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NASHVILLE, Tenn.- How we get our health insurance could soon change forever. A crucial vote in the House Saturday night may mean health care reform could be a reality by early next year.

NASHVILLE, Tenn.- President Obama's health care initiative is making progress in the House with lawmakers voting to advance the debate.

Two Tennessee members of the U.S. House of Representatives voted with the majority in passing a health care reform bill over the weekend.

Joe Cao of Louisiana voted with the Democrats for the bill. Cohen and Cooper were ayes.

'We are here for one purpose, and that purpose is to kill the bill!' said Republican Representative Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee.

The health-care bill the House planned to vote on this weekend had been hailed as a historic milestone in the decades-long effort to increase the number of Americans with insurance while slowing the growth in health-care spending.

Foes of the House Democrats' health care bill rallied outside the Capitol Saturday afternoon, hours before what many of them anticipate will be a setback for their position -- approval of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's bill.

After three public hearings in one week on the increasingly hot-button issue of distracted driving, Congress appears no closer to answering the question of whether a punitive strategy for encouraging state-level action -- such as threatening to withhold highway funds -- can win sufficient support from conservatives.

RARE SATURDAY SESSION: The House of Representatives was scheduled to vote on the Democratic-proposed legislation after an abortion-relationed impasse cleared AP, WASHINGTON Sunday, Nov 08, 2009, Page 1 Republican Representative Marsha Blackburn stands beside a copy of healthcare legislation drafted by Democrats at a press conference with other ...

Whether it was billing the event as a "Super Bowl of Freedom" or challenging conservatives to "scare" members of Congress, it worked.

While the Washington Post ran a full news story by Philip Rucker on the conservative Capitol Hill rally on page 4 on Friday, The New York Times buried it with just six paragraphs a ' smack dab in in the middle of a story on A-15 headlined "House Democrats Seek Allies for Health Care Vote." The story by Times reporters Carl Hulse and David M.

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"Every day that we delay them moving to the floor with this bill is a very, very good thing." Marsha Blackburn Those are the words of U.S. Rep.

Chanting "Kill the bill," thousands of conservatives rallied at the Capitol on Thursday against the Democrats' health care overhaul plan, labeling it a government takeover of the nation's medical system.

Wednesday morning the vote was delayed until early 2010. The Brentwood Republican squeezed the call in between votes on the Veteran's Small Business Protection Act, a resolution recognizing the 60th anniversary of the Berlin Air Lift and a National Veteran's History Project Week.

The leading Republican overseeing federal transportation spending saw firsthand Monday what Interstate 65 drivers see most every morning and late afternoon: backed-up traffic, thousands of brake lights and a major north-south artery in need of help.

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