Official White House Photo by Pete Souza
–So health care is done for now. Congress is running off on recess and President Obama is headed to Camp David for the weekend. Everyone could probably use a rest.
–Majority Leader Reid, caught up in the moment, accidentally voted “no” on health care (again) yesterday before …
The House just voted 220-207 to pass the tweaked package of health reform fixes approved by the Senate earlier today and sent back to the lower chamber for one final vote.
It may be hard to believe, but after all the vitriolic town halls, the missed deadlines, the desperate search for 60 in the Senate, the thousand deaths and rebirths …
Senator McCain offers this in response to that Gibbs gibe Michael mentioned:
“I haven’t got the time or the inclination to respond to the White House flack.”
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Official White House Photo by Pete Souza
–As Kate mentioned, parliamentarian Alan Frumin ruled early this morning that two minor clauses relating to Pell Grant funding in the health care reconciliation bill don’t make the cut for budget rules. It’s a minor hiccup and won’t radically alter the legislation. The Senate is expected …
Well Charlie Crist’s latest radio ad certainly throws a healthy dose of cold water on those whispers about him switching parties:
There were never any credible reports he was mulling a flip, but musings about the Florida governor and Republican Senate hopeful taking desperate action were understandable given the brutal beating he …
He may be new to the blog, but you’re probably familiar with his excellent work. We previously posted stories of his here, here and here. And now you get to enjoy his talents full time.
Alex has worked as an editor and writer in New York, done a stint in the London office and is now a correspondent out of Washington. He is a native of …
Official White House Photo by Chuck Kennedy
–That’s what a signature with 22 pens looks like. Here’s who get them.
–Probably the most touted immediate effect of the health care bill, a measure preventing insurance companies from denying children coverage on the basis of preexisting conditions, may not kick in as advertised …
A dispatch from our colleague Alex Altman:
Less than an hour after President Obama signed the health-care reform bill into law, attorneys general from 13 states filed a lawsuit challenging the bill’s constitutionality. Florida Attorney General Bill McCollum, acting on behalf of 13 states, filed suit in U.S. District Court in Pensacola,
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Official White House photo by Pete Souza
–The day Democrats’ health care legislation is due to be signed into law, Republicans are continuing to push the idea of repeal. At least 10 GOP state attorneys general are lining up legal challenges.
—Marc Ambinder writes, “the point of the lawsuits isn’t legal — it’s political. It …
Even after a weekend of hyperbole from Democrats and Republicans on what the passage of health care legislation will mean for America, it is hard to overstate the bill’s political and policy implications.
President Obama largely got the bill he wanted — a tempered compromise between the wings of his party that alters the existing …
Official White House Photo by Pete Souza
–There’s a lot to digest after last night’s historic vote on health care reform. Might as well dive right in:
–David Sanger writes in the New York Times that Obama succeeded at reshaping American social welfare — a feat the last two president’s failed to accomplish — but at the cost …
From the White House Flickr feed:
President Barack Obama talks to a Member of Congress while en route to George Mason University in Fairfax, Va., to deliver remarks on health insurance reform, March 19, 2010. (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)
