Representative Larry Kissell News

Over the next few hours : * Beware of the blue screen: Pelosi has exuded confidence that she will have the requisite 218-plus votes for passage, but sometimes land mines appear out of nowhere that put the bill in grave danger.

From Chuck Todd, Mark Murray, Domenico Montanaro, and Ali Weinberg *** Senate gets the baton : After Saturday night's historic, contentious, and very narrow health-care vote in the House of Representatives, the action now moves to the Senate, where things won't get any easier.

The netroots have given Larry Kissell $485,795 , over the past couple of cycles.

Shorty after the votes were tallied, the lists came out . In North Carolina, only 5 out of 13 representatives voted for the bill while only 5 out of 13 representatives are Republicans.

By Paul Kane The House begins debate at 9 a.m. Saturday on a massive health-insurance overhaul, with a final vote expected by the evening.

Surely, the chants this week of "Kill! The! Bill!" from thousands of conservative protesters outside Congress floated up to the ears of North Carolina House members who were inside considering their views on health care.

The complexity of North Carolina's tax structure adds to the frustration of legislators studying a prospective overhaul.

The national president of the NAACP said Thursday too many North Carolina residents lack health insurance for people on Capitol Hill to delay passage of a health care overhaul bill until 2010.

The director of the Fayetteville VA Medical Center is retiring amid reports of dissatisfaction among employees and patients.

From small businesses to seniors, from the uninsured to families struggling to find affordable health insurance they do have, the health care reform bill being considered in the House of Representatives will make a real, positive impact on the everyday lives of thousands of North Carolina state residents.

A North Carolina congressman dashing to catch a plane dumped his SUV at the end of a row of properly parked cars at Charlotte's airport.

Surely it is Raleigh? No, not Raleigh either. Have a look for your self: Mecklenburg County, with a larger population that Cumberland, Lenoir and Iredell combined, receives21% of their Total spending.

Editor's note: At press time, there was no photo available for Mr. Almond. Occupation Retired sheetrock contractor due to severe back injury.

The United States Congress has completed the Fiscal Year 2010 Energy Appropriations Bill, and Central Piedmont Community College will receive $525,000 in Congressional funding to help establish the Carolina's Energy Training Center.

A four-person committee of Democrats from Robeson and Hoke counties will meet Wednesday to choose the successor to state Sen.

U.S. Rep. Larry Kissell honored the history of the Laurinburg Normal Industrial Institute this week on the floor of U.S. House of Representatives.

The N.C. Research Campus has landed a USDA Human Nutrition Center, the first of its kind in the Southeast.

It certainly wouldn't be surprising to see Republican office seekers making gains in North Carolina in 2010.

Col. Lou Huddleston, a Republican who is running for a North Carolina House seat, is the latest GOP guy to jump on the Nancy Pelosi bandwagon, posting a "No More Nancy" web site.

In politics, money chases momentum. So the latest fundraising figures reported by congressional candidates provide a good measure of the progress of House and Senate campaigns across the nation.