The U.S. Senate managed to slimly uphold President Barack Obama‘s controversial birth control policy, voting 51-48 to halt a Republican push to free employers and insurers companies from having to provide coverage for contraceptives, despite their religious or moral objections.

President Barack Obama and other Democrats say they have the 60 votes necessary to pass financial services reform legislation.

After 18 days in limbo, congressional leaders finally decided to extend the National Flood Insurance Program through the end of May.

Women would have free and widespread access to preventive screenings, such as mammograms and pap smears, under an amendment to the Senate health bill approved Dec. 3.

Sen. Barbara Mikulski joined a bipartisan effort to introduce an amendment to the Senate’s proposed health care reform bill, requiring all health plans to cover women’s preventive care, including mammograms and cervical cancer screenings.

While the Senate’s version of health care reform moves forward, the debate over the inclusion of a government-run public health insurance program could cause that momentum to stall.

Congressional leaders appear to have struck on a way to ensure passage of health care reform and the pacification of those in favor and opposed to a government-run health plan: Let states opt out.

Young adults will be able to be covered under their parents’ health insurance until age 26, according to health care reform provisions proposed Tuesday (Oct. 13) by House Democrats, including Maryland Rep. Chris Van Hollen.

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South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham said that a health reform bill that reaches the desk of President Barack Obama will not contain language creating a government-run health insurance option.