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Today, House and Senate leaders of both parties will be meeting with the President at the Blair House to discuss moving forward with comprehensive health reform. Without reform, the cost of health care for the average family of four is projected to rise $1,800 every year for years to come--and insurance companies will make more health care decisions.

By a vote of 406-19, the House passed the Health Insurance Industry Fair Competition Act (HR 4626), introduced by Reps. Tom Perriello (D-VA) and Betsy Markey (D-CO).

Yesterday, Speaker Pelosi, House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, Chairwoman Louise Slaughter, Congressman Peter DeFazio, and Wendell Potter, senior fellow on health care at the Center for Media and Democracy and a former insurance industry executive, held a news conference to discuss the Health Insurance Industry Fair Competition Act on the floor tod

Today, the Energy & Commerce Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations is holding a hearing on the "response by Toyota and NHTSA to Incident

One year ago, President Obama signed the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act into law to bring America's economy back from the brink by giving most Americans the fastest and one of the largest tax cuts in history, creating and saving jobs, and laying the building blocks for long-term prosperity.

New reports detailing shocking increases in insurance premiums across the country continue to roll in. Just today, we learned that premiums for individual health insurance plans in Connecticut increased on average more than 20% for 2010.

In 2008, credit card issuers imposed $19 billion in penalty fees on families with credit cards---exploiting loopholes in the law to make profits at the expense of responsible credit cardholders with minimal oversight.

This morning, President Obama released his health insurance reform proposal in advance of Thursday's bipartisan meeting on health reform: