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White House backs House bill
The White House will come out strongly in support of the House bill on Friday, an administration source tells POLITICO. The statement of administration policy will lay out the reasons that President Obama endorses the bill. But the official was careful to say that the president is not ...
Call White House, Ask for Barack
Call White House, Ask for Barack
nytimes.com — The Israeli-Palestinian peace process has become a bad play. It is obvious that all the parties are... just acting out the same old scenes, with the same old tired clichés — and that no one believes any of it anymore. There is no romance, no sex, no ... (more) Call White House, Ask for Barack
The House Health Bill: Here come the taxes
themoderatevoice.com — Just to be clear, I have not read the entire House health care bill which dropped on... our heads like a roughly 2,000 page albatross yesterday. (I’ve gotten through the first hundred or so, and my hat is off to anyone who reads fast enough to have finished the whole thing already.) However, ... (more) The House Health Bill: Here come the taxes
House could vote Saturday on health bill
thehill.com — The House could hold a rare Saturday vote this weekend to pass its healthcare reform legislation. An... aide to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said Wednesday that a vote could happen at 6 p.m. on Saturday, a schedule House Rules Committee ... (more) House could vote Saturday on health bill
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The Note's Must-Reads for Friday, November 6, 2009
The Note — ... Washington Times’ Jennifer Haberkorn: “House leaders race to finish health care bill” LINK USA Today's Kathy Kiely: "Obama to visit House on eve of weekend health vote" LINK The New York Times’ Carl Hulse and David Herszenhorn: “House Democrats Seek Allies for Health Care Vote” LINK The Washington Post’s Shailagh Murray and Lori Montgomery: “Democrats Wary of health-bill defections” LINK Politico’s Chris Frates: “White House backs House bill” LINK The Hill's Jared Allen: “Illegal immigration issue threatens healthcare vote” LINK ...

Pelosi Counts Votes; Obama Delays Hill Visit Until Saturday
The Page by Mark Halperin — AFP/Getty Images Vote over the weekend after Obama rallies Dems on the Hill . And: AP has extensive details on the competing bills. But: Immigration and abortion issues could cost Dems crucial votes.

Obama to endorse House health care reform bill, but....
AMERICAblog News| A great nation deserves the truthThere's always a "but." In fact, Politico reports, the Obama administration will endorse the House bill, but the White House won't say that the House bill any better than the Senate bill, which they also endorse. Get it? This way the White House can be everyone's friend, rather than actually taking a stand for the strongest health care reform possible. When has the White House, any White House, ever had a problem saying that it preferred one bill over another? Of course, most worrisome is the fact that, in the end, it's not at all clear that the White ...

Obama administration officially (finally) supports House health insurance reform bill
AMERICAblog News| A great nation deserves the truth — ... , with this crowd, "There's alway a but..." At least the SAP clears the way for Obama to actually push members of the House Democratic Caucus to support the legislation. ...

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The White House just issued this statement. The Administration strongly supports House passage of H.R. 3962, the Affordable Health Care for America Act, a bill that represents a critical milestone in the effort to reform our health care system. H.R. 3962 will provide needed insurance reforms ...