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  1. Pres Obama to make statement at 1P on return from Camp David. Expected to be on last night's health care vote.
  2. Okay - changing channels to other Saturday Night Live. Have a good evening.
  3. Anti-abortion funding amendment for HCR named for Cong. Bart Stupak, D-MI.
  4. Dem supporters of Stupak Amendment thank Pelosi for allowing vote on it.
  5. Boehner votes 4 Stupak Amendment: “The danger of this bill passing without critical pro-life language was too great a risk to do otherwise.
  6. NRTL blasts WH & Dems for "concealing and misrepresenting provisions that would directly fund abortions."
  7. Natl Right to Life hails passage of Stupak amendment barring HCR $ 4 abortion except to save life of mother or in cases of rape or incest.
  8. Besides Pelosi, Obama also phoned leaders of AARP, Amer. Nurses Assn and Amer. Medical Assn. - all endorsed passage.
  9. Pelosi rejects premise of the question saying "this is a great night. a great victory."
  10. When reporter asks if tonight's vote exhausts Dems, Pelosi shoots him down: "Are you a scrooge early?" she asks him.
  11. Pelosi revels in that today was 3rd anniv of 2006 election "when dems took back Congress for the American people."
  12. House leaders gushing: Cong. Patrick Kennedy: "my dad was a senator but tonight his spirit was in the House."
  13. Great job on Twitter today by CBS News colleague @jacksonjk on Capitol Hill.
  14. House Rules Chair Cong. Louise Slaughter, D-NY, says House has now done something "that could not be done in a 100 years."
  15. Obama ends statement saying: "I look forward to signing comprehensive health insurance reform into law by the end of the year."
  16. Obama calls on Senate to follow House lead. "I am absolutely confident it will."
  17. Obama says that thanks to House action, "we are just two steps away from achieving health insurance reform in America."
  18. In written statement, Obama says HCR "finally makes real the promise of quality, affordable health care for the American people."
  19. Pres. Obama calls HCR passage "an historic vote."
  20. "America and American people won today," says Hs Maj Ldr Steny Hoyer, D-Md. Tho only 1 GOP vote, he calls passage a "bipartisan vote."