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Your daily dose of news and tidbits from the world of money in politics: HOUSE WRITES RX FOR DOCTORS: Doctors face a 21 percent cut to their Medicare reimbursement rates in January and the U.S. House of Representatives moved last week to fill that hole by adding more than $200 billion to the deficit to prevent the reduction, according to the ...

On the last leg of his four-nation tour in Asia, U.S. President Barack Obama revived the issue of a still-pending free-trade agreement signed in 2007 with South Korea , but an auto trade imbalance will continue to be a major obstacle to Congressional approval.

STATEMENT OF ADMINISTRATION POLICY: H.R. 3961 - Medicare Physician Payment Reform Act of 2009 : The Administration strongly supports House passage of H.R. 3961, the Medicare Physician Payment Reform Act of 2009, and appreciates congressional efforts to ensure that Medicare beneficiaries and TRICARE patients continue to have access to care and their ...

Months since Chrysler and General Motors emerged from bankruptcy protection with a government ownership stake in the companies in exchange for the billions of dollars they received in federal loans, Democrats and Republicans are still bickering over the auto bailout.

President Obama, White House Climate Czar Carol Browner, and their Environmental Protection Agency are not waiting for Congress to pass cap-and-trade. The enormous grassroots reaction to the outrageous Waxman-Markey energy tax bill passing the U.S. House has slowed Senate progress to a crawl.

It's clear that Obama doesn't have the votes for Cap-n-Tax in the Senate, or he would not have hinted that it's off the table late last week.

The former Democratic chair of the House Energy & Commerce Committee says the FCC should come up with a national broadband rollout plan to Congress that promotes expansion of infrastructure while at the same time preserving, "to the greatest extent possible," free, over-the-air local broadcasting.That advice came from Rep.

Reston, Va.a 'The American Medical Student Association , the oldest and largest independent organization of physicians-in-training in the United States, fighting for quality, affordable health care for 60 years, applauds the monumental effort of Speaker Nancy Pelosi and other members of Congress to help pass the House health care reform bill, HR ...

Four hundred more Michiganders have added their names to a national registry of about 150,000 people who believe they were exposed to contaminated water at the Camp Lejeune military base in North Carolina, bringing Michigan's count to 3,700. One of them is Kathleen Armstrong, 50, a Detroit native now in Redford Township.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi came out smiling and then likened the House healthcare bill H.R. 3962 victory to the successful passage of Social Security in 1935 and then Medicare some 30 years later.

The glow from a health care triumph faded quickly for President Barack Obama on Sunday as Democrats realized the bill they fought so hard to pass in the House has nowhere to go in the Senate.

Mon Nov 9, 2009 6:59am EST - Rep. John Dingell speaks next to U.S. Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi during a news conference about the House vote on health care reform on Capitol Hill in Washington November 7, 2009.

OPIYO OLOYA PERSPECTIVEOFA UGANDAN IN CANADA Who is scared of women? Apparently a lot of men are.

Democrats in the House of Representatives narrowly passed sweeping health care reform legislation Saturday night, with only one Republican joining in the vote and the minority party nearly unanimous in its opposition.

The House of Representatives is debating HR 2962, the Affordable Health Care for America Act today.

The U.S. House of Representatives narrowly passed its version of a landmark health insurance reform bill Saturday night, 220-215, and opponents of the measure have received an average of 15 percent more from health industry and health insurance interests over the past 20 years, a Center for Responsive Politics analysis has found.

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.

President Barack Obama has made a last-minute personal appeal to Democrats to pass landmark health care legislation.

While many Americans are struggling to make ends meet, a number of national lawmakers are living comfortably: Figures from 2008 suggest 44 percent of Congress members are millionaires, compared to around one percent of the general population.

This morning, the House began consideration of the rule for debate of the House health care bill.