Politics - Democratic Party

Dec. 9 (Bloomberg) -- Senate Democrats tentatively agreed to abandon plans to set up a full government-run insurance program in a bid to remove one of the biggest obstacles to health legislation, a person familiar with negotiations said. Full Story »

BOSTON - Massachusetts Republicans are getting back the political spotlight they've lacked for the past three years in the special election to fill Edward Kennedy's Senate seat. Full Story »

BOSTON (Reuters) - Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley on Tuesday won the Democratic primary for the U.S. Senate seat left vacant by the death Senator Edward Kennedy, who died in August of brain cancer. Full Story »

WASHINGTON — Senate Democratic negotiators said Tuesday that they'd tentatively agreed to a compromise plan that could alter the government-run option in their health care bill, a bid to win key moderates who've threatened to derail the effort. Full Story »

Dec. 8 (Bloomberg) -- Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley won the Democratic primary in the race for the late Edward Kennedy’s U.S. Senate seat, defeating three rivals, according to the Associated Press. Full Story »

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Senate Democratic healthcare negotiators said they agreed on Tuesday to replace a government-run insurance option with a scaled-back non-profit plan and would seek cost estimates on the deal. Full Story »

Senate Democrats have reached a "broad agreement" on a health reform bill, Majority Leader Harry Reid said Tuesday night — a plan that would replace the public option in the current Senate bill with a new national insurance plan offered by private insurers, and a chance for older Americans to “buy in” to Medicare. Full Story »

Martha Coakley won the Democratic primary in the Massachusetts Senate special election, putting her on track to assume the seat long held by the late Sen. Edward M. Kennedy and become the state's first woman senator. Full Story »

WASHINGTON (AFP) - The US Senate on Tuesday rejected an anti-abortion amendment to a health care reform bill, splitting the Democrats and complicating the chances of getting a 60-vote majority to pass the measure. Full Story »

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Job-creating legislation taking shape in the U.S. Congress could carry a price tag of $75 billion to $200 billion with much of that funded by leftover bank-bailout money, House Democrats said on Tuesday. Full Story »

Dec. 8 (Bloomberg) -- Senate Democrats, struggling to find compromises in U.S. health-care legislation, are considering dropping plans to create a government insurance program in favor of alternatives such as expanding the Medicare program. Full Story »

Senate Democrats will seek to table an amendment that would bar federal funding for most abortions under the health care overhaul bill, a top party leader said Tuesday. Full Story »

The four Democrats in the Massachusetts Senate race have been scrambling to rally a largely indifferent electorate to go to the polls for Tuesday's special election primary. Full Story »

Dec. 8 (Bloomberg) -- Senate Democrats, struggling to find compromises in U.S. health-care legislation, are considering dropping plans to create a new government insurance program in favor of alternatives such as expanding the Medicare program. Full Story »

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Senate rejected on Tuesday an attempt to tighten restrictions on abortion coverage in a healthcare overhaul, threatening a crucial Democrat's support for passage of the final bill. Full Story »

WASHINGTON - Buoyed by a presidential pep talk and intense rounds of negotiations, Senate Democrats hope to move closer to embracing a major health care bill this week by tackling the nettlesome issue of abortion. Full Story »

Dec. 7 (Bloomberg) -- Seven days of debate that stretched through the weekend have left Senate Democrats no closer to passing legislation to overhaul the U.S. health-care system. Full Story »

Dec. 6 (Bloomberg) -- President Barack Obama urged Senate Democrats today to agree on health-care legislation as U.S. lawmakers struggle to resolve disputes over issues including a proposed government-run insurance plan. Full Story »