Jubilant Democrats are ready to push President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul past one last 60-vote hurdle to final Christmas Eve passage, and Republicans concede they’re powerless to stop it.
At the White House, press secretary Robert Gibbs declared, “Health care reform is not a matter of if, health care reform now is a matter of [...]
Democrats moved closer to passingthe most sweeping health-care legislation in four decades,clearing their second major hurdle in the Senate and winning theendorsement of the American Medical Association.
The finish line is in sight, Montana Democrat MaxBaucus, who runs the Senate finance panel, told reporters.
Democrats moved closer to passingthe most sweeping health-care legislation in four decades,clearing their second major hurdle in the Senate and winning theendorsement of the American Medical Association.
The finish line is in sight, Montana Democrat MaxBaucus, who runs the Senate finance panel, told reporters.
The Senate voted Tuesday morning to approve a Democratic-authored package of compromises and to cut off another Republican effort to engage in extended debate, inching the historic health care plan closer to final passage later this week.
The second vote, 60-39, formally allows the Senate to proceed with the entire $871 billion health care bill.
Democrats moved closer to passingthe most sweeping health-care legislation in four decades,clearing their second major hurdle in the Senate and winning theendorsement of the American Medical Association.
This is a real debate over whether or not health care isgoing to be a right or privilege in America, Senator RichardDurbin of Illinois, a member of the Democratic [...]
Democrats moved closer to passingthe most sweeping health-care legislation in four decades,clearing their second major hurdle in the Senate and winning theendorsement of the American Medical Association.
This is a real debate over whether or not health care isgoing to be a right or privilege in America, Senator RichardDurbin of Illinois, a member of the Democratic [...]
Legislation to enact President Barack Obamas top domestic goal, remaking US health care, was expected to clear a new Senate procedural hurdle Tuesday and stay on track for Christmas passage.
Obama praised his 58 Democratic allies and their two independent cohorts for sealing “a big victory for the American people” in the dead-of-night vote that he [...]
Its been a turbulent decade on Capitol Hill.
As the 00s draw to a close, our sister publication Congress.org pulled together a list of the 10 most notable bills from the past 10 years.
From terrorist attacks to financial meltdowns, Congress has had its share of crisis moments to handle, even as it has swung from Democratic [...]
Well on the way to winning passage before Christmas after clearing its biggest hurdle in the wee hours of the morning, the Senate’s health care bill will make a “tremendous difference for families, for seniors, for businesses and for the country as a whole,” President Barack Obama said Monday.
“I don’t know if there’s a senator [...]
President Barack Obama has signed into law a bill that combines another round of war spending with help for the unemployed.
Lawmakers wrapped unrelated economic help into the legislation. The nation is emerging from recession but still dogged by double-digit unemployment.
The $626 billion defense bill contains $128 billion for operations in Iraq and Afghanistan and a [...]
