News and notes from the day in MedCity, Ohio. The University of Cincinnati Department of Psychiatry is a charter member of the National Network of Depression Centers and hopes to compete for federal support made available by legislation proposed by U.S. Sen. Debbie Stabenow, a Michigan Democrat, and co-sponsored by Sen. George Voinovich, a Republican, and Sen. Sherrod Brown, a Democrat, both ...

Southfield -- U.S. Sen. Debbie Stabenow said no state will benefit more from health care reform than Michigan.

Bob Casey of Pennsylvania, the son of the man often called the father of pro-life Democrats, faces the biggest issue of his three years in the Senate: a debate over federal funding of abortions that threatens to bring down health care reform

Guests on today’s TV news shows: • ABC’s “This Week,” 9:30 a.m. — Guests: Sen. Tom Coburn , an Oklahoma Republican; Sen. Ben Nelson , a Nebraska Democrat; Rep. Marsha Blackburn , a Tennessee Republican; Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz , a Florida Democrat.

Anxious about how little maneuvering room the weekend victory on health care provided, Democrats are stepping up overtures to two moderate Republican senators from Maine.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A group of U.S. senators said on Thursday it reached a bipartisan agreement on a bill to bail out the struggling automotive industry, providing a glimmer of hope to a deal that looked dead just hours earlier.

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Senate Democrats, without a vote to spare, pushed forward a bill to overhaul the U.S. health care system, but a divisive debate lies ahead, and there is no assurance the measure as written will win approval in the upper chamber of the Congress.

Many liberal Democrats on Capitol Hill who have pushed hard for a robust "public option" in health care reform legislation seem resigned to the idea that, if a bill is going to secure enough House and Senate votes, states must be granted the ability to drop out of a government-run plan.

Even popular bills and generally acceptable nominees have had to traverse a procedural thicket.