Students for Barack Obama

After casting an historic vote for health reform on Saturday night, many members in the House of Representatives are now heading home for a district work period...

As the House begins a series of votes on the health insurance reform bill, we've just broken the 500,000 mark for OFA supporter calls to Congress in support of reform since October 20th.

Shortly after the House of Representatives concluded tonight's vote on health insurance reform, President Obama released the following statement:Tonight, in an historic vote, the House of Representatives passed a bill that would finally make real the promise of quality, affordable health care for...

From the Boston Globe An Army psychiatrist set to be shipped overseas opened fire at the Fort Hood Army post yesterday, authorities said, a rampage that killed 12 people and left 31 wounded in the worst mass shooting ever at a military base in the United States...President Obama called the...

From Mitch Stewart:This is it -- the House of Representatives will vote on health insurance reform tomorrow. All signs point to it being incredibly close, possibly even coming down to a single vote. With the clock ticking, insurance company lobbyists are going all out to stop reform...

The deadline to vote on your favorite videos in the OFA Health Reform Video Challenge is tonight at midnight. The winning video will air as part of a national television ad buy as we enter the final stages of the health reform fight:

From the New York TimesAfter months of plodding work by five Congressional committees and weeks of back-room bargaining by Democratic leaders, President Obama’s arms-length strategy on health care appears to be paying dividends, with the House and the Senate poised to take up legislation to i...

November 4th, 2008, and the final days leading up to it, is a time I will never forget. After 19 months of working to help elect Barack Obama, what I remember most from that final stretch are the stories that came in from the field, from volunteers like you...

From OFA Deputy Director Jeremy Bird:One year ago today, we were in the homestretch of the Obama for America campaign. I had been organizing on the ground in Ohio for months, with hundreds of incredible -- and exhausted -- staff, and thousands and thousands of amazing volunteers...

Yesterday we learned that GDP had grown at an annual rate of 3.5 percent during the third quarter, the first time the economy had grown in more than a year...

From ABC News  The Obama administration's $787 billion stimulus bill directly saved or created about 650,000 jobs as of the end of last month, administration officials announced this morning.The numbers come from Congressionally-mandated reports submitted earlier this month by tens of thousands of ...

Speaker Pelosi unveiled the House’s final version of health insurance reform legislation – The Affordable Health Care For America Act - in front of the U.S. Capitol this morning, marking another historic step in the on-going effort to pass reform this year. ...