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Sen. Chuck Grassley didn’t kill the possibility of end-of-life provisions being included in health reform legislation because he doesn’t have that kind of authority, former Democratic National Committee Chair Howard Dean said Thursday.
During an interview on MSNBC’s Countdown with Keith Olbermann, Dean said Grassley’s statements that government-run health care will result in so-called “death panels” [...]

Though former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean, M.D., still seems to think and act like a policy wonk, the immediate past chair of the Democratic National Committee came to Des Moines yesterday as an outsider to the policy-making process.  But that didn’t prevent last night’s forum on health care reform from feeling like a campaign stop.

“We do have to face the voters, but we also have to face ourselves every morning,” said Senate Majority Leader Mike Gronstal. “We have to be able to look ourselves in the mirror every day. And by the way, we didn’t do this for the GLBT community. We did this for everybody.”

Dr. Howard Dean, the former Vermont governor and immediate past chair of the Democratic National Committee, will be in Des Moines Thursday to discuss the importance of a public option being included in any potential health care legislation passed by Congress this year.

Sen. Tom Harkin, D-Cumming, told the Huffington Post Thursday that former DNC Chairman Howard Dean should be President Barack Obama’s choice to lead the Department of Health and Human Services.
“I think that would be a very good move,” Harkin told the Huffington Post. “He brings all the background and experience. He’s very strong on prevention [...]

Democratic National Committee chair Howard Dean called Iowa “one of the most important swing states in America” at the University of Iowa Friday.

Two months after the Iowa caucuses, U.S. Sen. Tom Harkin still finds himself defending our first-in-the-nation status – not in the future but the here and now, the 2008 election.

At issue is the Hillary Clinton-backed efforts to allow delegates from Florida and Michigan to be seated at the Democratic National Convention (DNC) even though those [...]

The presidential campaign for New York Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton has announced the endorsement of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, the nation’s largest public sector union.
In total, AFSCME represents more than 1.4 million workers. The union has said it has plans to activate a 40,000-member voluntary force and launch a get-out-the-vote [...]