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With Democrats holding the presidency, a majority in the House of Representatives and the Senate, you might think that they could pass whatever legislation they want. But more than a year after Obama took office, his party's version of health care "reform" has not been passed and may be going nowhere fast. Not to be deterred by facts, the current mantra from the Obama administration is that the Republicans, whom they label the party of NO, are holding up progress. So, after months of private meetings regarding health care, the Obama administration has set up a bipartisan meeting with the...

Early this Christmas Eve morning, the Senate held its vote for final passage of H.R. 3590, the $2.5 trillion government takeover of the health care industry.  Democrats passed the bill on a 60-39  straight party-line vote.  And it’s still not a sure thing that the bill will ever become law. The bill still must pass the House unchanged by a Motion to Concur or must go to conference for an agreement between the House and Senate Democrats (they’ve excluded Republican leadership from every negotiation so far in this Congress).  Any conference report produced by backroom deals in conference would still...