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Democrat Bill Owens won a vacant U.S. House seat in New York in a race that divided the Republican Party and attracted national attention.

The House of Representatives on Saturday night passed a sweeping health care bill by a vote of 220-215. Earlier, the House passed an amendment to pending health care legislation that prohibits federal funds for abortion services in the public option and in the insurance "exchange" the bill would create.

For the first time ever, the House late Saturday passed comprehensive legislation aimed at remaking the American health care system to provide coverage for all.

President Barack Obama signed legislation today to extend unemployment insurance benefits and tax credits for first-time homebuyers and provide tax refunds to money-losing companies.

Political leaders tend to simplify the outcomes of elections. Hence, of yesterday, Republicans will say, 'Obama is done, his agenda failed, Republicans will rule in 2010.' Democrats will find a way to spin this in another direction by saying, 'Corzine called his opponent fat, Deeds was an idiot and ran negative ads, etc,' and the Republicans and ...

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.

About 50 local residents were among the thousands of conservatives chanting, ''Kill the bill,'' as they rallied against the Democrats' health care overhaul plan at the U.S. Capitol on Thursday.

House Democratic leaders worked furiously yesterday to secure the final votes for weekend approval of a sweeping health-care overhaul as President Obama threw his weight behind the lobbying effort and Republicans dug in against the health plan.

After months spent criticizing Democrats' health overhaul plans, House Republicans have produced a draft proposal of their own.

Amid intense lobbying by the Obama administration, House Democratic leaders struggled Friday for the final votes needed to pass sweeping health care legislation, weighing fresh concessions to abortion opponents and working to ease concerns among Hispanic holdouts.

Main Category: Health Insurance / Medical Insurance Article Date: 06 Nov 2009 - 5:00 PST "The Congressional Budget Office said Wednesday that the alternative health care bill proposed by House Republicans would have little impact in extending health benefits to the roughly 30 million uninsured Americans, but would reduce average insurance premium ...

Democrats will continue to pound the table claiming the Republicans only health care plan is for Americans to not get sick, but the Congressional Budget Office would disagree.

DON'T KNOW MUCH ABOUT HISTORY.... A variety of Republican leaders spoke on the steps of the Capitol today, addressing a crowd that local law enforcement officials put at around 4,000 , all of whom gathered to rally against fixing the health care system.

Thousands of Tea Party activists descended on Washington Thursday to protest the trillion dollar health care bill and government spending, holding signs protesting Barack Obama's agenda while aiming chants of "you work for us" at the Capitol building.

Chanting "Kill the bill," thousands of conservatives rallied at the Capitol on Thursday against the Democrats' health care overhaul plan.

House Minority Leader John Boehner House Republican Leader John Boehner Wednesday formally unveiled his own health-care plan a 219-page alternative to the mammoth Democratic health-care bill that shifts the focus off the Democrats' so-called "public option" or government-controlled insurance -- in favor of a variety of reforms aimed at minimizing ...

Video: Barbour gets 'The Last Word' "I think it's a great overstatement to say this a referendum on President Obama ," said Mississippi Gov.

JANET HOOK Reporting from Washington After months of criticizing Democratic proposals to revamp the healthcare system from the sidelines, Republicans are moving aggressively to present an alternative approach and undercut critics' portrayal of the GOP as the "Party of No." Defining a stark contrast with the Democrats' comprehensive effort to ...

Rep. Michele Bachmann told Fox's Sean Hannity that she hoped all of his viewers would join her for a press conference outside the Capitol on Thursday and then walk with her 'through Cannon, Longworth, Rayburn,' where they would go 'up and down through the halls, find members of Congress, look at the whites of their eyes and say, 'Don't take away my ...

"House Republicans said the newly released Democratic health care reform bill would create an expensive government-run heath care system paid for by those who could least afford it, but they declined to say whether they would introduce a conference alternative," Roll Call reports.