Topic: Bart Stupak
Just when President Barack Obama is striving to unite Democratic lawmakers for one last push to pass his health care overhaul, the divisive politics of abortion threaten to tear the party apart. At issue is a Senate health care bill House Democrats are being asked ...
US President Barack Obama waged an all-out campaign Thursday to drive his historic health care overhaul through Congress, wooing wavering lawmakers and blasting "unacceptable" insurance rate hikes. Waging an uphill fight for passage of his top domestic priority, Obama was to meet with 11 Democratic House members from the party's progressive wing and then with seven Democratic House centrists ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A dozen House of Representatives Democrats opposed to abortion are willing to kill President Barack Obama's healthcare reform plan unless it satisfies their demand for language barring the procedure, Representative Bart Stupak said on Thursday. "Yes. We're prepared to take responsibility," Stupak said on ABC's "Good Morning America" when asked if he and his 11 ...
