Sources: Senate weighs long-term health care program (AP)

AP sources: Senate health overhaul costs top $1.6T (AP)
AP - Senate sources say the latest cost estimates for health care legislation are around $1.6 trillion over 10 years. Two Senate staffers, one Democratic and one Republican, said...

Jim Webb: No Votes Until Brown Is Seated
And I agree. Because even though Kennedy championed this health care legislation, Massachusetts didn’t elect a Dem this time around. That’s how democracy works. From The...

Senate OK's health care bill in victory for Obama (AP)
AP - In an epic struggle settled at dawn, the Democratic-controlled Senate passed health care legislation Thursday, a triumph for President Barack Obama that clears the way for compromise...

Democrats put health care bill on brink of passage (AP)
AP - Democrats pushed sweeping health care legislation to the brink of Senate passage Wednesday, crushing a year-end Republican filibuster against President Barack Obama's call to remake the...

Abortion deal may be hard to keep in health bill (AP)
AP - Twice now, abortion was almost a dealbreaker. This time, it was a dealmaker. But of hundreds of deals cut so health care legislation can stay alive, the hardest to keep may be the...