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President Barack Obama and Senate Democrats sought on Sunday to generate momentum from the House's passage of health-care legislation, even as a new hurdle emerged: profound dismay among abortion-rights supporters over anti-abortion provisions inserted into the House bill.

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.

House Democratic leaders are working to secure the 218 votes required to pass the House health care reform bill ahead of a possible vote this weekend, the Washington Post reports.

A bipartisan House coalition voted Saturday to prohibit coverage of abortions in a new government-run health care plan that Democrats would establish to compete with private insurers.

"Today we will pass the Affordable Health Care for America Act," declared House Speaker Nancy Pelosi,D-California, who said she had the 218 votes needed to secure passage of the health-care reform bill.

After the House passed a health care reform bill on Saturday night, Colorado's congressional representatives sent out their reactions.

Where are we on the abortion standoff? Still fighting, from all reports. Politico reports that leadership has twisted arms in the vast majority of the caucus which is pro-choice, and Stupak won't be the poison pill .

President Barack Obama's landmark health care overhaul moved toward a vote in the House Saturday after anti-abortion lawmakers won a chance to knock out language that would let people who get federal subsidies buy insurance plans that include abortion coverage.

Updated 1:29 a.m. By Lori Montgomery House Democratic leaders agreed Friday night to settle an impasse over abortion by letting the entire House vote on a proposed solution, a risky decision that could determine the fate of their trillion-dollar overhaul of the nation's health care system.

Today in Headwaters News' Western Perspective, Roger Valdez of the Sightline Institute details what the new "green economy" could mean for the Northwest and Montana.

Due to environmental concerns over safe drinking water, Chesapeake Energy Corp. has agreed not to drill for natural gas within the New York City watershed, a small area within the Marcellus Shale natural gas reserve, which includes some of the Appalachian regions of New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Maryland and West Virginia, reports EARTHWORKS .

The U.S. House of Representatives has approved a bill to create a new national cemetery in southern Colorado.

If cajoling, deal-making and talking are the currency of Washington, the process that led to the 1,990-page House version of health care reform unveiled Thursday was all that on steroids.

Washington, DC -- The U.S. House of Representatives today approved a provision authored by Congressman Maurice Hinchey that formally urges the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to conduct a new study on the risks that hydraulic fracturing poses to drinking water supplies.

Well, not exactly open fire, but it is true that Montana's plentiful deer and elk would be well advised to keep their heads down starting Sunday.

"Top Senate Democrats intend to try to strip the health insurance industry of its exemption from federal antitrust laws, according to congressional officials, the latest evidence of a deepening struggle over President Barack Obama's effort to overhaul the health care industry," the Associated Press/Boston Globe reports.

Sponsors of a bill to revoke the antitrust exemption of the health insurance industry will try to add it to the House healthcare overhaul when it comes before the Rules Committee.

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is moving toward including a public health-insurance option in the final bill he will send to the floor, senators briefed on the issue said Thursday, putting a dramatic end to a week of steadily gaining momentum for the lightning-rod provision.

Colorado Republicans and Focus on the Family yesterday called on Democrat lawmakers to explicitly prohibit the use of public funds for abortions in their proposed health care reform legislation.

Sen. Alexander suggests 'that the president back up' Video: Capitol HillA A A A Stopping health insurance price fixing Oct.