Topic: Nancy Pelosi
House Democratic leaders will have a straight up-or-down vote on President Barack Obama's health care overhaul.Democratic lawmakers and an aide to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., say they've dropped plans for an indirect vote that would have relied on a legislative maneuver ...
Regardless of your political persuasion -- Republican, Democrat, conservative, liberal -- it is time for our nation to face facts: After failing to nail down the necessary 216 votes for ObamaCare, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced a plan today that would slip ...
Many House liberals fold and look ready to accept compromise health care billThey may not like it, but many House liberals look ready to accept a compromise health care bill, putting Democratic leaders well on the way to delivering on President Barack ...
Liberals folding, ready to accept House health care compromiseThey may not like it, but many House liberals look ready to accept a compromise health care bill, putting Democratic leaders well on the way to delivering on President Barack Obama's call for overhaul.After ...
A Pennsylvania lawmaker who is a close ally of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi says it's looking unlikely that Congress will pass health care overhaul legislation this year.Democratic Rep. John Murtha tells WJPA-AM Radio in western Pennsylvania that Congress is going to " ...
Pelosi claims votes, but does not say when health care overhaul vote will be heldSpeaker Nancy Pelosi says Democrats have the votes to pass health care legislation in the House, even though negotiations are under way to make changes in the bill ...
House Dems to take up Obama-favored legislation to expand children's health insurance coverageHouse Democrats plan to give President-elect Barack Obama an early victory on health care, specifically children's health care, next week.Leaders say they are scheduling a vote on renewing a politically ...
Physician organizations expressed dismay and vowed to press forward after the House on Oct. 18 failed to override President Bush's veto of a children's health care bill.. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D, Calif.) and other Democrats said they would not support a ...
Now that the House has failed to sustain President Bush's veto of the SCHIP expansion bill, "will they continue to play politics with children's health care, or will they finally work to reach a bipartisan agreement on renewing the legislation?. Now that ...
In their push this week to try to override President Bush's veto of an expansion of the State Children's Health Insurance Programs (SCHIP), congressional Democrats called on singer/songwriter Paul Simon to press their case and to press Republicans to join in the ...
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