McCain Says Health Care Bill Would Face Constitutional Challenge
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Image: Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.)  (AP photo)
Friday, November 06, 2009 11:35 AM EST
Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) predicted Thursday that the health care bill would face a constitutional challenge over the unprecedented provision that requires individuals to buy health insurance.
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Image: Rep. Gerry Connolly (D.-Va.) (Congressional photo)
Friday, November 06, 2009 05:22 PM EST
Four of Virginia's Democratic members in the U.S. House of Representatives are not sure whether they can support Speaker Nancy Pelosi's health reform bill if it comes up for a vote Saturday. Their indecision comes on the heels of Tuesday's Republican landslide in Virginia.
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Image: Academy Award-winning actor Jon Voight
Friday, November 06, 2009 06:14 PM EST
Academy Award-winning actor Jon Voight said the Democrats' health care bill would "decimate" the economy and that he does not believe the Constitution gives Congress the authority to mandate that individuals purchase health insurance.
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Image: Job seekers check job listings at a state-managed employment center in Providence, R.I., on Thursday, Nov. 5, 2009. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)
Friday, November 06, 2009 09:03 AM EST
The loss of jobs last month exceeded economists' estimates. It's the 22nd straight month the U.S. economy has shed jobs, the longest on records dating back 70 years.
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Image: Rep.Bart Stupak speaks to students at U.S. Capitol (Congressional photo).
Thursday, November 05, 2009 12:32 PM EST
Rep. Bart Stupak (D-Mich.) said he and about 40 other Democrats are still intent on killing the health care bill unless House Speaker Nancy Pelosi allows a straight up-or-down vote on his amendment to prohibit any federal dollars from paying for any part of a health insurance plan that covers abortion.
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Image: Rep. Brad Ellsworth (D-Ind.)
Friday, November 06, 2009 04:01 AM EST
The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops dismissed the House Democrats' plan to try to isolate funding for abortion in the health care bill as a "money-laundering system" that would do nothing to stop federal funding of abortion, an issue that could potentially derail health care reform.
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Image: Crowds gather on the West Front of the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, Nov. 5, 2009, during a Republican health care legislation news conference. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
Friday, November 06, 2009 12:08 PM EST
House Democrats acknowledged they don't yet have the votes to pass a sweeping overhaul of the nation's health care system, and signaled they may push back the vote until Sunday or early next week.
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Image: Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) spoke at the House Call rally she organized to protest the Democrats’ health care bill. Thousands of conservatives joined her on Thursday, Nov. 5, 2009, on Capitol Hill. (CNSNews.com/Penny Starr)
Friday, November 06, 2009 11:43 AM EST
Thousands of grass-roots conservatives streamed to Capitol Hill Thursday, heeding a call to action from Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.), who decided that speaking out was better than staying silent about the Democrats' health care bill.
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Image: President Barack Obama (AP Photo)
Friday, November 06, 2009 04:04 AM EST
As thousands protested the House Democrats' health care legislation outside of the U.S. Capitol building on Thursday, President Barack Obama made a surprise appearance at a White House press briefing to hail the endorsement of his health care goals by two major lobbying groups.
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Image: President Barack Obama, flanked by AARP Chief Executive A. Barry Rand and AARP President Jennie Chin Hansen, participates in an AARP tele-town hall on health care. (AP Photo/Haraz N. Ghanbari)
Friday, November 06, 2009 12:15 AM EST
Rep. Dave Reichert (R-Wash.) says it's possible that the American Association of Retired Persons, which endorsed the House health-care bill, may benefit financially from the passage of the bill -- a claim that AARP denies. 
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Image: Soldiers from the 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment on the grounds of the Soldier Readiness Center where an army psychiatrist allegedly shot and killed 13 people and injured 30 others on Thursday Nov. 5, 2009. It is the worst mass shooting at a military base in the United States. (AP Photo/David Morris, Killeen Daily Herald)
Friday, November 06, 2009 05:12 AM EST
The motive for the shootings isn't clear, but Army psychiatrist Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan apparently was set to deploy soon. He also had expressed some anger about the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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Image: Organization of the Islamic Conference Secretary-General Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu. (Photo: OIC)
Friday, November 06, 2009 04:38 AM EST
Facing growing opposition to its ongoing drive against religious "defamation," the Organization of the Islamic Conference is insisting that the resolution it introduced at the United Nations applies to all religions -- even though Islam is the only faith mentioned by name in the text.
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Image: Senator Roland Burris (D-Ill.) (AP Photo/Seth Perlman, File)
Wednesday, November 04, 2009 04:22 PM EST
Asked what specific part of the Constitution authorizes Congress to require that individuals purchase health insurance, Sen. Roland Burris (D-Ill.) referred to the phrase in the Preamble instructing the federal government to "promote the general welfare," which Burris apparently interprets to include Americans' "health."
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