House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is playing hardball with her rank and file in the run-up to an historic health care vote. (Today)

As Democrats scramble to finish drafting health reform legislation, drug lobbyists are working overtime to ensure that the final bill doesn't bust the $90 billion deal they have with the White House and Senate Democratic leaders. (Today)

STRONGSVILLE, Ohio -- Opening what may be remembered as the climactic week of the long debate on health care, President Barack Obama defended his proposal in this economically troubled state, saying that it would bring a significant middle class tax break and rebutting critics who contend it would weaken Medicare. (Yesterday)

For most of the 90-minute meeting, U.S. Rep. Jason Altmire sat as about 50 members of a "tea party" group from the Pittsburgh area vented, pleaded, yelled and quizzed him about health care reform. (03/14/2010)

Republican commentator Karl Rove led a full-throated denunciation of the Obama administration before a confident GOP audience Friday night at the annual Lincoln Day dinner of the Allegheny County Republican Party. (03/13/2010)