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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Friday, November 06, 2009 10:20 AM EST
Author and conservative talk-radio host Mark Levin says the U.S. Constitution does not give Congress the authority to require Americans to buy health insurance.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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