| | Doctors, AARP support new health overhaul bill
10:36AM CT
WASHINGTON (AP) - The nation's largest association of doctors and the AARP senior citizens' lobby are endorsing President Barack Obama's revised health overhaul legislation. | | |
Pelosi defends abortion curbs in health bill
9:53AM CT
WASHINGTON (AP) - House Speaker Nancy Pelosi says the health care overhaul that Congress may complete this weekend should be backed by lawmakers who want to retain current restrictions on federal financing of abortion. | | |
Abortion foes plan 'no' vote on health overhaul
5:41AM CT
WASHINGTON (AP) - Rep. Bart Stupak of Michigan, the leader of a dozen anti-abortion Democrats, says his group remains committed to opposing the health care overhaul the House is likely to vote on this weekend. | | |
Grand jury subpoenas GOP unit in Sen. Ensign probe
Mar 18 2010 9:01PM CT
WASHINGTON (AP) - A federal grand jury has issued subpoenas to a Republican campaign committee and companies in Nevada in a probe of Sen. John Ensign, who has been under scrutiny for his efforts to find lobbying work for the husband of his former mistress. | | |
Retired general: Gays made Dutch weak in Bosnia
Mar 18 2010 5:46PM CT
WASHINGTON (AP) - A retired U.S. general says Dutch troops failed to defend against the 1995 genocide in the Bosnian war because the army was weakened, partly because it included openly gay soldiers. | | |
A look at the health care overhaul bill
Mar 18 2010 4:38PM CT
(AP) - Congressional Democrats have released a final version of President Barack Obama's health care overhaul bill in advance of a House vote planned for Sunday. Some of the main features of the legislation, which makes changes to the bill the Senate passed on Christmas Eve: | | |
 House Dems on track for vote on $940B health bill
Mar 18 2010 11:27AM CT
WASHINGTON (AP) - House Democrats are pushing to the brink of passage a landmark, $940 billion health care overhaul bill that would simultaneously deliver on President Barack Obama's promise to expand coverage while slashing the deficit, a strategy aimed at winning over the party's fiscal conservatives. | | |
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