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INDIANAPOLIS -- The issue of national health care reform could endanger the political future of Indiana Sen. Evan Bayh. The moderate is in hot water with liberals for his failure to endorse a reform bill, 6News' Norman Cox reported. As recently as two days ago, Bayh said he might not be able to support a motion to proceed with a floor debate on health care if it's too expensive. This week, the liberal group MoveOn.org delivered petitions to Bayh's Indiana offices signed by 244 people identified as former Bayh donors and volunteers. They said if he votes to sidetrack health...

Stephen Fraser July 23, 2009 Senator Bayh, As a practicing physician I have major concerns with the healthcare bill before Congress. I actually have read the bill and am shocked by the brazenness of the government's proposed involvement in the patient physician relationship. The very idea that the government will dictate and ration patient care is dangerous and certainly not helpful in designing a healthcare system that works for all. Every physician I work with agrees that we need to fix our healthcare system, but the proposed bills currently making their way through congress will be a disaster if passed....

As a board member of several health care companies, Sen. Evan Bayh’s wife has collected lucrative payments from some of the same businesses that would be most impacted by Congress’ proposed overhaul of the nation’s health care system. Bayh, D-Ind., contends that the $2.1 million his wife, Susan, earned by serving on the boards of public health care companies from 2006 to 2008 represents no conflict of interest. But watchdog groups question those payments, partly because Evan Bayh’s positions are unclear on many issues related to health care reform, The Indianapolis Star reported Sunday. Others contend that Susan Bayh’s rapid...

INDIANAPOLIS -- As a board member of several health care companies, Sen. Evan Bayh's wife has collected lucrative payments from some of the same businesses that would be most impacted by Congress' proposed overhaul of the nation's health care system. Bayh, D-Ind., contends that the $2.1 million his wife, Susan, earned by serving on the boards of public health care companies from 2006 to 2008 represents no conflict of interest. But watchdog groups question those payments, partly because Evan Bayh's positions are unclear on many issues related to health care reform, The Indianapolis Star reported Sunday.

The Obama administration and the Democrats insist that the money the government gets from cap-and-trade will benefit the creation of clean-energy initiatives in the US, making us the world leader. If so, someone should tell Senators Evan Bayh and Dick Lugar. The two have partnered on earmarks that will subsidize a Russian company in the engineering and production of lithium-ion batteries: The Indiana lawmakers have secured $6.5 million in congressional earmarks for Ener1, Inc., and have talked up the company’s efforts to secure a slice of nearly $3 billion in two Energy Department programs offering grants and loans as part...

Washington—With one in three children in the United States living apart from their biological fathers, Senator Evan Bayh (D-IN) and Congressman Danny Davis (D-IL) are renewing their efforts to promote healthy families and support American fathers who are trying to earn a livable wage and take a more active role in the lives of their children. Bayh today introduced his Responsible Fatherhood and Healthy Families Act of 2009, a bill cosponsored by then-Senator Barack Obama in the last Congress. Bayh’s bill is co-sponsored by Senators Blanche Lincoln (D-AK) and Roland Burris (D-IL).

Washington—Senator Evan Bayh (D-IN), a senior member of the Senate Armed Services Committee and Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, today issued the following statement in response to the disputed Iranian election: “I am deeply disturbed by reports from Iran of widespread electoral fraud and the violent suppression of peaceful protests. I join with free people throughout the world in calling on the Iranian regime to cease arresting and harming innocent Iranians whose only crime is to call for free and fair elections.

KOKOMO, IND.—Appearing at an afternoon news conference today with the White House auto czar and the head of the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA), Senator Evan Bayh and Congressman Joe Donnelly today (May 28, 2009), strongly endorsed the administration’s decision to open up a major new source of credit for Indiana dealerships that sell cars, recreational vehicles, boats and manufactured homes.

Washington – Senator Evan Bayh, a member of the Senate Small Business Committee, today praised the Small Business Administration (SBA) for expanding the agency’s largest lending program, a decision that will expand access to capital for more than 70,000 additional American small businesses—including many RV and automobile dealerships across Indiana. Earlier today, the SBA announced an expansion of its 7(a) loan program, effective next week through September 30, 2010. The temporary 7(a) loan size standard will allow businesses to qualify based on net worth and average income.

INDIANAPOLIS - The 10-year $3.5 trillion budget blueprint of President Obama passed both the U.S. House and Senate on his 100th day in office Wednesday, though it didn’t garner a single Republican vote or that of Democratic U.S. Sens. Evan Bayh or Arlen Specter. Sen. Bayh with candidate Barack Obama at Purdue University in July 2008. (HPI Photo by Ryan Nees) The bill passed the U.S. House by a 233-193 vote and 53-43 in the U.S. Senate. The budget has a $1.2 trillion deficit. While House Speaker Nancy Pelosi hailed it as a “great day” for America, House Minority Leader...

U.S. Senators Evan Bayh (D-IN) and Bob Casey (D-PA) have introduced legislation to require an annual comprehensive report on the status of U.S. efforts and the level of progress achieved to combat and defeat al Qaeda and its affiliates under the Global War on Terrorism. Currently, no single report by the Executive Branch effectively assesses the ongoing status of efforts against al Qaeda and the overall battle against violent extremism.

WASHINGTON (AFP) – The shipping company whose captain is being held hostage by Somali pirates said the US Navy saw him alive Sunday, as a top senator said the United States is "not going to give in to blackmail." Maersk Line, operators of the Maersk Alabama which was briefly hijacked by armed pirates this week before its captain was taken captive, said the navy told them they "had sight contact of Captain Richard Phillips" Sunday. Intense negotiations are ongoing off the coast of Somalia where the small band of pirates have held Phillips in a lifeboat since Wednesday, closely shadowed...

Moderate Senate Democrats voiced concerns about President Obama's budget Tuesday in a meeting with Budget Director Peter Orzag. Sen. Evan Bayh, D-Ind., hosted the meeting, which was the second time moderate Democrats expressed concern over the budget. "I think there's a common concern about getting spending under control and making sure that there's a budget that doesn't have unsustainable requirements in it far into the future," said Sen Ben Nelson, D-Neb., who was one of twelve members at the meeting. Nelson has called the group the "Mod Squad." Sen Joe Lieberman, D-Conn., who also attended the meeting, said the group...

Republicans aren’t the only people growing disenchanted by Hope and Change through Incompetence, it seems. Evan Bayh, who got passed over as Obama’s running mate, has formed a new Gang of 15 in the Senate, only this gang is exclusively Democrats. They want to put some speed limits on Obama’s agenda:

Announced on Morning Joe.

Washington – Senator Evan Bayh today voted to reject a bloated $410 billion omnibus appropriations bill to fund the federal government because of the inclusion of $7.7 billion worth of earmarks and an unaffordable eight percent increase in discretionary spending at a time of deepening deficits. “The Omnibus Appropriations Act of 2009 is a sprawling, $410 billion compilation of nine spending measures that lacks the slightest hint of austerity from the federal government or the recipients of its largess,” Bayh wrote in a March 4 Wall Street Journal op-ed. “The national debt now exceeds $10 trillion. Our nation's current fiscal...

Nuclear Terror: Some Obama advisers have a dubious strategy to prevent a nuclear-armed Iran: Present "a common front" including Russia and China and "demonstrate U.S. respect" for the Islamofascist regime.It may be judged the most astonishingly naive analysis of Tehran's nuclear ambitions ever unveiled. Last week, the Washington Institute for Near East Policy (WINEP) — a think tank founded by the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), and which should know better — released a report titled "Preventing a Cascade of Instability: U.S. Engagement to Check Iranian Nuclear Progress." Among the paper's signatories: Sen. Evan Bayh, D-Ind.; House Middle East...

Moderate and conservative Democrats in the Senate are starting to choke over the massive spending and tax increases in President Barack Obama’s budget plans and have begun plotting to increase their influence over the agenda of a president who is turning out to be much more liberal than they are. A group of 14 Senate Democrats and one independent huddled behind closed doors on Tuesday, discussing how centrists in that chamber can assert more leverage on the major policy debates that will dominate this Congress. <snip> Sen. Evan Bayh, the Indiana Democrat who assembled Tuesday’s skull session, added that he...

PER CSPAN THE BILL ONLY HAVE 57 VOTES, THESE THREE SENATORS HAVE NOT VOTED YET. TIME 6.36 PM EASTERN TIME http://www.c-span.org/Watch/C-SPAN2_wm.aspx NEW YORK SENATOR KIRSTEN GILLIBRAND - DEMOCRAT DC PHONE: (202) 224-4451 DC FAX: (202) 228-0282 ALBANY PHONE: ALBANY FAX: (518) 561-3362 INDIANA SENATOR EVAN BAYH - DEMOCRAT DC PHONE: (202) 224-5623 DC FAX: (202) 228-1377 INDIANAPOLIS PHONE: (317) 554-0750 INDIANAPOLIS FAX: (317) 554-0760 OHIO SENATOR SHERROD BROWN - DEMOCRAT DC PHONE: (202) 224-2315 DC FAX: (202) 228-6321 COLUMBUS PHONE: (614) 469-2083 COLUMBUS FAX: (614) 469-2171

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Indiana Sen. Evan Bayh and Virginia Gov. Tim Kaine have been told by Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama's campaign they will not be his vice presidential choice, NBC News reported on Friday quoting sources.

Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama prepared to name his running mate, perhaps as early as Friday, from a small field o0f candidates that included at least one dark horse.

Andrea Mitchell said at the opening of the show that both Kaine and Bayh were told by the Obama campaign that they were not the V-P. She also intimated that it would be Biden and that Biden had yet to be told no.

OBAMA DRAMA: Prepares to name mate... FLASH: Fri Aug 22 2008 17:52:03 ET /// KMBC's Micheal Mahoney reports a company in Kansas City, which specializes in political literature, has been printing Obama-Bayh material... MORE... Gill Studios, would not confirm information about the material. They would not deny it either. At least three sources close to the plant's operations reported the Obama-Bayh material was being produced...

LENEXA, Kan. -- After weeks of speculation and days of intense rumors, the answer to who Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama would name as his running mate may have come down to a bumper sticker printed in Lenexa. KMBC's Micheal Mahoney reported that the company, which specializes in political literature, has been printing Obama-Bayh material. That's Bayh as in U.S. Sen. Evan Bayh of Indiana. Word leaked out about the material as it was being printed up by Gill Studios of Lenexa. The Obama campaign had said it would make the announcement by text message on Friday. Gill Studios, would...

NashvillePost.com has learned that senior campaign officials from the Barack Obama Presidential campaign are being dispatched from various locations around the country and are converging in Indianapolis for a “major event” to take place on Saturday. Saturday is the same day that Obama is expected to make his first public appearance with his yet to be announced vice presidential running mate. Indiana is the home state of Democratic Senator Evan Bayh, widely considered to be on the short list of Democratic vice presidential contenders. Sources in Denver, the site of next week's Democratic National Convention, say that individuals responsible for...

THE website which claimed to have caught out the Barack Obama campaign in a gigantic blunder has admitted the story was most likely a hoax. Political rumourmonger site The Free Republic posted an item showing what appeared to be a story from CNN.com about the Obama campaign naming the candidate's vice-presidential pick early by mistake. The article claimed the Obama camp's plan to name the senator's running mate by sending an email and SMS to supporters had backfired when an aide preparing the announcement his "send" on a draft instead of "save". The article claimed the name of the running...

Why should Obama choose Evan Bayh for VP? The name Birch Evans Bayh III makes Barack Hussein Obama sound almost normal. Bayh is to married a former Miss Southern California beauty queen. Obama is married to a woman who wants to be queen. Bayh doesn't use drugs so Barack's stash will be safe. Bayh was born with a tiny silver spoon in his mouth. Obama had a tiny silver spoon on his neckchain. They both have secret pasts. Obama's past is secret because he shredded the records. Bayh's is secret because nobody cares.

Only Sen. Barack Obama knows who he is going to pick for his vice president. Well, that is probably not exactly true. The two Davids’ (Axelrod and Plouffe) and wife Michelle probably know as well. The Drudge Report is suggesting that Obama's pick might become public as early as Tuesday, Aug. 19. In celebration of that event, Drudge is running a poll for readers to guess who that nominee will be, with Sen. Evan Bayh, Sen. Joe Biden, Sen. Hillary Clinton, Virginia Gov. Tim Kaine, Sen. John Kerry, Georgia Sen. Sam Nunn and a wild card making the Drudge short...

AIDE'S MISTAKE REVEALS OBAMA'S VP PICK EARLY (PULLED FROM CNN) It's Senator Evan Bayh of Indiana. Original link is dead. This is a screenshot courtesy of roses of sharon.

Obama Appears Ready to Announce His Running Mate By ADAM NAGOURNEY and JEFF ZELENY WASHINGTON — Senator Barack Obama has all but finalized his choice for a running mate and set an elaborate roll-out plan for his decision, beginning with an early morning alert to supporters, perhaps as soon as Wednesday, followed by a trip to swing states by the new Democratic ticket, aides said. Mr. Obama’s deliberations remain remarkably closely held. Aides said perhaps a half-dozen advisers were involved in the final discussions in an effort to enforce a command that Mr. Obama issued to staff: that his decision...

The new Barack Obama campaign office on Indianapolis Boulevard in south Hammond is modest. It looks like an insurance office, and the plain lobby houses a television that looks older than at least one of Obama's campaign organizers. To voters, the fanciness of the campaign offices may not matter as much as the number of them. The Obama campaign has opened 19 offices across Indiana -- including four in the region -- and plans to add another 10 or more before the Nov. 4 general elections, according to State Communications Director Jonathan Swain. The presumed Democratic presidential nominee also has...

(CNN) — The two senators widely believed to be at the top of Barack Obama's shortlist for VP have been given prime-time speaking slots at the Democratic convention Wednesday night — the very same night the vice presidential candidate is slated to speak. According to the Democratic National Convention Committee, both Indiana Sen. Evan Bayh and Delaware Sen. Joe Biden will deliver speeches on national security during the marquee night — the same evening former President Bill Clinton is also scheduled to speak.

Last night on MSNBC's Countdown the Washington Post's Chris Cillizza joined Keith Olbermann to analyze Barack Obama's choice of running mate. Cillizza, who wrote a companion post today titled, "The Case for Joe Biden," argues that the process of elimination has left Joe Biden as the hottest candidate (and possibly the only candidate) left in the pool. Senator Evan Bayh, Olbermann reasoned, might be eliminated because if he did become Vice President, his state's Governor is a Republican who would select a Republican to succeed Bayh. As for Kaine--as Tommy Christopher posted earlier--the announcement that former Virginia Governor and current...

According to the Indy Star, Barack Obama has not asked Sen. Evan Bayh to be his running mate. At least not yet. The Star is reporting that the length of Obama's visit to Indiana -- he arrives around 6:30 p.m. this evening and does not leave until 3:30 p.m. Wednesday -- has fueled rumors that Bayh will be Obama's choice. Add to the fact that his wife, twin sons and father, the former Sen. Birch Bayh, will be joining him on this trip, and Bayh watch is on every political radar screen. The first rule of picking a vice-presidential running...

Website Suggests Obama-Bayh Ticket August 01, 2008 11:27 AM ABC News' Matt Jaffe and Rick Klein report: Type ObamaBayh08.com into your web browser. Where do you think it'll take you? Go ahead, do it. Bet you didn't expect to suddenly be staring at the Democratic National Committee's official website. Hmm. What about other potential running mates? Let's try ObamaKaine08.com. Nope, doesn't take you to the DNC site. Maybe ObamaBiden08.com? Nothing doing.

Code Pink, an anti-war group known for its frequent and sometimes raucous protests on Capitol Hill, meets regularly with Sen. Evan Bayh (D-Ind.), who serves on the Armed Services Committee and the Select Committee on Intelligence, according to his staff. “He meets regularly with people who have disparate views on foreign policy,” Eric Kleiman, Bayh’s director of communications told CNSNews.com. Bayh met with the Indiana branch of Code Pink last August and plans to meet with them again in his home state in October, in addition to the meeting held behind closed doors on Thursday, Kleiman said. “All of our...

FROM THE TRANSCRIPT, HERE IS EVAN BAYH: And even President Bush now is coming up with a variety of euphemisms — aspirational goals, time horizons. I mean, it's starting to sound pretty much like a timeline to me. So it's common sense, Chris. Any important enterprise, certainly something as important as a war — you want to have a plan. And a plan has to have some idea of what it's going to cost, what the adverse consequences are going to be and how long it's going to take. So 16 months seems to be a reasonable goal. Let's work...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – It was a cross between "The Dating Game" and "24" as Sen. Barack Obama was flanked by two potential running mates Wednesday while criticizing President George W. Bush's efforts to confront emerging forms of potential terrorism. As experts talked about dirty bombs, anthrax and attacks on the nation's computer infrastructure, many eyes were trained on Sen. Evan Bayh of Indiana and former Sen. Sam Nunn of Georgia. Both have been listed as potential Obama running mates and both live in key red states that Obama's campaign has targeted for the general election. Although Obama has expressed...

The Talk Shows Sunday, May 4th, 2008 Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows: FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean; Joe Andrew, former DNC chairman; Clinton campaign chairman Terry McAuliffe; Carly Fiorina, adviser to John McCain's campaign. MEET THE PRESS (NBC): Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill. FACE THE NATION (CBS): Sen. Evan Bayh, D-Ind.; Rep. James Clyburn, D-S.C.; Richmond Mayor and former Virginia Gov. L. Douglas Wilder. THIS WEEK (ABC): Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y.LATE EDITION (CNN) : Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C.; Govs. Mike Easley, D-N.C., and Bill Richardson, D-N.M; Robert Reich, former...

Sen. Evan Bayh (D-Ind.) today praised Sen. Barack Obama for denouncing his former pastor, but warned that Republicans will use the association to try to "Swift Boat" the Illinois senator if he becomes the Democratic presidential nominee this fall. Bayh, who is supporting Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton for president, said he hoped other issues -- the economy, gasoline prices, health care and the cost of college -- will drive the decisions of most voters in Tuesday's Indiana primary. Obama has struggled in other states to win the votes of white, working class voters, and they could be the deciding vote...

With a demographic landscape that's well-suited to both Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama, Indiana is shaping up to be the most consequential battleground of the remaining states. In a signal of the state's importance -- and of his desire to end the evening in a place more favorably inclined to him -- Obama appeared with Hoosier-born rocker John Mellencamp on Tuesday night in Evansville, Ind., as the Pennsylvania vote was being counted. He campaigned in New Albany, just across the Ohio River from Louisville, Kentucky, on Wednesday. Clinton held a rally in Indianapolis Wednesday and was scheduled to spend...

Senator Barack Obama fought back Saturday against accusations from his rivals that he had displayed a profound misunderstanding of small-town values, in a flare-up that left him on the defensive before a series of primaries that could test his ability to win over white voters in economically distressed communities. For a second day, Mr. Obama sought to explain his remarks at a recent San Francisco fund-raiser that small-town Pennsylvania voters, bitter over their economic circumstances, “cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren’t like them” as a way to explain their frustrations. Acknowledging Saturday that “I didn’t...

Senator Evan Bayh of Indiana, who backs Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton for president, proposed another gauge Sunday by which superdelegates might judge whether to support Mrs. Clinton or Senator Barack Obama. He suggested that they consider the electoral votes of the states that each of them has won. (SNIP) So far, Mrs. Clinton has won states with a total of 219 Electoral College votes, not counting Florida and Michigan, while Mr. Obama has won states with a total of 202 electoral votes.

The Talk Shows Sunday, December 16th, 2007 Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows: FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): Former Sen. George Mitchell, D-Maine, author of a report on performance-enhancing drugs in baseball; Reps. Pete Hoekstra, R-Mich., and Jane Harman, D-Calif.; Ted Leonsis, owner of the National Hockey League's Washington Capitals. MEET THE PRESS (NBC): Former Gov. Mitt Romney, R-Mass. FACE THE NATION (CBS): Former Sen. Fred Thompson, R-Tenn., and Edwards. THIS WEEK (ABC): Former Sen. John Edwards, D-N.C.; former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan.LATE EDITION (CNN) : Edwards; Sens. Joe Biden, D-Del., Kit Bond, R-Mo., and...

WASHINGTON – Sen. Evan Bayh of Indiana, who once aspired to the Democratic presidential nomination, on Monday endorsed Hillary Rodham Clinton's bid for the White House. “I believe she will run a campaign that is both tough and smart when it comes to protecting our nation's security,” Bayh said at a news conference with Clinton. Bayh, a former governor of a Republican-leaning state, is in his second term in the Senate. He won re-election with 62 percent of the vote in 2004 and is considered a possible Democratic vice presidential choice in 2008. A colleague of Clinton's on the Senate...

"Democratic presidential hopeful, Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., pauses during a press conference to announce that Sen. Evan Bayh, D-Ind., left, will support her in her run for the presidency on Monday, Sept. 24, 2007, in Washington."

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WASHINGTON (AP) -- Democratic Sen. Evan Bayh of Indiana announced on Saturday he will not seek the presidency in 2008, saying he believes the odds of a successful run were too great to overcome. ''At the end of the day, I concluded that due to circumstances beyond our control the odds were longer than I felt I could responsibly pursue,'' Bayh said in a statement. ''This path -- and these long odds -- would have required me to be essentially absent from the Senate for the next year instead of working to help the people of my state and the...

Bayh Moves Toward Presidential Bid Bayh, a Democrat with a record of political success in a Republican-leaning state, intends to take the first official step toward a 2008 presidential campaign early next week, officials said Friday, Dec. ED ANDRIESKIBy DAVID ESPO (AP Special Correspondent) From Associated Press December 01, 2006 6:53 PM EST WASHINGTON - Indiana Sen. Evan Bayh, a Democrat with a record of political success in a Republican-leaning state, intends to take the first official step toward a 2008 presidential campaign early next week, officials said Friday. Bayh's plans include creation of a presidential exploratory committee, as well...

(AP) WASHINGTON -- Indiana Sen. Evan Bayh, a Democrat with a record of political success in a Republican-leaning state, intends to take the first official step toward a 2008 presidential campaign early next week, officials said Friday. Bayh's plans include creation of a presidential exploratory committee, as well as appearances Monday in Iowa and next weekend in New Hampshire, two early states on the campaign calendar. Bayh would be the second Democrat to take a formal step toward a presidential campaign. Iowa Gov. Tom Vilsack is already in the race. Sens. Hillary Rodham Clinton of New York and Barack Obama...