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Advice for Obama: 'Start knocking heads' on health

The most senior African American in Congress offered some unsolicited advice Monday to President Barack Obama on how to get his signature health care bill through a balky Senate: knock their heads together. 1257785567

Landmark health bill passes House on close vote
Obama calls new election law a milestone for Iraq
President Barack Obama is hailing House passage of a health care overhaul. AP White House correspondent Mark Smith reports.
Obama prods House to pass health care bill
AP White House Correspondent Mark Smith reports Obama is calling the House vote "historic."
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New York Congressman Anthony Weiner, a Democrat, says if the House health care reform measure is passed by the Senate, it would bring an economic boost to employers.
New York Congressman Anthony Weiner says he, and many other Democrats, are opposed to the compromise language that limits federal funding for abortions in the health care overhaul bill.

Health care issues: Tax increases for overhaul

A look at key issues in the health care debate: 1257779570
GOP officials say Dems put agenda ahead of country

Democrats just don't get the election message from voters and are pushing a liberal, big government agenda at their party's peril, Republican officials said Sunday as they predicted a political price after the majority's victory on health care.
House Roll Call: Health care

The 220-215 roll call Saturday by which the House passed a Democratic-written health care bill.
Obama prods House to pass health care bill

President Barack Obama says now is the time for Congress to "answer the call of history" and approve legislation revamping the country's health care system.
Pelosi: Obama visit inspired Democrats

House Democratic leaders say President Barack Obama, who made a quick trip to Capitol Hill, inspired their party to pass health care legislation.
House votes strict ban on abortion subsidies

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.
House opens debate on historic health bill

The House has opened debate on President Barack Obama's landmark health care overhaul that would extend insurance to tens of millions of Americans and enact dramatic changes to the country's medical system.
Health bill clears first hurdle in House

President Barack Obama's health care initiative has cleared its first big hurdle in the House, with lawmakers voting to advance the debate.
Obama asks House to vote on health care bill

President Barack Obama summoned Democrats to "answer the call of history" Saturday as the House pushed toward a vote on a landmark health care bill holding out the promise of coverage for tens of millions who lack it.
Obama statement on health care legislation

Text of President Barack Obama's remarks Saturday at the White House on health care legislation:
Health care overhaul faces stone wall in Senate

The glow from a health care triumph faded quickly for President Barack Obama on Sunday as Democrats realized the bill they fought so hard to pass in the House has nowhere to go in the Senate.
House kills Republican health overhaul bill

The House has used a near party line vote to reject a Republican health overhaul bill.
Key details of Democrats' health overhaul bill

The House health care bill passed Saturday would:
Rep. Dingell takes gavel as House debates health

Democrats gave the gavel Saturday to the longest-serving House member ever as the chamber began debating legislation overhauling the country's health care system.
House Dems struggle for final votes on health care

Amid intense lobbying by the Obama administration, House Democratic leaders struggled Friday for the final votes needed to pass sweeping health care legislation, weighing fresh concessions to abortion opponents and working to ease concerns among Hispanic holdouts.
Obama will push health bill in Saturday Hill visit

President Barack Obama still expects to have a health care overhaul bill to sign by year's end and plans to personally lobby for it in a visit to Capitol Hill on Saturday, the White House said.
Anti-abortion activists arrested at Pelosi's suite

U.S. Capitol Police have arrested a dozen anti-abortion activists outside House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's office after a massive protest against the Democrats' health care bill.
Obama: AARP, AMA support for health overhaul key

President Barack Obama is trumpeting endorsements from the AARP and the American Medical Association of House Democrats' health care legislation.
'Kill the bill' protesters target health care

Chanting "Kill the bill," thousands of conservatives incensed over the Democrats' health care overhaul protested at the Capitol on Thursday, arguing that the legislation amounts to a government takeover of the nation's medical system.