The U.S. House of Representatives have agreed to pass the historic Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, with a few changes.

The initial blush of President Barack Obama's health care triumph immediately gives way to a sober political reality — he must sell it to an angry and unpredictable electorate, still reeling from the recession.

Pivotal moments in American health care history capped by the House vote Sunday night passing President Barack Obama's comprehensive plan.

Rarely does the government, that big, clumsy, poorly regarded oaf, pull off anything short of war that touches all lives with one act, one stroke of a president's pen. Such a moment has come.

President Barack Obama and House Democratic leaders struck a last-minute deal Sunday with abortion foes to secure the final few votes needed to remake America's health care system, writing a climactic chapter in a century-old quest for near universal coverage.

Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke made a fresh pitch Saturday to retain oversight of small banks, contending that what the Fed learns from that role helps it assess the overall health of the entire U.S. financial system.

In a fresh appeal directly to the Iranian people, President Barack Obama says in an online video that the United States wants more educational and cultural exchanges for their students and better access to the Internet to give them a more hopeful future.

There's an end in sight as, one by one, Democratic fence-sitters began choosing sides and the long, turbulent struggle over landmark health care legislation tilted in President Barack Obama's direction.

In seeking enough votes to overhaul the nation's health care system, President Barack Obama is telling nervous Democratic lawmakers that their political fates are linked to the bill's passage, discouraging the notion that they can save themselves by opposing it, House members say.

With historic health care change in the balance, Democrats plowed fresh billions into insurance subsidies for consumers on Thursday and added a $250 rebate for seniors facing high prescription drugs.

President Barack Obama says small-business owners especially will benefit from a jobs bill that he plans to sign on Thursday. The bill includes about $18 billion in tax breaks and pumps $20 billion into highway and transit programs.

Idaho Gov. C.L. "Butch" Otter on Wednesday became the first state chief executive to sign a measure requiring his attorney general to sue Congress if it passes health reforms that force residents to buy insurance.