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DNC targets 32 Republicans on health care vote - Ben Smith: DNC targets 32 Republicans on health care vote November 09, 2009 Categories: Healthcare DNC targets 32 Republicans on health care vote With the Republican National Committee targeting a list of House Democrats in relatively conservative districts whom it will go after for backing health ...

In a victory for President Barack Obama, the Democratic-controlled House narrowly passed landmark health care legislation Saturday night to expand coverage to tens of millions who lack it and place tough new restrictions on the insurance industry.

By Paul Kane The House begins debate at 9 a.m. Saturday on a massive health-insurance overhaul, with a final vote expected by the evening.

Rep. David Dreier said at the House Committee on Rules meeting on Friday that cameras should be installed in the room where the committee meets so that the American public can see what happens at meetings.

As we wrote in a Friday editorial, President Obama is playing politics with his proposal to send every Social Security recipient a check for $250. But Republicans are meeting his bet with political hypocrisy in the health care debate.

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger weighed in on the national health care debate Tuesday, sending a letter to congressional leaders supporting reform while also warning about the cost to states.

Republican Rep. Charles Dent of Pennsylvania says it's time to install cameras in the meeting room of the House Rules Committee, but Sacramento Democratic Rep.

Kathleen Mueller has never seen such a rush. Spurred by an $8,000 federal tax credit for first-time homebuyers, her clients have been entering the market in droves to take advantage of the program.

Fourteen Southern California congressional members have signed a letter asking county transportation authorities to request federal funds for the Gold Line Foothill Extension.

IT'S not often that Southern California's congressional delegation comes together on an issue in a truly bipartisan way.

Perhaps pointing out hypocrisy from the GOP is akin to letting people in on the secret that the sky is blue, but what the heck ... Over the past nine months, House Republicans have worn their Party of No badge with pride, opposing every spending bill to come down the pike and littering the airways to moan about America's descent into socialism.

One of the few bright spots in the nation's struggling housing market has been an $8,000 federal tax credit for first-time homebuyers.

John Tanner, President and founder of Tanner Research, Inc., announced today that the Defense Logistics Agency awarded a contract for $1 million in new funding to accelerate production of the patent-pending ICEPSTM-based micro-initiator board technology needed to ensure the cost-effective manufacturing of the Army MEMS-based Safing device.

The Forbes family in Upland goes through $1 million a year in medical costs. Jane and her husband Ogden "Mike" Forbes have six children, four of which have severe hemophilia that requires them to take thousands of dollars in injections three times a week.

The announcement early Friday that the Nobel Peace Prize had been awarded to President Barack Obama drew immediate ire from some conservatives who said the president does not deserve the prize - or worse.

Much to the surprise and shock of local lawmakers, President Barack Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday after judges found his promise of disarmament and diplomacy too good to ignore.

Last night on Fox News, House Minority Leader John Boehner complained about the process of moving bills forward for a vote.

Now that the bulk of the new TV season has started and the whole history of the national parks has been exhausted, a number of other documentaries are popping up this week.

CHICAGO Before his first career as a newspaper publisher and his next long career as a newspaper broker, Mel Hodell flew supplies into China during World War II as part of the round-the-clock, all-weather aerial supply runs.

If Rep. Joe Wilson is finding parliamentary procedure to be a bit of a nuisance in the wake of his "you lie" attack on President Barack Obama, he has his Republican forbearers to thank.