House and Senate Democrats at Odds

CBS 'Early Show' Declares Obama 'On the Offensive' on Health Care
At the top of Tuesday's CBS Early Show, co-host Harry Smith proclaimed: "President Obama makes a tough final push, going on the offensive against Health Insurance Companies. Will it work?" Later, co-host Maggie Rodriguez gushed: "It looked like a campaign rally yesterday with President Obama center-stage taking his fight for Health Care reform out of Washington and into America's heartland." White House correspondent Bill Plante followed up Rodriguez's fawning intro by...

White House, Democrats Make Time for Energy and Climate Bill
Even as President Obama and congressional Democrats struggle to finish a Health Care overhaul, they are ramping up efforts to rally support for a comprehensive energy and Climate Change Bill.

Business groups launch ad against health care bill
Washington (AP) - Major business groups Tuesday announced a multimillion-dollar ad campaign to stop President Barack Obama's Health Care overhaul as it approaches a make-or-break vote in the House. The ad buy, costing between $4 million and $10 million, will start Wednesday on national cable outlets. Later in the week, the campaign shifts to 17 states home to moderate and conservative Democrats. Their votes are critical to Obama's endgame for passing legislation to expand coverage and revamp...

Cornyn Acknowledges Pledge To Repeal Health Care Unlikely To Pan Out
Senate Republican leadership has been at pains to warn Democrats that they will campaign on a pledge to repeal Health Care reform if the House passes the Senate's legislation. But today, NRSC chairman John Cornyn (R-TX) admitted that repeal will likely be impossible, even if the GOP retakes Congress in the fall. "Whether you want to call it repeal, or whether you want to call it a Referendum I don't think makes a dime's worth of difference," Cornyn told me in a brief interview in the Senate...