House votes to prohibit abortion coverage in government run insurance plan
Washington — A Bipartisan House coalition voted Saturday to prohibit coverage of Abortions in a new government-run Health Care plan that Democrats would establish to compete with private insurers. The 240-194 vote on an amendment by Rep. Bart Stupak, D-Mich., was a blow to liberals, who would have allowed the Obama Administration and its successors to decide whether Abortions would be covered by the government plan. Sixty-four Democrats joined 176 Republicans in favor of the prohibition....

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House passes health care bill
WASHINGTON (AP) - In a victory for President Barack Obama,the Democratic-controlled House narrowly passed landmark Health Care legislation Saturday night to expand coverage to tens of millions who lack it and place tough new restrictions on the Insurance industry.

House passes health care bill
Washington - In a victory for President Barack Obama, the Democratic-controlled House narrowly passed landmark Health Care legislation Saturday night to expand coverage to tens of millions who lack it and place tough new restrictions on the Insurance industry. Republican opposition was nearly unanimous. The 220-215 vote cleared the way for the Senate to begin debate on the issue that has come to overshadow all others in Congress. A triumphant Speaker Nancy Pelosi likened the legislation to the...

Democrats claim big victory on health care
President Obama and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi achieved a stupendous - but still incomplete - victory Saturday, winning House passage of the biggest expansion of Health Care coverage since Medicare's creation in 1964, in the face of nearly unanimous Republican opposition. Images View More Images Video View Larger Size More News As a matter of policy and politics, the 10-year, $1.05 trillion legislation, which passed 220-215 late Saturday night, is among the most complex and difficult Congress...

Health care bill passes House in historic vote
Washington - -- The House of Representatives late Saturday approved the most sweeping Health Care legislation in two generations, advancing President Barack Obama's campaign to guarantee Health coverage to almost all Americans. The legislation was passed 220-215 shortly after House members added a provision that prohibits federally subsidized Insurance plans from offering Abortion services. Despite the close margin, Democratic leaders said earlier in the day that they had at least the 218 votes...

Health care bill clears House by narrow margin; legislation now moves to the Senate
Washington — In a victory for President Barack Obama, the Democratic-controlled House narrowly passed landmark Health Care legislation Saturday night to expand coverage to tens of millions who lack it and place tough new restrictions on the Insurance industry. Republican opposition was nearly unanimous. The 220-215 vote cleared the way for the Senate to begin a long-delayed debate on the issue that has come to overshadow all others in Congress. A triumphant Speaker Nancy Pelosi likened...

House passes health care bill
WASHINGTON – In a victory for President Obama, the Democratic-controlled House narrowly passed landmark Health Care legislation Saturday night to expand coverage to tens of millions who lack it and

House health bill passes 220-215; 39 Dems and one GOP defect
The House passed its $1 trillion healthcare overhaul late Saturday by the thinnest of margins, becoming the first chamber to vote on such a significant expansion of healthcare since Congress passed Medicare in 1965. The 220-215 vote late Saturday was a victory for House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and President Barack Obama, who came to Capitol Hill to rally his fellow Democrats in the hours before the vote.

House Passes Historic Healthcare Reform Bill
The U.S. House has passed an historic healthcare reform bill. After a day-long debate in an unusual Saturday session, the Democratic bill passed, 220-215. Only one Republican voted yes while 39 Democrats voted no. Earlier, President Obama went to Capitol Hill to push wavering Democrats to support the legislation, representing the biggest overhaul of the nation's healthcare system in more than 40 years. Healthcare reform is President Obama's top legislative priority. He urged Democrats to "answer...

House passes health care
Washington -- A monumental overhaul of the nation's Health Insurance system passed the House tonight, in a vote that split Western Pennsylvania Democrats. The final tally was a razor-thin 220-215 in favor of passage, a victory for House Speaker Nancy Pelosi -- who spent the past few days furiously drumming up votes -- and President Barack Obama, who made Health Care reform his chief domestic priority. The focus now turns to the Senate, where debate on Health Care reform could last weeks or...

House backs anti-abortion amendment
By Donna Smith Washington (Reuters) - The House of Representatives voted on Saturday to tighten a ban against using federal funds to finance Abortions under the proposed Democratic healthcare reform legislation. Opposition Republicans joined forces with anti-Abortion Democrats to pass the amendment to the healthcare legislation on a vote of 240-194. The House approved a sweeping healthcare overhaul on Saturday on a narrow 220-215 vote. The battle over President Barack Obama's top domestic...

House passes health care bill on close vote
In a victory for President Barack Obama, the Democratic-controlled House narrowly passed landmark Health Care legislation Saturday night to expand coverage to tens of millions who lack it and place tough new restrictions on the Insurance industry. Republican opposition was nearly unanimous. The 220-215 vote cleared the way for the Senate to begin a long-delayed debate on the issue that has come to overshadow all others in Congress. A triumphant Speaker Nancy Pelosi likened the legislation to the...

House passes health care bill on close vote
In a victory for President Barack Obama, the Democratic-controlled House narrowly passed landmark Health Care legislation Saturday night to expand coverage to tens of millions who lack it and place tough new restrictions on the Insurance industry. Republican opposition was nearly unanimous. The 220-215 vote cleared the way for the Senate to begin a long-delayed debate on the issue that has come to overshadow all others in Congress. A triumphant Speaker Nancy Pelosi likened the legislation to the...

Obama wins landmark vote on healthcare overhaul
The House of Representatives has backed President Obama’s sweeping overhaul of the US healthcare system. It was a close call with 220 in favour while 215 voted nay. Its a political triumph for Obama who made changes to the healthcare system his number one domestic priority: “The bill that the House has produced will provide stability and security for Americans who have Insurance; quality, affordable options for those who don’t; and lower costs for American families and...

Pawlenty focuses on health care in Iowa speech
Des Moines (AP) - As Congress begins voting on Health Care reform, Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty urged Republican activists on Saturday to use public anger over the issue as the linchpin of their battle to return to power. Pawlenty singled out President Barack Obama at a big Republican fundraiser at the Iowa State Fairgrounds, his first visit to the state since the 2008 Elections. "On the night that he won the Iowa caucuses, he promised to bring Republicans and Democrats together to pass needed...

Hirono, Abercrombie laud 'historic' health care vote
Hawai'i's two members of the House of Representatives voted tonight for the trillion-dollar bill to transform the U.S. Health Care system, President Obama's major domestic priority.

House passes landmark health-care reform bill: PHOTO
Hours after President Obama exhorted Democratic lawmakers to "answer the call of history," the House hit an unprecedented milestone on the path to Health-care reform, approving a trillion-dollar package late Saturday that seeks to overhaul private Insurance practices and guarantee comprehensive a...

US health care bill backed by House of Representative
The US House of Representatives has approved the broadest domestic Health Care overhaul in a half-century, clearing an important hurdle for President Barack Obama as he seeks to implement his top domestic priority.

Obama to speak to House Dems as health vote nears
Washington -- President Barack Obama is heading to Capitol Hill for talks with House Democrats as they scramble to find enough votes to pass landmark legislation to overhaul the nation's Health Care system . The president will speak at the Cannon House Office Building. The meeting is closed to the news media. Saturday afternoon, Obama will make a statement in the Rose Garden. Then, he and the first lady travel to the Camp David presidential retreat in Maryland.

Obama To Dems: GOP Will Attack Regardless Of How You Vote
In a final push to get Health Care reform through the House of Representatives, President Barack Obama warned lawmakers on Saturday that a vote against the legislation would not immunize them from Republican attacks. The president, according multiple attendees, played the role of political prognosticator during his roughly 30 minute address before Democratic caucus members on Capitol Hill. Addressing, implicitly, those conservative Democrats who are worried about voting for a nearly trillion...

Barack Obama visits Capitol Hill to plead for Democrats to back health reforms
President Barack Obama has made a last-ditch plea to Democrat lawmakers to back a bill revamping the country's Health Care system on a rare Saturday trip to Capitol Hill.

Pelosi says Obama visit to Capitol Hill inspired Democrats to pass health care bill
Washington — House Democratic leaders say President Barack Obama, who made a quick trip to Capitol Hill, inspired their party to pass Health Care legislation. Obama met with the Democrats behind closed doors on Saturday morning. A vote was planned for Saturday evening, and the president is courting fellow Democrats because Republicans intend to oppose the Health Care bill. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said after the meeting that she couldn't help think of the late Sen. Edward M. Kennedy,...

Pelosi says Obama visit to Capitol Hill inspired Democrats to pass health care bill
Washington — House Democratic leaders say President Barack Obama, who made a quick trip to Capitol Hill, inspired their party to pass Health Care legislation. Obama met with the Democrats behind closed doors on Saturday morning. A vote was planned for Saturday evening, and the president is courting fellow Democrats because Republicans intend to oppose the Health Care bill. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said after the meeting that she couldn't help think of the late Sen. Edward M. Kennedy,...

Obama makes final push for 'landmark' health reform bill
After returning from Capitol Hill, President Obama made a final, pre-vote plea for his Health Care plan in a Rose Garden appearance, urging lawmakers to pass what he called a "landmark" Health reform bill. "What we can do is choose a better future and pass a bill that brings us to the very cusp of building what so many generations of Americans have sought to build -- a better Health Care system for this country," he said.