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FLORIDA HEALTH INSURANCE
October 25, 2007
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With few Iraq votes expected in the next several weeks - a marked departure from the first nine months of the new Democratic-controlled Congress - Democrats are trying to build an agenda that’s heavy on health care, community policing, housing, tax reform and other issues.
“Iraq has always been the 800-pound gorilla in the room, but there are other issues to deal with,” said Jim Manley, a spokesman for Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.). “We did well with our initial agenda. Now we need to move on to a broader agenda.”
But there’s another driving factor under the radar: a latent concern that Iraq may not be as favorable a political issue for Democrats a year from now, as images of brigades of U.S. troops coming home could well be flickering on American television screens.
“They’ve run millions of dollars of ads and had untold rallies and protests, but they’re actually losing approval” on the war, said Don Stewart, a spokesman for Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.). “How’s it going to look when troops start coming home next year and, while most people are holding a ‘Welcome Home’ sign, they’re left holding a MoveOn.org ad or Code Pink banner?”
Toward that end, Democrats are taking care of their domestic policy base, much to the chagrin of out-of-power Republicans. The labor movement, marginalized on Capitol Hill in recent years, already has one victory with the minimum wage increase signed into law and is now coalescing behind the push to expand the State Children’s Health Insurance Program.
Looking ahead, Democrats are promising to complete negotiations on an energy bill, amend the No Child Left Behind law and fix the alternative minimum tax, while using appropriations bills to highlight domestic spending priorities.
Meanwhile, a significant majority in a recent Washington Post poll showed that voters trust Democrats more than Republicans on health care by a 2-1 ratio, further illustrating why Democrats are pushing so hard on the children’s health bill.
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