The costs of health care reform being pushed through Congress by Democrats will be felt long before the benefits. ...more

December 24, 2009

Republicans accused Democrats of bad manners, bad timing and bad health care policy today, then summoned images of fire and ice for good measure as they campaigned to block passage of sweeping legislation President Barack Obama's allies want passed by Christmas. ...more

December 19, 2009

WASHINGTON (AP) — Risking the wrath of Democrats, Sen. Joseph Lieberman, I-Conn., threatened today to join Republicans in opposing health care legislation if it permits uninsured individuals as young to 55 to purchase Medicare coverage. ...more

December 13, 2009

Riven by partisanship, the Senate plunged into a widely anticipated debate today over sweeping health care legislation that President Barack Obama and congressional Democrats have vowed to approve and Republicans sworn to block. ...more

November 30, 2009

Former Republican presidential candidate Bob Dole says a top GOP leader asked him not to publicly support health care reform. But he's doing so anyway. ...more

October 7, 2009

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The White House national security adviser says he's confident the administration will meet President Barack Obama's deadline for closing the Guantanamo Bay detention facility by January. ...more

August 9, 2009

The Senate on Tuesday voted to scrap the system that awards members of Congress an automatic cost-of-living pay raise every year. ...more

March 17, 2009

Savoring his first big victory in Congress, President Barack Obama on Saturday celebrated the newly passed $787 billion economic stimulus bill as a "major milestone on our road to recovery. " ...more

February 14, 2009

Senate Republicans circulated a sweeping plan to drive down the cost of mortgages by expanding the federal government's role in the industry, officials said Monday night as debate opened on an economic stimulus bill at the top of President Barack Obama's agenda. ...more

February 2, 2009

Most Republican governors have broken with their GOP colleagues in Congress and are pushing for passage of President Barack Obama's economic aid plan that would send billions to states for education, public works and health care. ...more

February 1, 2009