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  1. affordability, affordability, affordability must be mantra in conference even as what will get attn is hot button issues
  2. Next vote Tue, then Wed, final vote as Santa flies overhead then onto Conference... hard to see things changing much w/Nelson's conditions
  3. Rep. Leader McConnell stresses "one can stop it or every one will own it" - no ONE convened with 60 voting to end the debate, vote the bill
  4. Harkin "let's make history......say yes to progress, yes to people, yes to health care as inalienable right of every American citizen"
  5. McCain reflects back on John Paul Jones as he vows "we have just begun to fight"
  6. Sen Alexander: says vote on health care reform "political kamikaze mission for a historic mistake"
  7. voters may be "luke warm" 2 Specter, but he could say Toomey "will give them the shivers" http://bit.ly/4OHIN6
  8. Shapiro: gaming bill is "not a good deal" 4 taxpayers http://www.philly.com/inquirer/opinion/20091218_Letters_to_the_Editor.html?viewAll=y
  9. PG editorial page shines light on missing gun issue - locals doing what state won't http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09352/1021788-192.stm
  10. Santorum leaps at chance undercut Casey's amt 2 help women, increase adoption ignores pt that providing support for women, babies is key
  11. Santorum blasts Casey http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=ODIxMDcwMWVkMGI3MDM5N2MxZWY2MGVkN2UyNGNhYTA=
  12. Would be nice to say 'yes Virginia there is a full state budget' but why do today....http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09352/1021838-454.stm
  13. all the while PA General Assembly still doesn't settle 09-10 budget & Congress' train on state fiscal relief appears 2 have jumped the track
  14. wsj look @ how states still can't close budget gaps http://online.wsj.com/article/SB126110075141996495.html?mod=WSJ_hps_MIDDLEForthNews
  15. as us house tries to wrap up some work, committees still in full swing - hrg to reduce child obesity set for this am
  16. who's looking at the fiscal/human costs, trade offs?
  17. Story @ foster care (and its costs) remind me of that 102 children in Lackawanna County put into care this yr b/c of inadequate housing
  18. Balance that w/news/views that most policy work in Hbg will wait till new Gov - will that include creating a Children's Ombudsperson?
  19. Adoptions, kids back to homes in Phila http://www.philly.com/inquirer/local/20091216_DHS_says_adoptions__reunifications_up_in_Phila_.html
  20. poverty, poverty, poverty @ heart of so much and yet we're like ostrich's, too little courage, too little willingness for honest debate