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• Healthcare Debate Update: Stupak Anti-Abortion Funding Amendment Passes

      By a vote of 240 to 194, the Stupak-Pitts Amendment which provides language that will have prohibit the House bill for a government takeover of heath care, from allowing any funding of abortion procedures passed. The move which satisfied a the handful of anti-abortion Democrats who were needed to pass [...]
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  Posted: November 07, 2009, 10:50pm EST
  by Kempite

• Government Health Care Takeover May Go Down Because of Abortion

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    Passage of the Pelosi-Obama government takeover of health care may all come down to the Stupak-Pitts Amendment. The Stupak-Pitts Amendment is sponsored by Democrat Bart Stupak of Michigan and Republican Joseph Pitts of Pennsylvania and what is does is create language in the health care government takeover bill which not [...]
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  Posted: November 07, 2009, 8:40pm EST
  by Kempite

• President Obama Asks Democrats To Walk The Plank On Healthcare Vote

     High Drama grips Washington, DC today in a way that has rarely ever been matched before. Few votes have ever been quite as transformative as the healthcare and insurance reform bill which Democrats and Nancy Pelosi are proposing on behalf of President Obama. The political intrigue being witnessed on this [...]
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  Posted: November 07, 2009, 1:22pm EST
  by Kempite