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10:25 PM ET, March 21, 2010

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The Politico:
History in sight for Democrats  —  A cadre of anti-abortion Democrats announced Sunday that they've reached an agreement with the White House to defuse the controversy over abortion in the health care bill and will now vote yes — effectively putting the Democrats over the 216-vote threshold to pass health reform by day's end.
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Jim Hoft / Gateway Pundit:
Stunner... Pro-Life Democrat Stupak Was Lying All Along- Will Support Pro-Abortion Obamacare ...Update: Stupak Sells Soul!  —  REMEMBER: You Can NEVER Trust a Democrat... You can sometimes trust Republicans but... You Can NEVER Trust a Democrat.  —  Stupak flashback: Remember when “pro-life” …
The Atlantic Online:
Text of the Executive Order On Abortion  —  Here is the text of the executive order to be issued by the White House on abortion:  —  Executive Order  —  ensuring enforcement and implementation of abortion restrictions in the patient protection and affordable care act
Jared Allen / The Hill:
Democrats worried about Republicans' motion to recommit on Stupak language  —  Democrats are worried about holding their members together on a GOP motion that could kill the healthcare bill.  —  Rep. Bart Stupak (D-Mich.) said House leaders are specifically concerned about a Republican motion …
Discussion: The Hill, The Plum Line and Hot Air
The National Organization for Women (NOW) web site:
President Obama Breaks Faith with Women  —  Statement of NOW President Terry O'Neill  —  The National Organization for Women is incensed that President Barack Obama agreed today to issue an executive order designed to appease a handful of anti-choice Democrats who have held up health care reform …
Jane Hamsher / Firedoglake:
White House Released Executive Order to Media Without Showing to Members of Pro-Choice Caucus  —  Members of the pro-choice caucus are livid after the White House released the Executive Order on abortion to the media without showing it to them.  —  According to members who spoke on the condition …
The Hill:
Stupak, Dems reach abortion deal  —  Democrats have reached a deal on an executive order on abortion that could hand them a victory on healthcare.  —  Rep. Bart Stupak (D-Mich.) announced a deal at a press conference.  He said the deal means Democrats will have the 216 votes they need to win a healthcare reform vote on the floor.
Bob Cusack / The Hill:
Stupak: We are close to deal with White House
Kathryn Jean Lopez / The Corner on National …:
The Executive Order: A Dangerous, Non-Binding Show — By: Kathryn Jean Lopez
Bob Cusack / The Hill:
216 in reach: House Dems have the votes to pass healthcare reform bill
Discussion: Hit & Run, FiveThirtyEight and The Hill
Bob Cusack / The Hill:
Unless a deal is struck with Stupak, Dems appear to be short on votes
Fox News:
Choice, Life Groups Slam Obama Order on Abortion Funding
David Frum / FrumForum:
Waterloo  —  Conservatives and Republicans today suffered their most crushing legislative defeat since the 1960s.  —  It's hard to exaggerate the magnitude of the disaster.  Conservatives may cheer themselves that they'll compensate for today's expected vote with a big win in the November 2010 elections.
The Note:
Senate Fight Starts: GOP Says Senate Parliamentarian Will Kill Fix-Its Bill  —  ABC News' Z. Byron Wolf reports: The House bill has not yet passed and already we are seeing the reconciliation fight start in the Senate.  —  Senate Republicans say they can get the whole package of reconciliation fixes …
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Jordan Fabian / The Hill:
House passes rule for health bill, moves closer to final vote
Discussion: Washington Monthly and CNN
Jordan Fabian / The Hill:   Senate Republicans say Dems ignoring meeting requests
Carrie Budoff Brown / The Politico:   Senate Dems, GOP spar over next step
Jon Walker / Firedoglake:
Liveblog: House Floor Debate on Health Care Bill
Discussion: CBS News and Washington Monthly
Jonathan Cohn / The New Republic:
BREAKING: An Ugly Scene  —  You may have heard or read about the ugly scenes on Capitol Hill yesterday, when a few conservative activists shouted racial and homophobic epithets at Democratic lawmakers.  Today the conservative activists are back.  And so is the ugliness—only this time, a few Republicans were actually encouraging them.
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The Politico:
Frank: ‘Mass hysteria’ on the Hill  —  Tea Party protesters disrupted Speaker Nancy Pelosi's press stakeout at a House Office Building, yelling “you're a disgrace to your office” and one protester yelled a gay epithet at Rep. Barney Frank again on Sunday, adding yet another layer of chaos to an already tense afternoon on Capitol Hill.
Ezra Klein:
Health care and freedom  —  “Today is the death of freedom as a cause for celebration,” Rep. Marsha Blackburn just said as she opened the House Republicans' argument against the health-care bill.  Her stem-winder was quick and clean.  This bill, she argued, will make Americas less free.
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Mike Lillis / The Washington Independent:
Gingrich: Civil Rights Laws Weren't Worth the Political Price
Discussion: Lean Left
Dan Balz / Washington Post:
The Take: Historic win or not, Democrats could pay a price
Douglas Holtz-Eakin / New York Times:
The Real Arithmetic of Health Care Reform  —  ON Thursday, the Congressional Budget Office reported that, if enacted, the latest health care reform legislation would, over the next 10 years, cost about $950 billion, but because it would raise some revenues and lower some costs, it would also lower federal deficits by $138 billion.
Congressman Jim Cooper:
COOPER'S FLOOR STATEMENT ON HEALTH REFORM  —  Cooper's full Congressional Record statement  —  I woke up this Sunday morning, said my prayers, and finally decided that I will vote YES on health care reform.  —  Having heard from tens of thousands of Middle Tennesseans on all sides of the issue …
The Note:
EXCLUSIVE: Plouffe and Rove Battle It Out Over Health Care Reform  —  With a vote on health care reform looming in the House of Representatives, it was a no-holds barred debate this morning on “This Week.”  —  “We are going to be much better positioned politically...if we pass this,” …
James Fallows / The Atlantic Online:
Why This Moment Matters  —  We'll talk some other time about the political consequences, in 2010 and 2012 and beyond, of the health-care reform vote.  (My guess: this will not seem anywhere near as poisonous seven months from now as it does today.  Jobs jobs jobs is what will matter most then.
 
 
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Mark Steyn / The Corner on National Review Online:
Happy Dependence Day! — By: Mark Steyn
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Brian Beutler / TPMDC:
Trumka: AFL Will Look Closely At Lynch's Health Care Vote When It's …
Discussion: Daily Kos and Blue Mass. Group
Greg Sargent / The Plum Line:
Rep Ciro Rodriguez Called “Wetback” By Anti-Reform Protestor
Megan McArdle / The Atlantic Online:
The Future After Health Care
Jerry Seib / Washington Wire:
Clinton Returns to Washington, Needling Himself, Obama and the Press
Discussion: Watts Up With That? and Don Surber
Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estés / The Moderate Voice:
Health Care Bill Already Passed, In “The Quiet People's” Hearts and Minds
Discussion: First Draft
Paul Kane / Washington Post:
What time is the health-care vote? And other critical questions.
Discussion: CNN and The Confluence
 Earlier Items: 
Kate Phillips / Prescriptions:
Live Blogging the House Vote
Wyatt Buchanan / San Francisco Chronicle:
Record 71% disapprove of governor, poll shows
Fiona Macrae / Daily Mail:
Wind farms failing to produce enough power... because there's not enough wind
Myglesias / Matthew Yglesias:
An Influential Idea I Didn't Get in a Book
Randy E. Barnett / Washington Post:
Is health-care reform constitutional?