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With a controversy over abortion funding still unresolved and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi seemingly just short of the votes necessary to pass the bill,

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Historic Health Care Vote Goes Down To the Wire — Politics Daily

Democratic leaders of the House, as well as top aides to President Obama, said that while the party didn’t yet have the votes lined up to pass the Senate’s version of health reform, they expected to have them by next weekend.

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Confident Democrats Predict House Passes Health Bill This Week …

A few points about the status of health care reform. First, if the votes were there for passage in the House, the bill would now be law. That should tell you.

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Health care reform status | QandO

ABC News’ Z. Byron Wolf reports: Democrats have been in a health care reform stasis since Scott Brown’s victory in Massachusetts. Democratic Senators no longer have the votes to pass a new bill

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Nelson Would Vote for Health Reform Reconciliation – The Note

Chris Wallace on Fox News Sunday asks Sen. Mitch McConnell if the Republicans can prevent the health care bill from coming to the Senate floor. McConnell could not say whether they had the votes to block it from going to the floor for …

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Mitch McConnell Vows to Stall Health Care Bill With a Lot of …

Weary of news stories that legislative support for health -care reform is all but dead, Democratic leaders have been seizing every handy podium to declare that “the votes are almost there,” “there is 90 percent agreement” on a proposal, …

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RealClearPolitics – Dems' Deep Divisions on Health Care