POL 536 Chapter Notes - Chapter 12: United States Senate Committee On Finance, Supermajority, Dianne Feinstein
6 Apr 2018
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Senate leaders tried to attract senator joseph lieberman"s vote, along with other negotiations with democrats: a number of negotiations followed with kickbacks to get votes, such as money for hurricane. January 2010 with victories of republican scott brown in ma filling in for kennedy: we will look at what happened in 2009 though. Who led the charge, & what tools did they have: obama"s powers--& their limits, obama ignored advisors & started to set in motion health reforms amid great recession of. 2009, framing it as a moral concern with a sense of urgency: the speech improved slightly the standing of reform in national opinion polls, nudging. Congressional committees back to work: obama successfully prodded congress to: getting a bill out of the one remaining. Congressional committee that hadn"t acted (the senate finance committee), getting a majority for the house bill passed on november 7, 2009, & assembling a supermajority of 60.
