News Source: The Hill
| 17 days ago
Obama delivered his pep talk on Saturday afternoon, minutes before the first in a series of crucial votes leading up to a final roll call on the House bill to guarantee near-universal health insurance. “I am absolutely confident we’ll get this...
News Source: The Hill
| 17 days ago
Eric Massa (N.Y.), Frank Kratovil (Md.), Jim Matheson (Utah), Stephanie Herseth Sandlin (S.D.), Larry Kissell (N.C.), Bobby Bright (Ala.), Suzanne Kosmas (Fla.), Walt Minnick (Idaho), Harry Teague (N.M.), and Mike McMahon (N.Y.) have all bucked their...
News Source: The Hill
| 18 days ago
And after a month’s worth of legislative wrangling and deal-making, the bill is approaching its final destination: a vote on final passage, expected sometime before the sun rises on Sunday. Pressing toward dawn on Saturday, the Rules committee...
News Source: The Hill
| 18 days ago
Anti-abortion Rep. Bart Stupak (D-Mich.) had told a bleary-eyed Rules committee panel that a deal struck earlier in the day to move forward on the issue was off. “There was some compromise language from different proposals that we thought would be...