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The House has used a near party line vote to reject a Republican health overhaul bill.

SATURDAY, President Obama called on Democratic Congressmen to "answer the call of history" and support the massive health care reform legislation.

Nov. 8, 2009 Mollohan Backs Affordable Health Care for America Act Special to Huntingtonnews.net Washington, DC -- Congressman Alan B. Mollohan, D-WV joined a majority of his colleagues in voting for the Affordable Health Care for America Act late Saturday night, Nov.

West Virginia's representatives in the U.S. House split along party lines when it came time to vote on overhauling the country's health care system.

She was tied up with family matters, so John Overington's 102-year-old mother was unable to attend a testimonial Sunday honoring her son's record 25 consecutive years as a member of the West Virginia House of Delegates.

West Virginia's lone Republican in Congress wants to know how national health care legislation would affect the state's budget.

The trillion dollar Affordable Health Care for America Act, narrowly passed the U.S House of Representatives, Saturday night, 220 to 215.

Rep. Shelley Moore Capito, R-W.Va., joins Saturday's debate on House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's trillion-dollar, 2,000-page health care reform bill.

At this time two years ago, U.S. Rep. Shelley Moore Capito had three Democrats vying to challenge her, including a prominent state senator.

Before long, Gov. Joe Manchin expects to sit down face to face with President Obama in his bid to sell the idea that 23 delayed coal mining permits are vital to the economic health of not only West Virginia but the entire nation.

Editor's note: The following questions pertaining to the House health care reform bill were submitted Friday to U.S. Reps.

The question of abortion coverage in the health care bill has bedeviled top Democrats for weeks.

West Virginia's two Democratic Congressmen are working to make sure a House overhaul of the nation's health care system does not lead to the federal financing of abortion.

THE economic stimulus spending in West Virginia has supposedly created or saved 2,400 jobs here.

West Virginia's congressional delegation put aside partisan differences Wednesday with a resolution that would create a National Miners Day to honor the nation's coal workers.

West Virginia's federal representatives have given miners a reason to celebrate.

Second District Congresswoman Shelley Moore Capito says Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is facing tough opposition when it comes to the U.S. House of Representative health care reform bill.

For the second time in a month, 14 million children in the Children's Health Insurance Program, including at least 25,000 West Virginia kids, are slated to be shifted into private insurance plans that are not required to provide equal benefits.

Congresswoman Shelley Moore Capito says she will not vote for the House Democrats' health care reform bill and is instead backing a narrower Republican plan she admits is unlikely to see the light of day.

It might seem inevitable that Shelley Capito, daughter of West Virginia Congresswoman Shelley Moore Capito and granddaughter of former state Gov.