WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama will issue an executive order related to abortion coverage in the health care bill, satisfying a bloc of anti-abortion Democrats led by Rep. Bart Stupak, D-Mich., who comprise the final votes necessary to pass the bill in the House. (Today)
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Bill Polacek, CEO of defense subcontractor JWF Industries, walks around the company's Johnstown plant: "The politics scares me more than anything else; this community being the stepchild when we used to be the centerpiece."
At his accounting office on Main Street, Robert Eyer polished the talk he was about to give and admitted he wasn't crazy about the topic: LAM. "Life After Murtha," he explained. (Today)
Saying a vote against the health care bill would be a betrayal of workers and working families, the United Steelworkers threatened to draft a local labor leader to run against Rep. Jason Altmire if the congressman votes against the legislation today. (Today)
Cambria County Controller Ed Cernic has dropped out of the contest for the congressional seat of the late John P. Murtha, saying he was endorsing Mr. Murtha's former district director Mark Critz. (Yesterday)
Deluged with tens of thousands of calls and e-mails in recent weeks, the vast majority urging him to vote against the health care overhaul, U.S. Rep. Jason Altmire on Friday announced he will vote against the historic legislation. (Yesterday)