below, from the White House...
THE WHITE HOUSE
Office of the Press Secretary
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For Immediate Release December 24, 2009
PHONE CALLS MADE BY PRESIDENT OBAMA AFTER SENATE PASSAGE OF HEALTH INSURANCE REFORM
President Obama made the following phone calls this morning [...]
from Heritage Foundation's Morning Bell:
This morning just after 7 AM EST, the United States Senate passed, again on a straight party-line vote, President Barack Obama’s health insurance bill. Originally scheduled for a 9 PM vote tonight, the bill’s Senate passage is a welcome Christmas gift for a beleaguered White House. [...]
from Durbin.....
DURBIN LEGISLATION TO EXPAND CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE RESEARCH INCLUDED IN SENATE HEALTH CARE LEGISLATION
[WASHINGTON, D.C.] - Assistant Senate Majority Leader Dick Durbin (D-IL) today announced that portions of his bipartisan legislation to increase awareness, education and research into congenital heart disease [...]
While most of America was sleeping, the US Senate voted to pass its version of health care reform. That bill now must be married to the House bill. On the floor of the Senate, Minority Leader Mitch McConnell made the following statement:Fr. Frank Pavone, National Director of Priests for Life, the largest pro-life ministry in the Catholic Church, issued the following statement on this morning's passage of the Reid health care bill in the Senate.
"Apparently a Senate bill that unleashes unprecedented funding for abortions is the Senate's idea of a" [...]
In response to this morning's passage of the Patient Protection and Affordable Health Care Act introduced by Senator Harry Reid (D- Nev.), Susan B. Anthony List President Marjorie Dannenfelser offered the following statement:
"On Christmas Eve, the U.S. Senate gave Americans a gift no one wants: abortion for all, at" [...]
The US Senate Democrats passed the 2000+ page health care bill this morning with a 60 to 39 vote along party lines (Sen. Jim Bunning was absent). Illinois US Senator Dick Durbin and Roland Burris, of course, voted with their Democratic colleagues. While celebrating their victory,The Hill points out [...]
by Mark Silva
So it passes.
After nearly a month of debate in the Senate, an overhaul of health-care in America has passed the Senate early this morning -- by a vote of 60-39.
That hard-fought bloc of 60 votes -- necessary to overcome persistent Republican attempts to block [...]
by Mark Silva
So it passes.
After nearly a month of debate in the Senate, an overhaul of health-care in America has passed the Senate early this morning -- by a vote of 60-39.
That hard-fought bloc of 60 votes -- necessary to overcome persistent Republican attempts to block [...]
WASHINGTON--At 7:15:59 a.m. eastern time on Thursday morning, on a 60-39 roll call and with Vice President Biden presiding, the Senate passed historic health care legislation in a rare Christmas Eve day session. The bill passed on party line votes; Democrats for, Republicans against.
The House earlier passed its version [...]
Wednesday, Chicago's Red Eye featured an unusually even-handed analysis of the life issue by featuring Millennial pro-abortion and pro-life activists, including Corrina Gura, who works for Forest Glen's Pro Life Action League.
The 26-year-old is one Millennial who opposes abortion in all instances at a time when the hot-button topic has [...]
by Bill Pascoe
Did you feel that disturbance in The Force? The one that took place about 3:35 this afternoon?
At 3:20 p.m., Independent Bernard Sanders of Vermont -- acting as the presiding officer of the Senate -- called a vote on a point of order against the health care overhaul [...]
by Mark Silva
President Barack Obama, who says he is "never completely satisfied,'' professes himself to be "very satisfied'' with the health-care legislation that the Senate is near passing over the objections of Republicans.
"Look, when I made that speech in the joint session of Congress," [...]
President Obama matches Street Cred with Nebraska Senator Ben Nelson - The Originah G!The vaccine recall is the second this month [...]
All news from Democrats and the White House is positive. It looks like reform of our for-profit health insurance system is about to happen. Is the reform on the table perfect? No. None of the sides are perfectly content with the changes, including Democrats, Blue Dog Democrats, [...]
“What Are They Celebrating?”Click below for text
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"The Night Before Christmas" by Senator Roland W. Burris
'Twas the night before Christmas, and all through the Senate
The Right held up our health bill, no matter what was in it.
The people had voted - they' [...]
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