Yesterday the House passed the health care bill on a 219 to 212 vote, paving the way for a historic overhaul of the nation’s health system. After a year of intense national debate the bill …
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With 52 percent of the vote, tonight former Republican State Senator Scott Brown upset Democratic Attorney General Martha Coakley to fill the Senate seat of the late Edward Kennedy. Despite the President’s efforts on Sunday to urge voters to support Coakley under the premise that Democrats risked losing their 60-vote filibuster-proof majority in the Senate, Brown won by a decisive margin in the heavily Democratic state of Massachusetts. Read the full story »
On Sunday Iran boldly ordered the construction of 10 more nuclear enrichment sites after the United Nations nuclear agency demanded Iran to stop work on a once-secret nuclear fuel enrichment plant. Robert Gibbs, the White …
Despite his public outspokenness on the need for troop increases in Afghanistan, General Stanley A. McChrystal, the top commander of U.S. forces in Afghanistan, may have been exactly what the President was looking for in …
