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Markey YouTube explains and celebrates health reform vote

She may be getting threatening phone calls because of her vote in favor of health reform Sunday, but U.S. Rep Betsy Markey is standing...

Metzger at The Nation: ‘Health mandate will be a tax on...

The Nation dedicated this week's episode of its "The Breakdown" to the attorneys general lawsuit filed this week against health reform legislation and joined...

Colo. Supreme Court Justice Dubofsky questions legitmacy of Suthers’ health reform...

Former Colorado Supreme Court Justice Jean Dubofsky, a founding member and current chair of the Board of Directors of the Bell Policy Center, issued...

Markey target of threatening calls in wake of health care vote

MSNBC is reporting that Fourth District U.S. Rep. Betsy Markey is among at least ten U.S. lawmakers who have been the victims of vandalism...

The pivotal quiet Kucinich decision: ‘Claims of government takeover a joke’

Dennis Kucinich, Democratic Congressman from Ohio and champion of the public option, didn't make his decision to vote for the health care bill in...

Axelrod dismisses political and legal challenges to health care legislation

In an interview with the News Hour's Judy Woodroof, White House Senior Adviser David Axelrod welcomed the ongoing political fight over health care legislation...

Obama signs health reform bill into law

As expected, President Barack Obama Tuesday morning signed into law the Senate’s package of health care reforms, a number of which will go into...

NYT: Legal precedent on side of health care legislation

Colorado Attorney General John Suthers joined a lawsuit yesterday targeting Federal health reform legislation on constitutional grounds. The argument against the legislation that passed...

Through tears, Tea Party activists vow to keep fighting health care...

WASHINGTON-- The Tea Party activists huddled on the south lawn of the Capitol got the news of health care reform’s passage in the cruelest way. As their enthusiasm had flagged, a small group of pro-health care reform activists had nestled into space right next to the Capitol wall. Outnumbered ten to one, none of them looking a day under thirty, they learned via Twitter when the House crossed the 216 vote mark to pass the Senate version of health care reform.

Colorado’s Suthers to join A.G.s challenging health reform bill

Colorado's Attorney General John Suthers is joining roughly a dozen other attorneys general across the country who plan to challenge the constitutionality of the...