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Updated: Largely along party lines, a move that would have derailed the bill, was defeated by a vote of 247 to 187.

In the end, satisfied that the House health care reform bill would not subsidize abortions, Rep.

Nov. 07 - Obama urges passage of healthcare. President Obama urged House Democrats to pass a broad healthcare reform bill calling it this generation's moment.

Go figure: A Jewish Democratic group doesn't appreciate Tea Party signs a) saying President Obama "takes his orders" from the Rothschilds, the famous Jewish banking family and b) a mind-bendingly moronic poster showing dead Jews at Dachau, suggesting Americans will suffer the same fate under Obamacare.

So Representative Eric Cantor feels it expedient to curry favor with the MSM by sneering at Rush Limbaugh , and smearing the patriots who prevented the election of the RNC-preferred RINO in NY-23 this past week: Can it be? Another Republican leader taking on Rush Limbaugh? Apparently so.

House Democrats narrowly clinched a landmark victory on a sweeping health care overhaul Saturday night, voting 220-215 to deliver President Obama a key win on his top domestic priority, Roll Call reports.

The House of Representatives Saturday approved the most sweeping healthcare legislation since the creation of Medicare 44 years ago and gave an important boost to President Obama 's campaign to guarantee health coverage to all Americans for the first time in history.

The election of 2009 should have gone down in history as most off-year elections.

This is to be our "last stand" to stop health care reform, it's Alamo time. Don't let your congressmen call it a "rally" or "protest"--make sure they say "press event" or "press conference." The point is to see "the whites of their eyes," because there's nothing a congressman fears more than a "freedom-loving American." Oh, and don't dress "too ...

For the Republican Party, this week's election is a silver lining attached to a troublesome cloud.

WASHINGTON: President Barack Obama Wednesday brushed aside a sharp rebuke at the polls on the first anniversary of his historic election, saying his administration had saved the nation from economic ruin.

With a close vote looming in the U.S. House of Representatives, President Barack Obama's push for healthcare reform was boosted Thursday by the support of powerful lobbies representing doctors and seniors.

The gray-haired curiosity-seekers assembled by the Tea Party's Wonder Woman, Michele Bachmann, in D.C. is part of the GOP purge that plays well on cable TV.

First Rep. Mark Kirk, the Illinois Republican who has his eyes and fundraising set on President Barack Obama's old Senate seat, voted for a "cap and trade'' energy bill that fellow Republicans like to denounce as "cap and tax'' - Kirk one of a handful of Republicans who helped get the bill out of the Democratic-run House with the narrowest vote ...

WASHINGTON Voters in Tuesday's two key off-year elections sent a direct message to President Barack Obama : It's still about fixing the economy.

Washington -- Republicans emerged from Tuesday's elections energized by victories in Virginia and New Jersey, but their leaders immediately began maneuvering to avoid a prolonged battle with conservative activists over what the party stands for and how to regain power.

Reveling in the Virginia Republican top-ticket sweep, the party is hoping to build on its momentum and take at least four House seats from Democrats next year, compounding the home state losses of Gov.

It was a grand old party for Republican leaders and supporters Tuesday night as victory electrified the city and the state lit up red.

An ebullient Republican Party Chairman Michael Steele asserted Wednesday that GOP victories in governors' races in New Jersey and Virginia demonstrate "a transcendent party" on the move again.

Comment and analysis on tonight's elections in Virginia, New Jersey, and New York: 9:13 -- Wow.