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Coverage. the specialists who say their speciality suddenly isnt so special, surgeons bailing out of their profession because it is not worth the hassle. and everybody else cant seem to afford the hassle. a "the wall street journal" study detailed premiums doubling, tripling, and soon, even for those practicing preventive behavior, prevented from getting any break for that behavior. who knew in the remake of health care swathes would rule and the drit would drool. the government knew. the folks ...

The president wanted it rerouted through nebraska, weve met that requirement, as senator baucus said its been almost five years. i spoke with the president yesterday, he said he may take the balance of this year to make a decision. weve put by partisan legislation forward, we have a lot of support for it and its to get the project going. jon: there is similar bipartisan legislation coming out of the house as we understand it. i read when the president met with some republican members of the hous...

I hope the president approves it quickly. jon: the president some observers have said is afraid of angering his most liberal supporters who like his green energy platforms and so forth. he doesnt want too of offend them by signing into law a pipeline that will burn petroleum. how do you answer that. >> the fourth environmental review came out by his own state department and said there are no significant environmental impacts with the project. there will be less greenhouse emissions if the projec...

A bipartisan bill has been introduced in the senate to give congress the power to approve the project. it will link oil sands with refineries and ports in texas. the $5.3 billion pipe loin has become a major controverts see. environmentalists opposing the project since day one, proponents say it would create thousands of jobs. two senators behind the bill are max baucas. and republican john hovin a member of the senate committee on energy and natural resources. welcome to both of you. this is no...

Middle class. finance chairman max baucas supports making the tax cuts permanent and from the house side they want to give families a break. there is a chance those earning less than $250,000 a year will be spared which is exactly what president obama has pledged. but for those earning more than $250,000, rates are almost certain to rise. >> at the end of your story you hit on a very interesting point. if that family there ends up paying $350 more a month in taxes, thats possibly money that they...

Begich, bingaman, cardin, >> yeah. carper, bob casey, dodd, door began, durbin, hagen, har kin, i think were giving him a show are these reliable, all of them? on msnbc, in fact. >> more or less. a little lower than a wallpaper all of the senators you have listed there said in the past they supported the public option store. conceptually. some more than others, so it you know who theyre trying to stands to reason they would vote for it if it came up to vote using reconciliation. the key names th...

>> more or less. all of the senators you have listed there said in the past they supported the public option conceptually. some more than others, so it stands to reason they would vote for it if it came up to vote using reconciliation. the key names there are reid, baucus and dodd. theyre not coming out in favor specifically right now for using reconciliation, but if one of them did, it would kate that this process is being taken very seriously by leadership and that it might actually have a cha...

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