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...Pelosi has held a series of conference calls in recent days with members of her caucus, both to gauge their temperature and to prepare them for the fact that they may end up having to swallow many of the Senate provisions. Over on the Senate side of the Capitol, Harry Reid faces an even more delicate challenge in holding together the 60 votes he got to pass the bill on Christmas Eve. That was exactly the number he needed to overcome a Republican filibuster...
...likely faced a tough battle against a popular GOP governor in a Republican-leaning state that disapproves of his vote for health care reform by a 2-to-1 margin. But there's little doubt that each had also tired of the partisan sniping that has come to dominate Capitol Hill. According to CongressDaily, one of the reasons that Dorgan, who ranked sixth in the Democratic leadership, decided to leave is that he was unhappy with how the Senate was being run and "how it's just not the same...
...battle over health care spread from Capitol Hill to town halls nationwide, as President Obama made reforming the $2.5 trillion industry his top domestic priority. At public meetings with lawmakers, angry voters denounced the supposed creeping influence of government in their lives. Democrats, meanwhile, struggled to sell a pricey overhaul amid a steep economic slump. Despite the poisonous debate, the pro-reform camp notched victories. On Nov. 7, the House passed a sweeping bill by a slim, five-vote margin. With Senators still haggling over their $848 billion measure, a final vote may be pushed...
...refused to let me take a photograph of him in front of the White House. So I shot him in front of the Washington monument and the Capitol and the Lincoln Memorial...
...Though the President did not offer a cost - estimates on Capitol Hill have put the total bill at anywhere between $75 billion and $200 billion - he did justify the new spending by citing nearly $200 billion in unspent or returned funds from the Troubled Asset Relief Program, or TARP. "This gives us a chance to pay down the deficit faster than we thought possible and to shift funds that would have gone to help the banks on Wall Street to help create jobs on Main Street," he said...