House of Representatives to vote on procedural measures after Senate Republicans attempt to wreck health bill Critics of the new healthcare bill protest at the University of Iowa. Photograph: Julie Koehn/AP Barack Obama’s landmark healthcare legislation has to go back to the US House of Representatives for a new vote over procedural measures, after Republican [...]
A state attorney general is almost by definition a candidate for higher office. The filing of lawsuits challenging the health reform law by 14 attorneys general — all but one of them Republican — may look good for their next campaigns, but these cases are going nowhere legally.
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After a year of bitter partisan debate, a sweeping bill overhauling the U.S. medical system goes to President Obama’s desk on Monday to be signed into law.
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WASHINGTON – Democrats in the House of Representatives on Thursday predicted weekend passage of a sweeping healthcare overhaul that budget analysts said would cut the U.S. deficit over 10 years and dramatically expand health coverage. President Barack Obama, who was scheduled to leave on an overseas trip on Sunday, postponed the trip to June to [...]