WASHINGTON — A landmark health care bill crafted by House Democratic leaders underscores the challenges lawmakers in Congress continue to face as they race to finish work on President Obama's top domestic priority by the end of the year.
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WASHINGTON -Senate Democrats on Sunday sparred with each other over how to fix the nation's troubled health care system, the moderates threatening to scuttle legislation if their demands weren't met and more liberal members warning their party leaders not to ...Read More
The morning after voting to commence debate on ground-breaking health care legislation, two centrist senators, Ben Nelson and Joseph I. Lieberman, said on Sunday that they were opposed to the bill as it is currently written, particularly its inclusion of ...Read More
Bloomberg—Democrats united to bring a sweeping health-care plan to the U.S. Senate floor in a party-line vote that kept Republicans from blocking debate on President Barack Obama's top domestic initiative. Majority Leader Harry Reid won over two holdouts in his party ...Read More
WASHINGTON – Two Democratic senators say the health care overhaul bill now going to the Senate floor for debate is a key to saving jobs and reducing the spiraling American budget deficit. Democratic Sen. Debbie Stabenow of Michigan says health care ...Read More
WASHINGTON -Senate moderates on Sunday threatened to scuttle the health care bill if their demands weren't met, frustrating rank-and-file Democrats who say their colleagues' views were out of step with American voters. The inter-party dispute foretells of a rowdy floor debate ...Read More
Senator Joseph Lieberman (I-Conn.), reaffirmed on Sunday that he will support a Republican filibuster of any health care bill that includes a government-run insurance option.
Appearing on the "Meet the Press," the Connecticut independent said that neither he, nor anybody else ...Read More
WASHINGTON—A moderate Democratic senator who voted to allow debate over a health care bill says he might not support the bill in its next hurdle in the Senate. Sen. Ben Nelson of Nebraska says he has serious problems with the bill. ...Read More
WASHINGTON - A bruising debate on health care awaits the Senate after Thanksgiving now that the historic legislation has cleared a key hurdle over the opposition of Republicans eager to inflict a punishing defeat on President Barack Obama.
The bill would ...Read More
You may feel daunted by the number of pages in these health reform bills, not to mention the legislative language that is often impossible to decipher. But here are some important provisions in the new Senate Health Care bill that ...Read More
Updated at 11:17 p.m. EST Invoking the name of Edward M. Kennedy, Democrats united Saturday night to push historic health care legislation past a key Senate hurdle over the opposition of Republicans eager to inflict a punishing defeat on President Barack ...Read More
WASHINGTON - -- Almost half a century after Democrats began pushing for a broad expansion of the nation's health care system, the Senate was scheduled to convene Saturday to take what was seen as the first critical step toward consideration ...Read More
Without a vote to spare, Democrats pushed their health care legislation over its first obstacle on the Senate floor Saturday, as the chamber voted to begin formal debate of a sweeping measure to guarantee medical coverage for most Americans. The 60-39 ...Read More
WASHINGTON—The Senate has begun voting on whether to move ahead on a sweeping health care bill. The roll call began with many of the 100 members seated in their chairs and rising to vote. Such formal voting is common with Supreme ...Read More
President Obama's vision for making health care in America more effective and efficient collided for the first time last week with the realities and peculiarities of the nation's health-care system.
As the Senate moved toward its first floor vote on the ...Read More
DES MOINES, Iowa -- Vice President Joe Biden told Iowa Democrats on Saturday that the Senate handed the president a big victory with its decision to move forward with debate on sweeping legislation to overhaul the nation's health care system.
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The Sunday talk shows are all abuzz with the morning-after chatter coming behind the Senate's health care vote late Saturday that caps off an intense week in the debate.
On NBC's "Meet the Press," David Gregory moderates a discussion about the ...Read More
