News Source: The Cleveland Plain Dealer
| about 4 hours ago
House members from Ohio voted on the health care bill: YES Steve Driehaus, D-Cincinnati area Marcia Fudge, D-Warrensville Heights Marcy Kaptur, D-Toledo Mary Jo Kilroy, D-Columbus Tim Ryan, D-Niles Zack Space, D-Dover Betty Sutton, D-Copley Township
News Source: Truthout
| about 5 hours ago
Jason Leopold, t r u t h o u t Report Saturday began with a morning pep talk from President Obama during a private meeting with Democratic lawmakers on Capitol Hill and a public appeal from the presidential podium in the Rose Garden shortly
News Source: CNN
| about 5 hours ago
With eight seconds left in the voting period, Democrats began counting down, erupting in roars when House Speaker Nancy Pelosi declared, "The bill is passed." Democrat Sheila Jackson-Lee from Texas waved a copy of the bill while her colleagues
News Source: Nashville Tennessean Online
| about 6 hours ago
You bet it was, but if the Republicans didn't get the message, too, they can forget about a comeback in 2010. Although the gubernatorial races in Virginia and New Jersey captured most of the media attention, the little congressional race in upstate
News Source: The Hill
| about 7 hours ago
Lone GOP defector Rep. Joseph Cao (La.) was among the last elevator of members to make it to the House floor for votes on Saturday night. Word had spread that the vulnerable lawmaker informed his leadership that he was going to support the
News Source: Voice of America
| about 8 hours ago
The House of Representatives has approved a more than $1 trillion plan by majority Democrats to overhaul the U.S. health care system. More than three dozen Democrats broke with their party, and all but one Republican opposed the measure, which marks
News Source: Reuters
| about 8 hours ago
The House of Representatives voted on Saturday to tighten a ban against using federal funds to finance abortions under the proposed Democratic healthcare reform legislation. Opposition Republicans joined forces with anti-abortion Democrats to pass
News Source: MarketWatch
| about 10 hours ago
The House of Representatives late Saturday night approved a historic bill to remake the U.S. health-care system, delivering President Barack Obama a key procedural victory on his top domestic priority after a lengthy and sometimes emotional day of