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Nov 9, 2009 6:29 am US/Eastern

Health Care Bill Passes House, Goes To Senate

PITTSBURGH (KDKA) ― Seen as a major victory for the Obama administration, a health care reform plan has cleared a major hurdle, passing the U.S. House of Representatives.

The vote, for the most part, was along party lines.

"I don't think it's the health care reform we really need," U.S. Rep Tim Murphy, R – Upper St. Clair, said.

And clearly, neither did most Republicans with only one vote in favor of the bill.

"We reached out to Republicans on our committee, we wanted to hear their ideas, we wanted to work with them," U.S. Rep. Mike Doyle, D – Forest Hills, said. "I just think unfortunately they made a political calculation that they didn't want to be part of this discussion and at the last minute, they presented a bill that none of us had seen before."

The issue of health care reform now moves to the Senate but not without fallout from the House vote. The bill includes tightening a ban on federal funds to finance abortions, except in certain cases.

It's a move which has angered some pro-choice supporters of the President.

"Women overwhelmingly elected President Obama, women overwhelming voted for the Congress that sits right now, and the reason why women supported those people who are in Washington, D.C., at this point and time, is they gave women the idea, they made us believe or had us believe, that they understood the challenges that women face in everyday life," Kathy Wilson, from the Pennsylvania chapter of NOW, said.

Congressman Doyle says it took compromise to get the bill passed and what went through the House may take a different form in the Senate version.

"They'll be further changes in the conference committee, because the Senate takes a little bit different approach in how the bill's paid for and whether or not we're going to have [a] public option," he said.

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