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Colorado's DeGette takes national abortion role
March 27, 2010
By: Kristen Wyatt
DENVER — Voters are used to black-and-white political posturing: Democrats want one thing, Republicans another, they tussle in Washington then go home to tell citizens how the opposition is flat-out wrong.
BP, Others Push Against Federal Regulation of Fracturing
March 23, 2010
By: Mike Soraghan
BP America Inc. and two other oil and gas companies are lobbying for the new Senate climate and energy bill to recommend against federal regulation of hydraulic fracturing.
Democrats celebrate bill with a mix of exhaustion and relief
March 22, 2010
By: Michael Riley
WASHINGTON — Colorado's Democratic House members celebrated a hard-fought, exhausting victory on health reform Sunday, one that Republicans vowed would cost them at the polls.
Colorado lawmakers react to health care reform bill
March 22, 2010
By: Kevin Torres
House Passes Healthcare Reform
March 22, 2010
By: Lindsay Beyerstein
What Local Pols Are Saying About Health-Care Reform
March 22, 2010
By: Michael de Yoanna
WASHINGTON — The House on Sunday approved sweeping legislation to guarantee most Americans access to medical care for the first time in history.
The bill, which passed 219-212 without a single Republican vote, delivered President Barack Obama the biggest victory of his young presidency. It will make a nearly $1 trillion commitment in taxpayer money over the next decade to help an estimated 32 million uninsured Americans get health coverage.
Pelosi nixes side votes as Stupak talks end without abortion
March 20, 2010
By: Jeffrey Young, Molly K. Hooper, and Roxana Tiron
Democratic leaders look to woo abortion foes to secure votes for health bill
March 19, 2010
By: David M. Herszenhorn and Robert Pear
End in Sight, Health Care Battle Tilt's Obama's Way
March 19, 2010
By: Erica Werner, Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar, Chuck Babington and Alan Fram