Global climate change negotiations in color

The President spoke this morning to the UN Climate Change Summit in New York City. He’s in a tough spot. In December he will send his representatives to the global climate change negotiations in Copenhagen, and the American delegation is likely to…

20 questions for the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission

Here are twenty questions I hope we can answer on the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission (FCIC). As I said this morning in my opening statement at the commission’s first meeting, if the commission could answer these questions, I…

A checklist for the President’s health care speech

Here is a checklist I will use this evening as I watch President Obama’s Address to a Joint Session of Congress (8 PM EDT). I hope you find it helpful.

• Deadline — Does the President set any hard process deadlines…

Health Care Moves

Members of the House and Senate will return to Washington the evening of Tuesday, September 8th. Over the following several days they will compare constituent feedback on health care reform. There will be thousands of small informal discussions — Members talking to each other on the House and…

The text of the President’s health care speech

Remarks of President Barack Obama — As Prepared for Delivery

Address to a Joint Session of Congress on Health Care

Wednesday, September 9th, 2009

Incorrect conventional wisdom about health care reform

Here are ten pieces of conventional wisdom about health care reform that I think are wrong.

CW #1. The Obama team learned and avoided the mistakes of HillaryCare.

Wall Street Journal op-ed

Mike Leavitt, Al Hubbard and I have an op-ed about health care reform in today’s Wall Street Journal.

Health “Reform” Is Income Redistribution

Updated legislative scenarios for health reform

(Update: My brain was stuck in 59-Senate-Democrats mode, and was assuming that Leader Reid would need Senator Snowe’s vote to reach 60. That is now incorrect, assuming Senator Byrd is healthy enough to vote. I have edited this post accordingly.)

My opening statement at today’s Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission meeting

Here is the opening statement I gave at the first public meeting of the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission, held this morning in a hearing room in the House Longworth Office Building.

Understanding the Baucus health bill

Today is the third day of the Senate Finance Committee’s markup of the Baucus health bill, the “America’s Healthy Future Act of 2009.” I am going to summarize the bill in a manner similar to what I might have done for my colleagues while working in the White House.