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House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer and Speaker Nancy Pelosi arrive for a press conference after the passage in the house of the health care reform bill at the U.S. Capitol, Saturday, Nov.

As Democrats savored the narrow passage of their historic heath care overhaul in the House of Representatives, attention Sunday turned to the deeply-divided U.S. Senate.

House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer confirmed today that the Democrats are still short of the necessary 218 votes to pass a $1.05 trillion health care reform bill.

Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., center, speaks as others, including Majority Whip James Clyburn, D-S.C., left, and Rep.

Two prominent lobbying groups, the AARP and the American Medical Association, threw their weight behind Democrat's House health care legislation Thursday as a vote on the comprehensive bill approaches this weekend.

Democrats worked late into the night Friday trying to secure support for a planned Saturday vote on health care reform amid last-minute concerns over abortion funding and insurance for illegal immigrants.

Rep. Jason Altmire, a second-term Democrat from western Pennsylvania, said he received calls during the day from the president, White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius and Education Secretary Arne Duncan.

House Democrats acknowledged they don't yet have the votes to pass a sweeping overhaul of the nation's health care system, and signaled they may push back the vote until Sunday or early next week.

The second-ranking Democrat in the House of Representatives predicted that historic health care legislation will be passed in the House on Saturday.

Rep. Bart Stupak , co-chairman of the House Pro-Life Caucus. Rep. Bart Stupak , who has organized a group of about 40 Democrats who are committed to killing the health care bill if House Speaker Nancy Pelosi does not give them a straight up-or down vote on an amendment that would prohibit federal dollars from paying for any part of any health ...

A debate and vote are expected Saturday on the 10-year, $1.2 trillion bill that would extend coverage to 96 percent of Americans, require employers to insure their employees and bar such insurance company practices as dropping coverage for sick people.

Perry Hall attorney Mike Pappas withdrew his bid for the Republican gubernatorial nomination on Wednesday and threw his support to former Ehrlich administration official Lawrence J. Hogan Jr.

Recognizing that a weak economy still needs a government boost, the Senate voted overwhelmingly Wednesday to provide the jobless with up to 20 weeks in additional unemployment benefits and expand a first-time homebuyer tax credit to include a far larger pool of people entering the dormant housing market.

Main Category: Abortion Also Included In: Health Insurance / Medical Insurance Article Date: 04 Nov 2009 - 3:00 PST House Democrats are nearing a compromise over abortion language in the chamber's health care reform bill , CongressDaily reports.

House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer House Majority Leader Rep. Steny Hoyer dodged a question about whether it is morally right to force taxpayers to pay for any part of a health insurance plan that covers abortion, which the House health care bill does, according to FactCheck.org, the Congressional Research Service, and even pro-life fellow ...

The House on Tuesday condemned a U.N. report that accuses Israeli forces and Palestinian militants of war crimes in Gaza last winter as "irredeemably biased and unworthy of further consideration or legitimacy." On a 344-36 vote, the House passed a nonbinding resolution that urges President Barack Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton "to ...

While House leaders are moving toward a vote on health-care legislation by the end of the week, enough Democrats are threatening to oppose the measure over the issue of abortion to create a question about its passage.

Just a few unsolved problems - and one final sales job - stand between House Democratic leaders and a landmark vote on President Barack Obama's promised remake of the nation's health care system.

"I could say something sentimental, but I won't today," said Schaefer, who stood with the help of an aide as he delivered his unscripted, unscheduled remarks.

On paper, Representative Alan Grayson, a freshman Democrat from Florida, seems a bit stiff: degrees from Harvard and Harvard Law; a resume that includes clerking for the United States Court of Appeals under Judges Antonin Scalia , Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Robert Bork ; an advocate for the aging.