James Clyburn News

The Democratic-controlled House narrowly passed far-reaching health care legislation, handing President Barack Obama a hard-won victory on his chief domestic priority though the road ahead in the Senate promises to be rocky.

President Obama with Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi and other House members after addressing the House Democratic Caucus on Capitol Hill on Saturday.

The vote last night was a little closer than expected with only 1 republican voting for the bill.

Speaker Nancy Pelosi is joined by Majority Whip James Clyburn and Rep. George Miller, D-Calif., during a news conference Saturday at the U.S. Capitol after the passage in the house of the health care reform bill.

President Barack Obama urged lawmakers to pass a proposed health care overhaul during a rare visit to Capitol Hill on Saturday.

Congress took further steps to right the staggering economy by expanding a popular tax credit for home buyers and extending unemployment checks for the growing legions of people running out of benefits with few job prospects.

House Majority Whip Jim Clyburn, D-S.C., and Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., both sons of the segregated South, grew up in parts of South Carolina that were much farther apart than the mere 175 miles between them.

If the U.S. Congress ends up passing some kind of national health care reform package and it includes anything resembling a "public option," you can bet few other states will be as hostile to it as South Carolina.

Congress members Michele Bachmann and Alan Grayson have seized the power of YouTube to increase their mass appeal.

Editors: Related hi-res photos available at www.churchworldservice.org/hires WASHINGTON, D.C.--Appreciation flowed in both directions at an October 21 Capitol Hill reception hosted by Church World Service to recognize a select group of lawmakers whose work has helped to advance issues important to CWS and the ecumenical faith community.

Published: Sunday, November 1, 2009 at 3:15 a.m. Last Modified: Saturday, October 31, 2009 at 9:10 p.m. Here's how South Carolina members of Congress voted on major issues in the week ending Oct.

Democratic leaders in the Senate and House have concluded that a government-run insurance plan is the cheapest way to expand health coverage, and they sought Friday to rally support for the idea, prospects for which have gone in a few short weeks from bleak to bright.

Here is video of Democrat Rep. James Clyburn flatly revealing that "the magic number is 50" in the U.S. Senate to pass ObamaCare.

House leaders are facing criticism from business groups and wading through contentious issues such as abortion and undocumented immigrants as they try to secure votes for legislation overhauling U.S. health care.

Reporting from Washington - House Democrats on Thursday closed in on the votes they need to pass sweeping healthcare legislation, as party leaders introduced a 1,990-page bill designed to guarantee near-universal coverage for the first time in the nation's history.

A day after Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said he would put a public option into the health care bill he sends to the floor, it was clear he had not yet found consensus on the legislation's most divisive issue.

An "extremely disappointed" Rep. Rick Larsen -- whose district includes the Snohomish County Boeing plant -- said he doesn't think the state could have done anything to prevent the aerospace giant from moving its second 787 line to South Carolina.

Nearly all seniors already have health insurance through the Medicare program, but they are among the most sought-after groups in the political struggle to pass or kill a health overhaul bill.

House Democrats are expected to make a recommendation on a public-option health plan within 24 to 48 hours, with an overarching goal to consider a health reform bill on the House floor by next week.

A public option in health care reform could be more easily sold to the public and to congresspeople if it were rebranded "Medicare for everybody," House Majority Whip James Clyburn says.