Amid conflicting and heated rhetoric, a political pragmatism began to emerge Sunday as senators prepared for a debate on a sweeping Democratic health care bill.

The Senate voted along strict party lines Saturday night to proceed with a floor debate on Majority Leader Harry Reid's $848 billion health care bill.

CNN's John King looks at two men on different sides of the health debate and their senator caught in the middle.

Opinion about which political party is responsible for the recession is shifting, according to a new poll.

Rhode Island's top Roman Catholic leader has asked Rep. Patrick Kennedy to stop taking Communion over his support for abortion rights, the diocese said Sunday.

Traditional Senate decorum yielded to brass-knuckle politicking before a key procedural vote.

To debate or not to debate the Senate's health care reform bill; that is the question.

Most cardholders never read the long complicated legalese in a credit card agreement -- and that could spell trouble.

The Senate Ethics Committee issued a letter Friday clearing embattled Illinois Sen. Roland Burris of any legal wrongdoing.

The U.S. government has no right to restrict American tourists from traveling to Cuba, the chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee said Thursday.