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In the end, congressman bart stupak was among the 219 house democrats who voted for the senate's version of health reform last night. he did not get included in that legislation the so-called stupak amendment, the rollback of abortion rights he managed to slide into the bill last year. the bill last night did not include the stupak amendment but did include the senate bill language on abortion, which is a very specifically written ban on federal funding for abortion. that's all congressman stupak ever claimed that he wanted. but he's been either not telling the truth about the anti-abortion se...

In the end, congressman bart stupak was among the 219 house democrats who voted for the senate's version of health reform last night. he did not get included in that legislation the stupak amendment, the rollback of abortion rights he managed to slide into the bill last year. the bill last night did not include the stupak amendment but did include the senate bill language on abortion, which is a very specifically-written ban on federal funding for abortion. that's all congressman stupak ever claimed that he wanted. but he's been either not telling the truth about the anti-abortion senate bill ...

Compromised language for federal funding for abortion services continued to negotiate for the white house even as democrats are saying they couldn't support the senate bill. it is beginning to talk and find the compromise is the second component for nancy bellsy. under a trillion dollars then the stupak who said he couldn't vote for the senate bill continued to negotiate was the sign pelosi had put together. >> california insurance company that jacked premiums up by 30 percent an then the stupak amendment they are beginning the historic vote they go to colleague bret baier the anchor of specia...

Compromised language for federal funding for abortion services continued to negotiate for the white house even as democrats are saying they couldn't support the senate bill. it is beginning to talk and find the compromise is the second component for nancy bellsy. under a trillion dollars then the stupak who said he couldn't vote for the senate bill continued to negotiate was the sign pelosi had put together. >> california insurance company that jacked premiums up by 30 percent an then the stupak amendment they are beginning the historic vote they go to colleague bret baier the anchor of specia...

Is the senate and the senate rules. there is no doubt if we try to put policy, abortion policy, in the reconciliation package that's going through today the emphasis is the policy, not a budgetary concern, therefore, we'd be byrd out because of the byrd rule. that won't work. to win the senate, attempted to put basically the stupak amendment in the health care bill when it was going through. we could get 45 votes. our difficulty in statute, we would all love to have a statute that would be stronger, okay? we can't get 60 votes in the senate. the reality is we can't do it. this bill is going to...