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Release Date 21 Mar, 2010 in Boston Herald

 
   
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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the House and Health Care for Sunday

FOXNews (blog) - 21 Mar, 2010
The Shorthand: House will have three major votes. “Deem and Pass” is out. The House Democrats cannot have more than 37 of their members vote no and still ...

Obama Urges Dems to Come Together for Health Care

ABC News - Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar, Alan Fram - 21 Mar, 2010
AP President Barack Obama, left, with Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, D-CA., right, during his visit ...

Rules Committee Sets Terms of Debate

New York Times (blog) - David M. Herszenhorn - 21 Mar, 2010
The House Rules Committee late Saturday night approved the terms of debate for the Democrats' major health care legislation, ...

Democrats confident of passing healthcare bill

New Zealand Herald - 21 Mar, 2010
Democrats believe they have the votes needed to pass a sweeping healthcare reform bill. Photo / AP Democrats in the US House of Representatives say they ...

Obama watch

Boston Herald - Edward Mason - 21 Mar, 2010
Dancing in the street or tears in the beer? At long last, we should know today whether Obama and Co. celebrate passage of a landmark ...

Obama Rallies Democrats as Leaders Predict Health-Care Victory

BusinessWeek - Catherine Dodge, Brian Faler - 21 Mar, 2010
March 21 (Bloomberg) -- President Barack Obama pressed House Democrats to give final approval to health-care legislation ...

Obama in Capitol for Final Push

Wall Street Journal - Greg Hitt, Janet Adamy - 21 Mar, 2010
WASHINGTON"A day before the defining vote of his presidency so far, Barack Obama told House Democratic lawmakers that they must ...

Sunday's vote on health care still a cliffhanger

Seattle Times - Lori Montgomery, Paul Kane - 21 Mar, 2010
House leaders decided Saturday to vote directly on the Senate's health-care bill, dropping a much-criticized strategy of allowing lawmakers to "deem" the ...

Obama pushes for health care reform before vote planned for today

Kansas City Star - David Lightman, William Douglas - 21 Mar, 2010
Rep. Paul Ryan, a Wisconsin Republican, talked Saturday in Washington with visitors about the health care bill, ...

Obama urges vote on health care

Times of India - 21 Mar, 2010
WASHINGTON: "Let's get this done... for the American people," President Barack Obama told the House of Representatives, a day before a crucial vote on ...

The Take: Historic win or not, Democrats could pay a price

Washington Post - Dan Balz - 21 Mar, 2010
House Democratic Caucus Chairman John Larson is pumped up after President Obama spoke to caucus members to gain support for the bill. ...

We're Headed Straight Off a Cliff If Health Care Passes

FOXNews - Cal Thomas - 21 Mar, 2010
Never has “I'm from the government and I'm here to help you” sounded more like an empty promise. Pork is the preferred legislative meat for ...

How some Democratic holdouts made the call on healthcare

Los Angeles Times - 21 Mar, 2010
For some lawmakers, the decision on how to vote was a deeply personal one. Here's how three ultimately came to support the legislation. ...

Obama says historic health plan will pass

Sydney Morning Herald - Olivier Knox - 21 Mar, 2010
US President Barack Obama led Democrats in a triumphant, fist-pumping rally Saturday and confidently predicted Congress would rise to a century-old ...

Obama's healthcare appeal in full

BBC News - 21 Mar, 2010
US President Barack Obama has rallied the support of Democratic lawmakers ahead of a crucial vote on healthcare reform, expected on Sunday. ...

Obama "Confident" Health Insurance Reform Will Pass

The UpTake - 21 Mar, 2010
President Obama addresses the House Democratic Caucus and says that the time is now to vote for health care reform for America.

Democrats Have Republicans in "No-Win" Position on Healthcare: Will They Pounce?

Huffington Post (blog) - 21 Mar, 2010
As suggested in my earlier piece, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/paul-abrams/presidents-fox-interview_b_504033.html, House Democrats are now going to have ...

Democrats expect US health reform to pass on Sunday

Montreal Gazette - Sheldon Alberts - 21 Mar, 2010
US President Barack Obama (R) reads a letter from a citizen as he speaks to ...

AP Top News at 4:07 p.m. EDT

Newsday (subscription) (press release) - 21 Mar, 2010
March 20, 2010 By AP WASHINGTON (AP) " Victory within reach, President Barack Obama set his sights on rallying House Democrats on Saturday for a final ...

Cast your own vote on Obama's healthcare plan

Los Angeles Times (blog) - 21 Mar, 2010
You may have heard some mention now and then and around the clock during the last year of some very lengthy piece of healthcare legislation that President ...

Obama Rallies Democrats Who Predict Health Passage

BusinessWeek - Ryan Donmoyer, Catherine Dodge - 21 Mar, 2010
(Adds Van Hollen quote under No Separate Vote sub-headline. For more on the health-care debate, see {EXT2 }) By Ryan Donmoyer and Catherine Dodge March 20 ...

Late swings leave Barack Obama's healthcare reforms teetering

Times Online - Christina Lamb - 21 Mar, 2010
JOHN BOCCIERI, a first-term Democratic congressman from Ohio, had been under siege all week. The president was calling him; the Speaker was calling him, ...

'Do It for the American People': Obama Calls on Capitol Dems to Pass Health Care

ABC News - Michael S. James, Rachel Martin - 21 Mar, 2010
With the fate of health care reform still unclear, President Obama made a high-stakes trip to Capitol Hill today to implore undecided House Democrats to ...

Obama's hopes rise for victory on health bill

Independent - Rupert Cornwell - 21 Mar, 2010
Barack Obama went to Capitol Hill yesterday in a final effort to persuade wavering Democrats in the House of ...

A Sunday health care viewer's guide

msnbc.com - Carrie Dann - 21 Mar, 2010
Harry Hamburg / AP by Carrie Dann As the NCAA basketball tournament reminds us, there's nothing quite like a nothing-but-net, buzzer-beating, three-point ...

Tactics, Luck and Perseverance Kept Health Bill Alive

New York Times - Sheryl Gay Stolberg, Jeff Zeleny - 21 Mar, 2010
Charles Dharapak/AP PRESIDENT OBAMA “We are this close to the summit of the mountain. ...

House Democrats poised to enact sweeping health care overhaul

MiamiHerald.com - David Lightman, William Douglas - 21 Mar, 2010
WASHINGTON " With Democrats increasingly confident they have enough support, the House of Representatives planned for ...

Obama Makes Plea to House Democrats

Atlantic Online - 21 Mar, 2010
President Obama made what Democrats hope will be his final plea to pass health care reform on Saturday, addressing the entire House Democratic Caucus at the ...

Dems Reject 'Deem and Pass'

Atlantic Online (blog) - 21 Mar, 2010
It had brought them nothing but trouble since they announced it, and now Democrats will not use the "deem and pass" strategy after all. ...

Obama switches strategies on health care; selling law to public after it passes

Washington Post - Michael D. Shear - 21 Mar, 2010
For more than a year, President Obama has tailored his rhetoric on health care to focus on the passage of sweeping legislation. ...

 

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