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As health care legislation moves toward a crucial airing in the Senate, the White House is facing a growing revolt from some Democrats and analysts who say the bills Congress is considering do not fulfill President Obama's promise to slow the runaway rise in health care spending.

Democrats have displayed a striking degree of pragmatism in seeking to push the health care bill through Congress, embracing or rejecting ideological considerations as needed to keep the legislation moving.

After weeks of ups and downs and unknowns in the special election for the 23rd congressional district of New York with conservative candidate Doug Hoffman losing to Democrat Bill Owens analysts can agree on one absolute: we love drama.

House Democrats put the finishing touches on their health care legislation Friday, and cleared an abortion-related impasse over compromise language on the politically treacherous issue of insurance coverage for abortions, as party leaders and the White House pushed to lock in votes on the eve of a historic floor debate.

Consumers would have the option of picking a government-run plan, the most hotly contested item in the legislation and the basis for the Republican claim that Democrats were planning a government takeover of the insurance industry.

MSNBC talk show host Chris Matthews had Robert Gibbs, the White House Press Secretary, on his show today.

Close NOVEMBER 5, 2009, 12:40 P.M. ET The Madness of Queen Nancy By JOHN FUND It's one thing to be serene under fire, it's another to be delusional.

A powerful subcommittee chairman working on financial regulations didn't appreciate Rahm Emanuel's role in trying to change his bill - and he pointedly reminded members of his panel that President Barack Obama's chief of staff isn't in the House anymore.

Former Democratic aide turned journalist George Stephanopoulos appeared on Wednesdaya TMs Good Morning America to spin the loss of a Conservative Party congressional candidate in New York as a " big loss for Sarah Palin.

A bitter liberal Republican throws her support behind the Democrat. Who'da thought? The Watertown Daily Times reports : Sen.

The White House is quietly working to undercut a key post-Enron reform, significantly weakening protection for everyday investors and threatening the administration's image as a champion for financial regulatory reform.

Fearful that the party had almost no chance of winning the Nov. 3 New York special election after Republican nominee Dede Scozzafava abruptly announced Saturday that she was dropping out, high-ranking national Democrats immediately began working to secure her endorsement of Democrat Bill Owens, POLITICO has learned.

Voters in one South Carolina county will decide whether to fill a vacant House seat with its previous occupant or send a local school board member to the Statehouse.

The Obama administration is pushing House Democrats to spare small public companies the cost of complying with investor-protection rules imposed after the accounting frauds at Enron Corp.

Former candidate Dierdre K. Scozzafava is getting praise from Democrats and condemnation from Republicans after she announced Sunday afternoon she will back Democratic candidate William L. Owens in the 23rd Congressional District race.

After months of plodding work by five Congressional committees and weeks of back-room bargaining by Democratic leaders, President Obama 's arms-length strategy on health care appears to be paying dividends, with the House and the Senate poised to take up legislation to insure nearly all Americans.

We are nearly a year into the Obama presidency now. Yet, with each passing day, this administration becomes increasingly focused on the issues that matter less, not more, to the average man on the street.

The future of the Republican Party will be tested Tuesday in upstate New York. A special election for an open seat in the U.S House of Representatives has turned into a high-profile proxy war over how the party should come back from the stinging losses of both the House and Senate in 2006 and the White House in 2008.

Chuck Schumer and Rahm Emanuel, the architects of the Democratsa historic take-back of Congress in 2006, talk to each other nearly every day in abrupt, Morse code bursts stripped of hellos, goodbyes and thank-yous. Chuck Schumer and Rahm Emanuel, the architects of the Democrats' historic take-back of Congress in 2006, talk to each other nearly ...

Americans are growing increasingly pessimistic about the economy after a mild upswing of attitudes in September.