TPMDC’s roundup of the biggest initiatives on Capitol Hill.
- Health Care: Two House committees–Education and Labor, and Ways and Means–passed historic health care legislation today. But the Energy and Commerce committee still has a long way to go, and it’s going to be a hard climb.
- Employee Free Choice: Union-friendly Senate Democrats have reportedly agreed to drop a key provision–majority sign-up–from the flagship labor legislation to win the support of skeptical, conservative Democrats like Blanche Lincoln and Mark Pryor. But even if all Democrats are on board, with Sens. Kennedy and Byrd all but out of commission, EFCA still has a long way to go. The bill is anathema to Republicans like perhaps no other legislation on the Democratic agenda.
