Senate Republicans succeeded early Thursday morning in finding two flaws in the House-passed health care reconciliation package. Neither is of any sub...
Republicans know that the health care reform process could be derailed if the Senate decides to adopt any changes in reconciling the bill passed by th...
Senate Democrats on Monday are set to pick up the battle over health care reform where the House left off, but the path forward remains uncertain as R...
There's been some talk "out there" that reconciliation is an undemocratic process, because it doesn't go through the regular legislative channels. That's just wrong.
Senate Republicans are poised to try to reignite the health care debate by launching a coordinated political messaging offensive to target Democrats a...
President Obama's new healthcare proposal will likely gain only Democratic support, and that's a good thing, Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-N.Y.) said today. ...
House Democrats should "do the right thing" and approve the Senate's healthcare bill, former Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle (D-S.D.) said Monday. ...
Appointed Senator Paul Kirk will lose his vote in the Senate after Tuesday's election in Massachusetts of a new senator and cannot be the 60th vote fo...
WASHINGTON — The chairman of the Senate Budget Committee says the House must stick close to the Senate's version of health care reform or risk l...
With the exception of a few provisions most of what's left of health care "reform" isn't perfect; it's not good. It downright sucks.
A major health care reform group is criticizing a provision in the Senate health care reform bill that would cap the cost of medical care that consume...
One of the challenges in arguing about the use of the filibuster is that the filibuster has changed drastically in recent decades, but it's done so qu...
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...
BOSTON — The race to succeed the late Sen. Edward M. Kennedy has turned into a proxy battle over the fate of President Barack Obama's health car...
The White House, growing concerned that the Congressional timetable for passing a health care overhaul could slip into next year, is stepping up press...
Slumping in the polls and struggling to pass climate and financial legislation, President Barack Obama and Democratic leaders are counting on an histo...
The long-simmering tension between insurers and congressional Democrats is erupting into open warfare, with lawmakers stepping up their push to revoke...
WASHINGTON — The liberal group MoveOn.org is opposing the Senate health care bill and urging Democrats to block it. In a letter to members Frid...
The Senate health care bill is so compromised, some progressives argue, that it would be better to try to kill it than fight for its passage. In ligh...
Sen. Ben Nelson (D-Neb.) said Tuesday that he won't vote for health care reform unless the bill contains the same sort of restrictive abortion provisi...
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) and Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.) have taken a long stride toward locking down the...
With Reporting By Ryan Grim One of Congress's foremost champions of abortion rights said on Monday that the Senate did not have the votes to add a mo...
The Senate health care bill betrays the promise of fundamental "change" Democrats made during the 2008 election. It cloaks a handout to the health ind...
Reporting from Washington - Backed by some of the most powerful members of the Senate, a little-noticed provision in the healthcare overhaul bill woul...
IF I were still a United States senator, I would not only vote yes on the current health care reform bill, I would do so with the sure knowledge that ...
