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Gov. Mike Beebe doesn't have a vote on proposals to overhaul the nation's health care system, but he's still finding a role to play.

Future generations will want to study Barack Obama's presidency, not only because he made history by being America's first black President, but because he also appears to be on track to be America's worst President.

Suitably opaque, Section 2006 takes up only a few dozen lines in a sweeping health care bill that runs to 2,074 pages and mentions neither Sen.

According to a report in World Net Daily, "Troops in the United States' USNORTHCOM ranks appear to have adopted a shoulder patch showing a North American continental design, with an emphasis on United Nations colors, giving evidence of the strength to integrate North America.

A centrist in health-care debate, Lincoln hears it from all sides : GOP and liberals put pressure on Democrat as Senate vote nears An Arkansas Poll published Nov.

This story was written by Shailagh Murray . When the Senate begins floor debate on a health-care reform package this week, the outcome is almost certain to rest on decisions made by a handful of moderate Democrats.

Michael Tomasky reports in depth in the New York Review of Books on the Blue Dogs in the House and their impact on health and other legislation.

All four of our state's delegates to the U.S. House of Representatives found the health care bill passed Saturday night to be not what they'd want in an actual new law.

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The House voted yesterday and the anti-women's health Stupak amendment passed 240 to 194 with one member voting present.

MoveOn.org is doing the job the GOP just won't do - attack Democrat congressmen.

In a generally approving profile published in New Yorkmagazine several days ago, well before the U.S. House of Representatives approved a health reform bill, Speaker Nancy Pelosi was captured in conversation with supporters of an education package that faces tough sledding on her side of the Capitol.

Courtesy of the limitless frontiers of the Internet, some thoughts from U.S. Rep.

They rushed in droves in the Congress Saturday to prove H. L. Mencken's maxim that for every vexing human problem there is always one explanation that is neat, simple and wrong.

Congressman Marion Berry was one of two from the Arkansas delegation to vote Saturday night for House Bill 3962, a sweeping piece of national health care reform legislation.

November 11, 2009 Wednesday 10:57 PM EST LENGTH: 647 words HEADLINE: REP. ROSS VOTES AGAINST HOUSE HEALTH CARE REFORM BILL WASHINGTON, Nov.

From the Politico : Dems brace for another recess By: Chris Frates and Carrie Budoff Brown November 10, 2009 The last time Congress returned home for an extended break in August, health care reform proponents lost ground that took weeks to regain - but not again, Democrats insist as they head into the Veterans Day recess.

Blanche Lincoln is between a rock and a hard place. She's a Democratic senator up for reelection in a relatively conservative state.

The 39 Democrats who voted against passage of the House health care reform bill will be as indelibly remembered politically as the 29 Senate Democrats who foolishly voted in 2002 to support the Iraq War.

In an unusual Saturday session that ran late into the night, the U.S. House took a major step toward overhauling the nationa s health-care system when it narrowly passed a bill that President Barack Obama said will a oeanswer the call of history.a The final tally was 220-215, with Arkansasa four House members splitting their votes on the $1.2 ...