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Raising the U.S. governmenta s $12.2 trillion borrowing limit tops an agenda of must-pass legislation that imperils Senate Democratsa ability to pass a health-care bill this year.

President Barack Obama's U.S. healthcare overhaul plan has cleared an important Senate hurdle but lawmakers warned on Sunday of challenges ahead in winning support for passage, even among Obama's own Democrats.

Main Category: Health Insurance / Medical Insurance Also Included In: Public Health Article Date: 26 Nov 2009 - 3:00 PST Washington groups have lobbied Congress and the public in nearly every imaginable direction on health reform.

For weeks, Sen. Blanche Lincoln has been attacked as a "flip-flopper" or an obstructionist in television ads aimed at Arkansas voters, who will decide next year if she gets to keep her job.

Failure is not an option on health care, a leading Democratic senator said Monday, even as Republicans turned up the heat on moderates who hold the fate of the legislation in their hands.

ALEXANDRIA, VA In the wake of the Senate's vote on Saturday to take up the health care reform legislation, the 60 Plus Association today announced a new advertising campaign targeting Senators in nine states Alaska, Arkansas, Florida, Indiana, Louisiana, Maine, Nebraska, North Dakota, and South Dakota.

Main Category: Abortion Also Included In: Health Insurance / Medical Insurance Article Date: 26 Nov 2009 - 4:00 PST Antiabortion-rights Sen.

Pro-life leaders expressed disappointment with Senate Democrats who advocate protecting unborn children after the upper chamber voted Nov.

The Wall Street Journal reports that abortion-rights groups are mobilizing to keep a provision that would toughen abortion restrictions out of a Senate health care reform bill.

I've written Bill Nelson several times, also, to no avail. He doesn't care what the people want or need; he's only interested in pleasing "The Man". Well, he'll never get my vote and I hope that takes him right out of that office of power.

Key Democratic allies in the US health care battle warned Sunday that a Senate bill required major changes if it was to earn their support and give President Barack Obama a crucial victory on his top domestic priority.

The US is set for one of its most contentious debates in recent history after the Senate voted to start full discussion on major health reform legislation - a crucial milestone for President Obama's top domestic priority.

It will be another week before senators begin floor debate on the Democrats' health care overhaul bill, but many in Washington are already predicting the demise of its current provision for a modest government-run insurance program.

Main Category: Abortion Also Included In: Health Insurance / Medical Insurance Article Date: 24 Nov 2009 - 2:00 PST The Senate's Saturday vote to advance its health care reform bill to the floor for debate "clears the way for weeks of rowdy floor proceedings" over issues like abortion coverage and the public plan option, the New York Times reports.

Despite some volatility in Nebraska's ethanol industry, the state's first plant is still in operation.

Democrats will continue to push for some version of the public option in the U.S. Senate, despite threats of a filibuster from two senators over the controversial provision in proposed health care legislation, U.S. Sen.

Senate majority leader Harry Reid embraces Senator Chris Dodd of Connecticut after the Senate voted to formally launch debate on health care reform Nicholas Kamm / AFP / Getty The Senate's first day of debate on sweeping legislation to overhaul the health-care system produced a squeaker of a vote - exactly the 60 that majority leader Harry Reid ...

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Tom Daschle, shown earlier this year on Capitol Hill, has been recruited to help persuade reluctant Democrats to support health care overhaul legislation.

Moderate Senate Democrats threatened Sunday to scuttle health-care legislation if their demands aren't met, while more liberal members warned their party leaders not to bend.