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UPDATE: The House passed the health care reform bill Saturday night. By the time this editorial appears in print, the U.S. House may have voted on a massive, game-changing health care reform bill backed by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif. And if Pelosi's vote-counting confidence is well-founded, the bill may have been narrowly approved in a ...

Only five votes got the health care bill to pass from the U.S. House of Representatives and move into the U.S. Senate this weekend.

President Barack Obama is hailing House passage of a health care overhaul. AP White House correspondent Mark Smith reports.

A A Nov. 6: Democrats hope to hold a vote on health care either Saturday night or Sunday morning.

Will health reform be achieved? A A Nov. 4: Countdown guest host Lawrence O'Donnell talks with Rep.

Biden, at least, came off well yesterday. The morning after an unusually interesting and closely watched set of off-year elections, the air is filled with the sounds of Republicans gloating, Democrats fretting, and the White House saying, in effect, "Move along, everyone, move along, there's nothing to see here." None of these reactions are ...

Weiner: 'Man up and call me fat' - Ben Smith: Weiner: 'Man up and call me fat' November 04, 2009 Categories: New York Weiner: 'Man up and call me fat' In the early hours of this morning I quoted a round of recriminations on the New York Mayor's race between the White House and and the wiry New York Congressman who could have been the Democratic ...

Aimee Polacci, garden product manager, carries a tray of cannabis clones to be sold at the Peace in Medicine dispensary in Sebastopol, Calif.,A on Oct.

Representative Anthony D. Weiner, Democrat of New York, a fierce champion in Congress of a single-payer health system that would be fully run by the government, said Friday that he had agreed not to insist on a vote on that issue, in an effort to help Democratic leaders pass their plan.

Will health reform be achieved? A A Nov. 4: Countdown guest host Lawrence O'Donnell talks with Rep.

President Obama's advisers said to not blame him for Bill Thompson's loss in the mayoral race.

The legendary football coach Vince Lombardi said: "Winning isn't everything. It's the only thing." That philosophy may work on a football field.

Congressman Joe Wilson had an epiphany about health care legislation while he attended a "luncheon" at "Enchilada's Mexican restaurant" with some senior citizens on Hilton Head island.

With time hopefully comes perspective, so we will again revisit what nationally some political analysts are deciphering from Tuesday's elections across the nation.

Mayor Michael Bloomberg speaks during a press conference Wednesday after greeting New Yorkers under the subway tracks in Brooklyn.

In the past eight months, Republicans in New York have lost long-held territory to Democrats in two special congressional elections, leaving some wondering if the GOP still has the power to win top-level races in the left-leaning state.

Manned up? So is the White House saying that Weiner is acting like a woman or a gay? And which one does our White House find worse?On the day after a huge civil rights defeat for the gay and lesbian Americans, in a battle in which we were abandoned by President Obama and the Democratic National Committee, it's telling that they White House is using ...

As the votes were counted in mayoral races across the country, the biggest shock of the night occurred in a race that turned out just as everyone had expected: Michael Bloomberg won a third term as mayor of New York City, but by a surprisingly small margin.

Michael R. Bloomberg won a third term as New York City's 108th mayor on Tuesday.

For the past few days, the story line on the House health care bill has been simple: Nancy Pelosi couldn't deliver for the liberals.