Health Care Vote

Reid Slams Broder: A Retiree Who 'Writes A Column Once In A While'

The Huffington Post | Lila Shapiro | Posted 11.21.2009 | Politics


Speaking from the Senate floor on Saturday, Majority Leader Harry Reid had some harsh words for Washington Post columnist David Broder. Reid was resp...

Senate Health Care Vote Saturday

AP/ The Huffington Post | Posted 11.21.2009 | Politics


WASHINGTON — Democratic leaders secured the last two votes to move ahead on historic health care legislation, clearing the way for a Saturday ni...

Sam Stein

GOP Needs Six Weeks To Debate Health Care Bill That All Republicans Will Oppose

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 11.20.2009 | Politics


Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) argued last Sunday that Republicans deserve at least six additional weeks to consider health care reform...

White House Pep Talk To Dems On Health Care: "We Must All Hang Together, Or Assuredly We Shall All Hang Separately"

TIME | Karen Tumulty / Washington Thursday, Nov. 19, 2009 | Posted 11.19.2009 | Politics


With health reform's first test vote on the Senate floor less than 72 hours away, a platoon of top strategists -- including pollsters Mark Mellman and...

Blue Dog Democrats Dominate House Health Care Debate

The New York Review Of Books | Michael Tomasky | Posted 11.12.2009 | Politics


So what did the House Blue Dogs do on the health care vote last Saturday? They were more supportive than one might think: Of the fifty-two-member coal...

Tactics of the GOP First Unit Bill

Joe The Nerd Ferraro | Posted 11.10.2009 | Politics


Joe The Nerd Ferraro

The problem is the Democrats in Congress pride themselves in being a bunch of twigs. By not sticking together, they lost for everybody.

Dems on Health Bill: Oops! We Forgot to Cut Costs

New York Times | SHERYL GAY STOLBERG | Posted 11.10.2009 | Politics


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 wh...

Jim Cooper On House Health Care Bill: 'One Of The Best Votes I Ever Cast'

The Washington Post | Ezra Klein | Posted 11.09.2009 | Politics


Rep. Jim Cooper (D-Tenn.) knows as much about health-care policy as anyone in Congress. He teaches the subject back home in Tennessee, promoted his ow...

Ryan Grim

Health Care PASSES: The Scene In The House When It Happened

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 11.08.2009 | Politics


CORRECTION: From my vantage point in the press gallery, it looked as if Rep. Don Young (R-Alaska) was leaning on Cao to oppose the bill. But according...

Reps King, Hoekstra Attempt To Wrap Capitol With Health Care Bill

The Huffington Post | Lila Shapiro | Posted 11.07.2009 | Politics


Early Friday afternoon, Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) announced his intentions to wrap the Capitol building in a massive copy of the 1,900-page health bill...

Sam Stein

Obama Points To Bill Owens To Pitch Health Care Reform

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 11.07.2009 | Politics


Hoping to pull together the needed Democratic support to get health care reform through the House of Representatives, President Barack Obama urged mem...

House Health Care Vote: Breaking Updates

The Huffington Post | Ryan Grim, Sam Stein, Lila Shapiro, & Nico Pitney | Posted 11.08.2009 | Politics


After months of debate, the House of Representatives passed historic health care reform legislation late on Saturday evening. Read the overview AP cov...

Health Care Vote: Latest Updates

AP | DAVID ESPO | Posted 11.08.2009 | Politics


WASHINGTON — In a victory for President Barack Obama, the Democratic-controlled House narrowly passed landmark health care legislation Saturday ...

Democrats Clear Impasse Blocking Health Care Vote

AP | DAVID ESPO | Posted 11.08.2009 | Politics


WASHINGTON — In a victory for President Barack Obama, the Democratic-controlled House narrowly passed landmark health care legislation Saturday ...

Ryan Grim

Reid, Durbin Open To Majority Vote To Beat Health Care Filibuster

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 10.28.2009 | Politics


As Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid works to cobble together the 60 votes he needs to overcome an expected Republican attempt to block a floor vote o...

Robust Public Option Lacks Votes To Pass The House: The Plum Line

The Plum Line | Greg Sargent | Posted 10.27.2009 | Politics


The House Dem leadership has conducted its preliminary whip count and has tallied up less than 200 likely Yes votes in support of a health care reform...

Susan Collins Open To Voting For Health Care Overhaul

Posted 10.14.2009 | Politics


(AP) WASHINGTON - A second Republican senator signaled Wednesday she's open to voting for sweeping health care legislation this year, putting Presiden...

Health Insurance Stocks Down As Prospects For Reform Rise

ABC News | Jake Tapper | Posted 10.13.2009 | Politics


Health insurance stocks took a dive Tuesday, with the S&P Health Care Sector index becoming the worst-performing segment of the S&P 500, largely becau...

Senate Health Care Bill: Five Things You Don't Know

Politics Daily | Patricia Murphy | Posted 10.13.2009 | Politics


If you've been following the health care debate closely, you probably know the basics of the Senate Finance Committee's version of health care reform ...

Dems Eye GOP Senator Snowe For Vote On Health Care

New York Times | Carl Hulse | Posted 09.28.2009 | Politics


As Congress prepares to hit the restart button on the health care debate, Senator Olympia J. Snowe does not relish the prospect of becoming a Group of...

Health Care Bill Has Little Margin For Error In House

FiveThirtyEight.com | Posted 09.01.2009 | Politics


Last night, the Energy and Commerce Committee voted 31-28 to approve a compromise version of the Democrats' health care reform bill. As the Energy and...

Deal With 'Blue Dogs' Sets Up Health Care Vote In House; Key GOP Senators Say Agreement Out Of Reach For Now

AP/CNN | Posted 08.29.2009 | Politics


UPDATE 7/30: CNN is reporting that key GOP Senators Charles Grassley (R-Iowa) and Mike Enzi (R-Wyoming) are saying a health care deal is out of reach...

No Floor Vote In House On Health Care Until September

AP | Posted 08.29.2009 | Home


WASHINGTON — Democrats say the full House won't vote on sweeping health care legislation until September. It's part of a three-way deal between...

Ryan Grim

Dodd: A Good Health Care Bill More Important Than A Bipartisan One

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 08.15.2009 | Politics


The Senate Health Education Labor and Pensions Committee approved a historic overhaul of the health care system on a party-line vote Wednesday morning...