A group of congressmen and senators living in a posh townhouse on Capitol Hill owned by the notorious Family may now have to answer to ethics committees for low rent.
Once Rep. Bart Stupak announced he would vote for the Senate version of the health-care reform bill that came before the House, Democrats had their votes.
The outcome of the battle for health-care reform may rest on the say-so of one man, Rep. Bart Stupak. But he's got an army of Catholic bishops pulling his strings.
Conservadem Bart Stupak says he -- and 11 others -- won't vote for the Senate health care bill because its anti-abortion language doesn't go far enough. Will he kill the bill?
Jodi L. Jacobson, RH Reality Check. December 22, 2009.
To win his vote -- needed to bring the health-care bill to the Senate floor -- Sen. Ben Nelson got an anti-choice measure put into the bill. Here's the break-down.
At today's press conference on the Senate health-care bill, Harry Reid played close to the vest, while Tom Harkin seemed to promise cooperation from Joe Lieberman.
Find out how your representative voted on and call their office, to thank them or to tell them that you'll be supporting a pro-choice democrat in the next primary.
The health-care bill passed by the House will expand access to health care. But millions of women are about to lose coverage they currently have and need.
The Stupak amendment -- an anti-choice measure that could virtually eliminate insurance coverage for abortion -- will be attached to the health-care reform bill.
