After nearly a year of negotiations, concessions, fits and starts, the U.S. Senate passed sweeping health care reform legislation in an early-morning vote Thursday, by a party-line tally of 60 to 39.

The Christmas Eve vote was the first on record for the Senate in nearly a century, and marked the end of a grueling work session for the lawmakers, who had plowed through three working weekends since Thanksgiving, often voting into the early morning hours, to meet Majority Leader Harry Reid's goal of passing a health bill before Christmas.

Seeks President Barack Obama to unite the Democrats to support the health care plan, which are voted on by the House of Representatives on Sunday, which is estimated to cost nearly a trillion dollars over ten years.

The reform of the health care system on the top domestic priorities for Obama, which seeks the same time to pass a plan to reform the financial system.

In the event pass the plan in its current form, it will include about 35 million Americans of middle-class and poor were not covered by health insurance.

According to the reform of the economy

Intensified U.S. President Barack Obama, and the support of Democratic leaders, his efforts to win the largest number of votes in the battle to approve the draft law on health care.

Obama said that the insurance will cover ordinary families that are in need of such kind of services.

Obama said, "Do not do it for me, but do; for those people who are suffering." The estimated cost of the project to 940 billion dollars over ten years.

Philippine elections 2010 is over. The people's clamor for genuine change which they voiced out to candidates in their campaign sorties takes form.. A president-elect who is from the opposition emerged the victor. The people spoke through their votes and was heard. The change didn't only necessarily mean change of leaders, it meant more - a change in leadership style for good governance. A Senator, an unpopular choice, by the name of Benigno Simeon "Noynoy" Cojuangco Aquino, III, is elected President of the Republic of the Philippines. He is my own choice.

After a weekend of intense consultations with fellow Democrats, Senate majority leader Harry Reid has decided he has the votes to get a health-reform bill with a public option to the Senate floor. "I believe we clearly will have the support of my caucus to move to this bill and start legislating," Reid declared at a news conference Monday afternoon. The real question, however, is whether he has the votes it will take to get it out of the chamber.

As ABC News first reported last week, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., is including a new government-run health insurance program, the so-called public option, in the health care bill he will bring to the Senate floor.

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