Senate Health Care Bill Offers Less Immediate Help Than House Version
If the Senate has its way with health insurance reform, Sandra Ingram, a 63-year-old cancer patient undergoing intensive chemotherapy treatments in Io...
If the Senate has its way with health insurance reform, Sandra Ingram, a 63-year-old cancer patient undergoing intensive chemotherapy treatments in Io...
Shan Wells | Posted 11.19.2009 | Denver
I wonder if electing a pack of blue dogs in order to gain a "majority" was worth the now very real risk that the party will chew itself to pieces via stubborn ideological bickering.
HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 11.19.2009 | Politics
Read the bill (PDF). Senate Democrats have posted the legislation on their web site. --------- Senate Democrats made a big step toward comprehensive...
AP | Posted 11.18.2009 | Denver
BRUSH, Colo. — A basketball-sized chunk of ice crashed through the roof of a family's Colorado home after apparently falling from an airplane passin...
AP | LAURIE KELLMAN | Posted 11.18.2009 | Politics
WASHINGTON — Sen. Robert C. Byrd became history's longest-serving member of Congress on Wednesday, earning a formal salute from the Senate and P...
Posted 11.18.2009 | Politics
Democrats in Congress want to use unspent TARP funds to support homeowners and struggling workers, according to The Hill. More than half of the Democ...
The Hill | Mike Soraghan | Posted 11.16.2009 | Politics
House Democratic leaders, worried they've appeared unresponsive to rising unemployment because they were absorbed by healthcare, are aiming for a legi...
Posted 11.16.2009 | Politics
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce is soliciting funds to pay an economist $50,000 to study health care reform legislation and issue (what the lobby presume...
New York Times | DUFF WILSON | Posted 11.15.2009 | Business
Even as drug makers promise to support Washington's health care overhaul by shaving $8 billion a year off the nation's drug costs after the legislatio...
AP | JULIE HIRSCHFELD DAVIS | Posted 11.15.2009 | Politics
WASHINGTON — Abortion rights groups, outflanked and outnumbered in the health debate, are scrambling to regain lost ground after the House passe...
Wall Street Journal | MELANIE TROTTMAN | Posted 11.14.2009 | Politics
Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano called Friday for Congress to consider an overhaul of immigration law early next year, a move that could ...
wsj.com | By DEBORAH SOLOMON and JONATHAN WEISMAN | Posted 11.12.2009 | Politics
The Obama administration, under pressure to show it is serious about tackling the budget deficit, is seizing on an unusual target to showcase fiscal r...
Huff TV | Posted 11.12.2009 | Media
HuffPost Editor Roy Sekoff appeared on The Joy Behar Show Wednesday night to talk about religion in politics and the controversy surrounding Sarah Pal...
Lennard Davis | Posted 11.11.2009 | Entertainment
What's happened to Mickey? I read today that Disney is about to launch a new Mickey video game in which our hero's sunny personality is going dark side.
Huffington Post/AP | Posted 11.12.2009 | Business
NEW YORK — After just three months as head of battered insurer American International Group, Robert Benmosche has threatened to leave his post a...
Wall Street Journal | Peter Wallsten | Posted 11.10.2009 | Politics
Injecting itself aggressively into the health-care debate, the Roman Catholic Church in America has emerged as a major political force with the potent...
AP | DAVID ESPO | Posted 11.11.2009 | Politics
WASHINGTON — Former President Bill Clinton urged Senate Democrats on Tuesday to pass health care legislation by year's end, pointedly telling sk...
Wall Street Journal | DAMIAN PALETTA and MICHAEL R. CRITTENDEN | Posted 11.09.2009 | Politics
Democrats are advancing proposals in Congress designed to limit the size and complexity of financial companies so that any collapse wouldn't damage th...
Posted 11.08.2009 | Politics
Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.) was present during his partner James Ready's marijuana arrest in 2007, according to a police report. Ready was arrested ...
Posted 11.03.2009 | Media
Browse the front pages from last year's races by clicking on a front page from any given day, then slide the hour to see how the page changed througho...
The Huffington Post | Posted 11.03.2009 | Politics
Tuesday's elections are local races -- not measures of President Obama's ability to deliver or a referendum on the president's popularity, according t...
Wall Street Journal | JANET ADAMY | Posted 11.03.2009 | Politics
Republicans are preparing to unveil their own health bill in the next few days. Minority Leader John Boehner (R., Ohio) said Monday that the plan woul...
The Hill | Alexander Bolton | Posted 11.03.2009 | Politics
Sen. Joe Lieberman has reached a private understanding with Majority Leader Harry Reid that he will not block a final vote on healthcare reform, accor...
Art Levine | Posted 11.02.2009 | Politics
Neither the House nor Senate versions of the health care bill could offer the extensive, affordable coverage that reformers are hoping for or that Democrats have been promoting.
Wall Street Journal | GREG HITT | Posted 11.02.2009 | Politics
Republicans are preparing an alternative health-care bill to Democratic legislation, House Republican Leader John Boehner said, marking a shift in str...
HuffingtonPost.com | Arthur Delaney | Posted 11.19.2009 | Politics