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I'm hoping, for your sake, that you didn't spend your Saturday night as I did: watching the House debate health care reform on C-SPAN. Pathetic, I know.

Main Category: Women's Health / Gynecology Also Included In: Abortion Article Date: 11 Nov 2009 - 4:00 PST The growing divide in the Republican Party between its staunchly conservative members and its smaller pool of moderate members has "clear gender undertones," Politico reports.

Share + Nov 10, 2009 11:05 am US/Eastern WASHINGTON As the House version of the health care bill was making its way through parliamentary procedures on Saturday, a strange scene unfolded between a group of female Democratic members and some GOP members.

Every Republican Congressman from Georgia voted against the healthcare bill. Every Democrat voted for it except two.

This morning, Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz participated on a conference call with the Center for American Progress Action Fund's Judy Feder to discuss Republican efforts to shut out women's issues in the health reform debate.

But as one of 435 members of the House or even the 100 in the Senate, an individual lawmaker doesn't often feel the warmth of the limelight.

"I object. I object. I object ... " Rep. Tom Price, a Roswell Republican, repeated the line over and over, interrupting his Democratic counterparts every time they tried to speak.

The one House Republican to support health care reform said on Sunday that his decision to back the bill was driven by his conscience and the needs of his district and not back-room dealing with the White House or Democrats.

Two Democratic members of Georgia's Congressional delegation voted against a major healthcare reform bill late Saturday.

The U.S. House on Saturday passed landmark health overhaul legislation that would extend insurance coverage to 36 million Americans now lacking it, taking a crucial step toward realizing President Barack Obama's top legislative priority.

On Saturday morning, a group of House Republicans -- led by Rep. Tom Price -- attempted to stop the Democratic Women's Caucus from making their arguments about how the health bill would benefit women by screaming over them.

The first nasty floor fight in the health care debate is under way, and ita s all over a bit of theater that Democrats decided to put on at the outset of todaya s proceedings.

Chanting "Kill the bill," thousands of conservatives incensed over the Democrats' health care overhaul protested at the Capitol on Thursday, arguing that the legislation amounts to a government takeover of the nation's medical system.

Rep. Tom Price of Georgia tells Newsmax that "nervous Democrats" in the House are wavering in their support for their leadership's "terrible, terrible" bill to overhaul the healthcare system.

Republicans host a rally against Democrats' health care reform, calling on those who attend to track down their elected representatives in Congress and put pressure on them to think twice about voting for the more than $1 trillion health care overhaul.

On Thursday, the lobbyist-run groups Americans for Prosperity and FreedomWorks - which were instrumental in orchestrating dozens of anti-Obama tea parties and town hall disruptions - are planning an anti-health reform rally on Thursday at the steps of the Capitol.

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 ...

Republican House members will be joined by actor Jon Voight and nationally-syndicated radio talk show host Mark Levin to host a 'House Call on Congress' this Thursday.

Rep. Marsha Blackburn claims, yet again, that 1.7 million Tea Party protesters showed up to hear her speak at Glenn Beck's 9-12 March on Washington .

You would think people would be fired up about the congressional races on tap for next year, considering that Republicans will be trying to reverse their election losses of 2006 and 2008 while Democrats will be trying to protect their majority status.