Topic: Bart Stupak
The House floor erupted in one of the loudest cheers the chamber has heardin years when Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.), an hour before midnight, cast the 218th and deciding vote on landmarkhealth care reform.There were still six minutes and fifty-two seconds on ...
The title of a recently released ABC News article is " President Obama, obviously,because HE PROPOSED this legislation/idea (in sharp contrast to a lot of people on Capitol Hill). Why did Harry Reid support the idea in the first place? This should ...
article is "Obama urges Dems to SEIZE MOMENT on health care" (Web-site/URL: "Support from his own party in doubt, President Barack Obama summoned more than a dozen House Democrats to the White House Thursday, PLEADING with them to put aside their qualms, ...
Despite so many different expectations the new Health Care Reform Bill passed last night. It turned out to be a very busy day - with the Democrats winning with 219 votes, and the Republicans screaming their protest in and out of the ...
Obama's final push for health care votes could falter in battle over abortion coverage Just when President Barack Obama is striving to unite Democratic lawmakers for one last push to pass his health care overhaul, the divisive politics of abortion threaten to ...
So let me see if I understand you correctly, mainstream Democrats: Rep. Bart Stupak (D-MI), a longtime opponent of health care reform, has decided out of the goodness of his heart to construct a well-written amendment to the health care bill that ...
As the Christian Science Monitor notes, one member of the House claims there are enough anti-abortion Democrats to prevent health care reform supporters from reaching 218 votes, which is the minimum count needed for a majority in the House. Yesterday afternoon, Stupak's ...