Republicans scored a victory last night by slowing Democrat’s momentum after passing healthcare reform this week.
As reported by POLITICO:
Senate Republicans have succeeded in forcing Democrats to send the health reform reconciliation bill back to the House for another vote, after Senate parliamentarian Alan Frumin ruled early Thursday morning that two minor provisions violated the chamber’s [...]
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Reconciliation Sent Back to the House
The Future of Paid Search in Politics and Public Affairs
Just to reinforce the point I made in my last post about how digital communications tools are powering public affairs campaigns, check out this item that ran last week on Marketplace, the public-radio program on business. It’s focused on how political and public affairs campaigns are increasingly using search engine marketing — that is, those [...]
Fleishman-Hillard Wins PR Week Best Public Affairs Campaign Award
This is a slightly belated, but nonetheless proud, recognition that a couple of weeks ago Fleishman-Hillard won the prestigious PR Week Award for Best Public Affairs Campaign for 2010 for the Fix Housing First Coalition. Our public affairs team in Washington built and mobilized a network of thousands from around the country who called on [...]
Timeline: Healthcare Reform and Implementation
After more than a year of hostile debate, Congress passed a healthcare reform bill. This morning, President Barack Obama signed H.R. 3590, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, into law.
While Democrats and Republicans continue their contentious debate on the legislative merits of the legislation – especially as the Senate considers the reconciliation legislation of negotiated fixes - elements of [...]
Early Readings of Citizens United v. FEC
Here’s a dispatch from Bill Black, who oversees Fleishman-Hillard’s global public affairs practice (and who is traveling as I write this), on what the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling yesterday on Citizens United v. FEC might mean for companies’ and unions’ public affairs activities. He writes:
I am just returning from the annual National Grassroots Conference of [...]
The Idea Vs. The Reality of Health Care Reform
A November 4 article in the New England Journal of Medicine compared U.S. public opinion about the health care overhaul effort during the Clinton Administration and the current one that the Obama Administration has championed. The results are that the pattern of public opinion is similiar today to what it was in the early ’90s, [...]
GOP Healthcare Plan: DOA?
As I mentioned in my previous post on this week’s healthcare debate in Congress, House Republicans indicated they would offer their own bill as an alternative. It looks like they have come through on this promise.
The Associated Press, which was provided a draft of the bill, reported that the plan is “much shorter and focuses [...]
Where’d All The Lobbyists Go?
According to a just-released study by watchdog groups OMB Watch and the Center for Responsive Politics, there was an unusually high surge of lobbyists who terminated their legal status as lobbyists during the second quarter of 2009. The question everyone will be asking, of course, is why? The second question will be: did President Obama, [...]
Key Issues in House Healthcare Debate
Since Congress returned from its August recess, healthcare reform has dominated its agenda. Various congressional committees have debated – often contentiously – numerous legislative proposals to reform the system. Each proposal has sought to answer the ultimate question: how do you reform the current healthcare system to improve the quality of care, increase access for [...]
How Do You Solve a Problem Like Fox News?
As with every other White House – and most public officials, for the matter – the Obama White House has a problem with the media. Or, to be more specific, certain segments of the media – especially Fox News – that are sharply critical of the White House.
And as with every other, those in charge [...]
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