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More Americans continue to oppose the health care reform legislation than support it, according to a Fox News poll released Friday. In addition, half favor banning the use of federal funds for abortions.
By 51 percent to 35 percent, the public opposes the reform legislation being considered right now by Congress. Last month, a majority [...]

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Lance Cpl. Josef Lopez still suffers from injuries he began experiencing in Iraq three years ago — injuries caused not by bombs or guns but by a military-administered smallpox vaccine he got before he left the United States.
The shot, which the military strongly encourages troops to get, triggered a rare bad reaction in [...]

WASHINGTON (AP) - With no margin for rebellion, Senate Democrats pushed toward a crucial weekend test vote on their sweeping health care bill Friday, and wavering moderates appeared to be falling in line on President Barack Obama’s signature issue.
One of three uncommitted centrists, Sen. Ben Nelson of Nebraska, announced he’d vote with his party’s leaders [...]

The Hill:
Rev. Jesse Jackson backed off his criticism of Rep. Artur Davis Thursday night, issuing a statement saying he has “abiding admiration” of the Alabama Democrat.
“I talked to Congressman Artur Davis today to assure him of my abiding admiration of him as a leader who is engaged in a huge challenge,” Jackson said in the [...]

Fox News:
A coalition of Christian leaders — including New York’s Archbishop Timothy Dolan — are putting heat on the White House to strike down any provision in the Senate’s health care reform bill that allows abortion coverage in federally subsidized plans.
More than 150 Christian leaders, most of them conservative evangelicals and traditionalist Roman Catholics, issued [...]

WASHINGTON (AP) — Digging in for a long struggle, Republican senators and governors assailed the majority Democrats’ newly minted health care legislation Thursday as a collection of tax increases, cuts in services for the elderly and heavy new burdens for deficit-ridden states.
Despite the criticism, indications were growing that Democrats would prevail on an initial Senate [...]

ABC News:
What does it take to get a wavering senator to vote for health care reform?
Here’s a case study.
On page 432 of the Reid bill, there is a section increasing federal Medicaid subsidies for “certain states recovering from a major disaster.”
The section spends two pages defining which “states” would qualify, saying, among other things, [...]

34 Hours, 2074 Pages. 34×60 = 2040, or there are 2040 minutes in 34 hours. So if a Senator spent then entire next 34 hours not sleeping, eating, drinking or going to the bathroom and reading at the speed of just over a page a minute, they would barely finish the health bill in time [...]

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) - Authorities say a severely overweight South Carolina man stayed in his Barcalounger recliner without moving for eight months until shortly before his death.
Firefighters had to cut Tillmon Webb from the chair after his mother called paramedics because he was in pain. Greenwood County deputies say the 33-year-old weighed about 800 pounds [...]

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Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid claims that his health care bill costs about $848 billion in the first 10 years, well under President Obama’s $900 billion target.
That’s for 10 years of revenue-gathering, but only six years of service, according to the analysis by the Congressional Budget Office.
Adding in expenses beyond the 10-year mark [...]

The Hill:
The Senate is headed for a rare Saturday vote to advance its major healthcare reform bill without a guarantee of success, Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) indicated Thursday.
At a rally with supporters of the healthcare reform bill, Reid would not say he had secured commitments from all 60 members of the Democratic Conference to [...]

The Hill:
The Rev. Jesse Jackson on Wednesday night criticized Rep. Artur Davis (D-Ala.) for voting against the Democrats’ signature healthcare bill.
“We even have blacks voting against the healthcare bill,” Jackson said at a reception Wednesday night. “You can’t vote against healthcare and call yourself a black man.”
The remark stirred a murmur at the reception, held [...]

By John Boehner, from his website:
Just like the original 2,032-page, government-run health care plan from Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s (D-CA), Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s (D-NV) massive, 2,074-page bill would levy a new “abortion premium” fee on Americans in the government-run plan.
Beginning on line 7, p. 118, section 1303 under “Voluntary Choice of Coverage of [...]

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WASHINGTON — After months of maneuvering, the Senate stands at the brink of a historic battle over health care with President Barack Obama and his allies on one side and Republicans, outnumbered but unflinching, on the other.
“Now it’s America’s turn, and this will not be a short debate,” Sen. Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, the [...]

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Reason:
Congress recognizes no limits on its power. It doesn’t care about the Constitution, it doesn’t care about your inalienable rights. If this health care bill becomes law, America, life as you have known it, freedom as you have exercised it, and privacy as you have enjoyed it will cease to be.
Last week the House [...]

Fox News:
The Senate’s version of President Obama’s sweeping health care plan would cost $849 billion, according to a preliminary estimate by the Congressional Budget Office.
The bill would expand health care coverage to more than 94 percent of Americans, and cut the federal deficit by $127 billion over the first 10 years and as much as [...]

BEIJING, Nov 18 (Reuters) - President Barack Obama gave his sternest warning yet about the need to contain rising U.S. deficits, saying on Wednesday that if government debt were to pile up too much, it could lead to a double-dip recession.
With the U.S. unemployment rate at 10.2 percent, Obama told Fox News his administration [...]