Dec 22 Senate Sets Health Reform Vote for Early Morning Christmas Eve It's an early Christmas present for Senators and their staff. Senate leaders announced Tuesday that they had scheduled a final vote on the Senate's health care reform bill for 8 a.m. on December 24. Democrats appear to have… Continue reading
Dec 21 Compare the Senate and House Health Reform Bills The Senate health reform bill cleared its first major procedural hurdle in a vote in the early hours of Monday morning. Find out how the compromise bill compares to the version that passed the House last month. Continue reading
Dec 21 Health Care Bill Passes Crucial Vote After a weekend of political bargaining and raucous partisan debate, Senate Democrats won a key early-morning procedural vote Monday on a bill to overhaul the nation's health care system, inching the measure closer to a final vote by Christmas… Continue reading
Dec 19 Senate Democrats Strike Deal for 60 Votes on Health Reform Updated 6:55 p.m. ET: Senate Democrats announced Saturday morning that they had struck a deal with the last Democratic holdout on health care reform, paving the way for a vote on the bill before Christmas. Sen. Ben Nelson, D-Neb.,… Continue reading
Dec 18 The Rundown with Mark and David: Winter Storms and Health Reform By Hari Sreenivasan After columnists Mark Shields and David Brooks dropped by The Rundown for the first time last week, many of you left great comments about our quest for a title for this feature. We decided to go with “The Rundown… Continue reading
Dec 18 Betty Ann Bowser: Deadline Nears for Christmas Health Care Vote By Hari Sreenivasan, Betty Ann Bowser NewsHour health correspondent Betty Ann Bowser returns to the Rundown for an update on the status of the Senate health care reform bill, including the timeline senate Majority Leader Harry Reid needs to stick to if he’s going to… Continue reading
Dec 18 Profiles in Health Care Reform As the Senate manuevering over health care reform reaches a fever pitch, the NewsHour has been taking a look beyond the political debate at how the bills making their way through Congress could affect people across the… Continue reading
Dec 18 Senate Democrats Block Filibuster Amid Push for Health Reform This post was updated at 12:18pm ET. In their struggle to secure the 60 votes necessary to pass health care legislation, Democrats in the Senate made slight inroads early Friday morning, blocking a potential GOP filibuster apparently aimed to… Continue reading
Dec 17 Senate Democrats May Be in Danger of Missing Health Reform Deadline By Lea Winerman Senate Democrats may be in danger of missing their self-imposed Christmas deadline to pass health reform legislation, according to reports Thursday. Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada is still working to find compromise language on abortion acceptable… Continue reading
Dec 16 Senate Hits New Roadblock in Health Care Debate Updated 3:55 PM ET: The Senate hit a three-hour roadblock Wednesday afternoon in its negotiations over a health care reform bill, when Sen. Tom Coburn, R-Okla., forced a reading of a 767-page amendment to the bill on the Senate floor. Continue reading