 -0700 The Senate Finance Committee is likely to send a sweeping bill to overhaul the health system to the whole Senate. http://www.yourstreet.com/news/6748687/health-reform-expected-to-clear-hurdle Mon, 12 Oct 2009 12:37:08 -0700 We all know that a strong robust public option is necessary. It is needed because there are those without insurance who need help. While it is nice to talk about lowering costs, eliminating the ability of insurance companies to use preexisting conditions against you... http://www.yourstreet.com/news/6742885/senator-gillibrand-among-30-democratic-senators-who-sign-letter-calling-for Fri, 09 Oct 2009 07:31:08 -0700 Max Baucus, the current chairman of the powerful Senate Finance Committee, is on the verge of making history by writing (and perhaps passing) a sweeping reform of the nation's health care system. The Montana Senator - he was elected to the Senate in 1978 - is walking... http://www.yourstreet.com/news/6740677/a-montanan-at-the-gates-of-reform-again Wed, 07 Oct 2009 15:12:08 -0700 WASHINGTON – By the narrowest of margins, the Senate Finance Committee on Thursday approved an amendment by Sen. Maria Cantwell that would allow other states to establish basic health care plans for low-income residents similar to the one in Washington, but... http://www.yourstreet.com/news/6736080/plan-modeled-on-state-health-package-voted-into-bill Fri, 02 Oct 2009 00:05:08 -0700 WASHINGTON – Fearing a backlash, Democrats smoothed the impact of sweeping health care legislation on working-class families Thursday and steered President Barack Obama’s top domestic priority toward a crucial Senate advance. The most far-reaching overhaul in... http://www.yourstreet.com/news/6735658/cantwell-health-proposal-advances-fri,-02-oct-2009-pst Thu, 01 Oct 2009 23:00:08 -0700 WASHINGTON -- The Senate Finance Committee moved yesterday to soften the impact of financial penalties that would be imposed on people who did not obtain insurance under sweeping health care legislation. http://www.yourstreet.com/news/6737211/panel-eases-impact-of-health-bill Thu, 01 Oct 2009 20:00:08 -0700 So the Senate Finance Committee shot down the "public option," instead inviting more discussion about increasing "choice and competition." http://www.yourstreet.com/news/6735915/reform-health-care-for-national-security-s-sake Thu, 01 Oct 2009 14:35:08 -0700 It was only a few months ago that Roatti authored a post arguing that Senator Chuck Schumer should be the majority leader of the U.S. Senate. In the comments of that post, I made the case against it. I did so for a number of reasons, namely Wall Street and the... http://www.yourstreet.com/news/6734580/senator-schumer-a-champion-of-real-progressive-health-care-reform Thu, 01 Oct 2009 12:46:08 -0700 WASHINGTON -- The Senate Finance Committee yesterday rejected a Republican proposal to tighten restrictions on abortion in a bill to overhaul the health care system. http://www.yourstreet.com/news/6737351/senate-panel-rejects-tighter-abortion-limits-in-health-bill Wed, 30 Sep 2009 20:00:08 -0700 WASHINGTON -- A White House-backed overhaul of the nation's health-care system weathered repeated challenges from Republican critics over taxes, abortion and more on Wednesday, and the bill's architect claimed enough votes to push it through the Senate Finance... http://www.yourstreet.com/news/6734776/health-bill-survives-challenges Wed, 30 Sep 2009 16:00:08 -0700 The public option was voted on twice by the Senate Finance Committee and both times, it was shot down. The first vote came on Senator Jay Rockefeller's (D-WV) amendment. All 10 Republicans and five Democrats voted against it, thus killing the amendment. The five... http://www.yourstreet.com/news/6734587/senate-finance-committee-votes-against-public-option-twice Tue, 29 Sep 2009 16:49:08 -0700 WASHINGTON (AP) — The embattled community activist group ACORN appears to be collecting charitable contributions through affiliate organizations that it then uses for impermissible lobbying and political activity, says the Republican staff of the Senate Finance... http://www.yourstreet.com/news/6748326/gop-aides-acorn-misusing-contributions Fri, 25 Sep 2009 22:17:08 -0700