Bart Stupak

At the White House, the signing ceremony looked like a victory party as President Obama delivered on the signature promise of his campaign for change. As he signed the historic healthcare bill, Obama was flanked by Vicki Kennedy, widow of......

A coffin was placed on a Missouri Democrat Russ Carnahan’s lawn. Gas lines were cut at the home of Virginia Democrat Tom Perriello's brother after a blogger posted the address online, thinking it to be the congressman's. New York Democrat......

by Mark Silva and Janet Hook first at 9:30 am EDT and updated. Delivering a hard-fought victory in President Barack Obama's year-long pursuit of a national healthcare overhaul, a divided House tonight narrowly approved legislation which both supporters...

While our readers are still offering their take on the passage of the historic healthcare reform package, there is a bit more controversy flooding the Internet and Twitter, and it's two words: "baby killer." Texas Republican Rep. Randy Neugebauer admits.....

by Mark Silva and updated at 1 pm EDT Comes word from Capitol Hill this morning that Rep. Bart Stupak, a Democrat who represents a broad swath of Northern Michigan, will retire at the end of his term. Stupak, who......

No hyperbole, he really was the margin of victory. He paid a personal price, now a political one. Bart Stupak, the 57-year-old Michigan Democrat whose antiabortion stance put him at the center of the fevered and partisan debate over healthcare......

Testing has turned up possible irregularities in some samples of a blood thinner linked to several deaths and hundreds of life-threatening reactions, a spokeswoman for Baxter Healthcare Corp. said Thursday. The disclosure comes amid mounting questions...

by Stephen Hedges Bad food could be a good thing for congressional Democrats. Since they took back control of both the House of Representatives and Senate in 2006, members of both chambers have highlighted the number of food recalls -......

Farmer Robert Dodd displays some of his tomato crop at his farm in Hanover County, Va., June 13, 2008. (AP Photo/Steve Helber) by Stephen J. Hedges The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has taken its hits this week for......

Former Enron Corp. Chief Executive Jeffrey Skilling told skeptical lawmakers Thursday he left his job in August believing the energy trading giant "was in no peril" and said he did not know about the dire financial state of the partnerships that brought...

Suspenseful it was not. And yet, when Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist called for the verdict in President Clinton's impeachment trial, he suddenly placed the weight of history on 100 sets of shoulders in the hushed Senate chamber. "Senators, how say...